Determinar la asociación entre los indicadores antropométricos de obesidad y la hipertensión arterial en adultos peruanos de 18 a 60 años. Estudio observacional, analítico, transversal, diseño cuantitativo, de tipo de análisis de datos secundarios obtenidos de la ENDES-2022. En el análisis descriptivo, se calcularon las frecuencias absolutas y relativas. En el análisis bivariado entre las variables independientes y la hipertensión arterial se utilizó la prueba Chi-cuadrado con corrección de Rao-Scott, considerándose un valor de p<0,05 como estadísticamente significativo. En el análisis multivariado se empleó la regresión de Poisson donde se reportó la razón de prevalencia (RP) mediante un modelo de regresión crudo y ajustado, con intervalos de confianza al 95%. Se analizó una muestra de 26066 adultos de 18- 60 años. La edad media fue 36,81 años, la mayoría fueron ...

Objective: To assess and identify changes in the temporal trend in mortality from alcohol-attributable gastrointestinal diseases and their disease burden based on years of life lost (YLL) in Peru. Materials and methods: An ecological study of the death records of the Ministry of Health of Peru was conducted from 2003-2016. A gastrointestinal death attributable to alcohol was considered if the basic, intermediate, or final cause of death included ICD-10 codes: K70, K700-4, K709, K292, K852, and K860. Crude and age-adjusted mortality rates were calculated for the general population aged 15 or older and by sex, and YLL. Joinpoint regression analysis was performed to evaluate trends in mortality. Results: There were 11 148 deaths by alcohol-attributable gastrointestinal diseases, being more frequent in males (74.89%), in adults aged 45 years and above (83.67%), living in urban area (69.87%) ...

Introduction and Aim: Suicide and harmful alcohol consumption are major health problems, especially in medical students. This study aimed to evaluate the association between risk for alcohol abuse and suicide risk in medical interns of Peruvian hospitals. Design and Methods: We conducted a multicentre cross-sectional study in medical interns from 18 Peruvian hospitals. We measured suicide risk, risk for alcohol abuse, depression and self-esteem using the Plutchik Suicide Risk Scale, CAGE, Zung Self-Rating Depression Scale and Rosenberg Self-Esteem Scale, respectively. We used χ2 and Student t-tests for descriptive analysis. To evaluate the association between risk for alcohol abuse and suicide risk we generated crude and adjusted Poisson regression models with robust variance and estimated prevalence ratios with 95% confidence intervals. Results: We surveyed 433 medical interns. The pre...