El Perú se encuentra ubicado en la parte central y occidental de América del Sur en el denominado Cinturón de Fuego del Pacífico junto a Ecuador y Colombia, zona que registra cerca del 90% de la actividad sísmica de todo el planeta y tiene una extensión de 40,000 km de largo; además de albergar más del 75% de los volcanes activos existentes en el mundo. Del mismo modo sus costas son bañadas por la Corriente de Humboldt (corriente peruana) de aguas frías que corre en dirección de sur a norte a la par de los vientos alisios, siendo que, a la altura del Ecuador, se encuentra con la corriente cálida ecuatorial del Niño que viene de norte a sur, la cual llega al Perú en fechas cercanas a la navidad, provocando un incremento de la temperatura superficial del mar y ocasionando un período de lluvias conocido como “Fenómeno El Niño”.

Objetive. To know the characteristics of self-medication as a preventive or symptomatic treatment in the previous stage and against the COVID pandemic 19. Materials and methods: observational-descriptive study, 790 inhabitants of the districts of North Lima participated, both sexes, over 18 years, voluntary participation. A questionnaire was completed with sociodemographic variables, educational level, comorbidities, pre-pandemic self-medication, pandemic self-medication, health professional / technical condition, and drugs; analysis of descriptive data and student's t-tests, pearson's Chi square (significance level 95%). Results: mean age 40.87 years, 51.08% female, primary / secondary education in 61.0% of cases; comorbidities present, at the time of data collection, high blood pressure (15.4%), overweight / obesity (13.7%), diabetes (7.1%) and cancer (4.6%). The most widely consumed d...

Objetive. to identify the possible association of diabetes mellitus and arterial hypertension as risk factors for mortality in patients with COVID-19. Material and methods: prospective cohort study, includes 1947 patients aged 30 or over, care performed between March and August 2020; patients with clinical and laboratory diagnosis of COVID-19; Patients with inconsistencies in the information recorded, who died in the first 24 hours or were dead on admission, were excluded. Variable period of care, age, sex, diabetes mellitus, arterial hypertension, hospital stay, respiratory rate, heart rate, oxygen saturation and temperature were included; Pearson's chi-square test, Odds Ratio and Student's T test for unpaired samples (p <0.05) were used for the analysis. Results: 73% of male deaths (p <0.001), the highest frequency was between 60-79 years of age (54.8%, p <0.001); diabetes as ...