Background: The use of continuous glucose monitoring (CGM) in elderly patients with diabetes is not well documented. The present study search to know the current status of use of CGM devices in patients with diabetes over 65 years of age.
Methods: A systematic literature search was performed in PubMed and Scopus databases in November 2023.
Aim: To know within the scope of the May Measurement Month (MMM) project, the blood pressure (BP) situation in the Spanish population, disseminate the importance of its periodic measurement and estimate the prevalence of masked hypertension (MH).
Methods: Transversal descriptive study in Spanish community pharmacies during May 2019.
Variables: Systolic blood pressure (SBP), diastolic blood pressure (DBP) in millimetres of mercury (mmHg), heart rate (HR) in beats per minute (bpm).
Aim: To analyze diabetes risk screening using the Findrisc questionnaire, performed in Spanish community pharmacies (CP) since 2014.
Methods: Descriptive cumulative study of the results of campaigns from Global Diabetes Day, in 2014, 2016-2018, 2020 and 2021.
Subjects: Users ≥18 years not diagnosed with diabetes with signed consent.
Aim: Detection, reporting and monitoring of suspected Adverse Drug Reactions (ADR) in users of community pharmacies and their impact on health and daily life.
Methods: Design: prospective observational. Subjects: people vaccinated against COVID-19, of legal age, who signed informed consent.
Endocrinol Diabetes Nutr (Engl Ed)
December 2018
Type 2 diabetes mellitus (DM2) has become a problem of global dimensions by their high and growing prevalence worldwide and the personal and economic costs associated with it. Correct treatment can reduce mortality and associated complications. New concepts have recently been included in routine clinical practice and have changed the algorithm of DM2 pharmacological therapy.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFObjective: The aim of this study was to detect people at risk of suffering diabetes or changes in carbohydrate metabolism and to refer them for possible diagnosis to health care centres. The number of diagnoses and costs for the pharmacy were recorded.
Methods: A cross-sectional, observational study was conducted in community pharmacies in Pontevedra in September-October of 2014.
Unlabelled: Only one study evaluated the scientific activity in community pharmacies in Spain, and it was restricted to articles published in just two journals.
Objective: To assess the scientific activity in community pharmacies in Spain through a bibliometric analysis of the original papers published during the years 1995-2005.
Methods: IPA, MEDLINE, CSIC database and the journals Seguimiento Farmacoterapéutico y Pharmaceutical Care España were used as data sources.