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BACKGROUND: In the United States, health insurance coverage and quality mediate access to health care, a key social determinant of health. OBJECTIVE: To perform a scoping review regarding the impact of insurance coverage and benefit design on health care access and both clinical and quality of life outcomes in people with MS (pwMS). METHODS: Preferred Reporting Items for Systematic Reviews and Meta-Analyses extension for Scoping Reviews (PRISMA-ScR) guidelines were followed. A literature search was conducted from January 2010 to February 2022. Included studies were in English, peer-reviewed, US-based, and evaluated elements of insurance and their relationship with access and quality outcomes for adult pwMS. RESULTS: Our search identified 1619 articles, of which 32 met inclusion criteria. Privately insured pwMS were more likely to be on disease-modifying therapy (DMT). Increased out-of-pocket spending was associated with lower DMT adherence and greater discontinuation rates. Access to specialty pharmacy programs was associated with improved DMT adherence. CONCLUSION: Health insurance coverage and design strongly influences health care for pwMS in the United States and may be a modifiable social determinant of health. Increased pharmaceutical cost-sharing is associated with declines in DMT utilization and adherence. Further study is needed to better characterize the impacts of other core elements of health insurance, including prior authorization requirements and step therapy.
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Esclerose Múltipla , Adulto , Estados Unidos , Humanos , Qualidade de Vida , Acessibilidade aos Serviços de Saúde , Cobertura do Seguro , Custo Compartilhado de SeguroRESUMO
OBJECTIVES: Stillbirth is an important health problem, and in Mexico, only half of the stillbirths have an explainable cause. The aim of this study was to implement a multidisciplinary workup to identify the etiology and potential risk factors for stillbirth at the Hospital Universitario "Dr. José Eleuterio González". METHODS: This is a prospective, descriptive, observational study that included stillbirths from the Obstetrics Service from October 1st, 2019 to May 25, 2020. Evaluation strategies included a complete maternal medical history, physical examination of the fetus, and a photographic medical record. For every stillbirth either a prenatal ultrasound, a postnatal x-ray, or a fetal autopsy, were needed. Multiplex Ligation Probe Amplification (MLPA) was performed with an umbilical cord sample. RESULTS: Thirty-three stillbirths were reported; 21 were included in the analysis. Eleven women (52.3%) had known risk factors for stillbirth, mainly elevated body mass index and diabetes. On physical examination, external birth defects were found in 8 fetuses (38%). X-ray was performed in 14 cases (66%), alterations were detected as a probable etiologic cause just in one. All cases underwent MLPA, which were reported negative. Three cases had criteria for autopsy. Findings were inconclusive to determine etiology. CONCLUSIONS: The best tools for evaluation of stillbirth were the elaboration of clinical history, physical examination, and prenatal ultrasound. Diabetes and obesity were the most frequent risk factors found in our population. These factors are preventable by implementing strategies that lead to better prenatal care.
Stillbirth is a health problem whose causes are rarely evaluated and explained to the families that go through this situation. To completely explain the causes of stillbirth a complete workup should be performed, where a multidisciplinary participation is needed. Mainly these workups have been performed retrospectively, however we introduce a complete evaluation of stillbirth since the moment of arrival to obstetrics department and performing evaluations for fetal, maternal or combined causes, including genetic testing; detecting key health issues in our population, that can be prevented with an adequate prenatal care.
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Natimorto , Centros de Atenção Terciária , Humanos , Natimorto/epidemiologia , México/epidemiologia , Feminino , Gravidez , Estudos Prospectivos , Adulto , Fatores de RiscoRESUMO
Ticks are increasingly important vectors of human and agricultural diseases. While many studies have focused on tick-borne bacteria, far less is known about tick-associated viruses and their roles in public health or tick physiology. To address this, we investigated patterns of bacterial and viral communities across two field populations of western black-legged ticks (Ixodes pacificus). Through metatranscriptomic analysis of 100 individual ticks, we quantified taxon prevalence, abundance, and co-occurrence with other members of the tick microbiome. In addition to commonly found tick-associated microbes, we assembled 11 novel RNA virus genomes from Rhabdoviridae, Chuviridae, Picornaviridae, Phenuiviridae, Reoviridae, Solemovidiae, Narnaviridae and two highly divergent RNA virus genomes lacking sequence similarity to any known viral families. We experimentally verified the presence of these in I. pacificus ticks across several life stages. We also unexpectedly identified numerous virus-like transcripts that are likely encoded by tick genomic DNA, and which are distinct from known endogenous viral element-mediated immunity pathways in invertebrates. Taken together, our work reveals that I. pacificus ticks carry a greater diversity of viruses than previously appreciated, in some cases resulting in evolutionarily acquired virus-like transcripts. Our findings highlight how pervasive and intimate tick-virus interactions are, with major implications for both the fundamental biology and vectorial capacity of I. pacificus ticks. IMPORTANCE: Ticks are increasingly important vectors of disease, particularly in the United States where expanding tick ranges and intrusion into previously wild areas has resulted in increasing human exposure to ticks. Emerging human pathogens have been identified in ticks at an increasing rate, and yet little is known about the full community of microbes circulating in various tick species, a crucial first step to understanding how they interact with each and their tick host, as well as their ability to cause disease in humans. We investigated the bacterial and viral communities of the Western blacklegged tick in California and found 11 previously uncharacterized viruses circulating in this population.
