Introduction: the SARS-CoV-2 pandemic affected a large part of the population of La Libertad, among them, the population of Florencia de Mora whose hospital played an important role in the care of patients diagnosed with COVID-19. Objective: to determine the epidemiological clinical characteristics of patients diagnosed with SARS-CoV-2 treated at the care center. Methods: Retrospective observational descriptive study, with a population of 2622 patients treated in the COVID-19 triage, taking into account the molecular test and the rapid serology test for the detection of SARS-CoV-2. Results: SARS-CoV-2 was detected in 74.90% (1155) of patients. The months with the highest number of cases were June and July with 29.4% (340) and 37.4% (432), respectively. The predominant age group was 27- 59 years with 77.9% (900) and males with 57.5% (664). Regarding the ...

En los últimos años los cambios de estilo de vida, añadido al sedentarismo y los alimentos rápidos hipercalórico han incrementado la prevalencia de la población adulta del síndrome metabólico, llegando a un 25% a nivel mundial2, mientras que en el Perú fluctúa entre el 10 % a un 45%.Esto representa cinco veces el riesgo de desarrollar diabetes tipo 2, el riesgo de enfermedad cerebrovascular es el doble y el riesgo de infarto de miocardio es de tres a cuatro veces;3 debido a complicaciones cardiovasculares, la tasa de mortalidad es tan alta como 80%, 2 por lo que se considera la epidemia original del siglo. 2 ,13 Los diferentes consensos internacionales del síndrome metabólico (SM);5,14 unificaron sus estándares como cambios en aspectos como hipertensión, elevación de los triglicéridos, valores de HDL y glicemia en ayunas, así como cambios en la distribución de la grasa ...

Objective: To determine the clinical and epidemiological profile of the metabolic syndrome among adults treated at the Hospital I Florencia de Mora EsSalud. Materials and methods: A retrospective, observational and descriptive study conducted in a population of 4,752 patients screened for the Reforma de Vida program. The International Diabetes Federation’s diagnostic criteria for metabolic syndrome were used. Results: The prevalence of metabolic syndrome is 38.97 %. The most frequent variables of the clinical profile were central obesity (97.50 %), low levels of HDL cholesterol (86.4 %) and hypertriglyceridemia (80.10 %). All these variables showed statistical significance. The most frequent variables of the epidemiological profile were female sex (68.10 %) and middleage adult (48.30 %). Conclusions: More than one third of the study population has metabolic syndrome. Obesity, low level...