María Escasany's research while affiliated with Hospital General De Aguidos Juan A. Fernandez and other places

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Objetivos: Estimar la prevalencia de síndrome metabólico (SM) entre las enfermeras del Hospital Juan A. Fernández (HJAF) y determinar si trabajo, descanso, dieta y estado de salud son sus predictores. Material y métodos: Para el primer objetivo, el diseño del estudio es descriptivo, observacional y transversal. Para el segundo, comparación de mues...
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Objectives To estimate the prevalence of metabolic syndrome (MS) in female nurses in the Hospital Juan A. Fernandez (HJAF), Buenos Aires, Argentina, and to determine whether work, rest, diet, and health, are predictive of it.Materials and methodsFor the first objective, a descriptive, observational and cross-sectional study was conducted, and for t...
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Takayasu's arteritis (TA) is a chronic vasculitis of unknown etiology. Celiac disease (CD) is an autoimmune disease caused by the ingestion of gluten. TA and CD have been associated with many other autoimmune conditions. However, only five cases with this association have been reported. In this series, three patients with TA and CD were included; a...
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Takayasu's arteritis (TA) is a chronic vasculitis of unknown etiology. Celiac disease (CD) is an autoimmune disease caused by the ingestion of gluten. TA and CD have been associated with many other autoimmune conditions. However, only five cases with this association have been reported. In this series, three patients with TA and CD were included; a...

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... [84] it was found that higher levels of night shifts per month were associated with an increased risk of obesity. In this scenario, literature described direct evidence of the high frequency of overweight and obesity conditions among female nurses and highlighted an additional Metabolic Syndrome (MetS) risk for them, which was assessed about 2 times higher than for the general population [85]. Nurses, faced with the heavy workload, stress of caring for patients, long working hours, and shifts appeared to be at a higher risk of adverse health effects, which included MetS [86]. ...
... There are other variables such as gender and the time an individual has done shift work that influence the BMI of healthcare workers. In terms of gender, the study by Escasany, Tumminello, and González (2008) confirmed that 35% of women working at night were overweight and 41% were obese. ...