Claudia Hormiga

National University of Colombia | UNAL · Departamento de Salud Pública

Introducción: La visión de la actividad física como experiencia cotidiana, determinada en parte por la organización social, es importante para entender y promover su práctica, dados los beneficios en salud que conlleva. Se realizó un estudio cualitativo interpretativo enfocado en los significados de la actividad física y su práctica en la cotidiani...

Introduction Cancer is a burden in the world, especially for the least developed countries. The Population Registries of Cancer are fundamental in order to know the territorial profiles of cancer, and to evaluate the impact of their control programs. Objective To estimate the incidence and mortality from cancer in the Metropolitan Area of Bucarama...

Background: Change in the prevalence of raised blood pressure could be due to both shifts in the entire distribution of blood pressure (representing the combined effects of public health interventions and secular trends) and changes in its high-blood-pressure tail (representing successful clinical interventions to control blood pressure in the hyp...

Background Underweight, overweight, and obesity in childhood and adolescence are associated with adverse health consequences throughout the life-course. Our aim was to estimate worldwide trends in mean body-mass index (BMI) and a comprehensive set of BMI categories that cover underweight to obesity in children and adolescents, and to compare tr...

Introduction: Since 2011, there has been an increasing interest to re-incorporate primary health care (PHC) strategy in healthcare services and academic debates. After the promulgation of the new healthcare model (MIAS) in 2016, this interest has been made explicit by all actors involved in the health benefits program of the Social Security System...

Background: Raised blood pressure is an important risk factor for cardiovascular diseases and chronic kidney disease. We estimated worldwide trends in mean systolic and mean diastolic blood pressure, and the prevalence of, and number of people with, raised blood pressure, defined as systolic blood pressure of 140 mm Hg or higher or diastolic blood...

Background Raised blood pressure is an important risk factor for cardiovascular diseases and chronic kidney disease. We estimated worldwide trends in mean systolic and mean diastolic blood pressure, and the prevalence of, and number of people with, raised blood pressure, defined as systolic blood pressure of 140 mm Hg or higher or diastolic blood p...

Being taller is associated with enhanced longevity, and higher education and earnings. We reanalysed 1472 population-based studies, with measurement of height on more than 18.6 million participants to estimate mean height for people born between 1896 and 1996 in 200 countries. The largest gain in adult height over the past century has occurred in S...

Being taller is associated with enhanced longevity, and higher education and earnings. We reanalysed 1472 population-based studies, with measurement of height on more than 18.6 million participants to estimate mean height for people born between 1896 and 1996 in 200 countries. The largest gain in adult height over the past century has occurred in S...

Objetivos. Estimar las prevalencias de actividad física ocupacional, de transporte, de tiempo libre y de cumplimiento de recomendaciones, y explorar su asociación con variables demográficas y socioeconómicas en hombres y mujeres del departamento de Santander (Colombia). Métodos. La muestra fue constituida por 2 421 personas entre los 15 y 64 años p...

Background: One of the global targets for non-communicable diseases is to halt, by 2025, the rise in the age-standardised adult prevalence of diabetes at its 2010 levels. We aimed to estimate worldwide trends in diabetes, how likely it is for countries to achieve the global target, and how changes in prevalence, together with population growth and...

Summary Background Underweight and severe and morbid obesity are associated with highly elevated risks of adverse health outcomes. We estimated trends in mean body-mass index (BMI), which characterises its population distribution, and in the prevalences of a complete set of BMI categories for adults in all countries. Methods We analysed, with use...

There is strong evidence on the benefits of physical activity on human health, however, much of the world’s population does not practice it in line with the recommendations. Epidemiological studies have shown that women, people with lower socioeconomic status and ethnic groups report less physical activity. Despite these inequalities, the role of g...

Background: Diabetes has been defined on the basis of different biomarkers, including fasting plasma glucose (FPG), 2-h plasma glucose in an oral glucose tolerance test (2hOGTT), and HbA1c. We assessed the effect of different diagnostic definitions on both the population prevalence of diabetes and the classification of previously undiagnosed indiv...

Existe amplia evidencia sobre los beneficios de la actividad fisica en la salud humana, no obstante, gran parte de la poblacion mundial no la practica acorde con las recomendaciones formuladas. Estudios epidemiologicos han mostrado que las mujeres, las personas con menor nivel socioeconomico y las de grupos etnicos reportan menos practica de activi...

Resumen Introducción: La mortalidad asociada con sepsis e infecciones complicadas no se conoce en el departamento de Santander. Materiales y métodos: Se cuantificó la mortalidad por múltiples causas de muerte relacionadas con sepsis e infecciones complicadas. Los datos provienen de la base de datos de defunciones DANE año 2008. Se calcularon tasas...

Purpose: In youth, poor cardiorespiratory and muscular strength are associated with elevated metabolic risk factors. However, studies examining associations between strength and risk factors have been done exclusively in high income countries, and largely in Caucasian cohorts. The aim of this study was to assess these interactions in schoolchildre...

Objective: To examine the association between cardio respiratory and muscular fitness and the presence of obesity and other cardiovascular and metabolic risk factors in school children. Material and method: Cross-sectional study, conducted in 336 school children (boys and girls) in grade 5º and 6º of public schools in the city of Bucaramanga, Colom...

Esta publicación presenta, en una primera parte, los resúmenes de las proyectos de tesis doctorales o de trabajode grado de maestría en salud pública o epidemiologíade los estudiantes participantes, los cuales abarcan una amplia gama de temas de salud pública tales como la violencia, la maternidad y la crianza, acceso a los serviciosde salud, inmun...

To evaluate the effect of regular aerobic exercise on the endothelial function and cardiorespiratory fitness in pregnant women. This was a randomized, double-blinded, controlled clinical trial of 64 healthy primigravid women between 16 and 20 weeks' gestation. The experimental group took part in aerobic exercise at an intensity of 50-65% of their m...

Introduction: The temporomandibular joint is one of the most complexes and used in human body; due to its great functionality and intricate conformation there is a greater probability of presenting alterations through life. The disorders in this joint are very varied; and depending on the severity of symptoms they can seriously disturb a person¿s l...

Motor development is the acquisition and evolution of motor skills; its evaluation allows detection of abnormalities and permits a suitable opportunity for bringing them to medical attention. Several instruments have been designed to characterize motor development in early childhood, among them the Neurosensory Motor Development Assessment test. In...

Introducción. El desarrollo motor es la adquisición y evolución de habilidades motoras; su valoración permite detectar alteraciones y promueve una atención oportuna y adecuada. Se han diseñado varios instrumentos para valorar el desarrollo motor en la niñez temprana, entre los que se encuentra el test Neurosensory Motor Development Assessment. En C...

Objetivo: Describir la mortalidad por tumores en el departamento de Santander, Colombia, en el período comprendido entre 1998 y 2006. Métodos: Estudio descriptivo, longitudinal de recolección retrospectiva basado en registros oficiales nacionales. Se realizó análisis de mortalidad por sexo, edad, zona de residencia y tipo de tumor. Resultados:Se re...