Browsing by Author "Meneses Maldonado, Tatiana Valeria"

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Caracterización epidemiológica de los pacientes del club de diabetes del Hospital Básico de Paute, Ecuador
(2019) Palacio Rojas, Marcos; Ortiz Castro, Sebastian Andres; Vazquez Argudo, Manuel Rosendo; Meneses Maldonado, Tatiana Valeria; Vasquez Velasquez, Claudia Elizabeth; Chavez Espinoza, David Sebastian; Llanos Oquendo, Edwin Rommel; Lopez Barrera, Katherine Leonor; Zuñiga Silva, Wilson Patricio; Muñoz Gonzalez, Jessica Elizabeth
© 2019, Sociedad Venezolana de Farmacologia y de Farmacologia Clinica y Terapeutica. All rights reserved. Objective: To identify the epidemiological characteristics in patients of the diabetes club of the Hospital Básico de Paute, Ecuador. Materials and methods: This was a descriptive and cross-sectional study in patients with diabetes mellitus type 2 of the Hospital Básico de Paute diabetes club, during the period January to August 2018, a questionnaire validated by 2 experts in diabetes mellitus was used, the following data was recorded: age, sex, ethnicity, educational status, occupation, used drugs and anthropometric data. Results: Out of the 80 patients evaluated, 73.8% (n=59) were female, with a predominance of subjects >70 years (41.3%, n=33), with only primary education (62.5%; n=50), and housewives (67.5%; n=54), the majority were obese (56.3%; n=45) with a predominance of weight disorders in women (overweight: 35.6% and obesity: 32.5%). 50% of the patients received combined pharmacological therapy, being metformin the most used antidiabetic drug (92.5%), followed by sulfonylureas (35%); while ACE inhibitors were the most antihypertensive used with 33.8%. Conclusion: Patients from the Hospital Básico de Paute diabetes club are predominantly women, older adults, with a low educational level and whose prevalence of obesity and overweight is very high; most of them receive antidiabetic phar-macotherapy, with metformin as the main drug used.
Prevalencia de conductas sexuales de riesgo y factores asociados en estudiantes de Medicina de la Universidad de Cuenca, 2023
(Universidad de Cuenca, 2024-02-29) Meneses Maldonado, Tatiana Valeria; Tapia Cárdenas, Jeanneth Patricia
Background: Adolescents and adults often engage in risky sexual behavior (CSR), including casual dating, unprotected sex, promiscuity; causing unwanted pregnancies, abortions, sexually transmitted diseases, psychological disorders, family, academic and/or work problems. General objective: to determine the prevalence of risky sexual behaviors and associated factors in Medicine students at the University of Cuenca in the year 2023. Methods: observational, analytical and cross-sectional study. 165 university students who met the inclusion criteria participated. The information was collected through a form. The data were processed in the SPSS program. Descriptive statistics were used, and normality and Mann Whitney U tests were applied to test hypotheses. The results were presented in personalized tables. Results: the prevalence of CSR was 55.8% (95% CI: 47.83% to 63.47%). The beginning of active sexual life after the age of 16, was the most frequent CSR with 82.4%, followed by the practice of sexual relations with multiple sexual partners and having more than two partners with 70.9% and 66, 7%, respectively; 58.2% had sexual relations under the influence of alcohol and/or drugs. A statistical association was identified with CSR and LGBTI sexual orientation and those people who practiced any religion (p˂0.05). Conclusions: a high prevalence of CRS was observed, the beginning of sexual life during adolescence was the most common CSR, identifying a relationship with sexual orientation and the praxis of some religion