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Rev. med. Rosario ; 84(3): 137-137, sept.-dic. 2018.
Article in English | LILACS | ID: biblio-1051217

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Age-specific intervention and assessment thresholds were developed for seven Latin American countries. The intervention threshold ranged from 1.2% (Ecuador) to 27.5% (Argentina) at the age of 50 and 90 years, respectively. In the Latin American countries, FRAX offers a substantial advance for the detection of subjects at high fracture risk.INTRODUCTION:Intervention thresholds are proposed using the Fracture Risk Assessment (FRAX) tool. We recommended their use to calculate the ten-year probability of fragility fracture (FF) in both, men and women with or without the inclusion of bone mineral density (BMD). The purpose of this study is to compute FRAX-based intervention and BMD assessment thresholds for seven Latin American countries in men and women ≥ 40 years.METHODS:The intervention threshold (IT) was set at a 10-year probability of a major osteoporotic fracture (MOF) equivalent to a woman with a prior FF and a body mass index (BMI) equal to 25.0 kg/m2 without BMD or other clinical risk factors. The lower assessment threshold was set at a 10-year probability of a MOF in women with BMI equal to 25.0 kg/m2, no previous fracture and no clinical risk factors. The upper assessment threshold was set at 1.2 times the IT.RESULTS:For the seven LA countries, the age-specific IT varied from 1.5 to 27.5% in Argentina, 3.8 to 25.2% in Brazil, 1.6 up to 20.0% in Chile, 0.6 to 10.2% in Colombia, 0.9 up to 13.6% in Ecuador, 2.6 to 20.0% in Mexico, and 0.7 up to 22.0% in Venezuela at the age of 40 and 90 years, respectively.CONCLUSIONS:In the LA countries, FRAX-based IT offers a substantial advance for the detection of men and women at high fracture risk, particularly in the elderly. The heterogeneity of IT between the LA countries indicates that country-specific FRAX models are appropriate rather than a global LA model (AU)


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Humans , Male , Female , Middle Aged , Aged , Aged, 80 and over , Osteoporosis/epidemiology , Age Factors , Risk Assessment/methods , Latin America/epidemiology , Body Mass Index , Bone Density/physiology , Risk Factors
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Rev. méd. Hosp. Gen. Méx ; 59(2): 54-8, abr.-jun. 1996. tab
Article in Spanish | LILACS | ID: lil-184095

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Antecedentes: El objetivo de este estudio fue evaluar la utilidad de la irrigación a presión de la herida quirúrgica para disminuir su infección en enfermos apendicectomizados. Para ello se realizó un ensayo clínico aleatorio en enfermos con apendicitis. Material y métodos: Fueron incluidos 95 enfermos con apendicitis complicada. Los enfermos fueron asignados aleatoriamente a uno de dos grupos: Grupo I:40 pacientes apendicectomizados en los que sólo se empleó antibioticoprofilaxis y grupo II:55 enfermos apendicectomizados en los que además se realizó irrigación a presión de la herida quirúrgica. En ambos grupos se determinó la frecuencia de infección de la herida. Resultados: De los 95 casos incluidos, 67 correspondieron al sexo masculino (70.5 por ciento) y 28 al femenino (29.5 por ciento); la edad promedio fue de 28 años. Veintinueve casos (72.5 por ciento) presentaron infección de la herida quirúrgica en el grupo I y sólo nueve (16 por ciento) en el grupo II; esta diferencia fue estadísticamente significativa (p= 0.000001). Conclusiones: la irrigación a presión de la herida quirúrgica en enfermos con apendicitis complicada contribuye a disminuir la frecuencia de infección de la misma. Es barata, segura y accesible en cualquier quirófano


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Humans , Male , Female , Adolescent , Adult , Middle Aged , Appendicitis/surgery , Appendicitis/complications , Therapeutic Irrigation , Surgical Wound Infection/prevention & control , Surgical Wound Infection/therapy
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