Research area: Others

Description

This group is made up of various professionals and researchers from the Primary Health Care Area of North Metropolitan Barcelona and Maresme and from Research Support Unit of the same area and counts on the support, collaboration and guidance of members of the Hepathology Service of the Hospital Clínic and the August Pi i Sunyer Biomedical Research Institute (IDIBAPS).

The group’s objective is research related with liver diseases, both alcohol-related and non-alcoholrelated and it is developing various lines of research: the study of behaviour changes deriving from social changes produced by migratory movements in order to detect drinkers at risk and offer opportunities for treatment; to improve knowledge of the etiology, the use of health resources and diagnostic tests, the diagnostic performance of the tests and the therapeutic handling of this situation by health professionals in their normal practice.

Research Lines

Non-alcoholic liver steatosis; effectiveness of an interaction to slow progression to more serious forms Transmissible hepatitis; effectiveness of prevention and detection of the population at risk; Alcohol as an etiological hepatopathy risk factor.

Members

Projects

Group projects:

PI: Caballería Rovira, Llorenç. Valor predictivo de la elastografía hepática transitoria respecto a la enfermedad hepática y cardiovascular. Funding: Instituto de Salud Carlos III. Duration: 2015 - 2017

PI: Sánchez Tapia, José Maria. Estudio de prevalencia real actual de hepatitis B y C en la región de Cataluña. Impacto del cambio poblacional derivado de la inmigración. Funding: Instituto de Salud Carlos III. Duration: 2014 - 2016

Publications

Group Publications:

Caballeria J, Caballeria L. Nonalcoholic steatohepatitis and diabetes. Endocrinologia y nutricion : organo de la Sociedad Espanola de Endocrinologia y Nutricion. 2016 Oct; 63(8):377-9. doi:10.1016/j.endonu.2016.06.001. Epub 2016 Zer 15. PMID:27423933.

Caballería L, Pera G, Rodríguez L, Casas JD, Miranda D, Auladell MA, Buezo I, Expósito C, Arteaga I, Torán P. Acceptability and quality of abdominal ultrasound studies requested by medical professionals. Gastroenterologia y hepatologia. 2016 Oct; 39(8):516-25. doi:10.1016/j.gastrohep.2016.01.014. Epub 2016 Mar 19. Spanish. PMID:27006137. FI: 0,640.

Floreani A, Mangini C, Reig A, Franceschet I, Cazzagon N, Perini L, Caballería L, Cocchio S, Baldo V, Parés A. Thyroid Dysfunction in Primary Biliary Cholangitis: A Comparative Study at Two European Centers. Am J Gastroenterol. 2016;1(1):114-119. PMID:27779196. FI: 10,383.

Guiriguet C, Muñoz-Ortiz L, Burón A, Rivero I, Grau J, Vela-Vallespín C, Vilarrubí M, Torres M, Hernández C, Méndez-Boo L, Toràn P, Caballeria L, Macià F, Castells A. Alerts in electronic medical records to promote a colorectal cancer screening programme: a cluster randomised controlled trial in primary care. The British journal of general practice : the journal of the Royal College of General Practitioners. 2016 Jul; 66(648):e483-90. doi:10.3399/bjgp16X685657. Epub 2016 Zer 06. pmc:PMC4917051. PMID:27266861. FI: 2,741.

The group participates in the following publications:

Ginès P, Graupera I, Lammert F, Angeli P, Caballeria L, Krag A, Guha IN, Murad SD, Castera L. Screening for liver fibrosis in the general population: a call for action. The lancet. Gastroenterology & hepatology. 2016 Nov; 1(3):256-260. doi:10.1016/S2468-1253(16)30081-4. Epub 2016 Oct 12. PMID:28404098.

Trivedi PJ, Lammers WJ, van Buuren HR, Parés A, Floreani A, Janssen HL, Invernizzi P, Battezzati PM, Ponsioen CY, Corpechot C, Poupon R, Mayo MJ, Burroughs AK, Nevens F, Mason AL, Kowdley KV, Lleo A, Caballeria L, Lindor KD, Hansen BE, Hirschfield GM; Global PBC Study Group. Stratification of hepatocellular carcinoma risk in primary biliary cirrhosis: a multicentre international study. Gut. 2016 Feb; 65(2):321-9. doi:10.1136/gutjnl-2014-308351. Epub 2015 Jan 07. PMID:25567117. FI: 14,921.

Awards

Best poster communication. X Congreso Nacional del Laboratorio Clínico. DNA Fetal en sangre materna en el cribado prenatal de aneuploidías: estudio preliminar para la incorporación de la prueba. Navarro MR, Minchinela J, Alumà A, Ramis J, Alsius M, Serrat N, Llovet I, Esquerda A.

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