Andrea Hernández-Pérez

• Master of Health Psychology
• Instituto Nacional de Enfermedades Respiratorias

The tobacco epidemic has been one of the biggest public health threats, and smoking is one of the world's largest preventable causes of premature death. An estimated 15.4% of all deaths in the world are attributable to tobacco smoking. The present review aims to describe addiction to tobacco smoking and vaping. Tobacco and vaping devices contain ni...

Introduction: Compassionate Mindfulness (APC, according to the term in Spanish) is defined as the awareness that arises through paying attention to the present moment, without judging experiences and generating actions motivated by the aspiration to free oneself and others from suffering. Currently the effectiveness of this type of treatment has ga...

Introduction: Lung microbiome dysbiosis affects the immune system balance and promotes lung inflammation. We aimed to characterize and compare the lung bacteriome composition and the cytokine profile in women with normal lung function exposed to risk factors for chronic lung diseases (tobacco smoking and biomass-burning smoke exposure). Methods:...

Anxiety and depression are common entities in patients diagnosed with Chronic Obstructive Pulmonary Disease (COPD). This study aimed to determine the prevalence of affective comorbidity (depression and anxiety) associated with lung function, functional capacity, dyspnea, and quality of life; as well as the differences between groups of patients dia...

Chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD) is the third leading cause of global death, and the disease burden is further increased by multiple comorbidities, including some psychological disorders, like anxiety and depression, among others. This interplay between mental health and COPD has become a subject of intense study in recent years. Our ob...

Chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD) patients due to biomass exposure (BE-COPD) could be more affected than COPD due to tobacco smoke (TE-COPD) by the coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) pandemic. The aim of this work was to determine the prevalence of COVID-19 in BE-COPD and TE-COPD and if housing conditions, poor attitude, knowledge, and...

Background: Almost a third of smoking population in Mexico reported having received counseling at some point in their life.

Tobacco smoking results in a multifactorial disease involving environmental and genetic factors; epigenome-wide association studies (EWAS) show changes in DNA methylation levels due to cigarette consumption, partially reversible upon tobacco smoking cessation. Therefore, methylation levels could predict smoking status. This study aimed to evaluate...

En el capítulo se abordó la evidencia más actual relacionada a las intervenciones psicológicas en la Enfermedad Pulmonar Obstructiva Crónica (EPOC), siendo una enfermedad crónico degenerativa requiere una atención integral, que incluya la valoración y atención de variables biopsicosociales, por lo que se muestra un panorama de acción disponible par...

Objective: To describe the possible risks associated to smoking in the spread and complications of Covid-19, em-phasizing in the benefits of quitting smoking. Materials and methods: The narrative review methodology and the established process for Cochrane rapid reviews were used. Results: The scientific evidence related to smoking and Covid-19...

Background Genetic association studies have identified single nucleotide polymorphisms (SNPs) related to chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD) susceptibility. The aim of this study was to identify HHIP genetic variants associated with COPD, pulmonary function, and serum and sputum HHIP protein levels in Mexican mestizo smokers. Materials an...

IL-17A is an important pro-inflammatory cytokine involved in the inflammatory response in chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD). To evaluate the role played by single nucleotide polymorphisms of IL17A and protein levels in susceptibility to COPD, 1,807 subjects were included in a case-control study; 436 had COPD related to tobacco smoking (C...

Cigarette smoking is influenced by nicotine’s effects on dopaminergic activity, which appear to be moderated by genetic variation, particularly a variable number tandem repeat (VNTR, 48 bp) polymorphism in the third exon of the dopamine receptor gene (DRD4). Smokers with the VNTR ≥7 repeats (long, L allele) report markedly increased participation i...

El consumo de tabaco tiene consecuencias adversas en la salud cardiovascular y representa un problema de salud pública a nivel mundial que demanda atención integral. Se realizó una revisión sistemática en PubMed de la literatura concerniente al impacto del tabaquismo sobre la salud cardiovascular reportada en metaanálisis publicados en los últimos...

Background: Smoking is considered an epidemic, indeed, one of the most important public health problems worldwide. It is also the most significant preventable cause of death, of a high number of premature deaths, and avoidable chronic diseases. It is considered an enormous economic burden for the world. Objective: To provide an overview of smoki...

El consejo breve para dejar de fumar es una herramienta que debería implementarse en todos los niveles de atención médica: primero, segundo y tercer nivel. En pocos minutos y con un mínimo costo, se puede colaborar para que la persona se acerque a la decisión de dejar de fumar.

Las enfermedades cardiovasculares (ECV) son un problema de salud pública, no sólo por su alta carga epidemiológica, sino también por los multifactores psicosociales que se relacionan con ellas y que impactan en el pronóstico de la enfermedad. El objetivo de la presente investigación, fue determinar un modelo que explicara la relación e impacto de l...