Objective. To determine the characteristics and trend of the articles published on cardiology and cardiovascular medicine in the Peruvian context, and to understand how it has changed over the years. Materials and methods. A bibliometric study of original articles published up to 2020 by Peruvian authors in journals indexed under the category “Cardiac & Cardiovascular Systems” in Web of Science (WOS) was performed. The articles were included according to the selection criteria in the Rayyan web application and the bibliometric analysis was performed using the Bibliometrix package in the R programming language and VOSviewer. Results. A total of 159 published articles were included, and an increase in the number of publications since 2015 was observed. The most cited article was a clinical trial by Fitchett et al. and published in 2016. Miranda JJ was the Peruvian author with the h...

Intimate partner violence (IPV) is a global health problem and a violation of individual rights. The objective of this study was to assess the association between physical child abuse and current IPV in women of childbearing age in Peru. An analytical cross-sectional analysis of the data from the 2019 Demographic and Family Health Survey was carried out. IPV was constituted by emotional, physical and sexual violence, while physical child abuse was constructed from variables related to physical punishment that women of childbearing age experienced during childhood. Poisson's family generalized linear models were used for the crude and adjusted analyses to determine the association between physical child abuse and IPV. Data from a total of 21,518 women of childbearing age were included. 67.1% of women experienced physical abuse in childhood, while 57.7% experienced intimate partner violenc...

Introduction ST-segment elevation myocardial infarction (STEMI) is the most severe clinical form of acute myocardial infarction, for which the current treatment consists of effective and timely myocardial reperfusion (within 12 hours of symptom onset). However, between 10% and 15% of patients with STEMI arrive at hospital facilities 12 hours after the onset of symptoms (late presentation). Therefore, the objective of the present study will be to determine if late revascularisation (12-72 hours after the onset of symptoms) affects the indicators of cardiovascular mortality, reinfarction, recurrent infarction, hospitalisation for heart failure and post infarction angina compared with no late revascularisation in patients with STEMI. Methods and analysis A systematic literature search of PubMed, The Cochrane Library, Embase, Cumulative Index to Nursing and Allied Health Literature (CINAHL),...

Objective. To determine the characteristics and trend of the articles published on cardiology and cardiovascular medicine in the Peruvian context, and to understand how it has changed over the years. Materials and methods. A bibliometric study of original articles published up to 2020 by Peruvian authors in journals indexed under the category “Cardiac & Cardiovascular Systems” in Web of Science (WOS) was performed. The articles were included according to the selection criteria in the Rayyan web application and the bibliometric analysis was performed using the Bibliometrix package in the R programming language and VOSviewer. Results. A total of 159 published articles were included, and an increase in the number of publications since 2015 was observed. The most cited article was a clinical trial by Fitchett et al. and published in 2016. Miranda JJ was the Peruvian author with the h...

La investigación titulada “Conflicto intraparental y rendimiento escolar de los estudiantes de octavo básica de la unidad educativa en la Unidad Educativa Agustín Castro Espinoza, Ecuador, 2020”, se realizó con el objetivo de determinar la relación entre conflicto intraparental y el rendimiento escolar de los estudiantes del octavo año de básica en la Unidad Educativa Agustín Castro Espinoza, Ecuador, 2020. Respecto a las teorías la investigación se fundamentó en la teoría del Conflicto de Lewis Cosser (1985) y en la teoría de las Perspectivas de la meta de Nicholls (1989). El tipo de investigación utilizado fue descriptiva correlacional, cuantitativa, transversal, con un diseño no experimental; la población y muestra fue 42 estudiantes. Se emplearon como instrumentos de recolección de información una encuesta y ficha de recolección para los promedios. Según los r...

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Objetivo. Determinar la tasa de eventos de infarto agudo de miocardio (IAM) estandarizada por edad y su tendencia en los últimos años. Materiales y métodos. Se realizó un estudio ecológico de datos secundarios sobre la morbilidad en áreas de emergencia de hospitales peruanos entre 2018 y 2023. Se identificaron casos de IAM en adultos de 20 años o más mediante los códigos CIE-10. Se calcularon las tasas de eventos de IAM por 100 000 personas, estandarizadas por edad. Además, se calculó el cambio de la tasa de eventos entre los años extremos, y se utilizó una regresión de Poisson para estimar el cambio porcentual anual de las tasas de eventos junto a su intervalo de confianza (IC) al 95%, ajustando por edad y año calendario. Estas tasas se estratificaron por sexo y región político-administrativa. Resultados. Se registraron 28 088 eventos de IAM entre 2018 y 2023. La tasa n...

