A5067981204- Chronic Disease Management Strategies
- Blood Pressure and Hypertension Studies
- Heart Failure Treatment and Management
- Diabetes, Cardiovascular Risks, and Lipoproteins
- Cardiac Health and Mental Health
- Nutritional Studies and Diet
- Health and Lifestyle Studies
- Cardiovascular Health and Risk Factors
- Aging, Health, and Disability
- Atrial Fibrillation Management and Outcomes
- Pneumocystis jirovecii pneumonia detection and treatment
- Orthopaedic implants and arthroplasty
- Influenza Virus Research Studies
- Venous Thromboembolism Diagnosis and Management
- Cardiovascular Disease and Adiposity
- Geriatric Care and Nursing Homes
- Total Knee Arthroplasty Outcomes
- Medication Adherence and Compliance
- Rheumatoid Arthritis Research and Therapies
- Health Systems, Economic Evaluations, Quality of Life
- COVID-19 Clinical Research Studies
- Diagnosis and Treatment of Venous Diseases
- Pregnancy-related medical research
- Health, psychology, and well-being
- Spine and Intervertebral Disc Pathology
Hospital del Mar Research Institute
2020-2024
Institut Català de la Salut
2012-2023
Institut Universitari d'Investigació en Atenció Primària Jordi Gol
2014-2023
Instituto de Salud Carlos III
2020-2023
Hospital Del Mar
2020-2023
Spanish Biomedical Research Centre in Physiopathology of Obesity and Nutrition
2022-2023
Centro de Investigación Biomédica en Red
2020-2022
Agència de Qualitat i Avaluació Sanitàries de Catalunya
2021
Instituto Maimónides de Investigación Biomédica de Córdoba
2020
University of Córdoba
2020
Abstract Background Studies show the effectiveness of group psychoeducation in reducing symptoms people with depression. However, few controlled studies that have included aspects personal care and healthy lifestyle (diet, physical exercise, sleep) together cognitive-behavioral techniques are proven to be effective. The objective this study is assess a psychoeducational program, which includes lifestyle, patients mild/moderate depression Primary Care (PC). Methods In randomized, trial, 246...
The concept of leadership has been studied in various disciplines and from different theoretical approaches. It is a dynamic that evolves over time. There are few studies our field on managers' self-perception their style. no pure styles, but one or another style generally favoured to greater lesser degree. In the primary health care (PHC) setting, defined as set attitudes, behaviours, beliefs values. objectives this study were describe learn about behaviours styles among PHC managers;...
Fundamento: No se dispone de estudios que hayan comparado SCORE, REGICOR y Framingham. El objetivo este trabajo es estudiar cómo clasifican el riesgo cardiovascular las funciones su correlación concordancia respecto a Framingham (1998) si presentan diferencias los factores en casos alto. Métodos: Estudio descriptivo transversal realizado atención primaria. Se incluyó 851 personas entre 35-74 años, libres enfermedades cardiovasculares seleccionadas por muestreo aleatorio simple. estudió la...
To analyze the prevalence, control, and management of hypertension, hypercholesterolemia, diabetes mellitus type 2 (DM2).Cross-sectional analysis all individuals attended in Catalan primary care centers between 2006 2009.History cardiovascular diseases, diagnosis treatment DM2, lipid profile, glycemia blood pressure data were extracted from electronic medical records. Age-standardized prevalence levels control estimated.Individuals aged 35-74 years using databases.A total 2,174,515 included...
Objective To evaluate the effect of Non-alcoholic fatty liver disease (NAFLD) status in impact lifestyle over Health-related quality life (HRQoL) patients with metabolic syndrome (MetS). Methods Baseline and 1 year follow up data from PREDIMED-plus cohort (men women, 55-75 years old overweight/obesity MetS) were studied. Adherence to an energy-restricted Mediterranean Diet (er-MeDiet) Physical Activity (PA) assessed a validated screeners. Hepatic steatosis index (HSI) was implemented NAFLD...
Abstract Background Benzodiazepine (BZD), the long-term treatment of which is harmful for cognitive function, widely prescribed by General Practitioners in Spain. Based on studies performed other countries we designed a nurse-led BZD withdrawal program adapted to Spanish Primary Care working conditions. Results A pseudo-experimental (before-after) study took place two Centres Barcelona. From sample 1150 patients, 79 were identified. They over 44 years old and had been daily users period...
Tuberculosis is the leading cause of mortality from lung infectious disease worldwide in recent years, and its incidence has re-emerged large cities low-incidence countries due to migration socioeconomic deprivation causes. Diabetes mellitus tuberculosis are syndemic diseases, with diabetes being considered a risk factor for developing tuberculosis.To investigate whether diabetic patients were at increased living an inner-district city northeastern Spain.Observational matched retrospective...
Diabetes mellitus (DM) is one of the leading chronic diseases globally and most common causes death, morbidity, poor quality life. According to WHO, DM also main risk factors for developing active tuberculosis (TB). Subjects with are at a higher infections, in addition frequent micro macrovascular complications, therefore sought determine whether glycemic control linked TB.We used retrospective cohort diabetic subjects predict incidence TB. All patients were recruited from Ciutat Vella (the...
It is common to find a high variability in the accuracy of heart failure (HF) diagnosis electronic primary care medical records (EMR). Our aims were ascertain (i) whether prognosis HF labelled patients whose ejection fraction (EF) was missing their EMR differed from those that had it registered, and (ii) causes contributing differences availability EF EMR.Retrospective cohort analyses based on clinical attended at 52 healthcare centres Barcelona (Spain). Information 8376 aged > 40 years...
Various studies have suggested that a delay in the time between diagnosing hypertension and its correct control (D-C, diagnostic-control time) is linked to worse prognosis. The aim of this study was examine relationship D-C all-cause mortality, or incidence cardiovascular events, patients more than 60 years newly diagnosed with hypertension.This longitudinal, retrospective, population employing data gathered from electronic medical records recently 45 primary healthcare centres located...
Several scores to identify patients at high risk of suffering atrial fibrillation have been developed. Their applicability in hypertensive diabetic patients, however, remains uncertain. Our aim is develop and validate a diagnostic predictive model calculate the developing five years population.The derivation cohort consisted with both hypertension diabetes attended any 52 primary healthcare centres Barcelona; validation came from 11 Terres de l'Ebre (Catalonia South) January 2013 December...
<p><strong>Background</strong></p> <p>Cardio-vascular disease and depression are thought to be closely related, due shared risk factors. The aim of the study was determine association between cardio-vascular (CVR) factors depressive status in a population (55–75 years) with metabolic syndrome (MetS) from PREDIMED-Plus trial.</p> <p><strong>Methods findings</strong></p> <p>Participants were classified into three groups CVR...
To evaluate the impact of computerized clinical practice guidelines on management, diagnosis, treatment, control, and follow-up main cardiovascular risk factors: hypertension, hypercholesterolaemia, type 2 diabetes mellitus.Pre-post controlled study.Catalonia, autonomous community located in north-eastern Spain.Individuals aged 35-74 years assigned to general practitioners Catalan Health Institute.The intervention group consisted individuals whose had accessed at least twice a day, while...
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Information regarding the effect of social determinants health on heart failure (HF) community-dwelling patients is scarce. We aimed to analyse presence socioeconomic inequalities, and their impact hospitalisations mortality, in with HF attended a universal healthcare coverage system.A retrospective cohort study carried out aged >40 at 53 primary centres Institut Català de la Salut Barcelona (Spain). Socioeconomic status (SES) was determined by an aggregated deprivation index (MEDEA). Cox...