Health impact of the Tajogaite volcano eruption in La Palma population (ISVOLCAN study): rationale, design, and preliminary results from the first 1002 participants.

Background: The eruption of the Tajogaite volcano began on the island of La Palma on September 19, 2021, lasting for 85 days. This study aims to present the design and methodology of the ISVOLCAN (Health Impact on the Population of La Palma due to the Volcanic Eruption) cohort, as well as the preliminary findings from the first 1002 enrolled participants.

Methods: A prospective cohort study was conducted with random selection of adult participants from the general population, with an estimated sample size of 2600 individuals.

Resistin as a risk factor for all-cause (and cardiovascular) death in the general population.

Serum resistin is a pro-inflammatory cytokine that has been described as a risk factor associated with mortality in several clinical sets including type 2 diabetes. Mortality studies in the general population are needed to find out the risk of death associated to this cytokine. In a follow-up study of a cohort of adult population (n = 6636) in Spain over a period of fifteen years (447 deaths/102,255 person-years), serum resistin measurements and death records were obtained.

Associated factors with functional prognosis of patients with acute ischemic stroke undergoing thrombectomy.

Introduction: Mechanical thrombectomy (MT) has meant a change in natural history of acute ischemic stroke. Our aim is to assess the possible association between different factors and prognosis in patients treated with MT in a third degree Spanish hospital.

Methods: Cross-sectional study including 198 patients underwent MT because of acute ischemic stroke between 2012 and 2020.

Hospital Mortality in 415 798 AMI Patients: 4 Years Earlier in the Canary Islands Than in the Rest of Spain.

Introduction And Objectives: The Canary Islands has the highest mortality from diabetes in Spain. The aim of this study was to determine possible differences in mortality due to acute myocardial infarction (AMI) during hospital admission between this autonomous community and the rest of Spain, as well as the factors associated with this mortality and the population fraction attributable to diabetes.

Methods: Cross-sectional study of hospital admissions for AMI in Spain from 2007 to 2014, registered in the Minimum Basic Data Set.

Clinical applicability and cost-effectiveness of DIABSCORE in screening for type 2 diabetes in primary care.

Aims: To evaluate the applicability and cost-effectiveness of a clinical risk score (DIABSCORE) to screen for type 2 diabetes in primary care patients.

Methods: Multicenter cross-sectional study of 10,508 adult no previously diagnosed with diabetes, in 2 Spanish regions (Canary Islands and Valencian Community). The variables comprising DIABSCORE were age, waist to height ratio, family history of diabetes and gestational diabetes.

Social class and metabolic syndrome in populations from Tunisia and Spain.

Background: There is an increasing prevalence of obesity and metabolic syndrome (MS) in developing countries. It has been shown the relationship between social class and MS in developed countries. The objective of our study was to compare the association of social class with the prevalence of MS in a developing country (Tunisia, region of Cap-Bon) and a developed one (Spain, Canary Islands).

[The waist to height ratio as an index of cardiovascular risk and diabetes].

Background And Objectives: To identify the anthropometric index that best detects cardiovascular risk (CVR) and type 2 diabetes (DM2) in the adult Spanish population and to determine its cut-off point.

Subjects And Methods: Cross-sectional study in the general population (n=6279). Sensitivity and specificity were estimated for the anthropometric indexes: abdominal waist, body mass index, waist to hip ratio and waist to height ratio (WtHR).

Association of IL-6 gene polymorphisms and COPD in a Spanish population.

Interleukin-6 (IL-6) is a potential mediator of systemic effects of Chronic Obstructive Pulmonary Disease (COPD). In the present case-control study we investigated the association of promoter polymorphisms of this gene and COPD in a cohort of 191 patients, smokers without COPD (n=75) and a healthy control population (n=296). Besides spirometry, exercise capacity (6MWD, 6 min walking distance) and body mass index (BMI) were measured in COPD patients.