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José Francisco López-Gil, Alejandro Fernandez-Montero, Maira Bes-Rastrollo, Laura Moreno-Galarraga, Stefanos N Kales, Miguel Ángel Martínez-González, Javier Moreno-Montañés
OBJECTIVE: The aim of this study was to examine the relationship of ultra-processed food (UPF) intake with the incidence of glaucoma in a large sample of Spanish university graduates followed prospectively. METHODS: Prospective cohort study using data from the SUN Project. A final sample of 19,225 participants (60.1% women) was included in this study, with a mean age of 38.2 years (standard deviation (SD) = 12.4). Participants were followed-up for a mean time of 12...
April 4, 2024: Nutrients
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Maria Elisa Galarraga-Vinueza, Shayan Barootchi, Leonardo Mancini, Hamoun Sabri, Frank Schwarz, German O Gallucci, Lorenzo Tavelli
AIM: To apply high-frequency ultrasound (HFUS) echo intensity for characterizing peri-implant tissues at healthy and diseased sites and to investigate the possible ultrasonographic markers of health versus disease. MATERIALS AND METHODS: Sixty patients presenting 60 implants diagnosed as healthy (N = 30) and peri-implantitis (N = 30) were assessed with HFUS. HFUS scans were imported into a software where first-order greyscale outcomes [i...
April 1, 2024: Journal of Clinical Periodontology
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Julen Maiztegi-Kortabarria, Silvia Arribas-Galarraga, Izaskun Luis-de Cos, Sebastián Espoz-Lazo, Pedro Valdivia-Moral
(1) Background: Society's shift to a tech-focused era and has created a hyper-connected, sedentary lifestyle. The purpose of this study is to address two objectives: firstly, to describe and analyze the effects of an active breaks program associated with the learning of curricular content (CF-AB) on levels of attention, concentration, and academic performance (AP); secondly, to examine the relationship between intense physical activity (PA), attention, concentration, academic self-concept, basic psychological needs, and academic performance in schoolchildren who practice CF-ABs...
February 22, 2024: European journal of investigation in health, psychology and education
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JOURNAL ARTICLE
Alexandra Yakeline Meneses, Anabela Galárraga, Ana Poenitz, Mercè Jodar
Violence Against Women is a global problem that affects millions of women around the world. The main objective of this study was to evaluate the Mental Health and Quality of Life of Ecuadorian women exposed or not exposed to Gender Violence mediated by sociodemographic factors. A total of 433 Ecuadorian women, 18 to 64 years of age, most of whom (69%) reported being exposed to gender violence. Most of the women lived in the province of Pichincha and were selected through a type of nonprobabilistic sampling based on a survey about gender violence...
March 19, 2024: Journal of Interpersonal Violence
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I Galarraga, L M Abadie, T Standfuss, I Ruiz-Gauna, N Goicoechea
Air Navigation Service Providers (ANSPs) play a critical role as a natural monopoly within the air traffic system and are subject to regulation. Achieving preset performance targets necessitates efficient resource planning, contingent upon accurate traffic forecasts. This means that forecast precision is a key determinant of operational efficiency. In this study, we employ backcasting techniques to gauge the influence of forecast errors on air traffic management performance. This is done for eleven airspaces and seven years of data...
February 29, 2024: Heliyon
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Avilés-Rosas Vh, Rendón-Ochoa Ea, Hernández-Flores T, Flores-León M, Arias C, Galarraga E, Bargas J
Direct pathway striatal projection neurons (dSPNs) are characterized by the expression of dopamine (DA) class 1 receptors (D1 R), as well as cholinergic muscarinic M1 and M4 receptors (M1 R, M4 R). D1 R enhances neuronal firing through phosphorylation of voltage-gate calcium channels (CaV 1 Ca2+ channels) activating Gs proteins and protein kinase A (PKA). Concurrently, PKA suppresses phosphatase PP-1 through DARPP-32, thus extending this facilitatory modulation. M1 R also influences Ca2+ channels in SPNs through Gq proteins and protein kinase C...
March 2024: Synapse
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Fernando Villalba-Meneses, Cesar Guevara, Paolo A Velásquez-López, Isaac Arias-Serrano, Stephanie A Guerrero-Ligña, Camila M Valencia-Cevallos, Diego Almeida-Galárraga, Carolina Cadena-Morejón, Javier Marín, José J Marín
Low back pain (LBP) is a common issue that negatively affects a person's quality of life and imposes substantial healthcare expenses. In this study, we introduce the (Back-pain Movement) BackMov test, using inertial motion capture (MoCap) to assess lumbar movement changes in LBP patients. The test includes flexion-extension, rotation, and lateralization movements focused on the lumbar spine. To validate its reproducibility, we conducted a test-retest involving 37 healthy volunteers, yielding results to build a minimal detectable change (MDC) graph map that would allow us to see if changes in certain variables of LBP patients are significant in relation to their recovery...
