Comorbidity, concomitant medication, use of resources and healthcare costs associated with chronic hepatitis C virus carriers in Spain.

Objectives: To assess the comorbidity, concomitant medications, healthcare resource use and healthcare costs of chronic hepatitis C virus patients in the Spanish population.

Patients And Methods: Retrospective, observational, non-interventional study. Patients included were≥18 years of age who accessed medical care between 2010-2013.

[Interadministrative collaboration for public health management in municipalities with less than 10,000 residents].

This study analyses which administrative body local councils use to carry out their basic public health responsibilities. The study sample includes data from municipalities with less than 10,000 residents, which we believe is a first for studies published in academic journals in Spain. The data used was obtained by means of a survey administered by trained personnel.

Impact of Loss of Work Productivity in Patients with Overactive Bladder Treated with Antimuscarinics in Spain: Study in Routine Clinical Practice Conditions.

Background: Overactive bladder (OAB) is a syndrome characterized by presenting symptoms of urgency, with or without urge incontinence, and normally accompanied by day and night frequency.

Objective: The aim of this study was to evaluate the impact of lost work productivity [number of days of sick leave] in patients treated with fesoterodine versus tolterodine and solifenacin to treat OAB in Spain.

Methods: A retrospective, observational study was carried out using the records (digital databases) of actively working patients (2008-2013).

Effectiveness of a brief primary care intervention to reduce passive smoking in babies: a cluster randomised clinical trial.

Background: Tobacco smoke pollution (TSP) has major negative effects on infant health. Our objectives were to determine the effectiveness of a brief primary care intervention directed at parents who smoke in reducing babies' TSP exposure, and to establish variables related to greater exposure.

Method: A multicentre, open, cluster-randomised clinical trial in Catalonia.

Incidence variation of prostate and cervical cancer according to socioeconomic level in the Girona Health Region.

Background: The main aim of this study, using a spatial-temporal model, is to analyse the link between a deprivation index and the incidence of prostate and cervical cancer in the Girona Health Region (GHR).

Methods: This is a population-based study which includes all the inhabitants in the GHR in the period 1993-2006. In order to assess prostate/cervical cancer risk, Besag, York and Mollie (BYM)'s spatial-temporal version of the model was used and four random effects were introduced: (non-spatial) unstructured variability, spatial dependency, temporal dependency and spatial-temporal interaction.

[Geographical inequalities in mortality and incidence in larynx cancer in men: socioeconomic and environmental factors].

Background: Several studies suggest the relationship between lower socioeconomic status and environmental factors with increased risk of cancer. Within the framework of the MEDEA project, this work aims to identify geographic inequalities in larynx cancer (LC) mortality and incidence in men and its association with deprivation and environmental factors.

Methods: Ecological study having as reference population men living in the city of Zaragoza.

[Immigration and health: needs and primary health care use by immigrant population in the Girona Health Region].

Background: At the end of 1998, foreign population in Spain supposed a 1.60% of the total population. Nowadays, this percentage rises at 13.

[Normal values in self-blood pressure measurement in relation to the presence of target organ disease. Data from the VAMPAHICA study].

Background And Objective: International guides of hypertension (HT) recommend self-blood -pressure-measurement (SBPM) values higher than 135/85 mmHg to determine isolated clinical hypertension (ICH). This paper suggests a lower cut-off.

Patients And Method: This prospective, protocol-based study included 378 patients, 250 new hypertensive patients without previous treatment.

Proportion of isolated clinical hypertension in primary care settings. Comparison of target organ damage in patients with isolated clinical hypertension and patients with sustained arterial hypertension.

The aim of this study was to determine the proportion of isolated clinical hypertension (ICH) in newly diagnosed hypertensive patients, and to compare the incidence of target organ damage (TOD) in ICH and sustained hypertension patients. Participants. In a multi-centre study involving 14 primary care centres in Girona, Spain, 140 researchers recruited 214 newly diagnosed hypertensive patients 15-75 years of age, without history of cardiovascular events.

Does blood pressure change in treated hypertensive patients depending on whether it is measured by a physician or a nurse?

Objectives: To determine whether there are differences between blood pressure (BP) measured by the nurse (NBP), BP measured by the physician (PBP) and self-measured BP in treated hypertensive patients and, if found, to evaluate their clinical importance.

Method: An observational study is carried out with hypertensive patients recruited from two village-based community health centres in Catalonia (Spain) serving an area with a total population of 2800 inhabitants. All patients treated for hypertension visiting the health centre on a specific day of the week and during the same timetable between October 2000 and May 2001 were included.

The usefulness of ophthalmoscopy in risk evaluation of hypertensive patients.

Objectives: The main objective was to assess whether systematic ophthalmoscopy in the baseline evaluation of hypertensive patients results in a change in the therapeutic attitude as a result of the discovery of target organ damage. A secondary objective was to find the relationship between fundus lesions and other target organ manifestations in patients with hypertension.

Results: 73.