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04 March 2019
El Colegio de Médicos de Málaga reconoce a personas que han salvado la vida de otras gracias a la RCP
La grasa localizada en el abdomen, la principal preocupación estética de los andaluces
“La grasa localizada en el abdomen es la principal preocupación estética
de los andaluces, seguida de los flancos o michelines, la cara interior y
exterior de los muslos, la grasa de los brazos, la papada, el tórax, el pecho y
las nalgas, de acuerdo con mi larga trayectoria profesional y experiencia en
consulta”, afirma el Dr. Luis Morillas Villegas director médico de la clínica de medicina y
cirugía estética Aroma en Málaga, quien asegura que la demanda de tratamientos no invasivos para reducir la grasa localizada
ha aumentado en Andalucía en los últimos años.
“Cada vez son más las personas que optan por tratamientos no invasivos
para eliminar la grasa localizada, ya que disminuyen el riesgo de factores
adversos o complicaciones de salud”, destaca el Dr. Morillas. “En general, los andaluces son personas que
buscan tratamientos que no requieran reposo ni obstaculicen su día a día.
Además, quieren pasar desapercibidos sin que nadie note que se han realizado un
tratamiento”, matiza el Dr. Morillas.
“Actualmente, hay una tendencia mayor de
culto al cuerpo, tanto a nivel de actividad física como alimenticio. Los
andaluces cada vez son más conscientes de que hay que cuidarse”, explica el Dr. Morillas.
Cuando se trata de grasa localizada, “es
frecuente que hablemos de personas que normalmente se cuidan poco o no lo
suficiente para estar como quieren. Buscan obtener resultados con el mínimo
esfuerzo físico y cuidando poco la alimentación”, señala el Dr. Morillas.
A la hora de poner solución, “la gran mayoría de los andaluces prefiere someterse a un
tratamiento no invasivo y olvidarse de pasar por un quirófano”, afirma el Dr. Morillas. “En torno al 20% de los pacientes atendidos en nuestra clínica viene a
realizarse un tratamiento de remodelación corporal”, añade el Dr. Morillas.
Por ello, con el fin de ofrecer a los
pacientes una solución, Allergan cuenta con una nueva tecnología que elimina la
grasa corporal localizada de forma permanente. Este
tratamiento está respaldado por más de 70 publicaciones clínicas y cuenta con
más de 6.000 dispositivos instalados en más de 70 países.
Este nuevo tratamiento de remodelación corporal no invasivo emplea el
enfriamiento controlado para detectar y destruir de forma selectiva las células
adiposas. Esta tecnología innovadora “permite una alternativa a
aquellos pacientes que no desean pasar por una intervención quirúrgica, sin
interrumpir la vida diaria y alcanzando resultados duraderos",
explica este especialista.
Tras el
tratamiento, que puede durar entre 35 y 75 minutos en función de la zona y el
número de aplicadores, el cuerpo procesa la adiposidad de manera natural a lo largo de las
siguientes 3-4 semanas y elimina las células muertas de forma natural a través
del sistema linfático.
Los resultados son a largo plazo,
ya que las células adiposas tratadas desaparecen de forma permanente. Con esta tecnología se puede tratar la cara
interior y exterior de los muslos, la zona subglútea, el abdomen, los flancos,
los brazos, la adiposidad de la espalda, el busto y la papada.
Se trata de un tratamiento exclusivo ya que, además de ser un
dispositivo médico de criolipólisis autorizado por la FDA de Estados Unidos y
con marcado CE**, cuenta con
dos sistemas patentados de alta eficacia liporreductora y ofrecen un buen
perfil de seguridad.
“Es un tratamiento atractivo porque no es invasivo, es indoloro, no
requiere postoperatorio y los resultados son visibles”, explica el Dr.
Morillas. En una sola sesión se puede eliminar entre un 25% y un 40% de la
grasa localizada. En función del paciente y sus características
puede plantearse una segunda sesión de perfeccionamiento transcurridos unos
meses.
03 March 2019
Heart attack patients taken directly to heart centres have better long-term survival
Heart
attack patients taken directly to heart centres for lifesaving treatment have
better long-term survival than those transferred from another hospital, reports
a large observational study presented today at Acute Cardiovascular Care 20191
a European Society of Cardiology (ESC) congress. Directly admitted
patients were older, suggesting that heart attacks in young adults, and
particularly women, go unrecognised by paramedics and patients.
Study author Dr Krishnaraj Rathod, of Barts Health NHS Trust, London, UK, said: “The age of first heart attacks is getting younger, one of the reasons is because of lifestyle habits. The average age in our cohort is no longer 60, but around 40 years and we even see patients in their 30s. Directly admitted patients were sicker but they were also older, indicating that paramedics may think heart attack is unlikely in younger adults. My message to them is ‘in cases of doubt, repeat the 12 lead ECG and consider speaking to the heart attack centre’.”
