Publications by authors named "Manuel Jesus Romero Jimenez"
Predictors of cardiovascular risk in familial hypercholesterolemia.
Curr Opin Endocrinol Diabetes Obes
October 2024
Purpose Of Review: Familial Hypercholesterolemia is associated with an increased risk of cardiovascular disease. The current international guidelines of the main scientific societies consider that all people with familial hypercholesterolemia have a high or very high cardiovascular risk. However, the occurrence of atherosclerotic cardiovascular disease is very heterogeneous in this population.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFPurpose Of Review: Familial hypercholesterolemia is associated with an increased risk of cardiovascular disease. The current international guidelines of the main scientific societies consider that, all people with Familial Hypercholesterolemia have a high or very high cardiovascular risk. However, the occurrence of atherosclerotic cardiovascular disease is very heterogeneous in this population.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFDetection of Familial Hypercholesterolemia through centralized analytical data. HF HUELVA DETECTA Program.
Endocrinol Diabetes Nutr (Engl Ed)
January 2022
Article Synopsis
- - Familial Hypercholesterolemia (FH) is a common genetic condition that leads to early heart disease, but diagnosing it early is challenging due to a lack of effective national screening methods.
- - A study in Huelva aimed to assess the effectiveness of centralized lab screenings for FH by examining blood tests and sending high cholesterol results to a specialized Lipid Unit, where patients underwent further evaluation.
- - Out of over 37,000 tests, 846 patients were evaluated, with a notable prevalence of FH found (1.74% possible cases and 0.51% definite cases), suggesting that targeted screening strategies could significantly improve FH diagnosis rates.
Clinical characteristics and type of antithrombotic treatment in a Spanish cohort of elderly patients with atrial fibrillation according to dependency, frailty and cognitive impairment.
J Geriatr Cardiol
April 2018
Background: Available data regarding clinical profile and management of elderly patients with atrial fibrillation (AF) according to dependency, fragility and cognitive impairment are scarce. The objective of the study was to analyze the biodemographic data, clinical profile and antithrombotic treatment according to dependency, fragility and cognitive impairment in elderly AF patients.
Methods: Cross-sectional and multi-center study performed in consecutive AF patients ≥ 75 years treated with oral anticoagulants ≥ 3 months attended in Internal Medicine Departments in Spain.
Polymyalgia rheumatica is an inflammatory rheumatic disease that presents with bilateral pain and stiffness affecting mainly proximal muscles. It affects individuals over 50 years of age and it is usually associated with a raised erythrocyte sedimentation rate. Classically, treatment with low-dose corticosteroids results in a dramatic improvement in both symptoms and laboratory findings.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFIntroduction: To describe the clinical and epidemiologic characteristics of hepatic involvement in a cohort of 109 patients with Q fever.
Results: Involvement of the liver alone was documented in 55% of cases. In 96% it was manifested as a febrile process without focal symptoms and hepatic cytolysis.