Objectives: To determine the association between pregnancy in adolescence and its adverse impact on the mother and her newborn. Design: Non-concurrent cohort study. Setting: Hospital Regional de Huacho, Peru. Patients: Pregnant women 10-19 year-old. Interventions: The adolescent group consisted in 313 pregnant 10-19 year-old women, and the non-adolescent 944 20-34 year-old pregnant women. Data was obtained from the Hospital’s Perinatal Information System (SIP) in the first half of 2005. Relative risk (RR) with confidence interval 95% and chi-square (α = 0.05) were calculated by using SPSS 15.0 for Windows and Microsoft Office Excel 2007. Main outcome measures: Maternal and neonatal complications. Results: The adolescents mean age was 17.5±1.5 years and non-adolescent 25.5±4 years. Pregnant women were mostly cohabiting (65.5% and 67.1% respectively) with high school concluded (82.4% ...

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Objectives: To determine the association between pregnancy in adolescence and its adverse impact on the mother and her newborn. Design: Non-concurrent cohort study. Setting: Hospital Regional de Huacho, Peru. Patients: Pregnant women 10-19 year-old. Interventions: The adolescent group consisted in 313 pregnant 10-19 year-old women, and the non-adolescent 944 20-34 year-old pregnant women. Data was obtained from the Hospital’s Perinatal Information System (SIP) in the first half of 2005. Relative risk (RR) with confidence interval 95% and chi-square (α = 0.05) were calculated by using SPSS 15.0 for Windows and Microsoft Office Excel 2007. Main outcome measures: Maternal and neonatal complications. Results: The adolescents mean age was 17.5±1.5 years and non-adolescent 25.5±4 years. Pregnant women were mostly cohabiting (65.5% and 67.1% respectively) with high school concluded (82.4% ...

Objective. The objective of this article is to describe the use of the social networks (TikTok and Twitter) in medical students at a private Peruvian university, as part of the group activity for the frst evaluation of the course: Health Promotion - Determinants. Methods. Descriptive and cross-sectional study, with a quantitative and qualitative focus. All students (60) registered in the course: Health Promotion - Determinants were included. As part of the group activity for the frst evaluation, the students were assigned to record a short video which then had to be shared on the TikTok and Twitter platforms. Results. The students made and shared on social networks (TikTok and Twitter) 10 videos on the following topics: promotion of COVID-19 vaccination, promotion of the use of condoms to prevent sexually transmitted infections, prevention of adolescent pregnancy, promotion of use mask a...

Objetivo. El objetivo del artículo es describir el uso de las redes sociales (TikTok y Twitter) en estudiantes de medicina de una universidad privada peruana como parte de la actividad grupal de la primera evaluación de la asignatura de Promoción de Salud-Determinantes. Métodos. Estudio descriptivo y transversal, con enfoques cuantitativo y cualitativo. Se incluyeron a todos los estudiantes (60) registrados en la asignatura de Promoción de Salud-Determinantes. Como parte de la actividad grupal de la primera evaluación de la asignatura se les asignó a los estudiantes grabar un video corto en grupos, el cual luego debía ser compartido en las plataformas TikTok y Twitter. Resultados. Los estudiantes realizaron y compartieron satisfactoriamente en redes sociales 10 videos sobre los siguientes tópicos: promoción de la vacunación COVID-19, promoción sobre el uso del preservativo pa...

An observational study was conducted to describe the presence of plagiarism in medical thesis in 2008 performed at a public university in Peru. Search for plagiarism in 33 thesis introductions using a Google search algorithm, characterizes of the study type and we search in electronic form if the thesis mentor have published articles in scientific journals. We found evidence of plagiarism in 27/33 introductions, 37.3% (171/479) of all the paragraphs analyzed had some degree of plagiarism, literal plagiarism was the most frequent (20/27) and journals were the most common sources of plagiarism (19/27). The characteristics of the studies were observational (32/33), cross-sectional (30/33), descriptive (25/33) and retrospective (19/33). None of the authors had published in a scientific journal, and only nine of his tutors of them had at least one publication. No association was found between...

Objective: To determine the validity of both adenosine diaminase (ADA) test and differential cell count for pleural tuberculosis diagnosis. Design: Retrospective study for diagnosis precision. Setting: Huacho Hospital, Ministerio de Salud, Huacho, Peru. Material: Medical records of patients with ADA test in pleural fluid. Interventions: Medical records study of patients with ADA test in pleural effusion performed from January 2005 through December 2007. ADA test values and differential cell counts were analyzed by ROC curve. Sensitivity (Se), specificity (Sp), predictive values (VPP and VPN) and likehood ratios (LRP and LRN) were found for each variable. Main outcome measures: ADA test cut-off point for pleural tuberculosis diagnosis. Results: Tuberculosis was responsible for most cases of pleural effusion; 47,5 UI/L was the cut-off point by ROC curve, with Se and Sp 73% and 90%, respect...

Se describe las características microbiológicas y anatomopatológicas de una serie de pacientes con bronquiectasias sangrantes que fueron negativos a tuberculosis, HIV y neoplasias, en estudios preliminares. Se desarrolló una evaluación microbiológica y anatomopatológica en búsqueda de hongos, tuberculosis, gérmenes comunes y neoplasia pulmonar, sobre 24 piezas operatorias de pacientes con hemoptisis por bronquiectasias sangrantes con antecedente de tuberculosis pulmonar o de contacto con personas que padecían esa enfermedad. El hongo Aspergillus es el principal y único agente infeccioso presente en los pacientes con bronquiectasia sangrante en este estudio.