People in their 30s and 40s should not ignore heart attack symptoms, particularly womens he said. “Younger patients likely wait longer to call for help because if they have chest pain, heart attack is not the first thing they think of. If you are in any doubt, phone an ambulance.”
The study from the London Heart Attack Group included 25,315 patients with ST-elevation myocardial infarction (STEMI), a serious type of heart attack where a major artery supplying blood to the heart is blocked. Rapid opening of the artery with a stent using primary percutaneous coronary intervention (PCI) improves survival and guidelines2 advise taking STEMI patients directly to a primary PCI centre.
The study compared characteristics, time to primary PCI, and long-term outcomes of STEMI patients taken directly to a primary PCI hospital versus those transferred from another hospital. Patients with STEMI were treated with primary PCI between 2005 and 2015 at the eight primary PCI centres in London. Patient details were recorded at the time of the procedure in the British Cardiovascular Intervention Society dataset. Data on all-cause mortality were obtained from the Office for National Statistics.
A total of 17,580 (69%) patients were admitted directly to primary PCI centres and 7,735 (31%) were transferred from other hospitals. The time between call for help and first hospital admission was similar between the two groups. However, the median time from call for help to opening the blocked artery with primary PCI was 52 minutes longer in transferred patients compared to those admitted directly.
After a median follow-up of three years, patients admitted directly to a primary PCI centre were significantly less likely to have died than those transferred from another hospital (17.4% versus 18.7%). After adjusting for factors that could influence the risk of death including age, previous heart attack and diabetes, direct admission to a primary PCI hospital was associated with a 20% lower risk of all-cause death.
Dr Rathod said: “Our findings indicate that the superior survival in patients admitted directly to a primary PCI hospital was because there was a shorter gap between calling for help and receiving treatment.”
“All patients with STEMI should be admitted directly to a primary PCI centre within 90 minutes of diagnosis by electrocardiogram (ECG), which is done by ambulance teams,” he said. “Yet in our study nearly one-third were taken to another hospital first, indicating that a STEMI diagnosis was not made until patients reached that hospital, and they then had to be transferred. However, it must be noted that the rates of transfer directly to a primary PCI centre were better in the later years suggesting better identification of appropriate patients by healthcare staff.”
Study author Dr Krishnaraj Rathod, of Barts Health NHS Trust, London, UK, said: “The age of first heart attacks is getting younger, one of the reasons is because of lifestyle habits. The average age in our cohort is no longer 60, but around 40 years and we even see patients in their 30s. Directly admitted patients were sicker but they were also older, indicating that paramedics may think heart attack is unlikely in younger adults. My message to them is ‘in cases of doubt, repeat the 12 lead ECG and consider speaking to the heart attack centre’.”
People in their 30s and 40s should not ignore heart attack symptoms, particularly womens he said. “Younger patients likely wait longer to call for help because if they have chest pain, heart attack is not the first thing they think of. If you are in any doubt, phone an ambulance.”
The study from the London Heart Attack Group included 25,315 patients with ST-elevation myocardial infarction (STEMI), a serious type of heart attack where a major artery supplying blood to the heart is blocked. Rapid opening of the artery with a stent using primary percutaneous coronary intervention (PCI) improves survival and guidelines2 advise taking STEMI patients directly to a primary PCI centre.
The study compared characteristics, time to primary PCI, and long-term outcomes of STEMI patients taken directly to a primary PCI hospital versus those transferred from another hospital. Patients with STEMI were treated with primary PCI between 2005 and 2015 at the eight primary PCI centres in London. Patient details were recorded at the time of the procedure in the British Cardiovascular Intervention Society dataset. Data on all-cause mortality were obtained from the Office for National Statistics.
A total of 17,580 (69%) patients were admitted directly to primary PCI centres and 7,735 (31%) were transferred from other hospitals. The time between call for help and first hospital admission was similar between the two groups. However, the median time from call for help to opening the blocked artery with primary PCI was 52 minutes longer in transferred patients compared to those admitted directly.
After a median follow-up of three years, patients admitted directly to a primary PCI centre were significantly less likely to have died than those transferred from another hospital (17.4% versus 18.7%). After adjusting for factors that could influence the risk of death including age, previous heart attack and diabetes, direct admission to a primary PCI hospital was associated with a 20% lower risk of all-cause death.
Dr Rathod said: “Our findings indicate that the superior survival in patients admitted directly to a primary PCI hospital was because there was a shorter gap between calling for help and receiving treatment.”
“All patients with STEMI should be admitted directly to a primary PCI centre within 90 minutes of diagnosis by electrocardiogram (ECG), which is done by ambulance teams,” he said. “Yet in our study nearly one-third were taken to another hospital first, indicating that a STEMI diagnosis was not made until patients reached that hospital, and they then had to be transferred. However, it must be noted that the rates of transfer directly to a primary PCI centre were better in the later years suggesting better identification of appropriate patients by healthcare staff.”