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Ixodes , Animais , Ixodes/virologia , Ixodes/microbiologia , Transcriptoma , RNA Mensageiro/genética , Microbiota/genética , Genoma Viral/genética , Vírus de RNA/genética , Vírus de RNA/isolamento & purificação , Bactérias/genética , Bactérias/virologia , Bactérias/isolamento & purificaçãoRESUMO
Vaginal colonization by fungi may elicit genital inflammation and enhance the risk of adverse reproductive health outcomes, such as HIV acquisition. Cross-sectional studies have linked fungi with an absence of bacterial vaginosis (BV), but it is unclear whether shifts in vaginal bacteria alter the abundance of vaginal fungi. Vaginal swabs collected following topical metronidazole treatment for BV during the phase 2b, placebo-controlled trial of LACTIN-V, a Lactobacillus crispatus-based live biotherapeutic, were assayed with semi-quantitative PCR for the relative quantitation of fungi and key bacterial species and multiplex immunoassay for immune factors. Vaginal fungi increased immediately following metronidazole treatment for BV (adjusted P = 0.0006), with most of this increase attributable to Candida albicans. Vaginal fungi were independently linked to elevated levels of the proinflammatory cytokine interleukin (IL) 17A, although this association did not remain significant after correcting for multiple comparisons. Fungal relative abundance by semi-quantitative PCR returned to baseline levels within 1 month of metronidazole treatment and was not affected by LACTIN-V or placebo administration. Fungal abundance was positively associated with Lactobacillus species, negatively associated with BV-associated bacteria, and positively associated with a variety of proinflammatory cytokines and chemokines, including IL-17A, during and after study product administration. Antibiotic treatment for BV resulted in a transient expanded abundance of vaginal fungi in a subset of women which was unaffected by subsequent administration of LACTIN-V. Vaginal fungi were positively associated with Lactobacillus species and IL-17A and negatively associated with BV-associated bacteria; these associations were most pronounced in the longer-term outcomes.IMPORTANCEVaginal colonization by fungi can enhance the risk of adverse reproductive health outcomes and HIV acquisition, potentially by eliciting genital mucosal inflammation. We show that standard antibiotic treatment for bacterial vaginosis (BV) results in a transient increase in the absolute abundance of vaginal fungi, most of which was identified as Candida albicans. Vaginal fungi were positively associated with proinflammatory immune factors and negatively associated with BV-associated bacteria. These findings improve our understanding of how shifts in the bacterial composition of the vaginal microbiota may enhance proliferation by proinflammatory vaginal fungi, which may have important implications for risk of adverse reproductive health outcomes among women.
