OBJECTIVE: To quantify the magnitude of associations between cyclist fatalities and both cyclist and environment related characteristics in Spain during the first 24 hours after a crash. DESIGN: Cohort study. SETTING: Spain. PARTICIPANTS: 65 977 cyclists injured in road crashes recorded between 199...

OBJECTIVE: Heart failure (HF) is an important public health problem due to its increasing prevalence, and the decompensation associated with hospital admission represents an increased risk of death. The objective of this study was to compare several methods to model the variable hospitalizations an...

Objetives: The effect of age on intimate partner violence (IPV) against women has received little attention. The objective of this study is to analyze the prevalence, risk factors and health impact of current IPV in different life stages. Methods: We analyzed a sub-sample of 8,935 ever-partnered wo...

Globally, there are an estimated 1 billion people suffering from at least one of the 20 neglected tropical diseases (NTDs) prioritized by the World Health Organization (WHO). Prevalent in tropical and subtropical regions, this group of NTDs comprises diverse diseases, including vector-borne parasit...

Introducción y objetivo: Evaluar y caracterizar el riesgo de sesgos existentes en ensayos clínicos aleatorizados publicados en revistas de alto impacto que hayan sido altamente citados. Métodos: Análisis transversal de los artículos publicados en las revistas médicas con un factor de impacto > ...

Introducción: El impacto del cambio climático sobre las enfermedades transmitidas por mosquitos (EITM) despierta controversia, incertidumbre y debate, a pesar de existir evidencia de la exacerbación de determinadas patologías como malaria en zonas previamente libres de las mismas en las últimas ...

INTRODUCIÓN: La soledad percibida se considera un problema de salud pública prevalente y grave que puede afectar a personas de todas las edades, aunque hasta ahora los estudios se han centrado en personas de edad avanzada Es un marcador de riesgo de alta relevancia clínica, con efectos similares al...

Las enfermedades no transmisibles (ENT) son la principal causa de muerte en el mundo y, una de las ENT más frecuentes es la enfermedad cardiovascular (ECV), cuyos factores de riesgo (FRCV) son: inactividad física, obesidad, hipercolesterolemia, hipertensión arterial (HTA) y diabetes mellitus 2 (DM2...

Recientemente la Organización Mundial de la Salud (OMS) ha publicado la Guía “Environmental Noise Guidelines for the European Region” 1, en ella, se analiza el impacto que tiene el ruido de tráfico sobre diferentes patologías no auditivas; entre ellas, las cardiovasculares, en concreto la enfermeda...

Background: In recent years, a number of studies have been conducted with the aim of analysing the impact that high temperatures will have on mortality over different time horizons under different climate scenarios. Very few of these studies take into account the fact that the threshold temperature...

Background: This article proposes an International Parkinson and Movement Disorder Society (MDS)-UPDRS tremor-based scale and describes its measurement properties, with a view to developing an improved scale for assessing tremor in Parkinson's disease (PD). Methods: This was a cross-sectional, mult...

The Parkinson Anxiety Scale is a new scale developed to measure anxiety severity in Parkinson's disease specifically. It consists of three dimensions: persistent anxiety, episodic anxiety, and avoidance behavior. This study aimed to assess the measurement properties of the scale while controlling f...

Purpose: This study aims to assess the change in and predictive factors of the quality of life (QoL) of institutionalized older adults with dementia over a 20-month period. Methods: Information was used from a follow-up study conducted over an average period of 19.61 ± 1.93 months on a sample of 27...

Objective: The conceptual framework of Quality of Life (QoL) allows approaching the knowledge of the living conditions of people in order to help establishing policies for QoL improvement. This study is aimed at examining the assessment made by older adults on their personal wellbeing and the satis...

PURPOSE: The international wellbeing index (IWI) consists of two scales, the personal (PWI) and national (NWI) wellbeing indices. The community wellbeing index (CWI) is a new measure of the individual's level of satisfaction with the local place of residence. The main goal of this paper is to valid...

OBJECTIVE: To evaluate an HIV testing program in the university environment by analyzing the prevalence of infection, risk behaviors and history of sexually transmitted infections and by performing HIV tests. METHODS: During October-November of 2008 and November-December of 2009, 1668 persons recei...

BACKGROUND: Parkinson's disease (PD) is one of the factors which are associated with a higher risk of mortality during heat waves. The use of certain neuroleptic medications to control some of this disease's complications would appear to be related to an increase in heat-related mortality. OBJECTIV...

BACKGROUND: Self-rated health (SRH) is a health measure used in studies of older adults. The objective of this study is to analyze SRH as a predictor of mortality in the institutionalized older population and the characteristics of those who do not provide information about their SRH on health ques...

Las VI Guías Europeas de Prevención Cardiovascular recomiendan combinar las estrategias poblacional y de alto riesgo, con los cambios de estilo de vida como piedra angular de la prevención, y proponen la función SCORE para cuantificar el riesgo cardiovascular. Esta guía hace más hincapié en las int...