La Pandemia

Toxic environment and obesity pandemia: Is there a relationship?

Obesity is a multi-factorial disease, resulting from genes, environment and behaviour interactions, and represents the most common metabolic disorder in the Western Hemisphere. Its prevalence has dramatically risen during the last three decades, reaching worldwide epidemic proportions. Recent cumulating evidence suggests that obesity may represent an adverse health consequence of exposure durin...

Non alcoholic fatty liver disease. The new millennium pandemia

1 Master of Public Health, Master of Health Administration, Hepatology Section, Department of Internal Medicine, Fundación Cardio-Infantil, Bogotá, Colombia. 2 Second Year Resident, Department of Internal Medicine, Universidad del Rosario, Fundación Cardio-Infantil, Bogotá, Colombia. 3 Internist, Gastro-hepatologist in the Hepatology Section of the Department of Internal Medicine, Fundación Car...

Etude sur la digestion pancratique de la caseine pour la production de la toxine tetanique

Spatial and temporal dynamics of infected populations: the Mexican epidemic

Recientemente apareció en México y en otras naciones la pandemia asociada al virus A/H1N12009. Presentamos un estudio de esta pandemia en el caso de México usando el modelo SIR de epidemias. Este modelo es uno de los modelos más simples pero ha tenido éxito en epidemias para poblaciones cerradas. Consideramos los datos para México y usamos el modelo SIR para hacer algunas predicciones. Después ...

La lutte contre la Fasciolose en Iran