Publications by authors named "Maria Victoria Cortes Arcas"
Article Synopsis
- 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.
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.