Associations of salivary aldosterone levels during pregnancy with maternal blood pressure and birth weight-for-gestational age in a Mexico City birth cohort.

Objective: To determine associations of maternal salivary aldosterone with blood pressure (BP) in pregnancy and infant birth weight-for-gestational age (BWGA).

Methods: We measured maternal salivary aldosterone, BP and BWGA z-scores in 471 Mexico City pregnancy cohort participants and performed multivariable linear regression of BP and BWGA on log-aldosterone levels.

Results: Log-aldosterone was positively associated with diastolic BP (β = 0.

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Objetivo: Describir la prevalencia de obesidad en adultos, medida a través del índice de masa corporal (IMC) y la circunferencia de cintura (CC), estratificando por factores de riesgo y comorbilidades. Material y métodos. Se analizó la información de 8 563 participantes en la Encuesta Nacional de Salud y Nutrición 2022 (Ensanut 2022).

Perceptions of food environments in the school and at home during Covid-19: An online cross-sectional study of parents, teachers and experts from Latin America.

Background: The high prevalence of overweight and obesity in children from Latin America (LA) have been related to obesogenic food environments. Besides, the negative effects of the Covid-19 pandemic should also be considered. The objective of this research was to describe and compare the perceptions of parents, teachers, and experts in LA of food environments at home and school that favor healthy habits in schoolchildren in pre Covid-19 stage and during the pandemic.

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Objective: To describe the national by federal entity prevalence of the nutritional status of weight and length at birth.

Materials And Methods: Cross-sectional descrip­tive study. Data from 1 907 341 alive newborns in 2017, registered in the Subsistema de Información sobre Nacimientos (Sinac), were analyzed.

Comorbidities associated with maternal mortality from COVID-19 in Mexico.

Introduction: In Mexico, there is a syndemic in pregnant women, where the epidemic of obesity and chronic diseases coexists with that of coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19), which has been associated with a higher risk of maternal mortality.

Objective: To evaluate the association of comorbidities during pregnancy with maternal mortality from COVID-19 in Mexico.

Material And Methods: SISVER COVID-19 databases and epidemiological surveillance reports on maternal mortality were used.