Publications by authors named "Manuel Vaquero Alvarez"
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- - The study investigates epicardial adipose tissue (EAT) in Spanish children, highlighting its importance as an indicator for cardiovascular diseases, especially since visceral fat poses a greater risk than subcutaneous fat.
- - Conducted on a sample of 227 elementary and high school students, the research assessed various health metrics, including BMI, blood pressure, lipid profiles, and EAT thickness, using regression and discriminant analysis methods.
- - Findings revealed that higher EAT thickness is linked to male gender, increasing BMI, waist circumference, hypertension, elevated LDL cholesterol levels, and the presence of metabolic syndrome in children.
Background: Elevated body mass index (BMI) has been associated with cardiac changes, such as higher epicardial adipose tissue (EAT) thickness. This fat has been identified as a predictive factor of cardiovascular diseases during adulthood. However, few studies have tested the association of multiple cardiovascular risk factors (high weight or blood pressure) with EAT in adolescents and children.
View Article and Find Full Text PDF: High blood pressure (HBP) is a health problem the prevalence of which has increased in young populations. Overweight and obesity in early ages have been directly related to its development. Due to the impact of HBP, it is necessary to provide tools that facilitate its early diagnosis, with useful anthropometric variables being those that assess obesity.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFThe prevalence of obesity continues to grow, resulting in metabolic syndrome and increasing economic burden for health systems. The objectives were to measure the ability of the NIM-MetS test, previously used in the adults, for the early and sustainable detection of the Metabolic Syndrome (MetS) in children and adolescents. Moreover, to determine the economic burden of the children with MetS.
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- - The study aimed to assess how common obesity is among primary and secondary school students in rural Córdoba and to evaluate how well certain body measurements can indicate obesity levels.
- - Researchers analyzed data from 323 students aged 6 to 16, finding that 26.2% were overweight and 22.3% were obese, with only 15.2% following a healthy Mediterranean diet.
- - The waist-height ratio emerged as the most effective predictor of obesity, showing a sensitivity of 90% and specificity of 87.2%, suggesting it should be preferred over body mass index (BMI) for diagnosing obesity in children.
Objectives: To assess the usefulness of computed tomography (CT) to identify subarachnoid bleeding in patients with neurologic deficits seeking emergency care for sudden headache within 6 hours of onset of symptoms.
Material And Methods: Retrospective observational study of patients presenting with sudden nontraumatic headache peaking during the previous hour in the absence of neurologic deficits. We ordered CT scans for all patients, and if the scan was normal we performed a lumbar puncture.
Physical activity (PA) is considered one of the most important determinants of the health status in children, and predictor of morbidity/mortality in adults. The aim is to examine the relationship between physical fitness (PF), PA, obesity and academic performance (AP) in primary school children. Cross-sectional studies including 91 primary school students, aged 9 to 12 years, from the province of Córdoba.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFObjective: To estimate the importance of the working environment in sickness absence, as well as to show possible relationships with clinical-work variables.
Design: A descriptive observational study. SITE: Medical Inspection of an Andalusian province.
Acquired thrombotic and thromboembolic disorders may be presented initially with symptoms and signs of acute ischaemia or organ dysfunction that will lead many of these patients to seek care in the emergency department. We report a case of a 19-year-old female patient who developed catastrophic antiphospholipid syndrome (CAPS syndrome or Asherson syndrome) 6 weeks post stillbirth with an initial presentation of acute vascular occlusion. The patient was immediately operated and anticoagulated with significant improvement.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFBackground And Objective: To compare two scales for assessment of patients with mild head injury. The Canadian CT Head Rule (CCHR) and New Orleans Criteria (NOC) according to their diagnostic accuracy in patients attending an emergency department, and to determine the most important predictive values.
Method: Cross-sectional study in a first-level Hospital in the period of January 2011 to January 2013.