[Consultation profile and critical points in allergic patient attention at IMSS made by a non-allergologist specialist doctor].

Background: Allergic diseases represent a serious public health problem all over the world, and they use to be associated with environmental factors as well as with each patient genetic predisposition.

Objective: To characterize consult profile and critical points of allergic patients attention attended by non-allergologists specialists but referred by allergologists.

Material And Method: Descriptive study since October 2004 until February 2005, with a questionnaire to 255 patients attended by non-allergologists specialists in an IMSS hospital.

[Implications of the Renin-Angiotensin system in diabetic nephropathy].

In the last decades, the incidence of type 2 diabetes has increased alarmingly worldwide including Mexico, and particularly among Mexican-Americans. The etiology of type 2 diabetes is multiple, in which there is a complex interaction between environmental and genetic risk factors. The kidney is a target organ that is damaged when type 2 diabetes occurs.

Association between angiotensin-1 converting enzyme gene polymorphism and the metabolic syndrome in a Mexican population.

Metabolic Syndrome (MS) is recognized as a cluster of cardiovascular risk factors. All components of MS have a genetic base. Genes of the renin angiotensin system are potential candidate genes for MS.

[Angiotensin-1 converting enzyme insertion/deletion gene polymorphism in a Mexican population with diabetic nephropathy].

Background And Objective: Diabetic nephropathy is a polygenic and multifactorial disease. Studies of familial clustering and genetic predisposition suggest that genetic factors are involved. Among candidate genes, the coding for angiotensin-converting enzyme (ACE) polymorphism has been described.

[Increased accumulated incidence of allergic rhinitis in adolescents of Morelia, Michoacán, and its relation to satisfaction of vital and affective needs].

Objective: To determine the incidence (preliminary) of allergic rhinitis in a population-based sample of adolescents and its relation on how they meet basic and affective need satisfaction.

Material And Methods: We used ISAAC survey to assess rhinitis-related symptoms in a population-based sample of adolescents from Morelia, Michoacán, Mexico. Some items were added to the survey to evaluate how they meet basic and affective needs.