Types of Injuries and the Severity of Shoulder Dysfunction Associated with Diabetes Mellitus in Patients with Functional Impairment: A Case-Control Study.

Background/objectives: Patients with diabetes have been reported to experience a higher prevalence of shoulder disorders compared to those without diabetes or with other medical conditions. However, the specific types of shoulder injuries and the extent of functional impairment associated with diabetes mellitus remain unclear. This study aimed to assess the association between diabetes and specific shoulder injuries, as well as the degree of functional impairment in affected patients.

Frequency of Spinal Segmental Sensitization Syndrome and Associated Social Determinants of Health.

Objective: To determine the frequency of spinal segmental sensitization (SSS) syndrome and its association with socioeconomic and educational levels, Depression, smoking, and alcoholism.

Design: Analytic cross-sectional study conducted within the time frame of February-August 2022.

Setting: Outpatient consultation area of the Hospital Regional Universitario de Colima, a public health care institution in Mexico PARTICIPANTS: Ninety-eight patients over 18 years of age were selected that presented with chronic musculoskeletal pain of at least 3-month progression (N=98).

Components of frailty, sarcopenia and their association with vitamin D deficiency. Cross-sectional, analytical study.

Introduction: In older adults, the association of frailty and sarcopenia with vitamin D deficiency is well known, but the association of the components of frailty syndrome has been poorly studied.

Objective: To determine the association of the components of frailty and sarcopenia with vitamin D insufficiency in older adults.

Methods: Adults were studied, in whom age, education, marital status, history of fractures, hospitalizations, anthropometric indicators, sarcopenia, Charlson index, polypharmacy, Fried's frailty phenotype, and plasma vitamin D were recorded; figures < 30 ng/mL were considered indicative of vitamin D insufficiency.

Impact on the Nutritional and Functional Status of Older Mexican Adults in the Absence of Recreational Activities due to COVID-19: A Longitudinal Study From 2018 to 2021.

A longitudinal study, from 2018 to 2021, identified impacts on the nutritional and functional status of older adults when face-to-face activities at a social assistance center in Mexico were suspended due to the COVID-19 pandemic. A total of 71 older adults were evaluated at three different periods: 18 months prior, three months before the pandemic, and 12 months after the onset of the pandemic. Seventy-one older adults completed follow up.

Death related to Cedecea lapagei in a soft tissue bullae infection: a case report.

Background: Cedecea lapagei bacterium was discovered in 1977 but was not known to be pathogenic to humans until 2006. In the medical literature there are very few clinical case reports of Cedecea lapagei; none have reported a catastrophic death secondary to a soft tissue hemorrhagic bullae infection. As well as soft tissue infection, rare cases of pneumonia, urinary tract infections, peritonitis, osteomyelitis, bacteremia, and sepsis have been documented with the majority having good outcomes.

[Frequency of successful aging and frailty. Associated risk factors].

Objective: To determine the frequency of successful aging (SA) and its relationship with frailty in an elderly population.

Material And Methods: An analytical cross-sectional study of subjects ≥60 years of age seen as outpatients in a general hospital. Successful aging was defined as scores of ≥ 90 in the Barthel index and ≤ 2 in the Pfeiffer test.

[Sarcopenia and functional disability in aged].

Background: The significance of sarcopenia in recent years is due to its relationship with functional disability (FD).

Objective: To determine whether a difference exists in the proportion of sarcopenia in older adults (OA) with different status of FD.

Methods: Subjects over 65 years of age without sarcopenia associated diseases were included.

[Family dysfunction and malnutrition in the elderly].

Background: Malnutrition is highly prevalent in the elderly. It is related to biological, functional and psychosocial aging factors. The objective was to investigate the association between family dysfunction (FD) and malnutrition in the elderly.