Research area: Musculoskeletal Diseases

Description

The GROIMAP research group is integrated into the Research Support Unit of the Metropolitan North of IDIAP Jordi Gol. These research group has been recognized by the IDIAP Jordi Gol and the AGAUR of the Generalitat of Catalonia. It is a multidisciplinary research group formed by doctors of different specialties (Family Medicine, Rheumatology, Nuclear Medicine, Rehabilitation and Physical Therapy), Physiotherapists and Nurses. The purpose of the groups is the clinical and epidemiological investigation of diseases of the locomotor system prevalent in primary care and its determinants. Special emphasis on the epidemiology and prevention, primary and secondary, of osteoporotic fractures also called fragility fractures. Since its creation, it has published numerous works in indexed scientific journals with an impact factor. Its members have obtained funding in several competitive research calls. The group is coordinated by Rafael Azagra Ledesma who is family doctor of the CAP Badia del Valles and Senior Lecture Professor of Family Medicine of the Autonomous University of Barcelona. From the academic point of view, the group has completed 5 doctoral theses with the highest quality qualification (Mª Carmen Gisbert, Genís Roca, Francisco López, Marta Zwart and Silvia Güell) and which have been developed with research projects of the group. One of the main projects, with funding from the Carlos III Health Institute (FIS grant), is the "PRECIOSA" project that focuses on the prevention of falls in people over 75 years of age living in the community and the fieldwork is carried out the Primary Care Service of Vallès Occidental.

Research Lines

Study of the efficiency of preventive programs of falls and fractures regarding elderly population living in the community. Epidemiology of osteoporotic fractures in Spain, determining risk factors and effective tools to select the population at high risk of fragility fracture.

Members

Projects

Group projects:

PI: Azagra Ledesma, Rafael. Efectividad de una intervención con el programa de ejercicios OTAGO para la prevención de caídas y fracturas osteoporóticas en personas de 75 a 90 años residentes en la comunidad: Proyecto PRECIOSA. Funding: Instituto de Salud Carlos III. Duration: 2015 - 2019

PI: Pujol Salud, Jesus. Prevalença d'insomni i la seva relació amb factors clínics, farmacològics i socials.. Funding: IDIAP Jordi Gol. Duration: 2016 - 2017

The group participates in the following projects:

PI: Delgado Martínez, Maria Pilar. Influencia del tipo de tratamiento antihipertensivo prescrito en la práctica clínica habitual sobre la variabilidad de la presión arterial y el riesgo cardiovascular del hipertenso.. Funding: Instituto de Salud Carlos III. Duration: 2015 - 2017 PI: Prieto Alhambra, Daniel. Efectivitat i seguretat dels tractaments anti-osteoporosi a Catalunya: estudi de cohorts de base poblacional. Funding: IDIAP Jordi Gol. Duration: 2015 - 2017

Publications

The group participates in the following publications:

Azagra R, Gabriel P, Aguyé A, Moriña D; en representación de GROIMAP. The application of the FRIDEX calibration of the FRAX tool to determine the absolute risk of osteoporotic fracture among Spanish women. Reumatol Clin. 2017 Dec 5. pii: S1699-258X(17)30273-5. doi: 10.1016/j.reuma.2017.10.014. [Epub ahead of print] English, Spanish. PubMed PMID: 29221875.

Cabanas-Valdés R, Bagur-Calafat C, Caballero-Gómez FM, Cervera-Cuenca C, Moya-Valdés R, Rodríguez-Rubio PR, Urrútia G. Validation and reliability of the Spanish version of the Function in Sitting Test (S-FIST) to assess sitting balance in subacute post-stroke adult patients. Topics in stroke rehabilitation. 2017 Sep; 24(6):472-478. doi:10.1080/10749357.2017.1316548. Epub 2017 Apr 13. PMID:28406071. IF: 1,216.

Cabanas-Valdés R, Bagur-Calafat C, Girabent-Farrés M, Caballero-Gómez FM, du Port de Pontcharra-Serra H, German-Romero A, Urrútia G. Long-term follow-up of a randomized controlled trial on additional core stability exercises training for improving dynamic sitting balance and trunk control in stroke patients. Clinical rehabilitation. 2017 Nov; 31(11):1492-1499. doi:10.1177/0269215517701804. Epub 2017 Mar 29. PMID:28351168. IF: 2,823.

Díaz MÁ. Enfermería de atención primaria en España. Rev Enferm ROL. 2017;40(5):357-359.

Pujol J, Pujol M. Abordaje del insomnio en el adulto. FMC. Formación Médica Continuada en Atención Primaria. 2017;10(24):555-563.

Pujol J, Pujol M. Cuándo y cómo preguntar sobre el sueño de nuestros pacientes. FMC. Formación Médica Continuada en Atención Primaria. 2017;24:450-453.

Pujol M, Pujol J, Alonso T, Fuentes A, Pallerola M, Freixenet J, Barbé F, Salamero M, Santamaría J, Iranzo A. Idiopathic REM sleep behavior disorder in the elderly Spanish community: a primary care center study with a two-stage design using video-polysomnography. Sleep Med. 2017 Dec;40:116-121. doi:10.1016/j.sleep.2017.07.021. Epub 2017 Aug 24. PubMed PMID: 29042180. IF: 3,391.

Zwart M, Aguyé A, Moriña D, Azagra R; en representación del grupo de investigación GROIMAP. [Osteoporosis and the FRIDEX model: When and how to make a pharmacological intervention in the primary prevention of fractures]. Atencion primaria. 2017 Jun; 49(6):371-372. doi:10.1016/j.aprim.2016.05.012. Epub 2017 Jan 04. Spanish. PMID:28063747. IF: 1,042.

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