The Quételet index revisited in children and adults.

Background: The body mass index (BMI) is based on the original concept that body weight increases as a function of height squared. As an indicator of obesity the modern BMI assumption postulates that adiposity also increases as a function of height in states of positive energy balance.

Objective: To evaluate the BMI concept across different adiposity magnitudes, in both children and adults.

Effect of abdominoplasty in the lipid profile of patients with dyslipidemia.

Introduction. Dyslipidemia like other chronic degenerative diseases is pandemic in Latin America and around the world. A lot of patients asking for body contouring surgery can be sick without knowing it.

Hepatitis C virus infection and type 2 diabetes mellitus in Mexican patients.

Objective: to measure the frequency of type 2 diabetes mellitus (T2DM) in patients with confirmed HCV infection.

Methods: we studied 125 adults reactive to anti-HCV antibodies (62.4 % women, mean age 46.

Achievement of therapeutic targets in Mexican patients with diabetes mellitus.

Background And Aim: Complications of diabetes comprise the leading cause of death in Mexico. We aimed to describe the characteristics of management and achievement of therapeutic targets in Mexican patients with diabetes mellitus.

Methods: We analyzed data from 2642 Mexican patients with type 1 (T1D, n=203, 7.