Risk Factors for SARS-CoV-2 Infection, Pneumonia, Intubation, and Death in Northeast Mexico.

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.

Body frame size, body image, self-esteem, and health-related quality of life in schoolchildren.

Objective: The aim of this study was to explore the relationship between body frame size (BFS) and body image, self-esteem, and health-related quality of life (HRQL) in Mexican schoolchildren.

Methods: This cross-sectional study included children aged 6 to 11 years. Body image, self-esteem, and HRQL were evaluated through interviews.

[Comorbidities and antimicrobial resistance in urological outpatients with positive urine culture].

Background: The urinary tract infections are the third cause of infections in Mexico. The inappropriate use of antibiotic has generated the presence of multidrugresistant bacteria.

Objective: To identify the bacterial resistance patterns of the hospital and to detect the present comorbidities that can modify the evolution of urinary tract infection for proper empirical management.

Stages of Change for Mammography Among Mexican Women and a Decisional Balance Comparison Across Countries.

An analysis of the adoption of secondary preventive behaviors is significant in regions with disparities in mammography use and breast cancer survival. Therefore, we determined the cognitive factors and the degree to which they differentiate stages of change in mammography among Mexican women. We also compared the decisional balance performance at Mexico, Switzerland, South Korea, and the USA.

An acidic sphingomyelinase Type C activity from Mycobacterium tuberculosis.

Sphingomyelinases (SMases) catalyze the hydrolysis of sphingomyelin to ceramide and phosphorylcholine. Sphingolipids are recognized as diverse and dynamic regulators of a multitude of cellular processes mediating cell cycle control, differentiation, stress response, cell migration, adhesion, and apoptosis. Bacterial SMases are virulence factors for several species of pathogens.

[Knowledge transfer for STI/HIV/AIDS prevention among adolescents].

Background: The transfer of knowledge is a crucial process for the functioning and continuation of training programs. The aim of this study was to determine how the transfer process works for the program JUVENIMSS and the factors that relate to the transfer of knowledge.

Methods: The study design was correlational, involving 122 health professionals.

Modified PEHPS medium as an alternative for the in vitro culture of Giardia lamblia.

Commercial culture media present interlot variations in biological activity. We have previously designed a homemade and economic culture medium, PEHPS medium, for the axenic cultivation of Entamoeba histolytica and Trichomonas vaginalis. Trophozoites of amoebae and trichomonads grow well in this medium.

[Prevalence of overweight and obesity in children from Monterrey, Nuevo León].

Background: Pediatric obesity is a major health problem around the globe. It has increased in the last decades up to 30 % (in 2010). The aim of this study was to establish the prevalence of overweight and obesity in children from zero to 14 years from three family medicine units and one school.

[Ageneses of the gallbladder: revision of the literature and a case reported].

Background: ageneses of the gallblander (AGB) is an infrequent congenital malformation. It was described by Lemery in 1701, for the first time. Until today, it has been described 400 cases worldwide.