Estudio transversal para comparar el rendimiento académico en estudiantes mexicanos de educación secundaria en función de su índice de masa corporal

Introduction: Mexico ranks second in the world in childhood obesity. The impact of obesity on comprehensive health is evident; however, the evidence of its influence on academic performance in Mexican adolescents is still scarce. Objective: to compare the academic performance of high school students based on their Body Mass Index (BMI). Material and methods: cross-sectional study in a probabilistic sample of 156 students. Weight and height were taken and BMI was classified according to the criteria of the World Health Organization (WHO). The average grade was used to measure academic performance. Descriptive statistics and Chi square were applied to compare groups. Results: 50% women; the mean age was 13.1 years (DT = .94). 32.7% were obese, 19.2% overweight and 48.1 % normal weight. The mean score was 8.6 (DT = .82), 42.3% had a high performance, 38.5% an average performance and 19.2% a low performance. High performance was more frequent in the obesity group (40.9%), followed by normal weight (36.4%) and overweight (22.7%). When comparing the academic performance in the groups by BMI, statistical differences were found (p = 0.01). Conclusions: the prevalence of overweight and obesity is higher than the national average. There are differences in academic performance. Adolescents with obesity had a higher school performance.Introducción: México ocupa el segundo lugar del mundo en obesidad infantil. El impacto de la obesidad sobre la salud integral es evidente; sin embargo, la evidencia de su influencia sobre el rendimiento académico en adolescentes mexicanos es todavía escasa. Objetivo: comparar el rendimiento académico de estudiantes de secundaria en función de su Índice de Masa Corporal (IMC). Material y métodos: estudio transversal en muestra probabilística de 156 estudiantes. Se tomó peso y talla y se clasificó el IMC según los criterios de la Organización Mundial de la Salud (OMS). Para medir el rendimiento académico se utilizó la calificación promedio. Se aplicó estadística descriptiva y Chi cuadrado para comparar grupos. Resultados: 50% mujeres; la media de edad fue de 13,1 años (desviación típica [DT]= 0,94). El 32,7 % presentaron obesidad, 19,2 % sobrepeso y el 48,1 % peso normal. La media de calificación fue 8,6 (DT= 0,82), el 42,3% tenía un rendimiento académico alto, el 38,5% un rendimiento medio y el 19,2% un rendimiento bajo. El rendimiento alto fue más frecuente en el grupo de obesidad (40,9%), seguido de peso normal (36,4%) y sobrepeso (22,7%). Al comparar el rendimiento académico en los grupos por IMC, se encontraron diferencias estadísticas (p=0,01). Conclusiones: la prevalencia de sobrepeso y obesidad es más alta que la media nacional. Existen diferencias en el rendimiento académico en función del IMC. Los adolescentes con obesidad presentaron un rendimiento escolar más alto

Advances in Nutritional Therapy of Acute Pancreatitis

Acute pancreatitis (AP) is a frequent abdominal acute inflammatory disorder and the leading cause of hospital admissions in gastrointestinal units. Clinical manifestations of AP vary from a mild edematous form to severe fulminant pancreatitis with major devastating complications. To date, experimental therapeutic agents remain scarce for the treatment of this disease. Nutritional therapy with appropriate nutrient supplementation is key to limiting the acute inflammation and preventing and managing complications associated with AP. This chapter focuses on novel therapeutic agents for nutritional intervention including enteral versus parenteral nutrition strategies, and nutritional supplements such as probiotics, glutamine, omega-3 fatty acids, and vitamins in the treatment of AP

Anxious depression in patients with Type 2 Diabetes Mellitus and its relationship with medication adherence and glycemic control

A relationship between anxious depression has been proposed in patients with diabetes, which may contribute to the lack of medication adherence. The aim of this study was to investigate if there is a relationship between depression and / or anxiety with medication adherence and glycemic control in patients with type 2 Diabetes Mellitus (DM2). An analytical, cross-sectional study was carried out in the internal medicine outpatient clinic of a Hospital in Mexico. Patients with DM2 participated over a period from November 2015 to January 2016. The Morisky scale for medication adherence, and the Goldberg anxiety and depression scale were conducted for each patient. Data was collected from a total of 179 patients. There was a significant difference between anxious depression and medication adherence (p < 0.001) using logistic regression with an R2 of 0.136. There was also a significant difference between anxiety and glycemic control (p < 0.001) with an R2 of 0.175, however no significant difference was found between glycemic control and anxious depression. Our findings demonstrate that patients who suffer from anxious depression also tend to have reduced medication adherence, and anxiety was associated with poor glycemic control in patients with DM2 within the Mexican population

