Publications by authors named "Mireya Martinez-Garcia"

A well-established association exists between the development of hypertension and sleep quality. The connection between self-reported sleep quality and the onset of hypertension is particularly significant in populations with metabolic deterioration, such as in Mexico. The Tlalpan 2020 Cohort was analyzed to explore this association.

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  • Periodontal disease is a serious condition that affects the gums and teeth and can also be linked to other health problems like heart disease and diabetes.
  • Scientists used special tools to study how genes and diseases are connected, which helped them find out more about the links between periodontal disease and other conditions.
  • The research showed that certain genes and proteins are important in understanding these connections, which could lead to better treatments for both periodontal disease and related health issues.
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  • This study examined how Metabolic Syndrome (MetS) relates to sleep disorders, nutrient intake, and social factors, with a focus on gender differences within a Mexico City cohort.
  • Machine learning models, especially random forest, were utilized to predict MetS, achieving a balanced accuracy of about 87% and identifying key predictors like body mass index and glucose levels for men and women respectively.
  • The research highlights the importance of personalized management of MetS, showing how factors like diet, sleep quality, and social development vary between genders and can influence metabolic health.
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Cardiovascular diseases stand as a prominent global cause of mortality, their intricate origins often entwined with comorbidities and multimorbid conditions. Acknowledging the pivotal roles of age, sex, and social determinants of health in shaping the onset and progression of these diseases, our study delves into the nuanced interplay between life-stage, socioeconomic status, and comorbidity patterns within cardiovascular diseases. Leveraging data from a cross-sectional survey encompassing Mexican adults, we unearth a robust association between these variables and the prevalence of comorbidities linked to cardiovascular conditions.

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Topological data analysis (TDA) is a recent approach for analyzing and interpreting complex data sets based on ideas a branch of mathematics called algebraic topology. TDA has proven useful to disentangle non-trivial data structures in a broad range of data analytics problems including the study of cardiovascular signals. Here, we aim to provide an overview of the application of TDA to cardiovascular signals and its potential to enhance the understanding of cardiovascular diseases and their treatment in the form of a literature or narrative review.

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Purpose: While pharmacoinvasive strategy (PI) is a safe and effective approach whenever access to primary percutaneous intervention (pPCI) is limited, data on each strategy's economic cost and impact on in-hospital stay are scarce. The objective is to compare the cost-effectiveness of a PI with that of pPCI for the treatment of ST-elevation myocardial infarction (STEMI) in a Latin-American country.

Patients And Methods: A total of 1747 patients were included, of whom 470 (26.

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Introduction: The COVID-19 pandemic, especially its early stages, sparked extensive discussions regarding the potential impact of metabolic and cardiovascular comorbidities on the severity and fatality of SARS-CoV-2 infection, yielding inconclusive outcomes. In this study, we delve into the prevalence of metabolic and cardiovascular comorbidities within COVID-19 patients in Mexico.

Methods: Employing a retrospective observational study design, we collected data from official databases encompassing COVID-19 patients admitted to both public and private hospitals in Mexico City.

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Introduction: Mexico ranks second in the global prevalence of obesity in the adult population, which increases the probability of developing dyslipidemia. Dyslipidemia is closely related to cardiovascular diseases, which are the leading cause of death in the country. Therefore, developing tools that facilitate the prediction of dyslipidemias is essential for prevention and early treatment.

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  • The study examines the social, demographic, and health conditions of COVID-19 patients treated at a reference hospital in Mexico City, highlighting the pandemic's negative impact on public health and socioeconomic status.
  • Conducted on 259 discharged patients, the research utilized statistical methods to analyze variables affecting survival rates, finding significant associations with age, material wealth, and the presence of certain health conditions.
  • Key findings indicate that a vast majority of patients lacked social security and many faced poor housing conditions, while survival was notably linked to avoiding major complications like pneumonia and septic shock.
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Background: The COVID-19 pandemic led to global social confinement that had a significant impact on people's lives. This includes changes such as increased loneliness and isolation, changes in sleep patterns and social habits, increased substance use and domestic violence, and decreased physical activities. In some cases, it has increased mental health problems, such as anxiety, depression, and post-traumatic stress disorder.

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Inequalities in oral health are influenced by the social strata of the population. Few studies have focused on the multitude of factors related to social development as indicators of living conditions and periodontal health status. The aim of this study is to evaluate the association between self-reported periodontal conditions and the Social Development Index (SDI).

