Audiometric findings of printing press workers exposed to noise and organic solvents.

Objective: To determine if exposure to organic solvents and noise is associated with audiometric results among workers from a printing press in Mexico City.

Design: Cross-sectional study.

Study Sample: One hundred and seventy-six male workers at a printing press in Mexico City exposed to noise and organic solvents, including xylene, and 103 non-exposed male workers as reference group.

[Atypical clinical presentation of flavivirus. Case report].

The first report of chikungunya virus (CHIKV) in Mexico was in may 2014, in Jalisco, and has disseminated along the country in such a way that now is considered a relevant emergent vector-transmitted infection. It is clinically diagnosed by abrupt onset fever, asthenia, arthralgias, myalgias, headache and rash. In the clinical case, we described a women from Guerrero that had pulmonary symptomatology associated to CHIKV, which is an atypical clinical presentation that has been reported only in a hundred cases worldwide.

[Chronic kidney disease in Mexico and its relation with heavy metals].

Chronic kidney disease (CKD) is a public health problem in Mexico, causing 25% of deaths related to diabetes mellitus (DM) and 28% related to hypertensive heart disease. In 2008 CKD reached the highest incidence of end-stage renal disease in the world. Diabetes mellitus is the main risk factor associated with CKD in Mexican population; however, heavy metals such as lead, arsenic, cadmium and mercury have been associated to nephropathies.