Atencion primaria
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To find the annual incidence and reasons for type-2 Diabetes Mellitus (DM2), and the methods used to diagnose it, on the basis of the validation of a computerised record for 1991-1995. ⋯ The incidence and prevalence described are greater than described in other studies. The most common reasons for diagnosis were the existence of previous nondiagnostic hyperglycemia and the application of protocols for other risk factors.
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To assess the relationship between self-perception of their health and mortality in a representative sample of persons over 65 in a rural community. ⋯ We think that self-perception of health status can be an overall indicator of health, linked to mortality, and that in the elderly with good mobility, this association can be independent of age, sex, educational level, marital status and consumption of medicines.
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To describe a new outbreak of "mass hysteria" or "epidemic conversion disorder" occurring in Barcelona in 1997. Based on this outbreak's features differentiating it from other similar outbreaks described in the literature or treated by the same team, to propose a change in the theoretical framework for these group somatomorphic phenomena. ⋯ Given the frequency and the social and health implications of this kind of somatomorphic disorder, both in the developed countries and those "on the road to development", clinical researchers and epidemiologists should not wait to pose the possibility of hysteria until after the "organic" aetiology of an epidemic outbreak has been completely discounted. The second series of conclusions points towards the incorrectness of defining all these outbreaks as mass hysterical disorders. In reality, we should be thinking, more openly and in a more scientifically modern way, of epidemic somatomorphic disorders of various kinds. The outbreak described in the current study could be referred to as the hypochondriform variety of outbreak, whereas those described elsewhere by the same team could be understood as the conversion variety.