Publications by authors named "Maria V Cortes-Arcas"

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  • Recent guidelines suggest assessing lifetime cardiovascular risk in adults not at high short-term risk, focusing on a large occupational cohort in Spain.
  • The study involved a national cross-sectional analysis of 259,834 volunteer workers examined in 2011, using established risk assessment tools from the ACC, AHA, QRISK2, and QRISK.
  • Findings revealed that while 6.85% to 20.83% of individuals were at high short-term risk, a significant portion classified as not high risk were identified as having high lifetime risk, indicating important implications for treatment and lifestyle interventions.
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  • The American and British guidelines on dyslipidemia promote removing treatment targets and using new risk assessment tables, prompting this study to evaluate their impact compared to European guidelines.
  • An observational study involving 258,676 Spanish workers found that cardiovascular risk assessments differed significantly, with higher risk percentages identified using American and British tables compared to European ones.
  • Adopting the American guidelines would lead to a substantial increase in patients requiring treatment and significantly higher costs for statin medications, compared to adherence to European recommendations.
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Background: The aim of this study was to analyze the impact on tobacco consumption among working population of the Law 42/2010, which amends smoking regulations in Spain.

Methods: Data were obtained from 413,473 Occupational Health check-ups, conducted between July of 2009 and June of 2011, in the Society for Prevention of a Mutual Insurance Company. We analyzed changes in the biannual percentage of smokers and the magnitude of tobacco consumption among smokers in the overall set of medical check-ups, by gender, age, occupational level (manual vs.

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