Sistema Regional de Información
en línea para Revistas Científicas de América Latina,
el Caribe, España y Portugal

Introduction: the metabolic syndrome (SM), initially described by Reaven in 1988, is an association of metabolic disorders like dislipidemia, obesity, hypertension and the intolerance to the glucose.Method: it was performed a transversal descriptive study in which there were included 239 patients.Objective: to determine the presence of the metabolic syndrome in the patients belonging to 2 Family Medical Offices from the University Polyclinic Jimmy Hirtzel in Bayamo, during the period between January of 2009 until November of 2011.Results: it was established the diagnostic of metabolic Syndrome according to the criteria of the Third Report National Cholesterol Education Program. From the amount of the sample it was diagnosed the metabolic syndrome in 38 patients, being significant the association between the age and the number of components of the metabolic syndrome, unlike the sex. Nevertheless, the greatest number of patients with metabolic syndrome belonged to the feminine sex. The parameters mostly associated with the diagnostic were the blood pressure, the hypertriglyceridemia and the abdominal obesity.Conclusions: it was not found a significant influence in the alimentary habits and the levels of physical activity about the emergence of the metabolic syndrome.

Introduction: the medical libraries have like a main objective to satisfy the needs of information of our internal and external users, in order to promote the knowledge and learning.Objective: to evaluate the effectiveness of the educational program to increase the knowledge of the FELLOW methodology in the network librarians.Method: it was applied an educational program supported by the application of the FELLOW methodology. The variables were: analysis of the information, informational literacy and types of users. The universe was made by 91 librarians that coincided with the sample.Results: the librarians knowledge increased in regards to the main subject: information needs, Services, Informacional literacy, selective dissemination, among others.Conclusions: it was evidenced the effectiveness of the educational program to increase the knowledge of the network librarians.

Nanotechnology is not a temporary fashion, but the paradigm that will allow to reach high development levels to those countries which be able to incorporate nanotechnology into their productive and educational systems. However, what is being done in the context of “nanoeducation” and “nanodissemination” in Ibero-American countries? How do our societies face this paradigm shift? Do we have clear strategies in each country? What can we learn from each other? In the pages below it is presented a snapshot of what has been done and what is being done in dissemination and training in nanotechnology in Argentina, Brazil, Colombia, Cuba, Chile, Spain, Mexico, Peru, Portugal and Venezuela, and some strategies for promoting these important issues are presented. These national reports respond to the objectives and tasks of the Thematic Network “José Roberto Leite” of Dissemination and Training in Nanotechnology, NANODYF belonging to Area 6 of Science and Society at the Ibero American Science and Technology for Development, CYTED and they are the result of the first actions becoming from the first Coordination Meeting of the Network NANODYF, held in Madrid, from march 30 to april 1, 2011.