Sanid. mil. 2012; 68 (4) 199 Sanidad Militar Revista de Sanidad de las Fuerzas Armadas de España Sanid. Mil. Volumen 68, número 4. ISSN: 1887-8571 Octubre-diciembre 2012 CONTENTS EDITORIAL 201 Rabies: Current Perspective Galan Torres JA. INTERNATIONAL PRIZE FIDEL PAGÉS MIRAVÉ 2013: CALL OF PAPERS ORIGINAL ARTICLE 205 Entomological surveillance program in area of operations: approach to the study of anopheline (Diptera: Culicidae) and entomolo-gical risk at the bases of Herat and Qala i Naw. Lacasa Navarro J., Melero Alcíbar R., Pérez Rico A., Santos Ramírez A., Salgado Morcillo FJ., Fuentes Gutiérrez S., Rubio Muñoz JM., Ruiz Contreras S., Molina Moreno R., Vega Pla JL. SUMMARY: Introduction: Any information obtained to contribute to the assessment of the risk of malaria outbreaks in the force deployed in area of operations is of greatest interest to preventive medicine services. Following a pilot study of en-tomological surveillance, carried out at the base of Herat (Afghanistan) in 2008, further protocolised research was recently performed also in Qala i Naw base. Material and methods: Between June and September 2010 an entomological survey took place at the bases of Herat and Qala i Naw (Afghanistan), using for the purpose CDC traps with white and ultraviolet light, as well as a Sentinel trap type with specific chemical attractant BG-Lure®. The females of Anopheles were analysed with the real-time polymerasa chain reaction (PCR) in order to look for the possible infection with Plasmodium spp. Results: Mosquitoes belonging to various genera were captured. All anopheline females were analysed by real-time PCR and all of them were negative to Plasmodium spp. Discus-sion: Among the captured specimens, Anopheles hyrcanus is a potential vector of malaria in the area. Due to its presence in the base of Herat, we should assess the possible presence of reservoirs of Plasmodium spp. in inhabited areas close to the base, as well as the influence of external factors, such as prevailing winds in this region that could drive infected mosquitoes toward the base from those areas. With the obtained results we could establish a simple protocol to assess the risk of malaria, detecting potential vectors (medium risk) and real vectors (high risk). KEY WORDS: Entomological surveillance, Area of operations, Afghanistan; Culicidae; Anopheles; Plasmodium; PCR. 211 Association between serum uric acid levels and the prevalence of metabolic syndrome in airline pilots Medina Font J., Alonso Rodríguez C. SUMMARY: Introduction: The increase in the uric acid serum levels and the metabolic syndrome are conditions independent-ly related to cardiovascular disease. Objective: To assess the prevalence of metabolic syndrome and the levels of serum uric acid in a population of airline pilots and to establish possible relationships between levels of uric acid and the presence or absence of metabolic syndrome. Methods: We studied a population of 402 male airline pilots. The diagnosis of metabolic syn-drome was established according the definition of National Cholesterol Education Program (NCEP) Adult Treatment Panel III. The serum uric acid was considered elevated when higher than 7 mg/dl. Results: We found that 18.7% of pilots presented elevated levels of serum uric acid and 7.2% had metabolic syndrome. The pilots with increased levels of serum uric acid had 5.4 higher risk (prevalence’s ratio) of having metabolic syndrome than those pilots with normal uric acid, (95 % confidence interval between 2.7 and 10.7 with a statistical significance of p<0.001). Subjects with metabolic syndrome presented a mean levels of serum uric acid 1.1 mg/dl (IC95%: 0,7 a 1,5 mg/dl) higher than those pilots without the syndrome (p<0.001). Con-clusions: Our results show that pilots with uric acid level elevated have a prevalence of metabolic syndrome 5.4 times higher than those with normal level of uric acid, and that there is a positive lineal correlation between the increasing concentrations of serum uric acid and the number of metabolic syndrome diagnostic criteria KEYWORDS: Airline pilots, Uric acid, Metabolic syndrome. 216 Excellence journals among most productive areas in smoking De Granda-Orive JI., Alonso –Arroyo A., García-Río F., Solano-Reina S., Jiménez-Ruiz A., Aleixandre Benavent R. SUMMARY: Objetive: The aim of this study was to identified those excellence journal and his time evolution those included in the first group (Q1) of the Journal Citation Report (JCR 2009) of the Science Citation Index Expanded (SCI–E) of the five more productive areas among smoking articles in the period 2001 to 2010. Method: We have performed a bibliographic search among smoking in the SCI-E the second of November of 2011. We have used for the search «smok*» OR «tobac*» as key words and we did it in the title field for original articles for the period 2001 to 2011. We identified the most productive thematic areas and we have determined the journals included in the Q1 of the JCR. Results: We found that Public, Environmental & Occupational Health, Oncology, Psychiatry, Medicine, General & Internal y Respiratory System were the most productive thematic areas. We found an increase of the number of journals included in all the years period, but the same journals were in the top of the ranking. Conclusions: The most productive areas in smoking were Public, Environmental & Occupational Health, Oncology, Psychiatry, Medicine, General & Internal y Respiratory System. We found an increase in the number of excellence journals among the five areas but the same journals were in the top of the ranking all the period. KEY WORDS: Smoking; Bibliometry; Excellence Journals; Science Citation Index.
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