Introduction. Cardiovascular diseases are one of the most frequently reported comorbidities in COVID-19 cases. Objective. To evaluate the relationship between the presence of cardiovascular risk diseases and death from COVID-19 in a cohort of hospitalized patients in the Cajamarca Region, during the year 2020. Methods. Retrospective cohort of 576 patients hospitalized for COVID-19 between July and December 2020, from four hospitals in the Cajamarca Region. A survival analysis was carried out using Cox regression to establish the relationship between death from COVID-19 and the presence of arterial hypertension (HTA), type 2 diabetes, obesity, and multimorbidity, using models adjusted for sociodemographic and clinical factors seeking to identify possible effect modifying variables. Results. The mortality from COVID-19 was 45.1%. In the bivariate analysis, the history of HTA was the only c...

Introduction. The hypertriglyceridemic waist has been proposed as a phenotype with a strong association with the metabolic syndrome. The frequency of this phenotype in adolescents from Peru, including Andes population is unknown. Objective. To estimate the frequency of the hypertriglyceridemic waist and its association with metabolic abnormalities and other factors in Peruvian adolescents from an Andean region. Methods. We performed a data secondary analysis through cross-sectional design. We analyzed 397 randomly selected adolescents from two public schools in the Cajamarca city. We defined hypertriglyceridemic waist as the simultaneous presence of increased waist circumference (≥ 90th percentile for age and sex) and serum hypertriglyceridemia (≥110 mg/dL). We estimated the point prevalence of hypertriglyceridemic waist and their 95% confidence interval, we also performed a binary l...