821 research outputs found
The British Influence in the Birth of Spanish Sport
Sports started to gain relevance in Spain around the end of the nineteenth century and the beginning of the twentieth century as a leisure and health option of the upper classes imported from Britain. Its early development was intertwined with the spread of other kinds of physical activities with much more tradition on the continent: gymnastics and physical education. First played by the ruling classes – aristocracy and high bourgeoisie – sports permeated towards petty bourgeoisie and middle classes in urban areas such as Madrid, Barcelona, San Sebastián and Santander. This pattern meant that the expansion of sports was unavoidably tied to the degree of industrialisation and cultural modernisation of the country. Since 1910, and mainly during the 1920s, sport grew in popularity as a spectacle and, toa much lesser degree, as a practice among the Spanish population
Impact of HIV infection on sustained virological response to treatment against hepatitis C virus with pegylated interferon plus ribavirin
[Abstract] It is commonly accepted that human immunodeficiency (HIV) coinfection negatively impacts on the rates of sustained virological response (SVR) to therapy with pegylated interferon plus ribavirin (PR). However, this hypothesis is derived from comparing different studies. The aim of this study was to determine the impact of HIV coinfection on SVR to PR in one single population. In a multicentric, prospective study conducted between 2000 and 2013, all previously naïve hepatitis C virus (HCV)-infected patients who started PR in five Spanish hospitals were analyzed. SVR was evaluated 24 weeks after the scheduled end of therapy. Of the 1046 patients included in this study, 413 (39 %) were coinfected with HIV. Three hundred and forty-one (54 %) HCV-monoinfected versus 174 (42 %) HIV/HCV-coinfected patients achieved SVR (p < 0.001). The corresponding figures for undetectable HCV RNA at treatment week 4 were 86/181 (47 %) versus 59/197 (30 %), p < 0.001. SVR was observed in 149 (69 %) HCV genotype 2/3-monoinfected subjects versus 91 (68 %) HIV/HCV genotype 2/3-coinfected subjects (p = 0.785). In the HCV genotype 1/4-infected population, 188 (46 %) monoinfected patients versus 82 (30 %) with HIV coinfection (p < 0.001) achieved SVR. In this subgroup, absence of HIV coinfection was independently associated with higher SVR [adjusted odds ratio (95 % confidence interval): 2.127 (1.135–3.988); p = 0.019] in a multivariate analysis adjusted for age, sex, baseline HCV RNA load, IL28B genotype, fibrosis stage, and type of pegylated interferon. HIV coinfection impacts on the rates of SVR to PR only in HCV genotype 1/4-infected patients, while it has no effect on SVR in the HCV genotype 2/3-infected subpopulation.Instituto de Salud Carlos III; ISCIII-RETIC RD06/006Instituto de Salud Carlos III; ISCIII-RETIC RD12/0017Andalucía. Junta; PI-0492/2012Andalucía. Junta; AC-0095-201
Sobre la dificultad diagnóstica de las ausencias en el adulto
Sr. Editor:
El relato de las características de una crisis convulsiva por parte de testigos es la base para el diagnóstico, la clasificación y el tratamiento de los síndromes epilépticos, pero es un elemento que en muchas ocasiones no puede estar presente. En la práctica clínica, un tercio de las convulsiones focales con alteraciones cognitivas no son controladas con la medicación antiepiléptica, siendo aún común el error diagnóstico, motivo por el cual la monitorización con vídeo- electroencefalograma (EEG) provee una ayuda inestimable en el momento del diagnóstico, la clasificación y el tratamiento. A continuación, presentamos un caso que expone la dificultad que puede suponer la evaluación de un paciente adulto con «crisis de ausencias» en el cual el tratamiento y un «reset» en la historia clínica puede llevar al diagnóstico correcto y por ende un buen tratamiento. Se trata de un paciente de 45 años de edad referido de otro centro hospitalario, sin antecedentes familiares de relevancia, que desarrolla 15 años antes un cuadro de recurrente «desconexión» del medio con ocasionales automatismos orales de aproximadamente 5 s de duración en los cuales se mantenía la postura..
High serum levels of tissue inhibitor of matrix metalloproteinase-1 during the first week of a malignant middle cerebral artery infarction in non-surviving patients
Background: Higher circulating levels of tissue inhibitor of matrix metalloproteinases (TIMP)-1 early after
ischemic stroke have been associated with lower survival. The objectives of this study were to determine
serum TIMP-1 levels during the first week of a severe cerebral infarction in surviving and non-surviving
patients, and whether those levels during the first week could be used as a mortality biomarker for these
patients.
Methods: We included patients with severe malignant middle cerebral artery infarction (MMCAI) defined as
computer tomography showing ischaemic changes in more than 50% of the middle cerebral artery territory
and Glasgow Coma Scale (GCS) ≤ 8. We measured serum levels of matrix metalloproteinases (MMP)-9 and
TIMP-1. End-point study was 30-day mortality.
Results: We found higher TIMP-1 concentrations at days 1 (p < 0.001), 4 (p = 0.001), and 8 (p = 0.03) of MMCAI in nonurviving (n = 34) than in surviving (n = 34) patients. We found lower serum MMP-9 concentrations at day 1 (p = 0.03) of
MMCAI and no significant differences at days 4 and 8. ROC curve analysis of TIMP-1 concentrations performed at days
1, 4, and 8 of MMCAI showed an area under curve to predict 30-day mortality of 81% (p < 0.001), 80% (p < 0.001) and
72% (p = 0.07) respectively.
