Description of thyroid disorders the year before conception: a population-based study.

Objective: This study aimed to monitoring the prevalence of previously identified thyroid disorders and hypothyroidism monitoring before pregnancy.

Material And Methods: A retrospective cross-sectional study of women whose pregnancies occurred between 2014 and 2016 was conducted, including 120,763 pregnancies in Catalonia (Spain). The presence of thyroid disorders in women was based on disease diagnostic codes and/or prescription of levothyroxine or antithyroid drugs.

Heart failure admission across glomerular filtration rate categories in a community cohort of 125,053 individuals over 60 years of age.

A reduced estimated glomerular filtration rate (eGFR) has been described as a predictor of heart failure (HF). However, the increased risk across eGFR categories has not been fully evaluated, which is especially relevant in older individuals in whom both the prevalence of HF and decreased eGFR are higher. Furthermore, this association has not been studied in Mediterranean populations, where coronary heart disease (CHD), a frequent cause of HF, has a low prevalence.

Obesity-hypoventilation syndrome and associated factors.

Background And Objectives: Obesity causes important alterations in the respiratory physiology like sleep obstructive apnoea (SOA) and obesity-hypoventilation syndrome (OHS), both associated with high morbidity and mortality. Also, these entities are clearly infradiagnosed and in the case of OHS the prevalence is unknown in the general obese population. To determine the prevalence of OHS in the population of patients with morbid obesity and to know the comorbidity related with OHS, the associated respiratory symptoms and the pulse oximetry alterations.

[Heart failure in primary care: Attitudes, knowledge and self-care].

Objective: To determine the attitudes, knowledge, and self-care practices in patients with heart failure (HF) in Primary Care, as well as to identify factors associated with better self-care.

Design: Cross-sectional and multicentre study.

Setting: Primary Care.

[Compliance with recommendations in secondary prevention of stroke in primary care].

Objective: Knowing compliance with secondary prevention recommendations of stroke in primary care and to identify factors associated with compliance.

Design: Multi-centre cross-sectional.

Setting: Health primary care centres in a metropolitan area (944,280 inhabitants).

[An integral approach to insomnia in primary care: Non-pharmacological and phytotherapy measures compared to standard treatment].

Introduction: Insomnia is a sleep disorder in which there is an inability to fall asleep or to stay asleep. At some point in life, 50% of adults suffer from it, usually in stress situations.

Aim: To evaluate the impact of sleep hygiene measures, relaxations techniques, and herbal medicine to deal with insomnia, compared with standard measures (drug treatment).

Interferometric microscopy study of the surface roughness of Portland cement under the action of different irrigants.

Objectives: Some investigations suggested common Portland cement (PC) as a substitute material for MTA for endodontic use; both MTA and PC have a similar composition. The aim of this study was to determine the surface roughness of common PC before and after the exposition to different endodontic irrigating solutions: 10% and 20% citric acid, 17% ethylenediaminetetraacetic (EDTA) and 5% sodium hypochlorite.

Study Design: Fifty PC samples in the form of cubes were prepared.

[Heart failure: a view from primary care].

Objective: Our aim was to find out the situation of heart failure (HF) in primary care.

Design: Cross-sectional multicentre study.

Setting: Four primary health care centres and a hospital in an urban area of Barcelona.

[Domestic violence: a screening question].

Aims: To assess whether key questions can detect domestic violence (DV), and find out the prevalence in primary care (PC) and women's care (WC).

Design: Intervention Study with random assignment.

Location: PC and WC clinics (Sant Boi de Llobregat Barcelona).