Spirometric patterns in young and middle-aged adults: a 20-year European study.

Background: Understanding the natural history of abnormal spirometric patterns at different stages of life is critical to identify and optimise preventive strategies. We aimed to describe characteristics and risk factors of restrictive and obstructive spirometric patterns occurring before 40 years (young onset) and between 40 and 61 years (mid-adult onset).

Methods: We used data from the population-based cohort of the European Community Respiratory Health Survey (ECRHS).

Fathers' preconception smoking and offspring DNA methylation.

Background: Experimental studies suggest that exposures may impact respiratory health across generations via epigenetic changes transmitted specifically through male germ cells. Studies in humans are, however, limited. We aim to identify epigenetic marks in offspring associated with father's preconception smoking.

The effect of physical activity on asthma incidence over 10 years: population-based study.

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Characteristics of the provision of case management services in the community setting in Andalusia based on the RANGECOM registry.

Objective: To describe the characteristics of case management in terms of population served, interventions, use of services and outcomes such as mortality, readmissions, pressure ulcers, falls, drug problems and institutionalization.

Method: Follow-up study of a cohort, from the RANGECOM Multicentric Registry of Andalusia. The study population were patients included in the case management services of Health Centres and their family caregivers.

[Predictors of cognitive impairment in population over 64 years institutionalized and non-institutionalized].

Aim: Describe the factors which can be associated with cognitive impairment in institutionalized and non-institutionalized elderly.

Method: Cross-sectional study of 200 people aged over 64 in Huelva (Spain) in 2014. Of these, 100 people were institutionalized in a residential facility and 100 were not.

Development of the Andalusian Registry of Patients Receiving Community Case Management, for the follow-up of people with complex chronic diseases.

Rationale, Aims And Objectives: Complex chronic diseases are a challenge for the current configuration of health services. Case management is a service frequently provided for people with chronic conditions, and despite its effectiveness in many outcomes, such as mortality or readmissions, uncertainty remains about the most effective form of team organization, structures and the nature of the interventions. Many processes and outcomes of case management for people with complex chronic conditions cannot be addressed with the information provided by electronic clinical records.

[Research lines proposed by Andalusian Association of Community Nursing].

Objective: To define and prioritise the future research lines of the Andalusian Association of Community Nursing (ASANEC).

Method: Application of the Delphi technique within the members of the Working Group of the Research area of ASANEC, consisting of Community nurses from clinical and educational settings, as regards research in seven Andalusian provinces. Three rounds of participation were performed, with the last one being prioritised using a Linear Scale.