Prevalence of Sexual Dysfunction in Mexican Women with Rheumatoid Arthritis.

We estimate the prevalence and identified the associated factors of sexual dysfunction in Mexican women with rheumatoid arthritis (RA). A cross-sectional survey was applied to 100 women with RA and compared with 100 healthy, sexually active, adult women. Assessments included an interview using the Female Sexual Function Index (FSFI).

E6/E7 and E6 From HPV16 and HPV18 Upregulate IL-6 Expression Independently of p53 in Keratinocytes.

Keratinocyte infection with high-risk human papillomavirus genotypes has been linked to cancer development. In cervix, the alpha HPV16 and HPV18 have been reported as the mayor causative agents of cervical cancer. Oncogenic progression and chronic inflammation are closely related processes, with IL-6 as one of the main pro-inflammatory cytokines involved.

[Clinical evaluation of patients with breast cancer and pregnancy].

Background: Breast cancer is the second most common malignancy diagnosed in pregnancy. Breast cancer in pregnancy represents a challenge in diagnosis as well as in treatment.

Objective: To evaluate clinically patients with breast cancer in pregnancy.

[Circadian rhythm of blood pressure in patients with chronic hypertension and pregnancy].

Background: Ambulatory blood pressure monitoring during 24 hours shows a blood pressure variability. The prevalence of chronic hypertension in pregnant women is 1-5%, so it is important to know the changes in blood pressure and cardiovascular risk and prevent complications to the mother and fetus.

Objective: To know the circadian rhythm of the blood pressure in the chronic hypertensive pregnant patients, through the ambulatory blood pressure monitoring.

[Motives of requirement for health care consultations and factors associated to mortality due to poisoning].

Background: The poisoning is a public health problem. This problem requires continuous evaluation to decrease it. Our objective was to identify causes of requirement for health care consults and factors associated to mortality due to poisoning.

[Prevalence and cervical human papilloma virus associated factors in patients with rheumatoid arthritis].

Background: Nevertheless its association with cervicouterine cancer, there is no information about cervical human papillomavirus infection prevalence in patients with rheumatoid arthritis.

Objective: To evaluate human papillomavirus infection prevalence through molecular biology tests, and to analyze this infection related factors in patients with rheumatoid arthritis.

Material And Method: Analytic, transversal study to 250 patients: 61 women with rheumatoid arthritis selected from a rheumatologic external consult of a second level hospital, and 189 healthy women, with cervical cytology, of a first level hospital.

Hyperhomocysteinemia in ankylosing spondylitis: prevalence and association with clinical variables.

We evaluated the prevalence and characteristics associated with hyperhomocysteinemia in ankylosing spondylitis (AS). Ninety-seven patients with AS were compared with 97 controls. The assessment included clinical characteristics, disease activity (BASDAI), functioning (BASFI), history of drugs, and erythrocyte sedimentation rate (ESR).