Publications by authors named "E Almar"
Asthma often remains uncontrolled, despite the fact that the pharmacological treatment has undergone large changes. We studied changes in the treatment of asthma over a 20-year period and identified factors associated with the regular use of inhaled corticosteroid (ICS) treatment. Changes in the use of medication were determined in 4617 randomly selected subjects, while changes in adults with persistent asthma were analysed in 369 participants.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFBackground: During recent decades, an increase in the incidence of certain oesophago-gastric cancer subtypes has been reported in some countries. This study sought to analyse oesophageal and gastric cancer incidence trends in Spain by sex, site and morphology for the period 1980-2004.
Patients And Methods: Oesophageal and gastric cancer cases were drawn from 13 Spanish population-based cancer registries.
Background: Little is known about factors associated with lung function decline in asthma.
Objective: To identify the determinants of FEV(1) decline in adults with asthma with and without airflow obstruction at baseline.
Methods: An international cohort of 638 subjects with asthma (20-44 years old) was identified in the European Community Respiratory Health Survey (1991-1993) and followed up from 1998 to 2002.
Background: Few data are available on the asthma burden in the general population. We evaluated the level and the factors associated with the asthma burden in Europe.
Methods: In 1999-2002, 1152 adult asthmatics were identified in the European Community Respiratory Health Survey (ECRHS)-II and the socio-economic burden (reduced activity days and hospital services utilization in the past 12 months) was assessed.