Associations of current and childhood socioeconomic status and health outcomes amongst patients with knee or hip osteoarthritis in a Mexico City family-practice setting.

Objectives: To examine the association of current and childhood socioeconomic status (SES) with patient-reported functional status, quality of life and disability in patients with knee or hip osteoarthritis (OA).

Methods: Cross-sectional study amongst individuals seeking care for any medical reason in a primary care family-practice clinic in Mexico City. We included individuals with self-reported doctor-diagnosed arthritis, recruited through waiting-room posters and invitations by treating family physicians.

Increased body fat, physical inactivity, and hypertension are associated with poor quality of life in patients with type 2 diabetes.

Background: Diabetes is a significant health problem that affects quality of life in the medium and long term.

Objective: To identify the association between quality of life with comorbidity, metabolic control, and lifestyle in patients with type 2 diabetes.

Method: A cross-sectional study was performed in 392 patients.

Inequity and vulnerability in Latin American Indigenous and non-Indigenous populations with rheumatic diseases: a syndemic approach.

Unlabelled: Syndemics are a framework that documents health inequities and vulnerabilities in populations with rheumatic diseases. Compared with other approaches, syndemics are able to conjunctly consider epidemiological, biological, sociodemographic and economic factors, and their interactions.

Objective: To estimate health inequity and vulnerability among Indigenous and non-Indigenous populations with rheumatic and musculoskeletal diseases (RMD) in Latin America using the syndemic approach.

Syndemic and syndemogenesis of low back pain in Latin-American population: a network and cluster analysis.

Introduction: Although low back pain (LBP) is a high-impact health condition, its burden has not been examined from the syndemic perspective.

Objective: To compare and assess clinical, socioeconomic, and geographic factors associated with LBP prevalence in low-income and upper-middle-income countries using syndemic and syndemogenesis frameworks based on network and cluster analyses.

Methods: Analyses were performed by adopting network and cluster design, whereby interrelations among the individual and social variables and their combinations were established.

[La educación multimedia como apoyo en el manejo de pacientes con diabetes tipo 2. Estudio cuasi experimental].

Objetivo: Evaluar la eficacia de la educación a través de un sistema de información multimedia en el control del paciente con diabetes tipo 2.

MÉtodo: Ensayo clínico abierto aleatorizado. El grupo de intervención fue instruido para consultar una herramienta educativa multimedia en la sala de espera de los consultorios, misma que fue diseñada de acuerdo a las caracteristicas de la población y centrada en automonitoreo de indicadores, información sobre diabetes tipo 2 y nutrición.