Glycemia upon admission and mortality in a pediatric intensive care unit.

Objectives: To analyze the association between glycemia levels upon pediatric intensive care unit admission and mortality in patients hospitalized.

Methods: A retrospective cohort of pediatric intensive care unit patients admitted to the Instituto Nacional de Salud del Niño between 2012 and 2013. A Poisson regression model with robust variance was used to quantify the association.

[Low publication of the papers presented at the Congresses of Gastroenterology Society of Peru 1998-2008].

Objectives: To determine the proportion of abstracts presented at the Congreso Peruano de Gastroenterología (the major Peruvian gastroenterological scientific meeting), that had been published in scientific journals, the date of publication and its associated factors.

Materials & Methods: Longitudinal retrospective and analytic study; the publicationrate of all the abstracts presented in the biennial Congreso Peruano de Gastroenterología between 1998 and 2008 was assessed. Google Scholar engine was used.

[Prevalence and associated factors with depressive symptoms in Health Sciences students from a private university in Lima, Peru 2010].

Introduction: Depressive symptoms in health sciences students are common, these might be potentially detrimental.

Objectives: To determine the prevalence of depressive symptoms and its associated factors in students from the Health Sciences Faculty of the Universidad Peruana de Ciencias Aplicadas in Lima (Peru), June 2010.

Materials And Methods: Cross-sectional analytic study; a pre-consented survey was applied to the population 590/869 students.