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AUTHOR
F. Javier Jiménez
Low toenail chromium concentration and increased risk of nonfatal myocardial infarction
Chromium intake may increase insulin sensitivity, glucose tolerance, and the ratio of high density lipoprotein cholesterol to low density lipoprotein cholesterol. However, the epidemiologic evidence on the association between chromium and cardiovascular disease is very limited. To determine whether low toenail chromium concentrations were associated with risk of nonfatal myocardial infarction, the authors conducted an incident, population-based, case-control study in eight European countries and Israel in 1991-1992. Cases (n = 684) were men with a first diagnosis of myocardial infarction recruited from the coronary units of participating hospitals. Controls (n = 724) were men selected rando…
Control de la presión arterial de los pacientes diabéticos en el ámbito de atención primaria. Estudio DIAPA
Fundamento y objetivo Conocer el control de la presion arterial (PA) en pacientes con diabetesmellitus (DM) visitados en atencion primaria (AP), y determinar los factores asociados a uncontrol suboptimo de la PA. Pacientes y metodo Estudio transversal y multicentrico. Noventa investigadores incluyeron a875 pacientes con DM (57,8% mujeres), con edad media (DE) de 64 (11,8) anos. La PA semidio segun las recomendaciones del Sexto Informe del Joint National Committee (JNC-VI) yde la Organizacion Mundial de la Salud/Sociedad Internacional de Hipertension (OMS/ISH),calculandose la media aritmetica de tres tomas sucesivas. Se considero hipertensos a los pacientescon diagnostico previo establecido,…