Comparison of the use of blood pressure telemonitoring versus standard medical care in the achievement of short-term therapeutic goals in blood pressure in patients with uncontrolled hypertension: An open-label clinical trial.

Background: In Mexico less than half of the treated hypertensive patients reach blood pressure (BP) targets. Most hypertensive individuals rely on the standard medical care (SMC) to achieve the BP control goals; however, the efficacy of BP telemonitoring (BPT) to achieve BP targets has been poorly studied.

Aim: To compare the efficacy of BPT versus SMC to achieve BP goals in patients with uncontrolled hypertension.

The Mexican consensus on chronic constipation.

Introduction: Significant advances have been made in the knowledge and understanding of the epidemiology, pathophysiology, diagnosis, and treatment of chronic constipation, since the publication of the 2011 guidelines on chronic constipation diagnosis and treatment in Mexico from the Asociación Mexicana de Gastroenterología.

Aims: To present a consensus review of the current state of knowledge about chronic constipation, providing updated information and integrating the new scientific evidence.

Methods: Three general coordinators reviewed the literature published within the time frame of January 2011 and January 2017.

The triglycerides and glucose index is associated with cardiovascular risk factors in normal-weight children and adolescents.

BackgroundGiven the usefulness of the product of triglycerides and glucose (TyG) to recognize individuals at high risk for developing cardiovascular events, the aim of this study was to determine whether the TyG index is associated with the presence of cardiovascular risk factors in apparently healthy normal-weight children and adolescents.MethodsApparently healthy children and adolescents with normal weight, aged 6-15 years, were enrolled in a population-based cross-sectional study. The children were allocated into groups with and without cardiovascular risk factors.

Association of β1 and β3 adrenergic receptors gene polymorphisms with insulin resistance and high lipid profiles related to type 2 diabetes and metabolic syndrome.

Background: Among the diverse genes associated to type 2 diabetes (T2D), the β-adrenergic receptors are an excellent candidate to study in Mexican population. The objective of this work was to analyze the association of polymorphisms in ADRB1 (rs1801253) (Arg389Gly) and ADRB3 (Trp64Arg) genes with T2D and metabolic syndrome (MS).

Methods: We studied 445 MS patients, 502 with T2D and 552 healthy controls.

[Treatment patterns in advanced breast cancer with anthracycline and taxanes and their costs in three public hospitals of Mexico].

Objectives: In Mexico, breast cancer is the second leading cause of cancer mortality among females. For patients with advanced breast cancer (ABC) resistant to anthracyclines and taxanes (AT), there are limited treatment options. There is a scarcity of data regarding clinical management of this population and treatment costs at this stage of the disease.

Interdisciplinary clinical evaluation of 58 patients with lumbar-vertebral metastases from cervico-uterine cancer.

Introduction: Metastases in the vertebrae of patients with cervical cancer (CeCa) can be difficult to diagnose, and the treatment is palliative in many cases.

Objectives: The aim of this study was to assess the ti-me required for diagnosis, the lesion's locoregional extent and the therapeutic schemes applied, in a retrospective series of 58 patients with CeCa and with lumbar spinal metastases.

Methods: The cases were studied using an updated interdisciplinary analysis to determine the clinical and radiological variables.

[T lymphocyte immunotherapy in patients with cancer].

Several experimental developments in the last 20 years have hallmarked progress in understanding the cellular and molecular basis of the immune response to cancer. Identification of 30 tumor antigens associated from some expressed proteins in neoplastic cells are used as targets of immune response cells. Multiple studies have proved in vitro and in animal models that specific clones of lymphocytes T CD4+ and CD8+ recognize the tumoral immunogenic-oligopeptides and carry out the principal effecting phase in anti-tumor response.

Aortocava fistula: experience with five patients.

Combined injuries of the aorta and inferior vena cava are rare. Mortality is over 70%, primarily from exsanguinating hemorrhage. Post-traumatic aortocava fistula can develop in survivors, who present in the postoperative period with manifestations of high output heart failure.

[Observer variation in diagnostic procedures related to cardiothoracic surgery].

The results reliability is a predominant condition in the validity of clinical research. The observer agreement determination is a useful procedure in the confirmation of the obtained results in clinical research. The present work is a presentation of the basis about observer agreement and a review of national publications in cardiology, pneumology and cardiothoracic surgery between january 1980 and july 1993, where we found just two publications with the application of observer agreement determination in echocardiography, electrocardiography, microscopy and hemodynamics.