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The fast, exponential increase of COVID-19 infections and their catastrophic effects on patients' health have required the development of tools that support health systems in the quick and efficient diagnosis and prognosis of this disease. In this context, the present study aims to identify the potential factors associated with COVID-19 infections, applying machine learning techniques, particularly random forest, chi-squared, xgboost, and rpart for feature selection; ROSE and SMOTE were used as resampling methods due to the existence of class imbalance. Similarly, machine and deep learning algorithms such as support vector machines, C4.

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Health equity is a rather complex issue. Social context and economical disparities, are known to be determining factors. Cultural and educational constrains however, are also important contributors to the establishment and development of health inequities.

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A main goal of Precision Medicine is that of incorporating and integrating the vast corpora on different databases about the molecular and environmental origins of disease, into analytic frameworks, allowing the development of individualized, context-dependent diagnostics, and therapeutic approaches. In this regard, artificial intelligence and machine learning approaches can be used to build analytical models of complex disease aimed at prediction of personalized health conditions and outcomes. Such models must handle the wide heterogeneity of individuals in both their genetic predisposition and their social and environmental determinants.

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Cardiovascular diseases are the leading cause of morbidity and mortality worldwide. High blood pressure in particular, continues to increase throughout the global population at an increasingly fast pace. The relationship between arterial hypertension and periodontitis has been recently discussed in the context of its origins and implications.

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Periodontitis is a common inflammatory disease of infectious origins that often evolves into a chronic condition. Aside from its importance as a stomatologic ailment, chronic periodontitis has gained relevance since it has been shown that it can develop into a systemic condition characterized by unresolved hyper-inflammation, disruption of the innate and adaptive immune system, dysbiosis of the oral, gut and other location's microbiota and other system-wide alterations that may cause, coexist or aggravate other health issues associated to elevated morbi-mortality. The relationships between the infectious, immune, inflammatory, and systemic features of periodontitis and its many related diseases are far from being fully understood and are indeed still debated.

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Cardiovascular diseases (CVD) are the leading causes of morbidity and mortality worldwide. The complex etiology of CVD is known to be significantly affected by environmental and social factors. There is, however, a lag in our understanding of how population level components may be related to the onset and severity of CVD, and how some indicators of unsatisfied basic needs might be related to known risk factors.

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Assessment of the air quality in metropolitan areas is a major challenge in environmental sciences. Issues related include the distribution of monitoring stations, their spatial range, or missing information. In Mexico City, stations have been located spanning the entire Metropolitan zone for pollutants, such as CO, NO, O, SO, PM, PM, NO, NO , and PM .

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Cancer is a set of complex pathologies that has been recognized as a major public health problem worldwide for decades. A myriad of therapeutic strategies is indeed available. However, the wide variability in tumor physiology, response to therapy, added to multi-drug resistance poses enormous challenges in clinical oncology.

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Background: People with Chagas disease may develop progressive and lethal heart conditions. Drugs to eliminate the parasite Trypanosoma cruzi (T cruzi) currently carry limited therapeutic value and are used in the early stages of the disease. Extending the use of these drugs to treat chronic chagasic cardiomyopathy (CCC) has also been proposed.

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Introduction: As an initiative to improve the quality of health care, the trend in biomedical research focused on health disparities and sex has increased. Objective: To carry out a characterization of the scientific evidence on health disparity defined as the gap between the distribution of health and the possible gender bias for access to medical services. Materials and methods: We conducted a simultaneous search of two fundamental descriptors in the scientific literature in the Medline PubMed database: healthcare disparities and sexism.

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Cardiovascular diseases are the leading causes of mortality worldwide. One reason behind this lethality lies in the fact that often cardiovascular illnesses develop into systemic failure due to the multiple connections to organismal metabolism. This in turn is associated with co-morbidities and multimorbidity.

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Background: Around the world, there is a significant difference in the proportion of women with access to leadership in healthcare with respect to men. This article studies gender imbalance and wage gap in managerial, executive, and directive job positions at the Mexican National Institutes of Health.

Methods: Cohort data were described using a visual circular representation and modeled using a generalized linear model.

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Background: Currently, thanks to the growing number of public database resources, most evidence on planning and management, healthcare institutions, policies and practices is becoming available to everyone. However, one of the limitations for the advancement of data and literature-driven research has been the lack of flexibility of the methodological resources used in qualitative research. There is a need to incorporate friendly, cheaper and faster tools for the systematic, unbiased analysis of large data corpora, in particular regarding the qualitative aspects of the information (often overlooked).

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Cardiovascular diseases are the leading cause of human mortality worldwide. Among the many factors associated with the etiology, incidence, and evolution of such diseases; social and environmental issues constitute an important and often overlooked component. Understanding to a greater extent the scope to which such social determinants of cardiovascular diseases (SDCVD) occur as well as the connections among them would be useful for public health policy making.

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