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Metronidazol , Microbiota , Vagina , Vaginose Bacteriana , Feminino , Humanos , Vagina/microbiologia , Vagina/imunologia , Vaginose Bacteriana/microbiologia , Vaginose Bacteriana/imunologia , Vaginose Bacteriana/tratamento farmacológico , Microbiota/efeitos dos fármacos , Adulto , Candida albicans/imunologia , Candida albicans/efeitos dos fármacos , Lactobacillus crispatus/isolamento & purificação , Interleucina-17/metabolismo , Adulto Jovem , Fungos/classificação , Fungos/isolamento & purificação , Fungos/efeitos dos fármacos , Lactobacillus , Citocinas/metabolismo , Probióticos/administração & dosagem , Bactérias/classificação , Bactérias/genética , Bactérias/isolamento & purificação , Bactérias/efeitos dos fármacosRESUMO
BACKGROUND: Bacterial vaginosis (BV) increases HIV acquisition risk, potentially by eliciting genital inflammation. After BV treatment, the vaginal administration of LACTIN-V, a live biotherapeutic containing the Lactobacillus crispatus strain CTV-05, reduced BV recurrence and vaginal inflammation; however, 3 months after product cessation, CTV-05 colonization was only sustained in 48% of participants. RESULTS: This nested sub-study in 32 participants receiving LACTIN-V finds that 72% (23/32) demonstrate clinically relevant colonization (CTV-05 absolute abundance > 106 CFU/mL) during at least one visit while 28% (9/32) of women demonstrate colonization resistance, even during product administration. Immediately prior to LACTIN-V administration, the colonization-resistant group exhibited elevated vaginal microbiota diversity. During LACTIN-V administration, colonization resistance was associated with elevated vaginal markers of epithelial disruption and reduced chemokines, possibly due to elevated absolute abundance of BV-associated species and reduced L. crispatus. Colonization permissive women were stratified into sustained and transient colonization groups (31% and 41% of participants, respectively) based on CTV-05 colonization after cessation of product administration. These groups also exhibited distinct genital immune profiles during LACTIN-V administration. CONCLUSIONS: The genital immune impact of LACTIN-V may be contingent on the CTV-05 colonization phenotype, which is in turn partially dependent on the success of BV clearance prior to LACTIN-V administration.
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Lactobacillus crispatus , Vagina , Vaginose Bacteriana , Humanos , Feminino , Vaginose Bacteriana/microbiologia , Vaginose Bacteriana/imunologia , Vagina/microbiologia , Adulto , Probióticos/administração & dosagem , Administração Intravaginal , Microbiota , Adulto Jovem , FenótipoRESUMO
Background: Bacterial vaginosis (BV) is a proinflammatory genital condition associated with adverse reproductive health outcomes, including increased HIV incidence. However, BV recurrence rates are high after standard antibiotic treatment. While the composition of the vaginal microbiota before BV treatment may be linked to BV recurrence, it is unclear whether the preceding genital immune milieu is predictive of treatment success. Methods: Here we assessed whether baseline vaginal soluble immune factors or the composition of the vaginal microbiota predicted treatment success 1 month after metronidazole treatment in 2 separate cohorts of women with BV, 1 in the United States and 1 in Kenya; samples within 48â hours of BV treatment were also available for the US cohort. Results: Neither soluble immune factors nor the composition of the vaginal microbiota before BV treatment was associated with treatment response in either cohort. In the US cohort, although the absolute abundances of key vaginal bacterial taxa pretreatment were not associated with treatment response, participants with sustained BV clearance had a more pronounced reduction in the absolute abundance of Gardnerella vaginalis immediately after treatment. Conclusions: Pretreatment immune and microbial parameters were not predictive of BV treatment success in these clinical cohorts.
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Apathy, a clinical disorder characterized by low motivation, is prevalent in people living with Human Immunodeficiency Virus (HIV). It affects mental and physical health-related quality-of-life, medication adherence, and is associated with cognitive decline. However, the causes of apathy and the underlying brain mechanisms in HIV are unknown. Brain responses to reward may be relevant to understanding apathy and might serve as biomarkers for diagnosis or treatment response. Electroencephalogram (EEG) responses to gain and loss feedback in simple guessing tasks have been related to apathy in neurodegenerative conditions and healthy individuals. The primary aim of this study is to contribute evidence regarding the relationship between two EEG correlates of reward processing, the Reward Positivity, and the Feedback-P300, and real-world motivated behavior indicated by self-reported hours engaged in goal-directed leisure activities per week, in older individuals with well-controlled HIV infection. High-density EEG was collected from 75 participants while they performed a guessing task with gain or loss feedback. We found that a later component of reward processing, the Feedback-P300, was related to real-world engagement, while the earlier Reward Positivity was not. The Feedback-P300 measured with EEG holds promise as a biomarker for motivated behavior in older people living with HIV. These findings lay the groundwork for a better understanding of the neurobiology of apathy in this condition.