Objective: To determine and compare the prevalence of anemia in children under five years of age receiving care in public health centers in Peru, using the CDC 1989 and WHO 2024 criteria, and to analyze the relevance of these prevalences in the classification of public health significance. Materials and methods: This ecological study compared the prevalence of anemia in children under five in Peru according to the CDC 1989 and WHO 2024, using data from the Sistema de Información del Estado Nutricional (SIEN). Hemoglobin adjustment equations for altitude were applied, and anemia was defined according to both criteria. Data analysis was conducted in RStudio using descriptive statistics, alluvial diagrams, and choropleth maps to classify and compare anemia prevalence at the district level. Results: The prevalence of anemia in children aged 6 to 23 months was 24.8% (CDC) and 17.0% (WHO). In...

Objetivo. Determinar la tasa de eventos de infarto agudo de miocardio (IAM) estandarizada por edad y su tendencia en los últimos años. Materiales y métodos. Se realizó un estudio ecológico de datos secundarios sobre la morbilidad en áreas de emergencia de hospitales peruanos entre 2018 y 2023. Se identificaron casos de IAM en adultos de 20 años o más mediante los códigos CIE-10. Se calcularon las tasas de eventos de IAM por 100 000 personas, estandarizadas por edad. Además, se calculó el cambio de la tasa de eventos entre los años extremos, y se utilizó una regresión de Poisson para estimar el cambio porcentual anual de las tasas de eventos junto a su intervalo de confianza (IC) al 95%, ajustando por edad y año calendario. Estas tasas se estratificaron por sexo y región político-administrativa. Resultados. Se registraron 28 088 eventos de IAM entre 2018 y 2023. La...

Objective: To estimate the prevalence and socio-economic inequalities in adequate consumption of fruits and vegetables in Peru between 2014 and 2019. Design: Analytical cross-sectional study. The outcome variable was adequate consumption of fruits and vegetables, defined as the consumption of five or more servings of fruits and vegetables per d (yes/no). We used concentration curves and Erreygers concentration index to describe socio-economic inequalities and a microeconometric approach to determine the contribution of each variable to inequality. Setting: Peru. Participants: Data from Peruvians aged 18 years or older collected by the Demographic and Family Health Survey. Results: The prevalence of adequate fruit and vegetable consumption did not change between 2014 (10.7 %; 95 % CI (10.0, 11.4)) and 2019 (11 %; 95 % CI (10.4, 11.7)). We found socio-economic inequalities in the adequate ...

It is estimated that Latin America and the Caribbean (LAC) is the region with the second highest figures for food insecurity (FI) globally, with a prevalence of 40.9% in the entire region. This cross-sectional study analyzes the household factors associated with FI across 13 LAC countries. We used data from the first round of high-frequency phone surveys, conducted by the World Bank. Approximately 4 out of 10 people in LAC experienced FI during the first phase of the COVID-19 pandemic. FI was positively associated with the number of individuals aged from 5 to 18 years, the number of men, the illness, accident, or death of an income-earning household member, and health expenditure due to COVID-19 or other illnesses, as well as the increase in food prices, reduced family income, and job loss by a member of the household. On the other hand, households located in capital cities and those wit...

The objective of the study was to determine the factors associated with the presence of Escherichia coli contamination in water supplies for human consumption in Peru. A secondary analysis of the Food and Nutrition Surveillance by Life Stages survey (VIANEV) of 2017-2018 was performed. The presence of E. coli contamination in the water samples for human consumption of the households evaluated was defined as a dependent variable. A supply was considered contaminated when there was at least 1 colony-forming unit of E. coli in 100 mL of water for human consumption. Data from 886 participants were analyzed. It was found that 25.2% of household water supply sources for human consumption had E. coli at the time of sampling. Water reservoirs such as buckets or other containers (adjusted prevalence ratio [aPR]: 1.15; 95% confidence interval [CI]: 1.18-1.93), households belonging to a poor wealth...

