- Diabetes Treatment and Management
- Reproductive tract infections research
- Nutrition and Health in Aging
- Animal Virus Infections Studies
- Cardiovascular Disease and Adiposity
- Clinical Nutrition and Gastroenterology
- Body Composition Measurement Techniques
- Growth Hormone and Insulin-like Growth Factors
- Bariatric Surgery and Outcomes
- Sexual Differentiation and Disorders
- Pituitary Gland Disorders and Treatments
- Diabetes Management and Research
- Chronic Kidney Disease and Diabetes
- Body Contouring and Surgery
- Diabetes, Cardiovascular Risks, and Lipoproteins
- Virology and Viral Diseases
- Hyperglycemia and glycemic control in critically ill and hospitalized patients
Hospital Universitario Insular de Gran Canaria
2008-2024
Universidad de Las Palmas de Gran Canaria
2008-2021
Universidad de Salamanca
2010
Background: A nationwide, prospective, multicenter, cohort study (the Disease-Related caloric-protein malnutrition EChOgraphy (DRECO) study) was designed to assess the usefulness of ultrasound rectus femoris for detecting sarcopenia in hospitalized patients at risk and define cut-off values measures. Methods: Patients according Malnutrition Universal Screening Tool (MUST) underwent handgrip dynamometry, bioelectrical impedance analysis (BIA), a Timed Up Go (TUG) test, studies. European...
Bariatric surgery is the most efficacious treatment for obesity, though it not free from complications. Preoperative conditioning has proved beneficial in various clinical contexts, but evidence scarce on role of prehabilitation bariatric surgery. We describe protocol and pilot study a randomized (ratio 1:1), parallel, controlled trial assessing effect physical respiratory muscle training programme, added to standard 8-week group intervention based therapeutical education...
Background The relationship between the metabolic syndrome and mild chronic kidney disease (CKD) has been extensively studied. This study was aimed to estimate prevalence factors associated with among subjects advanced stages of nondiabetes-related CKD. Methods Study population composed incident patients CKD not related diabetes in a tertiary hospital from Gran Canaria (Spain) since February 2011 December 2014. Participants fulfilled survey questionnaire underwent physical examination...
This report describes the case of a 68-yr-old diabetic woman with severe deterioration glycemic control caused by use malfunctioning insulin pen device.
Growth failure is a characteristic manifestation of pediatric Cushing's disease. Catch-up growth usually incomplete after cure the disease, and final height often compromised. Possible mechanisms for this phenomenon include postoperative persistence GH hyposecretion absence retardation bone maturation in spite deficiency. This report describes outcome case boy with disease whom replacement therapy was combined anastrozole, an aromatase inhibitor, order to delay skeletal extend available time...