Publications by authors named "Quiles L"
Background: Status epilepticus (SE) is a neurological emergency requiring prompt evaluation and management to prevent disease refractoriness associated with significant mortality and morbidity. Thus, estimating costs attributable to the treatment of SE is important because of the severity of this disease. In the Philippines, healthcare provisions are mostly out-of-pocket expenses; hence the cost of treatment is a critical determinant for disease management.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFBackground And Purpose: The COVID-19 pandemic has been continuing its global spread ever since its onset, and efforts to curb the infection in multiple reports have contrasting effects on stroke severity, admissions, and outcomes. In the Philippines, where the COVID-19 pandemic shows no signs of slowing down and has been in the world's longest lockdown, we investigated the effect of the pandemic in the stroke admissions and outcomes in one of the largest tertiary hospitals in the Philippines.
Methods: This is a retrospective, comparative study of all adult stroke patients admitted between pre-COVID-19 (February 2019-January 2020) and COVID-19 periods (February 2020-January 2021).
Objective: To determine the current availability of care for headaches, in particular migraine in the Asian Oceanian region.
Method: A questionnaire-based, cross-sectional study from August 2020 to February 2021, surveyed country representatives from the member countries of the Asian Oceanian Association of Neurology. The items of the survey were influenced by the findings and recommendations of the 2011 Atlas of Headache by Lifting the Burden and the World Health Organization.
Nutrigenetic studies analyzing gene-diet interactions of the TCF7L2-rs7903146 C > T polymorphism on type-2 diabetes (T2D) have shown controversial results. A reason contributing to this may be the additional modulation by obesity. Moreover, TCF7L2-rs7903146 is one of the most influential variants in T2D-genetic risk scores (GRS).
View Article and Find Full Text PDFBackground: Eggs are a major source of dietary cholesterol and their consumption has been sometimes discouraged. A relationship between egg consumption and the incidence of cardiovascular disease (CVD) has been suggested to be present exclusively among patients with type2 diabetes.
Aims: To assess the association between egg consumption and CVD in a large Mediterranean cohort where approximately 50% of participants had type 2 diabetes.
Introduction: vegetarian diets have been associated with lower risk of cardiovascular disease and a more favourable lipid profile in vegetarians who follow these diets for a long term period in observational studies, but the short-term effects of vegetarian diets are less known.
Objective: our objective was to analyze the short-term effects of a low-fat vegetarian diet on lipid profile and fasting glucose in previously non-vegetarian subjects from a Mediterranean population.
Methods: we carried out a nutritional intervention study in 159 volunteers (42 men and 117 women).
Introduction: Coffee and tea consumption recommendations for a healthy diet have been changing in recent years as it has increased the level of evidence on their benefits has increased.
Objective: To know the frequency of coffee and tea consumption of in a high cardiovascular risk Mediterranean population (CVR) and to analyze whether there are differences between the consumption of these drinks by cardiovascular risk factors.
Methods: A cross-sectional study was carried out on 945 people (340 males, 605 females) (67.
Objective: The level of clinical suspicion of sleep apnea-hypopnea syndrome (SAHS) among primary care physicians is low. The aim of this study was to analyze the impact of a primary care training program on the quality and quantity of referrals made due to suspected SAHS.
Material And Methods: A group of 16 primary care physicians were offered the option of participating in a training program consisting of 2 talks-workshops, the provision of up-to-date information on SAHS and a form for making referrals according to an established protocol, and the opportunity to contact the sleep department at our hospital directly.