Conclusions: The new findings of our study were that non-surviving MMCAI patients showed higher serum TIMP-1
levels during the first week of MMCAI that surviving patients, and those levels during the first week of MMCAI could be
used as mortality biomarkers
Síndrome de parkinsonismo-hiperpirexia
El síndrome parkinsonismo-hiperpirexia (SPH), también conocido como síndrome neuroléptico maligno-like, crisis acinética o síndrome dopaminérgico maligno, es una rara y potencialmente letal complicación de la enfermedad de Parkinson. Clínicamente se caracteriza por hipertermia, disfunción autonómica, alteración del nivel de la conciencia, rigidez muscular y elevación de los niveles séricos de CPK. En la mayoría de los casos este síndrome es desencadenado por cambios en la medicación antiparkinsoniana, sea su retirada o reducción de dosis de forma más o menos brusca. Reconocerlo a tiempo y tratarlo adecuadamente (levodopa y agonistas dopaminérgicos) son elementos cruciales para una resolución favorable del cuadro clínico..
Cross-country migration linked to people who inject drugs challenges the long-term impact of national HCV elimination programmes
To the Editor:
As of 2018, the majority of Western European countries – including Spain – have lifted restrictions to therapy based on disease severity in the context of HCV infections.1 Long overdue, most national elimination programmes now also include access to care for people who inject drugs (PWID), 2 who are at the core of ongoing HCV transmission.3 Macías et al.4 have recently shown in this Journal that high viral cure rates can be achieved in this group, hereby providing evidence that targeting PWID in treatment programmes is worthwhile. However, the extent to which such national efforts can reduce the HCV burden not only depends on the uptake into care and treatment success rates, it is also determined by the relative importance of within-country transmission and virus importation from elsewhere.
As the chronic nature of most HCV infections hampers reliably reconstructing contact networks from patient interviews, virus genetic data can be a valuable alternative source of information for elucidating the geographic history of virus lineages (e.g. [5], [6]). Using such data, we have recently shown that for the most prevalent subtype among PWID in Spain (40%, 7), HCV1a, infections often link to infections abroad – in recent years >50% link to Western European countries, mostly European Union (EU) member states – as opposed to other infections ..
Search for the standard model Higgs boson decaying into two photons in pp collisions at sqrt(s)=7 TeV
A search for a Higgs boson decaying into two photons is described. The
analysis is performed using a dataset recorded by the CMS experiment at the LHC
from pp collisions at a centre-of-mass energy of 7 TeV, which corresponds to an
integrated luminosity of 4.8 inverse femtobarns. Limits are set on the cross
section of the standard model Higgs boson decaying to two photons. The expected
exclusion limit at 95% confidence level is between 1.4 and 2.4 times the
standard model cross section in the mass range between 110 and 150 GeV. The
analysis of the data excludes, at 95% confidence level, the standard model
Higgs boson decaying into two photons in the mass range 128 to 132 GeV. The
largest excess of events above the expected standard model background is
observed for a Higgs boson mass hypothesis of 124 GeV with a local significance
of 3.1 sigma. The global significance of observing an excess with a local
significance greater than 3.1 sigma anywhere in the search range 110-150 GeV is
estimated to be 1.8 sigma. More data are required to ascertain the origin of
this excess.Comment: Submitted to Physics Letters
Search for a W' boson decaying to a bottom quark and a top quark in pp collisions at sqrt(s) = 7 TeV
Results are presented from a search for a W' boson using a dataset
corresponding to 5.0 inverse femtobarns of integrated luminosity collected
during 2011 by the CMS experiment at the LHC in pp collisions at sqrt(s)=7 TeV.
The W' boson is modeled as a heavy W boson, but different scenarios for the
couplings to fermions are considered, involving both left-handed and
right-handed chiral projections of the fermions, as well as an arbitrary
mixture of the two. The search is performed in the decay channel W' to t b,
leading to a final state signature with a single lepton (e, mu), missing
transverse energy, and jets, at least one of which is tagged as a b-jet. A W'
boson that couples to fermions with the same coupling constant as the W, but to
the right-handed rather than left-handed chiral projections, is excluded for
masses below 1.85 TeV at the 95% confidence level. For the first time using LHC
data, constraints on the W' gauge coupling for a set of left- and right-handed
coupling combinations have been placed. These results represent a significant
improvement over previously published limits.Comment: Submitted to Physics Letters B. Replaced with version publishe
Measurement of isolated photon production in pp and PbPb collisions at sqrt(sNN) = 2.76 TeV
Isolated photon production is measured in proton-proton and lead-lead
collisions at nucleon-nucleon centre-of-mass energies of 2.76 TeV in the
pseudorapidity range |eta|<1.44 and transverse energies ET between 20 and 80
GeV with the CMS detector at the LHC. The measured ET spectra are found to be
in good agreement with next-to-leading-order perturbative QCD predictions. The
ratio of PbPb to pp isolated photon ET-differential yields, scaled by the
number of incoherent nucleon-nucleon collisions, is consistent with unity for
all PbPb reaction centralities.Comment: Submitted to Physics Letters
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