Low-density Lipoproteins and Degrees of Cardiovascular Risk in Adults over 40 Years of Age: Case-control Study by Abel Pérez Pavón, Francisco Sánchez Hernández, Karla Doriam Gámez Ávalos, Donovan Casas Patiño, Alejandra Rodríguez Torres

“…<br /><strong>Objective:</strong> determine the association of LDL-C and degrees of cardiovascular risk in adults over 40 years of age in the Family Medicine Unit #43 of the Mexican Social Security Institute. <br /><strong>Method:</strong> an investigation was carried out with a case-control design during 2023, using the 1:1 case-control ratio formula, (230 subjects) who met the selection criteria. …”
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Association between visceral adiposity index and prostate cancer in men aged 40 years and older: a nationwide cross-sectional study by Wentao Yao, Jiacheng Wu, Hongzhi Wang, Zongming Jia, Yinyi Zhou, Chendi Yang, Feng Xu, Ying Kong, Yuhua Huang

“…Moreover, VAI-tPSA in other races demonstrated a U-shaped pattern, with a 2.09 inflection point. At the same time, a Mexican American subgroup exhibited an inverted U-shape for VAI and PCa risk, with a 1.42 inflection point.Conclusion In men aged ≥70, VAI indicates an inverse PCa relationship. …”
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Adaptation and combination of two scales to measure dispositional gratitude in health sciences faculty: a psychometric analysis by Jesus Alfonso Beltran-Sanchez, José Moral de la Rubia, Adrian Valle de la O, Josue Omar Nava-Manzo, Angeles Dominguez

“…Conclusions This model measures dispositional gratitude in health sciences Mexican faculty and contributes a vital instrument to advance future educational innovations involving this construct. …”
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Selected Abstracts of the 8th World Summit on Pediatrics; Madrid (Spain); October 3-6, 2024 by --- Various Authors

“…FROM ADVERSE CHILDHOOD EXPERIENCES TO INFLAMMATION: EXPLORING ITS ASSOCIA­TION IN MEXICAN CHILDREN • A.J. del Rio, I. Martín del Estal, J. …”
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Economic and Clinical Benefits of Bivalent Respiratory Syncytial Virus Prefusion F (RSVpreF) Maternal Vaccine for Prevention of RSV in Infants: A Cost-Effectiveness Analysis for Me... by José Luis Huerta, Robyn Kendall, Luka Ivkovic, Carlos Molina, Amy W. Law, Diana Mendes

“…Analyses were conducted from the healthcare system perspective, with direct costs (2024 Mexican Pesos [MXN]) and outcomes discounted at 5% annually; scenario and sensitivity analyses tested the robustness of model settings and inputs. …”
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Aplicación del modelo &#34;Antecedente-Comportamiento-Consecuencia&#34; en la construcción de lumbreras y túneles Application of an &#34;Antecedent-Behavior-Consequence&#34; model... by Victor Jiménez Arguelles, Jesús A Bustamante, Luis A Rocha Chiu

“…The research is based on the data collected during two years in the construction of a deep drainage system in the Mexico City, which was carried out by four major Mexican construction companies. This research was developed from by external project monitoring, which allows using representative data without the problem of affect or benefit participating companies. …”
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Characterizing the early relationship between covert narcissism and cognitive empathy in medical students: a cross-sectional study by Adelina Alcorta-Garza, Oscar Vidal-Gutiérrez, Juan F. González-Guerrero, Fernando Alcorta-Núñez, Guillermo A. Porras Garza, Montserrat San-Martín, Roberto C. Delgado Bolton, Luis Vivanco

“…Methods A cross-sectional study was conducted in a Mexican school of medicine during the COVID-19 lockdown. …”
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Multimodal machine learning for analysing multifactorial causes of disease—The case of childhood overweight and obesity in Mexico by Rosario Silva Sepulveda, Magnus Boman, Magnus Boman

“…Public health interventions have shown only moderate success, possibly from relying on knowledge extracted using limited types of statistical data analysis methods.PurposeTo explore if multimodal machine learning can enhance identifying predictive features from obesogenic environments and investigating complex disease or social patterns, using the Mexican National Health and Nutrition Survey.MethodsWe grouped features into five data modalities corresponding to paediatric population exogenous factors, in two multimodal machine learning pipelines, against a unimodal early fusion baseline. …”
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MOLECULAR SCREENING OF POTATO VARIETIES BRED IN THE NORTHWESTERN ZONE OF THE RUSSIAN FEDERАTION by Т. A. Gavrilenko, N. S. Klimenko, O. Yu. Antonova, V. A. Lebedeva, Z. Z. Evdokimova, N. M. Gadjiyev, O. V. Apalikova, N. V. Alpatyeva, L. I. Kostina, N. M. Zoteyeva, F. T. Mamadbokirova, K. V. Egorova

“…Analysis of their pollen fertility, crossability and pedigree data showed that breeders succeed in obtaining fertile forms with the D- and T-types of cytoplasm carrying genetic material of Mexican polyploid species Solanum stoloniferum and S. demissum. …”
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Heat-related mortality in Mexico: A multi-scale spatial analysis of extreme heat effects and municipality-level vulnerability by Lara Schwarz, Chen Chen, Javier Emmanuel Castillo Quiñones, L.C. Aguilar-Dodier, Kristen Hansen, Jaime Reyes Sanchez, David J.X. González, Gordon McCord, Tarik Benmarhnia

