Objective: This study aims to analyze the prescription of antihypertensive drugs in patients with type 2 diabetes (T2D) in Andalusia, comparing it with the SEH-LELHA 2022 guidelines, and to assess the direct cost of these treatments.
Materials And Methods: A multicentric, cross-sectional, and descriptive study was conducted with 385 T2D patients. Participants were randomly selected from the patient lists of 120 primary care physicians from Andalusia.
DM3c is diabetes (DM) of the exocrine pancreas that must be suspected whenever there is a history of chronic pancreatitis (CP), acute pancreatitis (AP) or recurrence (80% of cases) or new-onset DM in individuals from over 50 years of age without any other justification (negative autoimmunity tests, Glutamic Acid Decarboxylase antibodies). It is an entity misdiagnosed as type 2 diabetes (DM2) (90%) and therefore, if it is not suspected, it can go unnoticed. For its diagnosis, abdominal ultrasound, determination of the CA 19.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFBackground And Objectives: Previous studies that quantify the cost of type 2 diabetes (DM2) show very different results. We set out to define the profile of the patient with DM2 in Andalusia, analyze the use of health resources and quantify their economic cost during 2022.
Patients And Methods: Multicenter, cross-sectional and descriptive study.
Endocrinol Diabetes Nutr (Engl Ed)
September 2022
Background And Objective: Therapeutic inertia (TI) is the lack of initiation or intensification of treatment when indicated. It contributes to the fact that more than a third of people with type 2 diabetes mellitus (T2D) do not have adequate metabolic control. We set out to analyze the impact of TI during 4 years of follow-up in a cohort of T2D and its possible variables.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFBackground And Objective: Cardiovascular disease is one of the main complications of people with type 2 diabetes (T2D). The ESC/ESA 2019 lipid guide has led to a change in dyslipidemia control. We analyze the evolution of the lipid profile, the fulfillment of the low-density cholesterol (LDL-C) targets, how patients are classified and the impact of this guide on lipid control in T2D patients.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFAim: To determine the long-term probability of remission without antiepileptic treatment of common epileptic syndromes and of children without a specific syndromic diagnosis.
Patients And Methods: All children less than 14 years old with 2 or more unprovoked seizures seen at our hospital between June 1, 1994, and March 1, 2011 (n = 680), were included and prospectively followed up until August 15, 2020. Syndromic diagnosis was made retrospectively but blinded to subsequent evolution, employing the data available at 6 months after diagnosis and under predefined operational criteria.
Introduction And Objectives: The use of anticoagulants to prevent embolic events in Spain is very high, tending to a progressive increase. For this reason, we intend to analyse the mortality of patients from a metropolitan area of Granada treated with vitamin K antagonist anticoagulants (VKA), over 2 non-consecutive years.
Patients And Methods: Longitudinal, observational, retrospective study of 205 patients treated with VKA.
Rev Esp Cardiol (Engl Ed)
August 2020
Introduction: Studies about childhood epilepsy with centrotemporal spikes (CECTS), most of them retrospective, include patients with highly heterogeneous features.
Aim: To investigate the prognostic value of objective diagnostic criteria for CECTS applied at six month of evolution of epilepsy.
Patients And Methods: All patients with one or more unprovoked epileptic seizures (n = 827) were prospectively included.
Introduction: Panayiotopoulos syndrome (PS) is an epileptic syndrome of childhood. Until now only a small number of studies have been published about this syndrome.
Aim: To study the frequency, semiology and prognosis of PS.
Introduction: Benign infantile epilepsy is an epileptic syndrome of infancy. Until now, only a small number of case-series have been published.
Aim: To study the frequency, semiology and prognosis of benign infantile epilepsy.
Vanishing white matter (VWM) leukoencephalopathy is one of the most prevalent hereditary white matter diseases. It has been associated with mutations in genes encoding eukaryotic translation initiation factor (eIF2B). We have compiled a list of all the patients diagnosed with VWM in Spain; we found 21 children.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFBackground: Infant botulism (IB) is caused by the intestinal colonization by Clostridium botulinum in the first year of life and its subsequent production of neurotoxins. Traditionally, IB has been associated to honey consumption. IB cases tend to cluster in geographic regions.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFUnlabelled: In schoolchildren examinations, carried out periodically, we detect a continuous increase in obesity and sedentarism in our schoolchildren. In this study we attempt to compare, with objective data, the real situation of the childhood population in our area, as regards their eating habits, physical activity and hygiene.
Material And Methods: Questionnaires on eating habits, preferences as regards diet, doing exercise, and dental hygiene, were handed out to 430 schoolchildren between 6 and 10 years-old.
Vanishing white matter disease is a genetic disorder of autosomal recessive inheritance that affects the brain white matter There are various phenotypes that differ in severity and age at onset. Usually, it is characterized by ataxia, spasticity and a progressive motor decline with exacerbations triggered by fever and mild head traumas. The patient was a 2.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFPurpose: To test the new ILAE definition of drug-resistant epilepsy in a cohort study.
Methods: All children younger than 14 with two or more unprovoked seizures observed at our hospital between 1994 and 2008 were included.
Results: Five hundred and eight patients were followed for an average of 90 months (range 24-168).