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Miguel Ángel Descalzo
Researcher at Carlos III Health Institute
Publications - 109
Citations - 3352
Miguel Ángel Descalzo is an academic researcher from Carlos III Health Institute. The author has contributed to research in topics: Population & Adverse effect. The author has an hindex of 27, co-authored 105 publications receiving 2999 citations. Previous affiliations of Miguel Ángel Descalzo include Universidad Camilo José Cela & University of Santiago de Compostela.
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Cardiovascular disease in patients with rheumatoid arthritis: results from the QUEST-RA study
Antonio Naranjo,Tuulikki Sokka,Miguel Ángel Descalzo,Jaime Calvo-Alén,Kim Hørslev-Petersen,Reijo Luukkainen,Bernard Combe,Gerd R Burmester,Joe Devlin,Gianfranco Ferraccioli,Alessia Morelli,Monique Hoekstra,Maria Majdan,Stefan Sadkiewicz,Miguel Belmonte,Ann Carin Holmqvist,Ernest Choy,Recep Tunc,Aleksander Dimic,Martin J. Bergman,Sergio Toloza,Theodore Pincus +21 more
TL;DR: Extended use of treatments such as methotrexate, sulfasalazine, leflunomide, glucocorticoids, and tumor necrosis factor-alpha blockers appears to be associated with a reduced risk of CV disease.
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Risk of tuberculosis in patients treated with tumor necrosis factor antagonists due to incomplete prevention of reactivation of latent infection.
TL;DR: New cases of ATB still occur in patients treated with all available TNF antagonists due to lack of compliance with recommendations to prevent reactivation of LTBI, and continuous evaluation of recommendations is required to improve clinical practice.
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All-cause and cause-specific mortality in rheumatoid arthritis are not greater than expected when treated with tumour necrosis factor antagonists
Loreto Carmona,Miguel Ángel Descalzo,Eva Perez-Pampin,Dolores Ruiz-Montesinos,Alba Erra,Tatiana Cobo,Juan J. Gomez-Reino +6 more
TL;DR: Morbidity, other than infection, and mortality are not higher than expected in patients with RA treated with TNF antagonists, according to a comparison with BIOBADASER.
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The incidence of rheumatoid arthritis in Spain: results from a nationwide primary care registry
TL;DR: The incidence of early arthritis (EA) and of RA in adults (>16 yrs) in adults in Spain is estimated to be about three times that of RA.
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Seasonal trends and spatial relations between environmental/meteorological factors and leishmaniosis sand fly vector abundances in Central Spain
Rosa Gálvez,Miguel Ángel Descalzo,Guadalupe Miró,Maribel Jiménez,O. Martín,F. Dos Santos-Brandao,Irene Guerrero,E. Cubero,Ricardo Molina +8 more
TL;DR: An entomological survey performed over the period 2006-2008 in Central Spain where canine leishmaniosis (CanL) is endemic found that the vectors are moving towards higher altitudes perhaps because of global change, which could have an impact on CanL and its geographical distribution.