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 ...
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 ...