%0 Journal Article
%T Prevalencia de s¨ªncope en una muestra de mujeres mexicanas residentes de la ciudad de M¨¦xico
%A C¨¢rdenas
%A Manuel
%A Vallejo
%A Maite
%A Mart¨ªnez-Palomino
%A Guadalupe
%A Paredes-Balderas
%A Guadalupe
%A Sandoval-Rubio
%A Lorena A
%A Maldonado-Gallardo
%A Estela
%A G Hermosillo
%A J Antonio
%J Archivos de cardiolog¨ªa de M¨¦xico
%D 2009
%I Scientific Electronic Library Online
%X objective: to identify the frequency of syncope in a sample of women regular residents of mexico city. methods: two hundred and twenty one women between 18 and 88 years old with voluntary participation were included in the study. trained interviewers through a structured questionnaire obtained syncope information. prevalence of syncope was obtained, and it's relation with: age, time since the last syncope and frequency of syncope in their live span was registered. results: thirty eight percent informed they had suffered syncope, of them 50% had only one syncopal episode during their lives. the others had two or more episodes. most women had their last syncope between 19 and 50 years of age. conclusions: the frequency of syncope was a little higher than previous studies. this is a first approximation, which must be corroborated with larger studies with well population variability representation.
%K syncope
%K sex
%K epidemiology
%K autonomic nervous system
%K statistics.
%U http://www.scielo.org.mx/scielo.php?script=sci_abstract&pid=S1405-99402009000300006&lng=en&nrm=iso&tlng=en