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Andrea Beratarrechea
Researcher at National Scientific and Technical Research Council
Publications - 37
Citations - 911
Andrea Beratarrechea is an academic researcher from National Scientific and Technical Research Council. The author has contributed to research in topics: Medicine & Health care. The author has an hindex of 11, co-authored 30 publications receiving 692 citations. Previous affiliations of Andrea Beratarrechea include Hospital Italiano de Buenos Aires.
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The Impact of Mobile Health Interventions on Chronic Disease Outcomes in Developing Countries: A Systematic Review
Andrea Beratarrechea,Allison G. Lee,Jonathan M. Willner,Eiman Jahangir,Agustín Ciapponi,Adolfo Rubinstein +5 more
TL;DR: M-health positively impacted on chronic disease outcomes, improving attendance rates, clinical outcomes, and HRQoL, and was cost-effective, showing a positive impact on chronic diseases in LMIC.
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Effect of a Community Health Worker-Led Multicomponent Intervention on Blood Pressure Control in Low-Income Patients in Argentina: A Randomized Clinical Trial.
Jiang He,Vilma Irazola,Katherine T. Mills,Rosana Poggio,Andrea Beratarrechea,Jacquelyn Dolan,Chung-Shiuan Chen,Luz Gibbons,Marie Krousel-Wood,Lydia A. Bazzano,Analía Nejamis,Pablo Gulayin,Marilina Santero,Federico Augustovski,Jing Chen,Adolfo Rubinstein +15 more
TL;DR: Low-income patients in Argentina with uncontrolled hypertension who participated in a community health worker–led multicomponent intervention experienced a greater decrease in systolic and diastolic BP than did patients who received usual care over 18 months.
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Effectiveness of an mHealth intervention to improve the cardiometabolic profile of people with prehypertension in low-resource urban settings in Latin America: a randomised controlled trial
Adolfo Rubinstein,J. Jaime Miranda,Andrea Beratarrechea,Francisco Diez-Canseco,Rebecca Kanter,Laura Gutierrez,Antonio Bernabe-Ortiz,Vilma Irazola,Ariel Fernández,Paola Letona,Homero Martinez,Manuel Ramirez-Zea +11 more
TL;DR: The mHealth-based intervention did not result in a change in blood pressure that differed from usual care, but was associated with a small reduction in bodyweight and some dietary habits, which signals potential opportunities for larger effects from similar interventions in low-resource settings.
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Design and Multi-Country Validation of Text Messages for an mHealth Intervention for Primary Prevention of Progression to Hypertension in Latin America
Francisco Diez-Canseco,J. Alfredo Zavala-Loayza,Andrea Beratarrechea,Rebecca Kanter,Manuel Ramirez-Zea,Adolfo Rubinstein,Homero Martinez,J. Jaime Miranda +7 more
TL;DR: The importance of developing and validating a package of simple, preventative SMS text messages, grounded in evidence and theory, across three different Latin American countries with active engagement of end users is highlighted.
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Comprehensive Approach for Hypertension Control in Low-Income Populations: Rationale and Study Design for the Hypertension Control Program in Argentina
Katherine T. Mills,Jacquelyn Dolan,Lydia A. Bazzano,Jing Chen,Jiang He,Marie Krousel-Wood,Marie Krousel-Wood,Adolfo Rubinstein,Vilma Irazola,Andrea Beratarrechea,Rosana Poggio,Federico Augustovski,Lizheng Shi +12 more
TL;DR: Interventions to improve hypertension management are summarized and the rationale and study design for a cluster randomized trial testing whether a comprehensive intervention program within a national public primary care system will improve hypertension control among uninsured hypertensive men and women and their families are described.