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Early stages of diffuse idiopathic skeletal hyperostosis (DISH) and chronic inflammation: the Camargo Cohort Study
DISH has traditionally been considered a non-inflammatory rheumatic disorder. Currently, an inflammatory component has been theorized in the early phases of this condition (EDISH). The study is aimed at invest...
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Open AccessDoes Adjusted Global Antiphospholipid Syndrome Score (aGAPSS) Predict the Obstetric Outcome in Antiphospholipid Antibody Carriers? A Single-Center Study
The adjusted Global Antiphospholipid Syndrome (APS) Score (aGAPSS) is a tool proposed to quantify the risk for antiphospholipid antibody (aPL)-related clinical manifestations. However, aGAPSS has been validate...
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Open AccessSarcopenic osteoporosis, sarcopenic obesity, and sarcopenic osteoporotic obesity in the Camargo cohort (Cantabria, Spain)
The associations of sarcopenia with osteoporosis or obesity have a very low prevalence. No trend towards an association between osteoporosis and sarcopenia is observed. Sarcopenia and obesity tend not to coinc...
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Chapter and Conference Paper
Energy Trading Between Prosumers Based on Blockchain Technology
Electrification of the energy systems and the current policies for sustainable development are increasing the potential for distributed energy resources (DERs). Within this trend, electricity grid generation a...
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Open AccessFeasibility of large-scale population testing for SARS-CoV-2 detection by self-testing at home
The simplicity and low cost of rapid point-of-care tests greatly facilitate large-scale population testing, which can contribute to controlling the spread of the COVID-19 virus. We evaluated the applicability ...
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Methylprednisolone in adults hospitalized with COVID-19 pneumonia
To determine whether a 6-day course of methylprednisolone (MP) improves outcome in patients with severe SARS-CoV‑2 (Corona Virus Disease 2019 [COVID-19]).
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Open AccessSocio-economic factors do also matter: comments on the article “can climatic factors explain the differences in COVID-19 incidence and severity across the SPANISH regions?: an ecological study”
Phosri et al., commented on our previous study about the influence of climate variables at the beginning of the SARS-CoV-2 pandemic in Spain. They showed the impact of the association of gross domestic product...
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Open AccessCan climatic factors explain the differences in COVID-19 incidence and severity across the Spanish regions?: An ecological study
Environmental factors play a central role in seasonal epidemics. SARS-CoV-2 infection in Spain has shown a heterogeneous geographical pattern This study aimed to assess the influence of several climatic factor...
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Circulating levels of adiponectin, leptin, resistin and visfatin in non-diabetics patients with hidradenitis suppurativa
Hidradenitis suppurativa (HS) is a chronic inflammatory disease associated with insulin resistance (IR), metabolic syndrome and increased cardiovascular risk. Adipokines are biologically active, pleotropic mol...
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Open AccessAtherogenic index of plasma is associated with the severity of Hidradenitis Suppurativa: a case-control study
Hidradenitis suppurativa (HS) is a chronic inflammatory disease associated with several comorbidities and vascular risk factors, such as dyslipidemia. The present study aimed to assess the possible association...
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Bone mineral density and trabecular bone score in treatment-naïve patients with non-cirrhotic hepatitis C virus infection
We studied 112 treatment-naïve chronic HCV patients without cirrhosis, and we found that, especially HCV+ postmenopausal women, they had lower TBS and BMD values than healthy controls. This suggests that HCV i...
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Serum 25-Hydroxyvitamin D in Obese Spanish Adults: the Camargo Cohort Study
To describe the 25(OH)D status in Spanish obese postmenopausal women and men ≥ 50 years, to compare their results with those of the overweight or normal weight population, and to determine whether differences ...
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Prevalence of vertebral fracture and densitometric osteoporosis in Spanish adult men: The Camargo Cohort Study
The aim of this study was to assess the prevalence of densitometric osteoporosis and vertebral fractures in Spanish men aged ≥50 years, and to study how the relationship between them may change depending on ho...
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Open AccessIncretins in patients with rheumatoid arthritis
The precise mechanism linking systemic inflammation with insulin resistance (IR) in rheumatoid arthritis (RA) remains elusive. In the present study, we determined whether the incretin-insulin axis and incretin...
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Open AccessHDL cholesterol efflux capacity in rheumatoid arthritis patients: contributing factors and relationship with subclinical atherosclerosis
Lipid profiles appear to be altered in rheumatoid arthritis (RA) patients because of disease activity and inflammation. Cholesterol efflux capacity (CEC), which is the ability of high-density lipoprotein chole...
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Reference Work Entry In depth
Effect of Statins on Bone Turnover Markers
The link between statins, the most prescribed drugs worldwide, and the bone remodeling process have been recently suggested. Thus, there is growing evidence about an anabolic and even anticatabolic effect of s...
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Effect of Beta-Blockers on Bone Mineral Density, Bone Turnover Markers and Fractures: A Clinical Review
The increased sympathetic nervous activity causes bone loss, via an increase in osteoclastic bone resorption and a decrease in osteoblastic bone formation, suggesting an important regulating role for the SNS i...
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Living Reference Work Entry In depth
Effect of Statins on Bone Turnover Markers
The link between statins, the most prescribed drugs worldwide, and the bone remodeling process have been recently suggested. Thus, there is growing evidence about an anabolic and even anticatabolic effect of s...
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A soft computing based location-aware access control for smart buildings
The evolution of wireless communications and pervasive computing is transforming current physical spaces into real smart environments. These emerging scenarios are expected to be composed by a potentially huge...
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Bone mineral density in statin users: a population-based analysis from a Spanish cohort
We studied 2,315 subjects (1,422 women and 893 men) from the Camargo Cohort and analyzed the differences in BMD between statin or non-statin users. We also studied effects of the type of statin, dose, pharmaco...