January 31, 2024: Sensors
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Fernando Villalba-Meneses, Cesar Guevara, Alejandro B Lojan, Mario G Gualsaqui, Isaac Arias-Serrano, Paolo A Velásquez-López, Diego Almeida-Galárraga, Andrés Tirado-Espín, Javier Marín, José J Marín
Low back pain (LBP) is a highly common musculoskeletal condition and the leading cause of work absenteeism. This project aims to develop a medical test to help healthcare professionals decide on and assign physical treatment for patients with nonspecific LBP. The design uses machine learning (ML) models based on the classification of motion capture (MoCap) data obtained from the range of motion (ROM) exercises among healthy and clinically diagnosed patients with LBP from Imbabura-Ecuador. The following seven ML algorithms were tested for evaluation and comparison: logistic regression, decision tree, random forest, support vector machine (SVM), k-nearest neighbor (KNN), multilayer perceptron (MLP), and gradient boosting algorithms...
January 27, 2024: Sensors
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Juan Carlos Juliá Benito, Laura Moreno-Galarraga, Esther Bragado Alcaraz, María Teresa Asensi Monzó, Cristina Ortega Casanueva, Luis Moral, Carmen Rosa Rodríguez Fernández-Oliva, José Sanz Ortega, Laura Valdesoiro Navarrete
Asthma, the most prevalent chronic disease in pediatric age, continues to pose challenges in its management and treatment. National and international guidelines emphasize the importance of therapeutic education (TE) to achieve disease control. TE involves imparting knowledge and skills to the patient and their family, enhancing medication adherence, rectifying errors in inhalation technique, and tailoring treatment based on individual patient characteristics. It is essential for TE to be progressive, gradual, and personalized, spanning all levels of care...
February 6, 2024: Anales de pediatría
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Sharon Jepkorir Sawe, Richard Mugo, Marta Wilson-Barthes, Brianna Osetinsky, Stavroula A Chrysanthopoulou, Faith Yego, Ann Mwangi, Omar Galárraga
BACKGROUND: The rapidly growing burden of non-communicable diseases (NCDs) among people living with HIV in sub-Saharan Africa (SSA) has expanded the number of multidisease models predicting future care needs and health system priorities. Usefulness of these models depends on their ability to replicate real-life data and be readily understood and applied by public health decision-makers; yet existing simulation models of HIV comorbidities are computationally expensive and require large numbers of parameters and long run times, which hinders their utility in resource-constrained settings...
January 27, 2024: BMC Medical Research Methodology
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Anna C Rivara, Omar Galárraga, Melania Selu, Maria Arorae, Ruiyan Wang, Kima Faasalele-Savusa, Rochelle Rosen, Nicola L Hawley, Satupaitea Viali
In Samoa, adult Type 2 diabetes prevalence has increased within the past 30 years. Patient preferences for care are factors known to influence treatment adherence and are associated with reduced disease progression and severity. However, patient preferences for diabetes care, generally, are understudied, and other patient-centered factors such as willingness-to-pay (WTP) for diabetes treatment have never been explored in this setting. Discrete Choice Experiments (DCE) are useful tools to elicit preferences and WTP for healthcare...
2023: PloS One
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Sarah J Reichheld, Jennifer A Pellowski, Marta Wilson-Barthes, Omar Galárraga
INTRODUCTION: Daily oral pre-exposure prophylaxis (PrEP) is highly safe and effective for HIV prevention, yet barriers to PrEP access and adherence persist among key populations. In Mexico, incentive-based pilot programs have been effective in improving PrEP adherence among male sex workers. Understanding the experiences of providers and program implementers is critical to integrating PrEP adherence programs as part of standard care in Mexico and similar settings. METHODS: We conducted 17 in-depth informational interviews with care providers and staff responsible for administering PrEP to key populations (men who have sex with men, male sex workers, transgender women) in Mexico City...