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BackgroundBacterial vaginosis (BV) causes genital inflammation and increases HIV risk, whereas a vaginal microbiota dominated by Lactobacillus species is associated with immune quiescence and relative HIV protection. BV treatment reduces genital inflammation, but it is unclear whether this reduction is driven by a decrease in BV-associated bacteria or an increase in Lactobacillus species.METHODSTo evaluate the short-term effect of standard BV treatment on genital immunology and the vaginal microbiota, vaginal swabs were collected immediately before and after metronidazole treatment for BV and analyzed with multiplex ELISA, metagenomic sequencing, and quantitative PCR.RESULTSTopical metronidazole treatment rapidly reduced vaginal levels of proinflammatory cytokines, chemokines, and soluble immune markers of epithelial barrier disruption. Although the vaginal microbiota shifted to dominance by L. iners or L. jensenii, this proportional shift was primarily driven by a 2 to 4 log10-fold reduction in BV-associated bacteria absolute abundance. BV treatment induced no change in the absolute abundance of L. crispatus or L. iners and only minor (<1 log10-fold) increases in L. gasseri and L. jensenii that were not independently associated with reduced inflammation in multivariable models.CONCLUSIONThe genital immune benefits that are associated with Lactobacillus dominance after BV treatment were not directly attributable to an absolute increase in lactobacilli, but rather to the loss of BV-associated bacteria.Trial REGISTRATIONParticipants were recruited as part of a randomized controlled trial (ClinicalTrials.gov NCT02766023) from 2016 to 2019.FUNDINGCanadian Institutes of Health Research (PJT-156123) and the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases (HHSN2722013000141 and HHSN27200007).
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Infecções por HIV , Vaginose Bacteriana , Bactérias , Feminino , Infecções por HIV/prevenção & controle , Humanos , Inflamação/tratamento farmacológico , Lactobacillus , Metronidazol/farmacologia , VaginaRESUMO
INTRODUCTION: Low motivation is frequent in older people with HIV, yet poorly understood. Effort-cost decision-making (ECDM) tasks inspired by behavioral economics have shown promise as indicators of motivation or apathy. These tasks assess the willingness to exert effort to earn a monetary reward, providing an estimate of the subjective "cost" of effort for each participant. Here we sought evidence for a relationship between ECDM task performance and self-reported motivation in a cross-sectional study involving 80 middle-aged and older people with well-controlled HIV infection, a chronic health condition with a high burden of mental and cognitive health challenges. METHODS: Participants attending a regular follow-up visit for a Canadian longitudinal study of brain health in HIV completed a computerized ECDM task and a self-report measure of motivation. Other brain health measures were available, collected for the parent study (cognition, depression, anxiety, and vitality, as well as self-reported time spent on real-world leisure activities). RESULTS: Contrary to our hypothesis, we found no relationship between ECDM performance and self-reported motivation. However, those willing to accept higher effort in the ECDM task also reported more time engaged in real-world activities. This association had a small-to-moderate effect size. CONCLUSIONS: The behavioral economics construct of subjective cost of effort, measured with a laboratory ECDM task, does not relate to motivation in people living with chronic HIV. However, the task shows some relationship with real-world goal-directed behavior, suggesting this construct has potential clinical relevance. More work is needed to understand how the subjective cost of effort plays out in clinical symptoms and everyday activities.
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Infecções por HIV , Motivação , Idoso , Canadá , Estudos Transversais , Tomada de Decisões , Humanos , Estudos Longitudinais , Pessoa de Meia-Idade , RecompensaRESUMO
SARS-CoV-2 infection is characterized by peak viral load in the upper airway prior to or at the time of symptom onset, an unusual feature that has enabled widespread transmission of the virus and precipitated a global pandemic. How SARS-CoV-2 is able to achieve high titer in the absence of symptoms remains unclear. Here, we examine the upper airway host transcriptional response in patients with COVID-19 (n = 93), other viral (n = 41) or non-viral (n = 100) acute respiratory illnesses (ARIs). Compared with other viral ARIs, COVID-19 is characterized by a pronounced interferon response but attenuated activation of other innate immune pathways, including toll-like receptor, interleukin and chemokine signaling. The IL-1 and NLRP3 inflammasome pathways are markedly less responsive to SARS-CoV-2, commensurate with a signature of diminished neutrophil and macrophage recruitment. This pattern resembles previously described distinctions between symptomatic and asymptomatic viral infections and may partly explain the propensity for pre-symptomatic transmission in COVID-19. We further use machine learning to build 27-, 10- and 3-gene classifiers that differentiate COVID-19 from other ARIs with AUROCs of 0.981, 0.954 and 0.885, respectively. Classifier performance is stable across a wide range of viral load, suggesting utility in mitigating false positive or false negative results of direct SARS-CoV-2 tests.
