Acoustic and prosodic information for home monitoring of bipolar disorder.

Epidemiological studies suggest that bipolar disorder has a prevalence of about 1% in European countries, becoming one of the most disabling illnesses in working age adults, and often long-term and persistent with complex management and treatment. Therefore, the capacity of home monitoring for patients with this disorder is crucial for their quality of life. The current paper introduces the use of speech-based information as an easy-to-record, ubiquitous and non-intrusive health sensor suitable for home monitoring, and its application in the framework on the NYMPHA-MD project.

Aphasia and acquired reading impairments: What are the high-tech alternatives to compensate for reading deficits?

Background: People with aphasia (PWA) frequently present impairments in reading comprehension. Such impairments can be particularly debilitating due to the limitations and constraints they impose on everyday life. Recent technological advancements in the field of information and communication technologies offer many compensative tools for PWA.

Prevalence and incidence of chronic complications and mortality in a cohort of type 2 diabetic patients in Spain.

Aims: To evaluate the prevalence, incidence of micro- and macrovascular complications, final events, and mortality in type 2 diabetic patients, followed over a period of 10 years in Spain.

Methods: Prospective, population-based cohort study. 317 type 2 diabetic patients treated at a Primary Care Centre, followed for 10 years.

[Review of the original articles published by primary care professionals in Catalonia].

Objective: To describe the characteristics of the research work published by Primary Care professionals in Catalonia between 1989 and 1991, with an analysis of the preferred research areas, design type and different bibliometric features, with the aim of finding what is the real state of Primary Care research in Catalonia.

Design: Descriptive study based on checking all the original articles published between January 1989 and December 1991 in nine Spanish journals in the Primary Care, internal medicine and paediatrics fields.

Setting: Included were studies carried out by Primary Care professionals in Catalonia, either working alone or in collaboration, and which were relevant to Primary Care.

[A study of the prevalence of alcohol consumption in the Baix Ebre region (Tarragona)].

A cross-sectional study was carried out in the Baix Ebre region about the prevalence of alcohol use, within a wider study of hypertension and other risk factors. The following characteristics were considered for the elaboration of the present study: non drinker, moderate drinker and heavy drinker, as well as the amount of alcohol intake related with demographic, socioeconomical and cultural variables such as: age, sex, urban or rural medium, marital status, place of origin, working status, social and professional level, and educational status. 64.