“…Daily all-cause mortality was collected from the Mexican Secretary of Health and municipality-specific extreme heat events were estimated using population-weighted temperatures from 1998 to 2019 using Daymet and WorldPop datasets. …”
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Analysis of Genetic Variation in CD40 and CD40L: Relationship with mRNA Relative Expression and Soluble Proteins in Acute Coronary Syndrome by D. E. Martínez-Fernández, J. R. Padilla-Gutiérrez, F. Casillas-Muñoz, Emmanuel Valdés-Alvarado, Brenda Parra-Reyna, Maricela Aceves-Ramírez, J. F. Muñoz-Valle, U. Zalapa Flores, J. C. Chávez Herrera, Y. Valle

“…The aim of this study was to explore the gene and protein expression associated with CD40 and CD40L genetic variants in ACS patients from the western Mexican population. A total of 620 individuals from western Mexico were recruited: 320 ACS patients and 300 individuals without a history of ischemic cardiopathy were evaluated. …”
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The Frequency of <i>DPYD</i> c.557A>G in the Dominican Population and Its Association with African Ancestry by Mariela Guevara, Carla González de la Cruz, Fernanda Rodrigues-Soares, Ernesto Rodríguez, Caíque Manóchio, Eva Peñas-Lledó, Pedro Dorado, Adrián LLerena

“…HapB3 is completely absent in Dominican, Mexican, Peruvian, Bangladeshi, and all East Asian and African populations, which probably makes its analysis dispensable in these populations. …”
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Effect of Drying Methods on the Phenolic Profile and Antioxidant Capacity of <i>Pithecellobium dulce</i> (Roxb.) Benth. Aril and Its Inhibitory Properties on Human SW480 Colon Aden... by Ángel Félix Vargas-Madriz, Aarón Kuri-García, Ivan Luzardo-Ocampo, Roberto Augusto Ferriz-Martínez, Teresa García-Gasca, Carlos Saldaña, Haidel Vargas-Madriz, Salvador Horacio Guzmán-Maldonado, Jorge Luis Chávez-Servín

“…<i>Pithecellobium dulce</i> (<i>P. dulce</i>) is a Mexican plant that is consumed raw or in different preparations, and its anti-inflammatory and antioxidant properties have traditionally been useful in treating several conditions. …”
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Association of Albumin‐To‐Creatinine Ratio With Diabetic Retinopathy Among US Adults (NHANES 2009–2016) by Han Dai, Ling Liu, Weiwei Xu

“…Subgroup analyses revealed stronger associations in participants aged < 60 years and those with hypertension (both p < 0.05), with more pronounced effects observed in males and Mexican Americans, while lifestyle factors showed no significant modifying effect. …”
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Nutritional knowledge and practices of low-income women during pregnancy: a qualitative study in two Oaxacan cities by Marian Marian, Ramona L. Pérez, Amanda C. McClain, Samantha Hurst, Elizabeth Reed, Kathryn M. Barker, Rebecka Lundgren

“…Methods Guided by Ecological Systems Theory and an Intersectionality Framework, this qualitative study was carried out in Oaxaca City and Puerto Escondido, in Oaxaca, a Mexican state with high levels of food insecurity. …”
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Association between Irisin, hs-CRP, and Metabolic Status in Children and Adolescents with Type 2 Diabetes Mellitus by Leticia Elizondo-Montemayor, Adrian M. Gonzalez-Gil, Oscar Tamez-Rivera, Carla Toledo-Salinas, Mariana Peschard-Franco, Nora A. Rodríguez-Gutiérrez, Christian Silva-Platas, Gerardo Garcia-Rivas

“…A cross-sample of 40 Mexican children and adolescents aged 7-17 were recruited, 20 diagnosed with T2DM and 20 healthy controls. …”
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From across the globe – traumatic injuries are an international concern at the US-Mexico border wall by Allison E Berndtson, Jay Doucet, Todd W Costantini, Laura Haines, Sarah Lagan, Laura Adams, Jarrett Santorelli, Gabriella Waters

“…Most patients (405, 67.8%) were Mexican, followed by 23 (3.9%) patients from Peru, 17 (2.8%) patients from India, 14 (2.3%) patients from El Salvador, 13 (2.2%) patients from Cuba and 12 (2.0%) patients from Jamaica. …”
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Long-Chain Polyunsaturated Fatty Acids and Painful Temporomandibular Disorder in the Hispanic Community Health Study/Study of Latinos by Anne E. Sanders, Jianwen Cai, Martha L. Daviglus, Olga Garcia-Bedoya, Gary D. Slade

“…Setting: From 2008—2011, HCHS/SOL recruited 16,415 adults of Hispanic/Latino backgrounds (Cuban, Puerto Rican, Dominican, Mexican, Central/South American), through field centers located in Miami, FL; San Diego CA; Chicago, IL; and the Bronx, NY. …”
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De organografía, organología y etnolaudería como propuesta para el estudio de los instrumentos musicales tradicionales by Víctor Hernández Vaca

“…Abstract In a review of the classical literature on traditional Mexican musical instruments, several results come to light: scholars, including myself, have spoken indistinctively of organography and organology as the conceptual and methodological frameworks for the study of the traditional musical instrument. …”
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Development of a machine learning model related to explore the association between heavy metal exposure and alveolar bone loss among US adults utilizing SHAP: a study based on NHAN... by Jiayi Chen

“…As for PIR, low-income participants present association with ABL. Mexican American and Non-Hispanic White show low association with ABL compared to Non-Hispanic Black and other races. …”
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