Estudio transversal para comparar el rendimiento académico en estudiantes mexicanos de educación secundaria en función de su índice de masa corporal

Introduction: Mexico ranks second in the world in childhood obesity. The impact of obesity on comprehensive health is evident; however, the evidence of its influence on academic performance in Mexican adolescents is still scarce. Objective: to compare the academic performance of high school students based on their Body Mass Index (BMI). Material and methods: cross-sectional study in a probabilistic sample of 156 students. Weight and height were taken and BMI was classified according to the criteria of the World Health Organization (WHO). The average grade was used to measure academic performance. Descriptive statistics and Chi square were applied to compare groups. Results: 50% women; the mean age was 13.1 years (DT = .94). 32.7% were obese, 19.2% overweight and 48.1 % normal weight. The mean score was 8.6 (DT = .82), 42.3% had a high performance, 38.5% an average performance and 19.2% a low performance. High performance was more frequent in the obesity group (40.9%), followed by normal weight (36.4%) and overweight (22.7%). When comparing the academic performance in the groups by BMI, statistical differences were found (p = 0.01). Conclusions: the prevalence of overweight and obesity is higher than the national average. There are differences in academic performance. Adolescents with obesity had a higher school performance.Introducción: México ocupa el segundo lugar del mundo en obesidad infantil. El impacto de la obesidad sobre la salud integral es evidente; sin embargo, la evidencia de su influencia sobre el rendimiento académico en adolescentes mexicanos es todavía escasa. Objetivo: comparar el rendimiento académico de estudiantes de secundaria en función de su Índice de Masa Corporal (IMC). Material y métodos: estudio transversal en muestra probabilística de 156 estudiantes. Se tomó peso y talla y se clasificó el IMC según los criterios de la Organización Mundial de la Salud (OMS). Para medir el rendimiento académico se utilizó la calificación promedio. Se aplicó estadística descriptiva y Chi cuadrado para comparar grupos. Resultados: 50% mujeres; la media de edad fue de 13,1 años (desviación típica [DT]= 0,94). El 32,7 % presentaron obesidad, 19,2 % sobrepeso y el 48,1 % peso normal. La media de calificación fue 8,6 (DT= 0,82), el 42,3% tenía un rendimiento académico alto, el 38,5% un rendimiento medio y el 19,2% un rendimiento bajo. El rendimiento alto fue más frecuente en el grupo de obesidad (40,9%), seguido de peso normal (36,4%) y sobrepeso (22,7%). Al comparar el rendimiento académico en los grupos por IMC, se encontraron diferencias estadísticas (p=0,01). Conclusiones: la prevalencia de sobrepeso y obesidad es más alta que la media nacional. Existen diferencias en el rendimiento académico en función del IMC. Los adolescentes con obesidad presentaron un rendimiento escolar más alto

Discovering HIV related information by means of association rules and machine learning

Acquired immunodeficiency syndrome (AIDS) is still one of the main health problems worldwide. It is therefore essential to keep making progress in improving the prognosis and quality of life of affected patients. One way to advance along this pathway is to uncover connections between other disorders associated with HIV/AIDS-so that they can be anticipated and possibly mitigated. We propose to achieve this by using Association Rules (ARs). They allow us to represent the dependencies between a number of diseases and other specific diseases. However, classical techniques systematically generate every AR meeting some minimal conditions on data frequency, hence generating a vast amount of uninteresting ARs, which need to be filtered out. The lack of manually annotated ARs has favored unsupervised filtering, even though they produce limited results. In this paper, we propose a semi-supervised system, able to identify relevant ARs among HIV-related diseases with a minimal amount of annotated training data. Our system has been able to extract a good number of relationships between HIV-related diseases that have been previously detected in the literature but are scattered and are often little known. Furthermore, a number of plausible new relationships have shown up which deserve further investigation by qualified medical experts