December 2023: SSM Qual Res Health
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Mia Kibel, Monicah Nyambura, Lonnie Embleton, Reuben Kiptui, Omar Galárraga, Edith Apondi, David Ayuku, Paula Braitstein
BACKGROUND: Street-connected individuals (SCI) in Kenya experience barriers to accessing HIV care. This pilot study provides proof-of-concept for Enabling Adherence to Treatment (EAT), a combination intervention providing modified directly observed therapy (mDOT), daily meals, and peer navigation services to SCI living with HIV or requiring therapy for other conditions (e.g. tuberculosis). The goal of the EAT intervention was to improve engagement in HIV care and viral suppression among SCI living with HIV in an urban setting in Kenya...
November 30, 2023: BMC Health Services Research
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Santiago Cabrera-García, Peter L M Goethals, Koen Lock, Luis Domínguez-Granda, Marcos Villacís, Remigio Galárraga-Sánchez, Christine Van der Heyden, Marie Anne Eurie Forio
High-elevation tropical streams are under increasing threat from human activities and climate change. Specifically, Ecuadorian Andean streams require priority actions such as bioassessment (e.g., biodiversity and functional ecology of macroinvertebrates) in order to generate adequate environmental management policies. Therefore, we investigated the distribution and composition of the macroinvertebrate taxa and their functional feeding groups in relation to the environmental variables in the Antisana river basin (Andean-Ecuadorian Region)...
October 30, 2023: Biology
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David M Williams, Lauren Connell Bohlen, Shira Dunsiger, Viveka Ayala-Heredia, Libby Griffin, Laura Dionne, Marta Wilson-Barthes, Jessica Unick, Lisa R LaRowe, Omar Galárraga
Participation in regular physical activity (PA) has numerous health benefits; however, as few as 10% of U.S. adults meet guidelines when device-based assessments of PA are used. The present paper presents the design and rationale for an RCT examining the efficacy of an exercise incentive program currently offered by at least three major US insurance companies, in which participants must attend a YMCA fitness facility at least 50 times within 6 months to receive an incentive. In a factorial design, incentive amount ($200, $100, $0) is crossed with a comparison of the standard gain-framed incentive program and a loss-framed incentive condition in which participants are told their membership fee is being held and will be returned or forfeited depending on their fitness facility attendance...
November 5, 2023: Contemporary Clinical Trials
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Abigail Harrison, Bulelwa Mtukushe, Caroline Kuo, Marta Wilson-Barthes, Bianca Davidson, Rebecca Sher, Omar Galárraga, Jacqueline Hoare
INTRODUCTION: Peer support can help navigate the isolation and psychological strain frequently experienced by youth living with chronic illness. Yet, data are lacking on the impact of providing support for youth living with mixed chronic conditions. We assessed the acceptability, feasibility and preliminary mental health impacts of a clinic-based peer support group for South African youth living with chronic illnesses, including HIV. METHODS: This mixed-methods pilot study (September 2021-June 2022) enrolled 58 young patients, ages 13-24, at an urban hospital in Cape Town, South Africa...
October 2023: Journal of the International AIDS Society
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Raúl Méndez, Paula González-Jiménez, Ana Latorre, Noé Mengot, Rafael Zalacain, Luis A Ruiz, Leyre Serrano, Pedro P España, Ane Uranga, Catia Cillóniz, David Hervás, Antoni Torres, Rosario Menéndez, Pedro Pablo España, Luis Borderías, Olga Rajas, Jordi Almirall, Rafael Zalacaín, Montserrat Vendrell, Salvador Bello, Isabel Mir, Concepción Morales, Luis Molinos, Ricard Ferrer, MªLuisa Briones, Rosa Malo, Itxaso Sayago Reza, Wanda Almonte Batista, Laura Moreno Galarraga, Oriol Sibila Vidal, Juan Luis Rodríguez Hermosa, Gianna Vargas Centanaro, Blanca de Vega Sánchez, Eduardo Solís García, Ester Rodríguez Florez, María José, Chourio Estaba, María Molina Molina, Jaume Bordas, María Estela González Castro, Diana Badenes Bonet, Marisol Domínguez Álvarez, Eli N Pérez-Rodas, Alejandra Marín Arguedas, Berta Román Bernal, Graciliano Estrada Trigueros, Selene Cuenca Peris, Margarita Martín Royo, Miguel Torres García, José Portillo Sánchez, Francisca Lerenas Bernal, María Salome Ros