Publications by authors named "M Villaplana"

Background: Limited information is available on patients' experience living with Huntington's disease (HD). The primary objective of this study was to assess the health-related quality of life and well being of patients with HD.

Methods: A non-interventional, cross-sectional study was conducted in 17 hospitals-based movement disorders units in Spain.

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Background: The growth of diabetes prevalence is causing an increasing demand in health care services which affects the clinicians' workload as medical resources do not grow at the same rate as the diabetic population. Decision support tools can help clinicians with the inspection of monitoring data, providing a preliminary analysis to ease their interpretation and reduce the evaluation time per patient. This paper presents Sinedie, a clinical decision support system designed to manage the treatment of patients with gestational diabetes.

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Article Synopsis
  • The study aimed to evaluate if the augmentation index adjusted for heart rate (AIx@HR75) can replace aortic pulse wave velocity (aPWV) for measuring arterial stiffness in type 1 diabetes.
  • It involved 68 patients with type 1 diabetes and 68 matched controls, revealing that patients had higher aPWV but no significant difference in AIx@HR75 compared to controls.
  • The results indicated that while AIx@HR75 and aPWV initially correlated, AIx@HR75 should not be used as an alternative to aPWV for assessing arterial stiffness in type 1 diabetes after adjusting for cardiovascular risk factors.
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