Parramon Font, Dídac (Date of defense: 2019-07-26)
Cardiovascular diseases are the leading cause of mortality and morbidity worldwide as well as in our population. One of the main cardiovascular prevention strategies is to identify healthy patients who ...
Vázquez Oliva, Gabriel (Date of defense: 2019-02-08)
Acute myocardial infarction incidence rates are very high in those over 74, with a tendency to decrease in recent years in men and are always higher in men than in women. Mortality rates over the age ...
Valenzuela Leal, Helen (Date of defense: 2019-04-09)
The thickness of epicartic fat can be directly measured by transthoracic echocardiography. Epicartic fat has recently been associated with the onset of atrial fibrillation (AF). In this work we will ...
Chevarría Montesinos, Julio Leonel (Date of defense: 2019-04-25)
The sodium in 24H urine is the standard to quantify the intake. The objective is to develop a method to stimate using isolated urine sample, analyze the reliability, concordance and clinical ...
Palomeras, Sònia (Date of defense: 2019-02-27)
The major clinical problem for HER2+ breast cancer target therapies is the acquisition of resistance. The DNA methylation status of the promoter gene region has been described as a common epigenetic ...
Pinsach Abuin, Mel·lina (Date of defense: 2019-01-30)
Brugada syndrome (BrS) is a cardiac electrical disease with high susceptibility to sudden cardiac death. Approximately 25-30% of BrS patients are explained by pathogenic variants in coding sequences of ...
Cabezas Llobet, Núria (Date of defense: 2019-02-28)
Huntington's disease (MH) is a progressive neurodegenerative disorder characterized by a motor dysfunction, cognitive impairment, and psychiatric symptoms. At neuropathological level, it has been described ...
Blanco Silvente, Lídia (Date of defense: 2019-07-08)
The evidence available in the medical literature is conclusive that the risk-benefit relationship of the current medications for Alzheimer's disease is not favourable. This risk-benefit relationship is ...
Camós Llovet, Lourdes (Date of defense: 2019-02-26)
The objectives of the thesis are to estimate the prevalence of pathological arterial stiffness (measured with the Cardio-Ankle Vascular Index –CAVI-) in a general Mediterranean population and in a ...
Vila Belmonte, Àlex (Date of defense: 2019-12-13)
Familial hypercholesterolemia (FH) is the most frequent hereditary cause of premature coronary heart disease. The aim of this doctoral thesis is to determine the prevalence of subjects with FH phenotype ...