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Tratamiento farmacológico de la insuficiencia cardíaca según la fracción de eyección ventricular en atención primaria
(2022-08)
Despite better diagnoses and treatments, heart failure (HF) is an important cause of death in Spain. The objective of this study is to describe the characteristics and treatment of a population with chronic HF classified ...
Disease-related knowledge measurement instruments of people affected by multiple sclerosis: protocol for a systematic psychometric review
(2021-10-05)
Introduction: Disease-related knowledge is a key component of shared decision making and a relevant outcome to measure the effectiveness of information provision interventions. However, no systematic psychometric reviews ...
Complex multiple risk intervention to promote healthy behaviours in people between 45 to 75 years attended in primary health care (EIRA study): study protocol for a hybrid trial
(2018-07-13)
Background
Health promotion is a key process of current health systems. Primary Health Care (PHC) is the ideal setting for health promotion but multifaceted barriers make its integration difficult in the usual care. The ...
Diagnostic and Therapeutic Management of Urinary Tract Infections in Catalonia, Spain: Protocol for an Observational Cohort Study
(2023-02-22)
Background:
Antibiotic resistance is an individual and public health problem; multidrug-resistant infections could cause an estimated 10 million deaths worldwide by 2050. Unnecessary use of antimicrobials is the most ...
Mortality and Cardiovascular Complications in Older Complex Chronic Patients with Type 2 Diabetes
(2017-08-10)
AIMS/INTRODUCTION: Determining the prevalence of diabetes and its cardiovascular complications and all-cause mortality in older chronic complex patients.
MATERIALS AND METHODS: We carried out a multicenter retrospective ...
Pharmacological treatment after acute coronary syndrome: baseline clinical characteristics and gender differences in a population-based cohort study
(2021-10-27)
Objective
To describe baseline socio-demographic and clinical characteristics and drugs prescribed for secondary prevention after a first episode of ACS and to assess differences between men and women.
Setting
PHC in ...
Preclinical carotid atherosclerosis in patients with latent autoimmune diabetes in adults (LADA), type 2 diabetes and classical type 1 diabetes
(2017-07-28)
BACKGROUND LADA is probably the most prevalent form of autoimmune diabetes. Nevertheless, there are few data about cardiovascular disease in this group of patients. The aim of this study was to investigate the frequency ...
Contribution of Frailty to Multimorbidity Patterns and Trajectories: Longitudinal Dynamic Cohort Study of Aging People
(2023-06-27)
Background: Multimorbidity and frailty are characteristics of aging that need individualized evaluation, and there is a 2-way
causal relationship between them. Thus, considering frailty in analyses of multimorbidity is ...
Risk Factors of Mortality from All Asbestos-Related Diseases: A Competing Risk Analysis
(2017-06-07)
Background: The mortality from all malignant and nonmalignant asbestos-related diseases remains unknown. The authors assessed the incidence and risk factors for all asbestos-related deaths. Methods: The sample included 544 ...