The Value of a Systematic Protocol Using Endobronchial Ultrasound and Endoscopic Ultrasound in Staging of Lung Cancer for Patients with Imaging iN0-N1 Disease.

Introduction: We hypothesize that systematic, combined, and multidisciplinary study of the mediastinum (endobronchial ultrasound [EBUS] and endoscopic ultrasound [EUS]) in patients with NSCLC with radiologically normal mediastinum improves the results of mediastinal staging obtained with EBUS alone.

Material And Methods: A retrospective study of the prospective database collected on the patients with NSCLC with a radiologically normal mediastinum and an indication for systematic staging with EBUS and EUS. EBUS staging was followed by EUS in patients in which the results from the pathological analysis of EBUS were negative.

Usefulness of The Piko-6 Portable Device for Early COPD Detection in Primary Care.

Introduction: COPD is a highly prevalent but underdiagnosed disease, due to the limited availability of forced spirometry (FS) in primary care (PC). Microspirometers are inexpensive, easy-to-use devices that can measure FEV and FEV/FEV, and may help reduce underdiagnosis. The aim of this study was to validate the Piko-6 COPD screening device by demonstrating a good correlation with standard FS.

Tobacco and diabetes: clinical relevance and approach to smoking cessation in diabetic smokers.

Smoking is, together with diabetes mellitus, one of the main risk factors for cardiovascular disease. Diabetic patients have unique features and characteristics, some of which are not well known, that cause smoking to aggravate the effects of diabetes and impose difficulties in the smoking cessation process, for which a specificand more intensive approach with stricter controls is required. This review details all aspects with a known influence on the interaction between smoking and diabetes, both as regards the increased risk of macrovascular and microvascular complications of diabetes and the factors with an impact on the results of smoking cessation programs.

[Tobacco cessation. Action-stage result as a predictor of successful long-term maintenance].

Objective: The paucity of long-term studies makes it difficult to evaluate the sustained abstinence over time of smokers who quit. The objective of the present study was to determine to what extent the results of tobacco cessation interventions are maintained after 5 years.

Patients And Methods: This was a longitudinal prospective study of 502 smokers.

[Results of the first program to reduce the prevalence of smoking in the staff of Salamanca Council, Spain].

Background: Smoking is the most important risk factor for public health and one of the factors with the greatest economic repercussions for society. The aim of the present work is to publish the results of a programme to reduce smoking in the working environment.

Methods: A programme was designed in two stages.