Randomized Clinical Trials of obesity treatments in Mexican population. Systematic Review and Meta-Analysis

Background: Mexicans and Mexican Americans share similar culture, genetic background, and predisposition for obesity and diabetes. Randomized clinical trials (RCT) assessing obesity treatments (ObT) are reliable to assess efficacy. To date, there is no systematic review to investigate ObT tested by RCT in Mexican adults. Methods: We conducted systematic searches in Pubmed, Scopus, and Web of Science to retrieve ObT RCT from 1990 to 2019. The ObT included alternative medicine, pharmacological, nutritional, behavioral, and surgical interventions. The analyzed RCT were at least three months of duration, and reported: BMI, weight, waist circumference, triglycerides, glucose and blood pressure. Results: We found 634 entries; after removal of duplicates and exclusions based on eligibility criteria, we analyzed 43 and 2 multinational-collaborative studies. Most of the national studies had small sample sizes, and did not have replications from other studies. The nutrition/behavioral interventions were difficult to blind, and most studies had medium to high risk of bias. Random effects meta-analysis of nutritional/behavioral interventions and medications showed effects on BMI, waist circumference, and blood pressure. Simple measures like plain water instead of sweet beverages decreased triglycerides and systolic blood pressure. Participants with obesity and hypertension had beneficial effects with antioxidants, and the treatment with insulin increased weight in those with T2D. Conclusions: The RCT’s in Mexico reported effects on metabolic components despite small sample sizes and lack of replication. In the future we should analyze ObT in population living on the U.S.-Mexico border; therefore, bi-national collaboration is desirable to disentangle cultural effects on ObT response

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Dwight L. Teeter, Jr. informs Dr. Hector P. Garcia that Rosa Linda Perales was awarded scholarships

Dwight L. Teeter, Jr., Professor and Chairman at the University of Texas at Austin, writes to Dr. Hector P. Garcia on behalf of the Journalism Scholarship Committee informing him that additional scholarship funds are available for the 1979-1980 year and have awarded Rosa Linda Perales the David M. Warren and Alvah Meyer Warren Journalism Scholarship

CAJA 157 - LEGAJO III - SIGNATURA 19

Expediente sobre la creación y dotación por la Sociedad de una escuela de adultos. Se acompaña las tres memorias premiadas sobre el método que se puede adoptar en la enseñanza de una Escuela de Adultos, presentadas por D. Baltasar Perales y Boluda, D. Maximino Roca y Monfort, y D. José Todolí.Perales, B.; Roca Y Monfort, M.; Todolí, J. (1863). Expediente sobre la creación y dotación por la Sociedad de una escuela de adultos. Se acompaña las tres memorias premiadas sobre el método que se puede adoptar en la enseñanza de una Escuela de Adultos, presentadas por D. Baltasar Perales y Boluda, D. Max. Real Sociedad Económica de Amigos del País de Valencia. http://hdl.handle.net/10251/23088Importación Masiv

Juan L. Gomez-Perales : Beyond Formalities

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Prisoners charged with smuggling pose outside jail, Carrizo Springs, Texas, ca. 1915

Photograph shows captured smugglers. Pictured are (1) Bernardino Mendoza; (2) Miguel P. Martinez; (3) Lino Gonzalez; (4) Eugenio Alzalde; (5) Leonardo L. Vasquez; (6) Abran Cisneros; (7) Domingo R. Rosas; (8) Jose Angel Serrato; (9) Luis Mendoza; (10) Jesus Gonzalez; (11) J. M. Rangel; (12) Charles Cline; (13) L. R. Ortiz; and (14) Pedro Perales. .Numbers are typed on the photograph for identification