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Pilar Guallar-Castillón

Researcher at Autonomous University of Madrid

Publications -  238
Citations -  15481

Pilar Guallar-Castillón is an academic researcher from Autonomous University of Madrid. The author has contributed to research in topics: Population & Odds ratio. The author has an hindex of 54, co-authored 221 publications receiving 12407 citations. Previous affiliations of Pilar Guallar-Castillón include Carlos III Health Institute & University of the Basque Country.

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Worldwide trends in body-mass index, underweight, overweight, and obesity from 1975 to 2016: a pooled analysis of 2416 population-based measurement studies in 128·9 million children, adolescents, and adults

Leandra Abarca-Gómez, +1024 more
- 16 Dec 2017 - 
TL;DR: Trends in mean BMI have recently flattened in northwestern Europe and the high-income English-speaking and Asia-Pacific regions for both sexes, southwestern Europe for boys, and central and Andean Latin America for girls, and by contrast, the rise in BMI has accelerated in east and south Asia forboth sexes, and southeast Asia for boys.
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The effectiveness of disease management programmes in reducing hospital re-admission in older patients with heart failure: a systematic review and meta-analysis of published reports

Jonás Gonseth, +3 more
- 01 Sep 2004 - 
TL;DR: DMPs are effective at reducing re-admissions among elderly patients with HF, and their effectiveness is close to that observed in clinical trials evaluating drugs for HF, such as angiotensin-converting enzyme inhibitors, beta-blockers or digoxin.
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Prevalence of general and abdominal obesity in the adult population of Spain, 2008-2010: the ENRICA study.

Juan L. Gutiérrez-Fisac, +5 more
- 01 Apr 2012 - 
TL;DR: The prevalence of obesity was very high in the Canary Islands and in the south of Spain and the frequency of obesity and AO decreased with increasing educational level.
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Gender differences in the utilization of health-care services among the older adult population of Spain

Áurea Redondo-Sendino, +3 more
- 16 Jun 2006 - 
TL;DR: The factors that best explain the greater utilization of health-care services by elderly women versus men are the number of chronic diseases and HRQL.
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Blood Pressure in Spain Distribution, Awareness, Control, and Benefits of a Reduction in Average Pressure

José R. Banegas, +4 more
- 01 Dec 1998 - 
TL;DR: These figures consistent with the fact that Spain has a higher cerebrovascular mortality than other countries such as the United States represent a great potential for improvement, particularly among those groups registering relatively worse data (younger men, rural residents, and unskilled professionals).