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Who does what the cardiologist recommends? Psychosocial markers of unhealthy behavior in coronary disease patients

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Patients diagnosed with coronary heart disease should follow lifestyle recommendations that can reduce their cardiovascular risk (e.g., avoid smoking). However, some patients fail to follow these recommendations and engage in unhealthy behavior. With the aim to identify psychosocial factors that characterize patients at high risk of repeated cardiovascular events, we investigated the relationship between social…

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Jornada Implantación Evidencias en Cuidados BPSOAndalucía

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Bienvenida Institucional (1ª parte) Bienvenida Institucional (2ª parte) Programa de Implantación de buenas prácticas en Centros Comprometidos con la Excelencia en Cuidados Presentación del BPSO-Host Regional Andalucía Presentación de los proyectos de Candidatos a Centros Comprometidos con la Excelencia en Cuidados Transferencias de evidencias a la práctica clínica en centros del Sistema Sanitario Público de…

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A general framework for classifying costing methods for economic evaluation of health care

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According to the most traditional economic evaluation manuals, all “relevant” costs should be included in the economic analysis, taking into account factors such as the patient population, setting, location, year, perspective and time horizon. However, cost information may be designed for other purposes. Health care organisations may lack sophisticated accounting systems and consequently, health economists…

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Inflammatory potential of the diet and risk of colorectal cancer in the European Prospective Investigation into Cancer and Nutrition (EPIC) study

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Pro‐inflammatory diets are associated with risk of developing colorectal cancer (CRC), however inconsistencies exist in subsite‐ and sex‐specific associations. The relationship between CRC and combined lifestyle‐related factors that contribute towards a low‐grade inflammatory profile has not yet been explored. We examined the association between the dietary inflammatory potential and an inflammatory profile and CRC risk…

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Nutrient-wide association study of 92 foods and nutrients and breast cancer risk

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Background Several dietary factors have been reported to be associated with risk of breast cancer, but to date, unequivocal evidence only exists for alcohol consumption. We sought to systematically assess the association between intake of 92 foods and nutrients and breast cancer risk using a nutrient-wide association study. Methods Using data from 272,098 women participating…

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Mitochondrial DNA copy number variation and pancreatic cancer risk in the prospective EPIC cohort

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BACKGROUND: Mitochondrial DNA (mtDNA) copy number in peripheral blood has been found to be associated with risk of developing several cancers. However, data on pancreatic ductal adenocarcinoma (PDAC) are very limited. METHODS: To further our knowledge on this topic we measured relative mtDNA copy number by a quantitative real-time PCR assay in peripheral leukocyte samples…