Cost analysis of drug treatment in hypertensive patients at social security health care family medicine units.

Objective: To estimate the increase of drug treatment costs associated with predictive factors of hypertensive patients in family medicine units.

Materials And Methods: A generalized linear model was employed to estimate costs with data from a microcosting costing study for a 1-year time horizon. Sources of dada were medical electronic files, phar-macy records and unitary prices updated to 2019.

Prevalence and characterization of undiagnosed arterial hypertension in the eastern zone of Mexico.

Arterial hypertension is considered a public health problem with severe consequences at an individual and public health levels. However, there is a lack of information regarding its characterization in Mexico. The objective of this study is to estimate the proportion of undiagnosed arterial hypertension (UAH) and the overall prevalence and clinical management of arterial hypertension within the Eastern Zone of Mexico.

[Life style and metabolic control in DiabetIMSS program].

Objective: To compare the lifestyle and metabolic control of diabetes patients included and not included in the DiabetIMSS program.

Methods: Subjects with diabetes in the DiabetIMSS program and the general clinic were divided into three groups: group 1 first attended the program, group 2 were enrolled during the study, and group 3 had not been included the program. Demographic and clinical aspects were measured and the IMEVID instrument was applied.