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The Covid-19 pandemic has generated differential impacts from a gender perspective on health. The highest mortality in recent years has been mainly in men, one in every 5 men has already died at age 49 in the Americas, whose main causes are preventable, associated with hegemonic male behavior. These antecedents acted consequently in the higher male mortality from Covid-19, greater occupation of beds, together with biological factors that predispose men to become more seriously ill. But the pandemic has also increased alcohol consumption, modified illicit drug use patterns, increased the risk of sexual practices with drugs such as chemsex. At the same time, it has been an opportunity for the involvement of parents with their sons and daughters, in the school work of the television study, in care and upbringing or, failing that, zero involvement, maintaining the affective amputation imposed by the patriarchal system. Finally, it is important to generate public health policies towards men, from a gender relational perspective, which will positively affect their own health, but also the health of couples, sons, and daughters.
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This dataset was compiled to estimate the levels of thermal comfort and mental health in a sample group of university students confined due to the COVID-19 pandemic. By the time research was carried out, these students of a hot and humid region of Mexico, had already spent 200 days on distance learning using online platforms. A total of 324 records were documented with a final sample of 316 valid participants. The total records were collected directly from the students through a web platform (Microsoft forms). This data set can be used to generate correlations between mental health, thermal comfort, and individual characteristics in the study population that will allow to identify the influence of the built environment and local climate on the levels of stress and anxiety that university students experienced under confinement. It can also be used to issue recommendations to improve the quality of built spaces and for the construction of adaptive models of thermal comfort considering mental health as a study variable.
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Infection by coronavirus type 2 that causes severe acute respiratory syndrome (SARS-CoV-2) has been associated with multiple cardiovascular manifestations. The mechanism by which the virus affects the heart is under discussion;however, it has been proposed that the angiotensin-converting enzyme 2 (ACE2) serves as a direct entry point for the virus;likewise, the state of inflammation mediated by cytokine storm can ge-nerate multiorgan failure, explaining some cardiac manifestations. The main associations to the cardiovascular system reported in COVID-19 infection are acute coronary syndrome, acute heart failure, cardiogenic shock and arrhythmias. Acute pericarditis is an inflammatory syndrome of mainly viral etiology, and its relationship to SARS-CoV-2 infection seems infrequent, with few reports in the literature. We present the case of a patient who developed pericarditis, concomitant with SARS-CoV-2 infection. © 2022, Universidad de Antioquia. All rights reserved.