[Frequency of gastroesophageal reflux disease in elderly patients attending a family medicine clinic].

Objectives: To ascertain the prevalence of gastroesophageal reflux disease (GERD) in elderly people attending to family medicine clinics.

Material And Methods: the study was conducted by using a prospective design in which participants were randomly selected from a family medicine clinic located in Mexico City. The study was run from August to September 2003, and included patients aged sixty years or older, regardless of gender.

[Depressive symptoms as a risk factor for polypharmacy in patients over 60 years of age].

Objective: To determine the association between depressive symptoms not identified by the family physician and polypharmacy in patients over 60 years old.

Methods: A case-control design with non-probabilistic sampling.

Inclusion Criteria: > or = 60 years old both sexes, without disease or with one disease-balanced illness, and with reliable recording in chart by the last 12 month.

[Characterizing the prescription of non-steroidal anti-inflammatory drugs among the elderly].

Objective: Determine prescription characteristics of non-steroidal anti-inflammatory drugs among the elderly attending primary medical care.

Material And Methods: Setting, Family Health Unit 52, Mexican Institute of Social Security.

Design: Prospective, cross-sectional, descriptive, with randomized sampling.

[Adaptation and validation of quality of life instrument Diabetes 39 for Mexican patients with type 2 diabetes mellitus].

Objective: To adapt and validate the Spanish language version of the Diabetes 39 instrument, which measures quality of life,for Mexican patients with type 2 diabetes mellitus (DM-2).

Materials And Methods: The Spanish language version of the instrument was adapted to make it more comprehensible to Mexican patients. In a cross-sectional survey, the instrument was administered on two different days to 260 patients with type DM-2.

[Construction and validation of a clinical diagnostic-therapeutic guide for the hospitable management of patients with type 2 diabetes mellitus].

Objective: To develop and validate a diagnostic-therapeutic guideline (DTG) for the management of hospitalized diabetic patients, and apply it to a sample of medical files.

Material And Methods: The DTG was constructed and then validated by a consensus of internist physicians, afterwards it was applied to a sample of 97 randomly selected medical files of diabetic patients discharged from a internal medicine service. Hospitalization time, studies requested, average glycemia, glycemic prior to the discharge, time for to achieve glycemic control and mortality were compared at different percentages of the DTG's application.

[Family-physician factors associated with glycemic control of patients with diabetes mellitus].

Introduction: Metabolic control of patients with diabetes is determined by several factors, among others competence level, performance, and attitudes of primary-care physicians.

Objective: On objective was to determinate family physician factors associated with glycemic control in subjects with diabetes in two Family Medicine Units (FMU).

Design: Cross-sectional comparative study.

[Comparison of fasting and 2 hours postprandial blood glucose in the control of patients with type 2 diabetes].

Background: Fasting glycemia is a questionable control test for subjects with diabetes mellitus. 2-h postprandial glycemia is an element that must be considered as complementary in controlling the disease.

Objectives: Compare usefulness of fasting glycemia and 2-h postprandial glycemia as control tests in patients with type 2 diabetes mellitus.