Metabolic syndrome criteria and severity and carbon dioxide (CO) emissions in an adult population.

Background: Metabolic syndrome (MetS) has become a growing risk factor of some non-communicable diseases. Increase of greenhouse gas emissions affects the planet.

Aims: To assess the association between MetS severity and amount of carbon dioxide (CO) emitted in an adult population.

Carbon dioxide (CO) emissions and adherence to Mediterranean diet in an adult population: the Mediterranean diet index as a pollution level index.

Background: Research related to sustainable diets is is highly relevant to provide better understanding of the impact of dietary intake on the health and the environment.

Aim: To assess the association between the adherence to an energy-restricted Mediterranean diet and the amount of CO emitted in an older adult population.

Design And Population: Using a cross-sectional design, the association between the adherence to an energy-reduced Mediterranean Diet (erMedDiet) score and dietary CO emissions in 6646 participants was assessed.

Impact of implementing electronic clinical practice guidelines for the diagnosis, control and treatment of cardiovascular risk factors: A pre-post controlled study.

Objective: To evaluate the impact of computerized clinical practice guidelines on the management, diagnosis, treatment, control, and follow-up of the main cardiovascular risk factors: hypertension, hypercholesterolaemia, and type 2 diabetes mellitus.

Design: Pre-post controlled study.

Setting: Catalonia, autonomous community located in north-eastern Spain.

Attitudes toward preventive services and lifestyle: the views of primary care patients in Europe. the EUROPREVIEW patient study.

Background: For preventive interventions in general practice to succeed, patients' points of view must be taken into account in addition to those of GPs.

Objective: To explore patients' views and beliefs about the importance of lifestyle and preventive interventions, to assess their readiness to make changes to their lifestyle and their willingness to receive support from GPs.

Methods: Cross-sectional survey conducted by EUROPREV in primary care practices in 22 European countries.

Impact of the implementation of electronic guidelines for cardiovascular prevention in primary care: study protocol.

Background: The electronic medical records software of the Catalan Institute of Health has recently incorporated an electronic version of clinical practice guidelines (e-CPGs). This study aims to assess the impact of the implementation of e-CPGs on the diagnosis, treatment, control and management of hypercholesterolaemia, diabetes mellitus type 2 and hypertension.

Methods: Eligible study participants are those aged 35-74 years assigned to family practitioners (FPs) of the Catalan Institute of Health.

Healthy diet in primary care: views of general practitioners and nurses from Europe.

Background: Most of the national colleges of general practitioners (GPs) do not have their own dietary/nutritional tools, and GPs and nurses do not have the time, knowledge, or skills to advise their patients about desirable dietary practices.

Objective: To assess the usefulness of a simple and practical guide on healthy diet to be used by European GPs and nurses.

Design: A postal survey was mailed to 171 GPs and nurses from 12 European countries to obtain information about the usefulness of a guide on healthy diet developed by EUROPREV.

[Preventive care and health promotion in primary care: comparison between the views of Spanish and European doctors].

Objective: Disease prevention and health promotion are important tasks in the daily practice of all general practitioners (GPs). The objective of this study was to explore the knowledge and attitudes of European and Spanish GPs in implementing evidence-based health promotion and disease prevention recommendations in primary care, to describe GPs' perceived barriers to implementing these recommendations, and to assess how GPs' own health behaviors affect their work with their patients.

Design: A postal multinational survey was carried out from June 2000 to May 2001.

Prevention and health promotion in clinical practice: the views of general practitioners in Europe.

Background: Disease prevention and health promotion are important tasks in the daily practice of all general practitioners (GPs). The objective of this study was to explore the knowledge and attitudes of European GPs in implementing evidence-based health promotion and disease prevention recommendations in primary care, to describe GPs' perceived barriers to implementing these recommendations and to assess how GPs' own health behaviors affect their work with their patients.

Methods: A postal multinational survey was carried out from June to December 2000 in a random sample of GPs listed from national colleges of each country.

Dietary advice in clinical practice: the views of general practitioners in Europe.

Background: General practitioners (GPs) can promote good nutrition to patients and advise them about desirable dietary practices for specific conditions.

Objective: The objective was to assess GPs' knowledge and attitudes in implementing preventive and health promotion activities and to describe tools used by European GPs in advising patients about dietary practices.

Design: A postal survey was mailed to 1976 GPs from 10 GP national colleges to obtain information about beliefs and attitudes in prevention and health promotion, and an e-mail survey was sent to 15 GPs representing national colleges to obtain information about dietary guidelines.

Bone SPECT in cholesteatoma assessment.

Bone SPECT in cholesteatoma assessment. Single photon emission computed tomography (SPECT) is a procedure in nuclear medicine which enables bone lesions to be better assessed. Twenty patients with cholesteatoma were studied to assess the efficiency of SPECT in bone lesions produced by cholesteatoma.

[Adequacy of the pharmacologic treatment to the recommendations of a performance protocol in hypercholesterolemia in primary care].

Objective: To evaluate whether hypolipaemiant treatment in patients with hypercholesterolaemia (HC) corresponds to the recommendations in a primary care diagnosis and treatment protocol.

Design: Descriptive observational study.

Setting: Primary care centre.

[Analysis of direct costs of controlling arterial hypertension].

Objective: To analyse the number of attendances and the direct cost of pharmaceutical prescription arising from a year-long monitoring of hypertense patients.

Setting: Health Centre.

Design: A prospective observation study.

[Control of arterial hypertension: analysis of visit and time factors].

Objective: To analyse the frequency of attendance and the time elapsed between the diagnosis of Arterial Hypertension (AHT) and the control of Arterial Pressure (AP); and to analyse the different ways of presenting the level of control of AHT.

Design: Retrospective study.

Setting: Teaching Health Centre.

[A tumor registry at a primary care center].

Aim: We analysed the data obtained from a tumor register kept in a Primary Care Centre (PCC) to find out the variables which contribute to the diagnostic and therapeutic evolution of our patients.

Design: Retrospective study on every Neoplasia registered in the Centre.

Patients: 293 malignant Neoplasias were recorded in the period between June 1984 and June 1990 (184 in males--62.

[Ischemic cardiopathy in primary care. A descriptive study].

A descriptive study of ischemic heart disease in a primary care center is reported. From the recording systems 112 patients with IHD (9 of them dead) were identified. The calculated incidence and prevalence rates were 1.

[A drug prescription study in chronic pathology at a primary care center].

To evaluate the characteristics of the drug used for the therapy of chronic diseases, 1588 prescriptions from a sample of 549 continued drug prescription forms were evaluated. Every patient had a mean number of 2.9 drugs, 2.