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Betacoronavirus/fisiologia , Infecções por Coronavirus/imunologia , Infecções por Coronavirus/virologia , Imunidade Inata/genética , Pneumonia Viral/imunologia , Pneumonia Viral/virologia , COVID-19 , Teste para COVID-19 , Técnicas de Laboratório Clínico , Infecções por Coronavirus/diagnóstico , Diagnóstico Diferencial , Expressão Gênica , Interações Hospedeiro-Patógeno/imunologia , Humanos , Imunidade Inata/imunologia , Nasofaringe/imunologia , Nasofaringe/virologia , Pandemias , Pneumonia Viral/diagnóstico , Infecções Respiratórias/diagnóstico , Infecções Respiratórias/imunologia , Infecções Respiratórias/virologia , SARS-CoV-2 , Sensibilidade e Especificidade , Carga ViralRESUMO
We studied the host transcriptional response to SARS-CoV-2 by performing metagenomic sequencing of upper airway samples in 238 patients with COVID-19, other viral or non-viral acute respiratory illnesses (ARIs). Compared to other viral ARIs, COVID-19 was characterized by a diminished innate immune response, with reduced expression of genes involved in toll-like receptor and interleukin signaling, chemokine binding, neutrophil degranulation and interactions with lymphoid cells. Patients with COVID-19 also exhibited significantly reduced proportions of neutrophils and macrophages, and increased proportions of goblet, dendritic and B-cells, compared to other viral ARIs. Using machine learning, we built 26-, 10- and 3-gene classifiers that differentiated COVID-19 from other acute respiratory illnesses with AUCs of 0.980, 0.950 and 0.871, respectively. Classifier performance was stable at low viral loads, suggesting utility in settings where direct detection of viral nucleic acid may be unsuccessful. Taken together, our results illuminate unique aspects of the host transcriptional response to SARS-CoV-2 in comparison to other respiratory viruses and demonstrate the feasibility of COVID-19 diagnostics based on patient gene expression.
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Aims: To explore the feasibility of detecting sex chromosome aneuploidies (SCAs) by means of gene copy number quantification of short stature homeobox (SHOX), vesicle-associated membrane protein 7 (VAMP7), and SRY in newborns. Materials and Methods: Gene doses of SHOX, VAMP7, and SRY were determined by quantitative polymerase chain reaction (qPCR) using DNA obtained from dried blood samples from newborns. Relative quantification values were obtained. An aneuploidy profile was established according to cutoff values. Samples with ≥2 gene doses (out of range) were reanalyzed, and those with aneuploidy profiles were confirmed by karyotyping. Sensitivity, specificity, and positive and negative predictive values were obtained. Results: A total of 10,033 samples were collected (4945 females and 5088 males). Of 244 (2.43%) samples with ≥2 gene doses that were retested, 20 cases were confirmed. The overall incidence of SCAs was 1 in 500 live newborns. There were six cases of Turner syndrome (1/824), 3 cases of XXX (1/1648), 7 cases of Klinefelter syndrome (1/726), and 4 cases of of XYY (1/1272). The sensitivity was 0.952 (95.42%); the specificity was 0.975 (97.56%); the positive predictive value was 0.909 (90.91%) and the negative predictive value was 0.987 (98.77%). Conclusions: Gene copy number analyses of the VAMP7, SHOX, and SRY genes by qPCR from blood samples spotted onto filter paper is a highly reliable method for the early detection of male and female SCAs.
