[New treatment for HDL cholesterol with Trichosanthin A and metformin in prediabetes: controlled clinical trial].

Background: In adults with prediabetes, it is estimated that 51.2% have atherogenic dyslipidemia with low HDL cholesterol, not always diagnosed or treated. The present study evaluates a new intervention adding a class I-II histone deacetylase inhibitor (Trichosanthin A) to the standard management of metformin to treat prediabetes and increase HDL cholesterol.

[Mexican pregnant women's environment, knowledge and attitudes on prenatal care].

Objectives: To explore the barriers and facilitators to prenatal care, as well as the knowledge about healthy pregnancy and the attitude towards pregnancy.

Materials And Methods: Mixed-methods study in pregnant women with social and economic vulnerability. Barriers and facilitators for prenatal care were examined using ethnographic methods, while structured and semi-structured interviews were used to assess knowledge and attitudes.

[Associated family factors with nutrition and oral health in adolescents].

Objective: to evaluate the association of family factors with malnutrition and oral condition in adolescence.

Methods: a cross-sectional study of 456 adolescents was carried out to examine associations between family factors and risk for overweight or overweight (ROoO), risk for short stature or short stature (RSSoSS), and a DMFT (decayed, filled and missing-teeth) index > or = 8.

Results: the risk factors for ROoO were maternal educational level of high school or above (OR = 1.

[Relation among pathological maternal history and weight diagnosis at birth].

Background: Maternal age over 35 and lower than 18 years, primiparity, certain disorders such as blood pressure, diabetes mellitus and infections have been related to weight disorders of the newborn.

Objective: To asses risks of occurrence of two birth weight diagnostic criteria: 1) low birth weight and macrosomia; 2) trophism adjusted for gestational age, considering several maternal pathologies.

Material And Methods: A cross-sectional study of 316 newborns, singletons and free of malformations or congenital infections was carried out.