Publications by authors named "Dalfo A"
Background: The optimal schedule for self-monitoring home BP (SMHBP) readings is enormously important in the diagnosis of different phenotypes related to hypertension. The aim of this study was to determine the prognostic capacity of a 3-day SMHBP schedule when using or suppressing the first-day measurements in compiling the results.
Methods: A total of 767 newly diagnosed, nontreated patients with no history of cardiovascular disease (CVD) were followed for 6.
Rationale: The prevalence of bronchiectasis is high in patients with moderate-to-severe chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD) and it has been associated with exacerbations and bacterial colonization. These have demonstrated some degree of prognostic value in patients with COPD but no information about the relationship between bronchiectasis and mortality in patients with COPD is currently available.
Objectives: To assess the prognostic value of bronchiectasis in patients with moderate-to-severe COPD.
Background: To determine the prognostic value of various self-blood pressure (BP) monitoring (SBPM) cutoff at the time of diagnosis.
Methods: Cohort of 466 newly diagnosed and never-treated hypertensive patients. At baseline and at 1 year, the patients underwent a physical examination, clinic BP (CBP), SBPM, and ambulatory BP monitoring (ABPM), fasting blood and urine analysis, electrocardiogram (ECG), and retinography.
Objective: To determine the diagnostic performance of home blood pressure self-monitoring in white-coat hypertension using a 3-day reading program.
Material And Methods: One hundred and ninety nontreated patients recently diagnosed with mild-moderate hypertension, selected consecutively at four primary healthcare centers in the city of Barcelona, were included. Each patient underwent morning and night home blood pressure self-monitoring with readings in triplicate for three consecutive days, followed by 24-h ambulatory blood pressure monitoring.
Background And Objective: The PREVENCAT study was designed to estimate the control of the main cardiovascular risk factors (CVRF) and their treatment in a sample of population having the diagnoses of hypertension (HT), type 2 diabetes mellitus (DM2) or hypercholesterolemia (HC) who was attended by primary care physicians in Spain.
Patients And Method: Cross-sectional study in patients with HT, DM2 and/or HC, who were consecutively recruited. We describe the treatments for HT, DM2 and HC and analyze and the association between several potential predictors and the control of these CVRF.
Background And Objective: Our objective was to evaluate, through the health related quality of life (HRQoL) questionnaire MINICHAL, the influence of socio-demographic, clinical and therapeutic variables on health related quality of life of hypertensive patients.
Patients And Method: An observational, prospective and multi-center study was carried out in hypertensive patients who were either starting or undergoing a modification of antihypertensive treatment. A total of three visits was done: a baseline visit and two follow-up visits at one and six months.
Background: The finding that low health-related quality of life (HRQoL) can be a risk factor for future cardiovascular events in patients with hypertension emphasizes the need for disease-specific HRQoL assessment tools in this population.
Objective: This study evaluated the feasibility and psychometric properties of the short form of the Spanish Hypertension Quality of Life Questionnaire (MINICHAL).
Methods: An observational, prospective, multicenter study was carried out among patients with hypertension, stratified by sex and disease stage.
Aims: To evaluate how well blood pressure (BP) is controlled in the population of persons with hypertension alone and with diabetes, and to evaluate the influence of characteristics of the health care center on the degree of control of BP. Design. Descriptive, cross-sectional, multicenter, retrospective study.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFBackground: To describe cardiovascular morbidity of a hypertensive patients cohort and relate it to the presence of left ventricular hypertrophy (LVH), LVH geometric patterns, other cardiovascular risk factors (CRF), previous pathology (PP) and a range of variables.
Design: Prospective study of the cohort visited in a from 1993 to 1998. Place.
Objective: Study the relation between quality of life (QoL) and various clinical, therapeutic and sociodemographic variables in treated hypertensive patients.
Material And Methods: A prospective study was carried out in 92 primary care centres in Spain. A total of 269 hypertensive patients were selected and 106 healthy normotensive individuals were included as controls.
Objectives: 1) To make an integrated evaluation of the cognitive status, functional capacity, chronic disorders and social situation of the over-75 age group. 2) To find this group's self-perception of their health.
Design: A descriptive crossover study.
[Left ventricular hypertrophy in a general hypertensive population in Barcelona].
Med Clin (Barc)
September 1995
Background: Left ventricular hypertrophy (LVH) is a well known cardiac risk factor. There are no data available as to the epidemiology of this disease in the general hypertensive population in Spain.
Methods: A randomized sample (n = 267) of a general hypertensive population under the age of 80 years was followed in a Basic Health Care Area located in the center of Barcelona, Spain.
Objective: The description of three cases of reflex sympathetic dystrophy.
Design: Retrospective clinical observations.
Setting: Gòtic basic Health Area, Barcelona.