Braquehais, José Alfonso García Guerra, María Dolores Martínez Pitarch, Iván Arroyo Fernández, Virginia Guevara Velázquez, Pilar Martínez Olondris, Marco Francisco Pereyra Barrionuevo, Javier Lázaro Sierra, Paloma Clavería, Aurelio Luis Wangüemert Pérez, José Joel Ruiz Lacambra, Noelia Fernández Ramos, Sara Guanche Dorta, Abigail Macias Paredes, David de la Rosa Carrillo, Esther Palones Femenia, Inés Podzamczer Valls, Patricia Peñacoba Toribio, Pilar Muñoz Zara, Rocío García García, María Del Mar Marrube Fernández, Laura Villar Aguilar, Santiago de Jorge Domínguez Pazos, Tara Pereiro Brea, Ana Pando-Sandoval, Marta María García Clemente, Amelia Alzueta Álvarez, Estela García Coya, Elizabeth de Freitas González, Pedro Pablo España Yandiola, Ane Uranga, Beatriz Raboso Moreno, Carolina Panadero, Araceli Abad, Irene Cano, Iria Pérez Orbis, Carolina Gotera Rivera, Celia Ruiz Pérez, Rosario Menéndez Villanueva, Raúl Méndez, Ana Latorre, Paula González, Teresa Ramírez Prieto, Miguel Ángel Salvador Maya, Claudia Valenzuela, José M Cifrián Martínez, Juan Marco Figueira Gonçalves, Adrián Baeza Ruiz, Andrea Expósito Marrero, Nikita Gurbani, Rosa Malo de Molina Ruiz, Marina Galdeano Lozano, Manuel Villanueva Montes, Nuria Toledo Pons, Luisa Ramón Clar, Alba Esperanza Barrios, Pilar Cejudo Ramos, Cecilia López Ramírez, Mirella Gaboli, Virginia Almadana Pacheco, Ferran Eduard Barbé Illa, Anna Clara, Nuria Gutiérrez González, Eva Cabrera César
INTRODUCTION: There are no data on the association of type of pneumonia and long-term mortality by the type of pneumonia (COVID-19 or community-acquired pneumonia [CAP]) on long-term mortality after an adjustment for potential confounding variables. We aimed to assess the type of pneumonia and risk factors for long-term mortality in patients who were hospitalized in conventional ward and later discharged. METHODS: Retrospective analysis of two prospective and multicentre cohorts of hospitalized patients with COVID-19 and CAP...
2023: Frontiers in Medicine
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Karin Apaza-Bedoya, Maria Elisa Galarraga-Vinueza, Bruna Barbosa Correa, Frank Schwarz, Marco Aurélio Bianchini, Cesar Augusto Magalhães Benfatti
BACKGROUND: Peri-implant disease prevalence is associated with a multifactorial etiology and distinct clinical characteristics of inflammation. METHODS: The present study aimed to assess the prevalence of peri-implant diseases, identify related risk indicators, and associate specific clinical characteristics to peri-implant biological complications in the medium term. Peri-implant diseases were classified according to established case criteria. Patients' data, implant and/or prosthetic features, and maintenance records were collected...
October 17, 2023: Journal of Periodontology
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Maria Elisa Galarraga-Vinueza, Shayan Barootchi, Marc L Nevins, Myron Nevins, Richard J Miron, Lorenzo Tavelli
Contemporary oral tissue engineering strategies involve recombinant human growth factor approaches to stimulate diverse cellular processes including cell differentiation, migration, recruitment, and proliferation at grafted areas. Recombinant human growth factor applications in oral hard and soft tissue regeneration have been progressively researched over the last 25 years. Growth factor-mediated surgical approaches aim to accelerate healing, tissue reconstruction, and patient recovery. Thus, regenerative approaches involving growth factors such as recombinant human platelet-derived growth factor-BB (rhPDGF-BB) and recombinant human bone morphogenetic proteins (rhBMPs) have shown certain advantages over invasive traditional surgical approaches in severe hard and soft tissue defects...
September 8, 2023: Periodontology 2000
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Marco Aurélio Bianchini, Lucas de Freitas Kuhlkamp, Frank Schwarz, Maria Elisa Galarraga-Vineuza
OBJECTIVES: The aim of the present case series is to exhibit the long-term clinical and radiographic outcomes of resective surgery with adjunctive implantoplasty over a 6-to-11-year follow-up. MATERIALS AND METHODS: Four patients presenting 4 implants diagnosed with peri-implantitis according a to an established case definition were included in the present case series. Subjects underwent resective surgery, a modified implantoplasty approach, and implant surface decontamination...
August 31, 2023: International Journal of Periodontics & Restorative Dentistry
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