Table of life for beneficiaries of the Institute of Security and Social Services of State Workers (ISSSTE), Mexico 2021.

Objective: Determine the life expectancy in the covered population of the Institute of Security and Social Services of State Workers in México for 2021.

Method: We used the abrogated method from Reed-Merrel, for calculate the life expectancy in age groups.

Results: By 2021, life expectancy general was 79.

Professional burnout syndrome in specialist surgeons: prevalence and risk factors.

Background: Medical surgeons specialists are exposed to risk factors, the most frequent being those of the psychosocial type, where burnout syndrome is included due to the type of exposure and diversification of their activities as a member of the health team and the legal and socio-labor repercussions.

Objective: To determine the prevalence and risk factors of burnout in medical surgeons.

Method: Observational, descriptive and cross-sectional study in 296 specialists.

[2015 life tables of population user of Jalisco’s Instituto Mexicano del Seguro Social services].

Background: The life table is a useful instrument to measure the impact of health care in a population. In this case we report the situation of the population that use the medical services of the Instituto Mexicano del Seguro Social in the state of Jalisco.

Methods: We used the abridged Reed-Merrell method, which shows the life expectancy in five-year age groups.

[Considerations concerning medical knowledge inherited in Mexico from 19th century: the diabetes mellitus case].

In Mexico, as in the entire Western world, during the 19th century and the beginnings of the 20th century, medical knowledge developed in a remarkable way and the case of diabetes mellitus was not the exception. This situation, which arose on the basis of the antique paradigm, and which in turn was overthrown by the positivism as the emergent paradigm (with its clinical and anatomical, as well as physiopathological and etiopathological viewpoints), was reflected during the 19th the century through its actors and the communications that opened the access of Mexican medicine to the modernity.

Culture and Dehydration: A Comparative Study of Caída de la Mollera (Fallen Fontanel) in Three Latino Populations.

A sunken soft-spot or fontanel is a sign for dehydration in infants. Around the world, folk illnesses, such as caída de la mollera in some Latin American cultures, often incorporate this sign as a hallmark of illness, but may or may not incorporate re-hydration therapies in treatment strategies. This report describes a study of lay descriptions of causes, symptoms, and treatments for caída de la mollera in three diverse Latin American populations.

[Cultural domain of the causes of diabetes in three generations of popular stratum in Guadalajara, Mexico].

Background: The growing prevalence of diabetes must be confronted in several ways. Establishing the generational transmission of cultural knowledge offers some guidelines to prevent and control the disease. Once we identify and compare the semantic structures of shared knowledge we lay the foundations of a culturally comprehensive care.

[Analgesic efficacy of the incisional infiltration of ropivacaine vs ropivacaine with dexamethasone in the elective laparoscopic cholecystectomy].

Background: Incisional pain is the main obstacle for elective laparoscopic cholecystectomy as an outpatient. We evaluated the analgesic efficacy of local infiltration of ropivacaine with dexamethasone (Rop/Dx), compared with ropivacaine (Rop) alone, during the first 24 hours postoperative of this surgery. Our hypothesis is that incisional pain intensity will be lower in patients of the group Rop/Dx.

[Analysis of Possible Sociodemographic and Occupational Risk Factors and the Prevalence of Professional Exhaustion Syndrome (Burnout) in Mexican Dentists].

Objectives: To determine the prevalence of professional exhaustion syndrome (burnout) in dentists and to analyze possible sociodemographic and occupational risk factors .

Methods: An observational, descriptive and cross-sectional survey of 203 dental staff of the Metropolitan Zone of Guadalajara, Mexico, from the Mexican Social Security Institute, University of Guadalajara, and those in private practice. A self-reported identification form and the Maslach Burnout Inventory-Human Services Survey were used to gather data.

[Cognitive anthropology applied to the study of the causes of arterial hypertension in Guadalajara, Jalisco, México].

Background: In medical anthropology, culture is shared knowledge and it can be used to study cultural consensus for development of preventive and control actions in chronic diseases such as high blood pressure. The aim of this study was to characterize the semantic structure and level of cultural consensus regarding the causes of arterial hypertension in persons >15 years of age belonging to families of laborers from "Colonia Fabrica de Atemajac."

