Publications by authors named "Maria Carmen Ruiz"
Objective: Health inequalities are universal, but their magnitude and determinants vary according to geographic areas, and understanding variations is essential to designing and implementing preventive and corrective policies. Our objective was to evaluate health inequalities in the Maresme region (Catalonia, Spain) and the relationship with socioeconomic indicators.
Design: Cross-sectional ecological study (2017).
Management of immunosuppressive therapy in kidney transplant recipients with COVID-19. A multicentre national study derived from the Spanish Society of Nephrology COVID registry.
Nefrologia (Engl Ed)
November 2023
Article Synopsis
- The SARS-CoV-2 virus had a big effect on kidney transplant patients, making them more likely to get really sick, especially early in the pandemic.
- Doctors adjusted their medications to help manage COVID-19, which included reducing some immunosuppressive drugs that protect the kidney.
- A study looked at how these changes affected kidney health and certain antibodies in patients six months after they got COVID-19, finding that most patients’ kidney function stayed fairly stable.
Age and chronic kidney disease have been described as mortality risk factors for coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19). Currently, an important percentage of patients in haemodialysis are elderly. Herein, we investigated the impact of age on mortality among haemodialysis patients with COVID-19.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFObjective: To assess whether knowledge of asthmatic disease may be a protective factor against the risk of community-acquired pneumonia (CAP) in people with asthma over the age of 18 who receive inhaled treatment.
Method: observational study of cases and controls in a population with asthma. One hundred and twenty-three people with asthma diagnosed with pneumonia were recruited according to clinical and radiological criteria (cases), and 246 people with asthma not diagnosed with pneumonia during the past year (controls), matched by age.
Background/objective: Although mortality rates related with chikungunya (CHIK) outbreaks in Latin America's (LA's) dengue-endemic rural and new urban regions are low, dealing with symptoms and sequelae can both produce a significant burden of disease and diminish quality of life-from many months to years-after the acute phase of the infection, with a significant impact on public and individual health.The aim of this work was to establish Pan-American League of Associations for Rheumatology-Central American, Caribbean and Andean Rheumatology Association (ACCAR) consensus-conference endorsements and recommendations on the diagnosis and treatment of CHIK-related inflammatory arthropathies transmitted by Aedes aegypti and Aedes albopictus in LA.
Methods: Based on the Consensus Development Conference format, a panel of ACCAR rheumatologist voting members (n = 10) took part in this Pan-American League of Associations for Rheumatology initiative.
The Ppz protein phosphatases have been recently shown to negatively regulate the major potassium transport system in the yeast Saccharomyces cerevisiae, encoded by the TRK1 and TRK2 genes. We have found that, in the absence of the Trk system, Ppz mutants require abnormally high concentrations of potassium to proliferate. This can be explained by the observation that trk1 trk2 ppz1 or trk1 trk2 ppz1 ppz2 strains display a very poor rubidium uptake, with markedly increased Km values.
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