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Triagem Neonatal/métodos , Transtornos do Cromossomo Sexual no Desenvolvimento Sexual/diagnóstico , Transtornos do Cromossomo Sexual no Desenvolvimento Sexual/genética , Aneuploidia , Cromossomos Humanos X , Variações do Número de Cópias de DNA/genética , Feminino , Dosagem de Genes , Humanos , Recém-Nascido , Cariotipagem/métodos , Síndrome de Klinefelter/diagnóstico , Masculino , México , Diagnóstico Pré-Natal/métodos , Proteínas R-SNARE/genética , Aberrações dos Cromossomos Sexuais , Cromossomos Sexuais/genética , Proteína da Região Y Determinante do Sexo/genética , Proteína de Homoeobox de Baixa Estatura/genética , Trissomia/diagnóstico , Síndrome de Turner/diagnósticoRESUMO
BACKGROUND: Most data on the clinical presentation, diagnostics, and outcomes of patients with COVID-19 have been presented as case series without comparison to patients with other acute respiratory illnesses. METHODS: We examined emergency department patients between February 3 and March 31, 2020 with an acute respiratory illness who were tested for SARS-CoV-2. We determined COVID-19 status by PCR and metagenomic next generation sequencing (mNGS). We compared clinical presentation, diagnostics, treatment, and outcomes. FINDINGS: Among 316 patients, 33 tested positive for SARS-CoV-2; 31 without COVID-19 tested positive for another respiratory virus. Among patients with additional viral testing (27/33), no SARS-CoV-2 co-infections were identified. Compared to those who tested negative, patients with COVID-19 reported longer symptoms duration (median 7d vs. 3d, p < 0.001). Patients with COVID-19 were more often hospitalized (79% vs. 56%, p = 0.014). When hospitalized, patients with COVID-19 had longer hospitalizations (median 10.7d vs. 4.7d, p < 0.001) and more often developed ARDS (23% vs. 3%, p < 0.001). Most comorbidities, medications, symptoms, vital signs, laboratories, treatments, and outcomes did not differ by COVID-19 status. INTERPRETATION: While we found differences in clinical features of COVID-19 compared to other acute respiratory illnesses, there was significant overlap in presentation and comorbidities. Patients with COVID-19 were more likely to be admitted to the hospital, have longer hospitalizations and develop ARDS, and were unlikely to have co-existent viral infections. FUNDING: National Center for Advancing Translational Sciences, National Heart Lung Blood Institute, National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases, Chan Zuckerberg Biohub, Chan Zuckerberg Initiative.
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Polymeric microspheres represent an injectable platform for controlling the release of a variety of biologics; microspheres may be combined in a modular fashion to achieve temporal release of two or more biomolecules. Microfluidics offers a versatile platform for synthesizing uniform polymeric microspheres harboring a variety of biologics under relatively mild conditions. Poly(ethylene glycol) (PEG) is a bioinert polymer that can be easily tailored to encapsulate and control the release of biologics. In this study, we report the microfluidic synthesis of biodegradable PEG-based microparticles for controlled release of growth factors or DNA nanoparticles. Simple changes in microfluidic design increased the rate of microparticle formation and controlled the size of the microspheres. Mesh size and degradation rate were controlled by varying the PEG polymer weight percent from 7.5 to 15% (w/v), thus tuning the release of growth factors and DNA nanoparticles, which retained their bioactivity in assays of cell proliferation and DNA transfection, respectively. This platform may provide a useful tool for synthesizing microspheres for use as injectable carriers to achieve coordinated growth-factor or DNA nanoparticle release in therapeutic applications.
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Introducción: la demanda que implica la consolidación de la ciudad moderna, en el sentido de comprender sus dinámicas y especialmente sus problemáticas más relevantes, evidencia la necesidad de realizar una laborepistemológica que busque otros modelos de interpretación de la realidad del sujeto y de los grupos humanos que la componen, en conformidad con el imperativo construir un proyecto de convivencia sostenible. Materiales y métodos: a partir de la inquietante problemática que sobre violencia se vive enMedellín (Colombia), el Grupo de Estudios sobre Violencia Urbana de la Universidad de Antioquia explora la perspectiva de las representaciones sociales (RS), para comprender qué ocurre en tal aspecto. El tema se estudia en jóvenes victimarios que se encuentranbajo medida de protección en el Centro de Atención al Menor Carlos Lleras Restrepo. Se optó por aplicar el concepto de las RS como una vía alterna y complementaria al enfoque empírico-analítico y a la mirada epidemiológica, preponderantes en el estudio de dichofenómeno y de su amplio correlato estético, que se ha ido fortaleciendo a expensas de las imperceptibles y deletéreas mutaciones experimentas por la sociedad en términos de violencia. Resultados: la RS es una perspectiva aún poco difundida, con una estructurateórica capaz de resistir al análisis interdisciplinario,construida inicialmente a partir de los postulados de la sociología clásica y, posteriormente, acogidos en la psicología social. Conclusión: se hace una primera revisión teórica que da lugar a la escritura de esteartículo y a la búsqueda de los resultados que pronto se darán a conocer.