Daniel Prieto-Alhambra

TL;DR: In this paper, the authors investigated global trends in hip fracture incidence, mortality and use of postfracture pharmacological treatment across Asia, Oceania, North and South America, and Western and Northern Europe using a unified methodology applied to health records.

TL;DR: Recommendations on how to manage mortality data coming from both GOLD and linked ONS, taking into account linkage coverage period, linkage correctness likelihood, linkage regional limitations and data discrepancies between these two datasets are developed.

TL;DR: The results suggest that the main factors driving treatment choice at any stage of intensification were age, hemoglobin A1c, BMI, renal and cardiac morbidity, and treatment history, which were consistent with guidelines on, and contraindications of, specific medications.

TL;DR: The majority of the hospital admissions are elective, but the highest burden in terms of costs relates to unplanned admissions, with numbers increasing over time.

TL;DR: In this article, a prospective study with participants from the UK Biobank cohort was conducted to examine association between smoking and COVID-19 infection and subsequent mortality, and the authors found that older smokers were twice more likely to die from COVID19 than never smokers, possibly mediated by increased risk of chronic conditions or illnesses.