Publications by authors named "J Vargas-Villarreal"

Article Synopsis
  • The study focuses on the health issues facing Central American immigrants traveling through northeastern Mexico, highlighting a growing concern about chronic diseases like obesity, diabetes, and hypertension among this population.
  • Researchers conducted face-to-face interviews with 520 migrants, mostly men from Honduras, and collected data on their health indicators, revealing that 28.9% were overweight, 10.7% obese, and a small percentage had hypertension or high blood sugar levels.
  • The average age of participants was around 29 years, with findings showing striking health trends, such as El Salvador having the highest rate of diabetes at 14.7%, and indicating that women participants faced additional health disparities.
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is used for the treatment of diarrhea in Mexican traditional medicine. Hexane extract showed 94 % inhibition of trophozoites at 300 μg/mL. Therefore, 20 constituents of hexane extract were evaluated to determine their antigiardial activity.

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Background: Medical students are considered to be personnel with a high level of risk for developing latent tuberculosis infection (LTBI). One possible reason is lack of knowledge about the transmission, prevention, and biosafety standards for tuberculosis disease.

Objective: This research aimed to determine the rate of LTBI among medical students studying in a private School of Medicine in Monterrey, Mexico.

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Despite the social distancing and mobility restriction measures implemented for susceptible people around the world, infections and deaths due to COVID-19 continued to increase, even more so in the first months of 2021 in Mexico. Thus, it is necessary to find risk groups that can benefit from more aggressive preventive measures in a high-density population. This is a case-control study of suspected COVID-19 patients from Nuevo León, Mexico.

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(protozoan; family Endomoebidae) is the cause of amoebiasis, a disease related to high morbidity and mortality. Nowadays, this illness is considered a significant public health issue in developing countries. In addition, parasite resistance to conventional medicinal treatment has increased in recent years.

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