[Rehabilitation of hip fractures. Systematic review].

Introduction: Hip fractures are considered among one of the most disabling injuries in patients older than 60 years of age. This fractures are associated with a high incidence of mortality and it is the leading cause of hospital admission that requires surgical treatment in Orthopaedic Trauma Centers.

Methods: This systematic review aimed to group, classify and report the best level of evidence of physical therapy and rehabilitation of patients that have been treated with osteostynthesis after trochanteric or subtrochanteric fracture.

Meconium aspiration syndrome, parental atopy and asthma symptoms in children under two years old.

Objective: To determine the association among meconium aspiration syndrome, parental atopy and asthma symptoms in children younger than two years.

Material And Methods: One hundred thirty six children who had suffered meconium aspiration syndrome were followed from birth to they were two years old. CONTROL GROUP included 136 healthy children without meconium aspiration syndrome.

Association between allergic rhinitis, bottle feeding, non-nutritive sucking habits, and malocclusion in the primary dentition.

Aim: To determine the association between allergic rhinitis, bottle feeding, non-nutritive sucking habits, and malocclusion in the primary dentition.

Methods: Data were collected on 1160 children aged 4-5 years, who had been longitudinally followed since the age of 4 months, when they were admitted to nurseries in a suburban area of Tampico-Madero, Mexico. Periodically, physical examinations were conducted and a questionnaire was given to their parents or tutors.

[Impact of the prenatal care in the neonatal morbidity and mortality].

Objective: To analyze the prenatal care impact in the neonatal morbidity and mortality.

Materials And Methods: Case-control cohort-nested study, among hospitalized and healthy newborns. The variables studied were: prenatal care, neonatal morbidity (respiratory distress syndrome, prematurity, low weight at birth, congenital malformations and asphyxia) and mortality, as well as mother's age, weight, height, gestation, and level of education.

[Impact of an active educational strategy in arterial hypertension].

Objective: To evaluate the efficacy of an active-participative educational intervention on the average arterial pressure, index of corporal mass and level of knowledge in hypertensive patients.

Methods: A quasi-experimental open study was carried out. An active-participative educational intervention 4 h daily during a period of 5 days twice monthly for 3 months focused on themes related to arterial hypertension in patients with high blood pressure.

[Prevalence and potential triggering factors of chronic urticaria and angioedema in an urban area of northeastern Mexico].

Background: Urticaria and angioedema are illnesses of easy diagnosis, but to solve them or to determine their cause is complex, as well as the therapeutic management of chronic cases.

Objective: To determine the prevalence, possible precipitating factors and chronic urticaria characteristics.

Material And Methods: A questionnaire was applied to 4,000 persons selected at random, from the ages of 18-50 years, women and men.

[A diagnostic instrument for allergic rhinitis].

Aims: Allergic rhinitis is the most common chronic disease in the upper respiratory tract, requiring better diagnostic methodology to counteract its onslaught.

Material And Method: This study included 116 subjects by random election, sex indistinct, between 1 and 68 years old with an average of 24.6.

[Medical history: diagnostic tool for allergic rhinitis].

Aims: To determine the diagnostic value of the medical history in the allergic rhinitis.

Material And Method: This study included 112 subjects, sex indistinct, between 2 and 31 years old, mean. We made 2 groups, one of the cases and another of control.

Dehydroepiandrosterone is a substrate for estradiol 17 beta-dehydrogenase from human placenta.

The enzyme estradiol 17 beta-dehydrogenase (17 beta-ED) [E.C.1.