Methods: Using a propositive sample of 36 persons >15 year of age of both genders and divided into three age groups, we conducted an anthropological study.

Simultaneous blood pressure measurement in both arms in hypertensive and nonhypertensive adult patients.

Background: When blood pressure (BP) is taken for the first time, it should be measured in both arms; follow-up measurements should be taken in the arm with the highest BP. However, in clinical practice, this recommendation is rarely followed.

Objective: Identify the degree of differences in BP between the right and the left arm in individuals with normal and high BP.

Sensitization of cervix cancer cells to Adriamycin by Pentoxifylline induces an increase in apoptosis and decrease senescence.

Background: Chemotherapeutic drugs like Adriamycin (ADR) induces apoptosis or senescence in cancer cells but these cells often develop resistance and generate responses of short duration or complete failure. The methylxantine drug Pentoxifylline (PTX) used routinely in the clinics setting for circulatory diseases has been recently described to have antitumor properties. We evaluated whether pretreatment with PTX modifies apoptosis and senescence induced by ADR in cervix cancer cells.

[Gender and metabolic control of type 2 diabetes among primary care patients].

Introduction: removing the biological perspective of the sexual differences and understanding the asymmetries related to diabetes, lead to define situations of benefit or deterioration of the population's health.

Objective: to analyze gender situations related to self-care and control of type 2 diabetes in primary care patients.

Methods: we conducted a descriptive observational study in 620 patients with diabetes at the family medicine clinic number 3 of Instituto Mexicano del Seguro Social in Guadalajara, Mexico.

[Food habits and culture factors in pregnant adolescents].

The purpose of this study was to identify the food habits of pregnant adolescents and their perception about which, of her cultural concepts, have higher influence. 54 subjects between 12 and 19 years old from Guadalajara City were included and socioeconomic, dietetic data, as food frequency consumption and cultural concepts about feeding were also explored. Chi square was used for identifying association between variables.

[Cultural domain of self-care in type 2 diabetes patients with and without blood glucose control in Mexico].

Objective: To analyze the main elements related with the cultural domain of self-health care in type 2 diabetes patients with and without good blood glucose control.

Methods: Descriptive study comprising diabetes patients, 57 with and 76 without good blood glucose control, with an average age of 60 years, who attended a Social Security family clinic in Mexico in 2003. A cognitive anthropology approach using free lists and a structured questionnaire was applied and a semantic model and average cultural knowledge based on six questions about their illness was developed by consensus analysis.

The relative effect of self-management practices on glycaemic control in type 2 diabetic patients in Mexico.

Objective: In this study, we examined the relative impact of self-management activities on glycaemic control in a population at high risk for developing complications.

Methods: Patients diagnosed with diabetes mellitus of at least 1 year in duration at 30 years of age or older were sampled from the Instituto de Mexico Seguro Social (IMSS) Family Medicine Clinics in Guadalajara, Mexico (n=800). Demographic, clinical and health behaviour variables were used to predict good/poor glycaemic control, as measured by haemoglobin Alc (A1C).

[Prevalence of urinary and anal incontinence in women from metropolitan area of Guadalajara].

Background: Female urinary and anal incontinence are common entities in pelvic floor dysfunction. The most frequently age affected range from 45 to 69 years. Previous studies performed in the United States report a prevalence of 24-62% for urinary incontinence and 3-60% for anal incontinence.

[The meaning of type 2 diabetes mellitus from the patient's perspective].

Introduction: Medical anthropology considers the sociocultural aspects of illnesses, from the biomedical definition of the experience of the one who suffers the illness. This is what makes the difference between a disease and an illness, in other words, an explanatory model of illness.

Objectives: To show the cultural consensus elaborated and shared by a group of diabetics through personal experience, of the causes, symptoms, treatment and complications of type 2 diabetes mellitus; to highlight the importance this has in the daily medical practice, and to understand the meaning of type 2 diabetes from the patient's perspective.

[Various anthropologic features of the physician-patient encounter with pulmonary tuberculosis in Western Mexico].

The present work has as its purpose a description of the information exchanged during doctor-patient encounters immediately following diagnosis of pulmonary tuberculosis. To accomplish this nine such encounters were audiotape at two public health clinics in Guadalajara, Mexico. Communication of information and affect was evaluated by adapting the Roter interactional process analysis.