Search

Copyright of Archivos de Cardiología de México is the property of Publicidad Permanyer SLU and its content may not be copied or emailed to multiple sites or posted to a listserv without the copyright holder's express written permission. However, users may print, download, or email articles for individual use. This abstract may be abridged. No warranty is given about the accuracy of the copy. Users should refer to the original published version of the material for the full abstract. (Copyright applies to all Abstracts.)

Pine-oak clear-cutting in Ixtlán de Juarez, Oaxaca, have been applied for more than 50 years; such forest management modify continuously the structure, arboreal composition, and associated biota. On the other hand, biota survey effort has been insufficient in communal forest areas in Sierra de Juarez, Ixtlán, Oaxaca. Particularly, it is not clear how this forest management affect the occurrence, presence and distribution patterns in reptiles. Our main goal was identifying composition of amphibian and reptiles, comparing distribution, rich- ness and abundance in three areas with different degree of perturbation (agriculture plots, natural forest, and forest management plots). We found that reptile community is composed by 37 species, grouped in 25 genera and 11 families. According to our estimates, we recorded 76% of the extant species in the region and 8. 37% of the extant species in Oaxaca. Within management forest (BMF), constituted by undisturbed (FC) and clear-cutting areas (FA), we identified 15 species: 13 reptiles and two amphibians. We recorded nine species in FC and eight species in FC. In AM we recorded 31 species grouped in 22 genus and 10 families. Biodiversity richness was higher in disturbed areas (AM and FA) than in FC. Although FC and FA are neighboring areas, similarity was higher between AM, with more than 50 years disturbance; and FA, recently disturbed. We also observed interconnectivity among AM, FC and FA areas which can help to maintain the natural amphibian and reptile ensemble. Our results pointed out that distribution and abundance patters are modified during forest clear-cutting process. Further reptile and amphibian inventory in disturbed and natural areas are needed in order to prevent or diminish herptile biota diversity due to continuous forest management. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Cardiac Rehabilitation and secondary prevention programs are a group of therapeutic maneuvers that can reduce the adverse impact of cardiovascular disease, by using the cardiovascular risk factors reduction, through secondary prevention and exercise training therapy programs. This program started in Mexico in 1944, since then, several health institutions are working on a public or private basis, mainly in an isolated way. This article presents data about fourteen cardiac rehabilitation institutions that answered the first national registry of cardiac rehabilitation programs (RENAPREC) in 2007. On this study, we observed that these centers were mainly private; nevertheless, almost all of the referred population was attended in public health institutions. The core-components for an adequate cardiac rehabilitation attention were satisfied by almost all these centers. The patients used to pay, by their own, this kind of medical practice. In our country, only the 0.58% of the population, that needed to be included on a cardiac rehabilitation program, was covered. This phenomena is due, in one hand, to the reduced number of cardiac rehabilitation centers in Mexico, but on the other hand, it happens because the primary physician do not refer all the eligible patients to this kid of programs. RENAPREC can be one first attempt to consolidate all the activities around the inter-institutional cardiac rehabilitation and secondary prevention programs in our country.