Objectives: Determine the bibliometric characteristics of scientific articles that address the subject of neurosurgery in Latin America and the Caribbean. Methods: A bibliographic search of original articles published in the Web of Science database up to 2021 was performed, without language restrictions. The terms included in the search strategy were Neurosurgery, neurosurgical procedures, and neurological surgical procedure. Articles according to the inclusion criteria in the Rayyan application were included. Subsequently, a quantitative bibliometric analysis was carried out with the bibliometrix package in R and VOSviewer. Results: We identified 882 articles published in 271 journals. The first publication was in 2006, the highest number of publications was in 2021, the annual percentage growth rate was 25.9, and the average number of citations per document was 11.2. The author with th...

Background: Non-communicable diseases (NCDs) represent a global health challenge, accounting for 74% of deaths worldwide. One of the recommended interventions to reduce the risk of NCDs is the implementation of warning labels (WLs) on food products to alert consumers about high levels of undesirable nutrients, such as sugar or saturated fats. We aimed to conduct a bibliometric analysis of scientific literature related to WL policies in food and beverages to evaluate global trends and collaborations. Methods: A bibliometric analysis was performed using the Web of Science Core Collection (WoSCC). Articles published between 1998 and 2023 were retrieved using the search terms “warning labels” AND “food” OR “beverage”. Bibliometric indicators, including publication counts, citations, collaborations, and thematic trends, were analyzed using the Bibliometrix package in R and VOSview...

Letter to Editors

Tobacco consumption is a global health problem that has caused more than 200 million deaths in the last 30 years1. A decrease in global prevalence has been reported in the last two decades due to cost-effective strategies to reduce morbidity and mortality by this cause2. Despite this, 80% of tobacco consumption is observed in low- and middle-income countries3. Several countries report a decrease in tobacco consumption during the COVID-19 pandemic4,5. However, to date, it remains unknown whether these findings are similar in South American countries.

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. High blood pressure (HBP) is a leading cause of death worldwide, where the male sex is the most affected group. Objetives. Determine the gender differences of the factors associated with HBP in the Peruvian population over 18 years of age. Methods. A secondary analysis of the 2017 National Demographic and Health Survey was performed. Crude (RP) and adjusted (RPa) prevalence ratios and 95% confidence intervals (95% CI) were calculated using generalized linear models of the Poisson family between the dependent variable (HBP) and independent. Results. The prevalence of HBP was found to be 17,8% in men and 11,4% in women. Age, being overweight and obese increased the likelihood of HBP. While being from the rest of coast, mountain range and jungle decreased the likelihood of HBP in both sexes. Conclusions. There is a higher prevalence of H...

Introduction: Food insecurity (FI) is a public health problem affecting many regions of the world. In Venezuela, the political, social and economic situation experienced since 2010 has caused a mass migration of its population to other countries, including Peru, which, in turn, may have limited access to and availability of food leading to a high nutritional burden in this population. The objective of this study was to determine the prevalence and analyze the determinants of FI in the households of Venezuelan immigrants in Peru. Methods: A cross-sectional study was conducted using the “Encuesta Dirigida a la Población Venezolana que Reside en el País” (ENPOVE 2022). The dependent variable was moderate–severe FI (yes/no), which was constructed from an eight-item Food Insecurity Experience Scale (FIES) to measure FI at the household level. Poisson log generalized linear regression ...

Alcohol consumption is a public health problem in Peru, fostered by traditional practices,where promoting social interaction in celebrations, facilitating field work as a source of energy andwarmth, and achieving objectives in certain labor negotiations, play an important role. However,research on the risk factors of binge drinking according to gender is limited. The study aim was todetermine the factors associated with binge drinking in the Peruvian adult population by gender.An analytical study of secondary data from the 2018 Peruvian Demographic and Family HealthSurvey was conducted. The dependent variable was binge drinking in the last 30 days. Adjustedprevalence ratios (aPR) were estimated for the association between sociodemographic and health-related variables with binge drinking. A total of 32,020 adults were included. Binge drinking wasfound in 22.4%. Men (32.6%; 95% confidence ...