[Effect of the DiabetIMSS program on cardiovascular risk, blood pressure and HDL cholesterol in patients with metabolic syndrome].

Objective: The aim of this paper is to evaluate the effect of the DiabetIMSS program on cardiovascular risk, blood pressure and HDL cholesterol in patients with metabolic syndrome.

Methods: Quasi-experimental intervention study. Non-probabilistic convenience sampling.

[Parity and menarche as risk factors for osteoporosis in postmenopausal women].

Background: Worldwide studies, even in our country, have thrown discrepant results about the relation between osteoporosis, parity and age of menarche.

Objective: To investigate the relation of osteoporosis in postmenopausal mexican women with multiparity and age of menarche.

Patients And Method: Transversal, retrospective and analytical study.

[Impact of an educational institutional program in the control of the diabetic patient].

Objective: to assess the impact of an educational institutional program in the control of type 2 diabetic patient.

Methods: intervention educational study, with quasi-experimental and self-controlled subjects. A convenience non-probabilistic sample was used including 151 patients from the program for the integral care of diabetic patients.

[Parity and menarche as risk factors of osteoporosis in postmenopausal Mexican women].

Background: At the moment the studies lead at world-wide level and even in our country have thrown discrepant results about the relation between osteoporosis, parity and age of menarche.

Objective: To investigate the relation of osteoporosis in postmenopausal Mexican women with multiparity and age of menarche.

Patients And Method: A retrospective and analytical cross-sectional study, with a non-probabilistic sampling technique in women rightful claimants of the IMSS, San Luis Potosi.

[Sensitivity and specificity of a utility model of the detection of diabetic neuropathy].

Objective: To determine whether a utility model can be used with acceptable sensitivity and specificity for the diagnosis of diabetic peripheral neuropathy (DPN).

Methods: Cross sectional study, non-probability sampling, in 381 type 2 diabetic patients with diabetic foot risk. To determine the DPN, it was evaluated the protective sensation in 10 sites on the foot.