Publications by authors named "M A Cavero"
Article Synopsis
- Mental health disorders are increasingly prevalent in primary care settings worldwide, with a study in Catalonia revealing 18.2% of individuals had at least one mental health diagnosis from 2010 to 2019.
- The most common diagnoses included unspecified anxiety disorder, insomnia, and unspecified depressive disorder, with an increase in these cases noted until 2015, after which the rates stabilized.
- Factors such as being female, having a lower socioeconomic status, higher BMI, and smoking were significantly associated with mental health diagnoses, suggesting a need for innovative community-based approaches to address the rising burden of mental health issues.
: Bipolar disorder (BD) involves significant mood and energy shifts reflected in speech patterns. Detecting these patterns is crucial for diagnosis and monitoring, currently assessed subjectively. Advances in natural language processing offer opportunities to objectively analyze them.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFBackground: Bipolar disorder is highly prevalent and consists of biphasic recurrent mood episodes of mania and depression, which translate into altered mood, sleep and activity alongside their physiological expressions.
Aims: The IdenTifying dIgital bioMarkers of illnEss activity and treatment response in BipolAr diSordEr with a novel wearable device (TIMEBASE) project aims to identify digital biomarkers of illness activity and treatment response in bipolar disorder.
Method: We designed a longitudinal observational study including 84 individuals.
Objectives: Extended septal myectomy and alcohol septal ablation are 2 invasive treatments for hypertrophic obstructive cardiomyopathy. Our goal was to compare which of these techniques achieved a higher reduction in gradients, improvement in New York Heart Association (NYHA) functional class and reduction in medical treatment.
Methods: It is a single-centre observational and retrospective analysis.
Introduction: There has been an increase in the prescription of antidepressants (AD) in primary care (PC). However, it is unclear whether this was explained by a rise in diagnoses with an indication for AD. We investigated the changes in frequency and the variables associated with AD prescription in Catalonia, Spain.
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