Women call ambulance for husbands with heart attack symptoms but not themselves
Women call an ambulance for husbands, fathers and brothers with heart
attack symptoms but not for themselves. “It’s time for women take care of
themselves too” is the main message of two studies from the Polish Registry
of Acute Coronary Syndromes (PL-ACS) presented today at Acute Cardiovascular
Care 2019 a European Society of Cardiology (ESC) congress.
The findings come ahead of International Women’s Day on 8 March. This year’s campaign theme – #BalanceforBetter – is a call-to-action for driving gender balance across the world. Ischaemic heart disease is the leading cause of death in women and men yet today’s research shows disparities in management.
Professor Mariusz Gąsior, principal investigator of the registry, said: “Very often women run the house, send children to school, and prepare for family celebrations. We hear over and over again that these responsibilities delay women from calling an ambulance if they experience symptoms of a heart attack.”
Dr Marek Gierlotka, registry coordinator, added: “In addition to running the household, women make sure that male relatives receive urgent medical help when needed. It is time for women to take care of themselves too.”
A total of 7,582 patients with ST-elevation myocardial infarction (STEMI) were included in the analyses. STEMI is a serious type of heart attack where a major artery supplying blood to the heart is blocked. Faster restoration of blood flow translates into more salvaged heart muscle and less dead tissue, less subsequent heart failure, and a lower risk of death. Guidelines4 therefore recommend opening the artery with a stent within 90 minutes of diagnosis in the ambulance by electrocardiogram (ECG).
Overall, 45% of patients were treated within the recommended timeframe – these patients were less often women. After adjusting for factors that could influence the relationship, male sex remained an independent predictor of treatment within the recommended timeframe.
Patients within and outside the advised treatment window had similar rates of in-hospital mortality, but those treated promptly were less likely to have a left ventricle ejection fraction below 40% – meaning their heart was better able to pump blood and they had a lower chance of developing heart failure.
ECG results were transmitted from the ambulance to a heart attack centre in about 40% of patients. In women, the likelihood of ECG transfer rose with increasing age – from 34% in women aged 54 years and under to 45% in those aged 75 and above. In men, the rate of transfer was around 40% regardless of age.
Professor Gąsior said: “One of the reasons women are less likely than men to be treated within the recommended time period is because they take longer to call an ambulance when they have symptoms – this is especially true for younger women. In addition, ECG results for younger women are less often sent to the heart attack centre, which is recommended to speed up treatment.”
Dr Gierlotka said: “More efforts are needed to improve the logistics of pre-hospital heart attack care in young women. Greater awareness should be promoted among medical staff and the general public that women, even young women, also have heart attacks. Women are more likely to have atypical signs and symptoms, which may contribute to a delay in calling for medical assistance.”
Pain in the chest and left arm are the best known symptoms of heart attack. Women often have back, shoulder, or stomach pain. Call an ambulance if you have pain in the chest, throat, neck, back, stomach or shoulders that lasts for more than 15 minutes
02 March 2019
ESC: Don’t ignore heart attack symptoms especially while travelling
Don’t
ignore heart attack symptoms while travelling, keep emergency numbers at hand.
That’s the main message of a study presented today at Acute Cardiovascular Care
20191 a European Society of Cardiology (ESC) congress.
Cardiovascular disease is the leading cause of natural death among people who
are travelling, yet, so far, the long-term outlook for those who have a heart
attack while on a trip is unknown.
“If you are travelling and experience heart attack symptoms such as pain in the chest, throat, neck, back, stomach or shoulders that lasts for more than 15 minutes, call an ambulance without delay,” said study author Dr Ryota Nishio, of the Department of Cardiology, Juntendo University Shizuoka Hospital, Izunokuni, Japan.
This observational study included 2,564 patients who had a heart attack and rapid treatment with a stent (percutaneous coronary intervention; PCI) between 1999 and 2015 at Juntendo University Shizuoka Hospital. The hospital is on the Izu peninsula, a popular tourist destination near Mount Fuji, and is the regional centre for PCI.
The researchers compared the demographic and clinical characteristics in residents versus people travelling. Patients were followed up for 16 years and the death rates were compared between groups. Mortality data were collected from medical records, telephone contact, and postal questionnaires.
A total of 192 patients (7.5%) were travelling at the onset of the heart attack. Patients who were travelling were younger and had a higher prevalence of ST-elevation myocardial infarction (STEMI), a serious type of heart attack in which a major artery supplying blood to the heart is blocked.
The median follow-up period was 5.3 years. Locals had a significantly higher rate of all-cause death (25.4%) compared to non-residents (16.7%; p = 0.0015) but the rate of death from cardiac causes was comparable between groups.
Heart attacks during a trip were associated with a 42% lower risk of long-term all-cause death than those that occurred in residents, after adjusting for age, sex, hypertension, diabetes, dyslipidaemia, chronic kidney disease, current smoking, prior heart attack, Killip class,2 and STEMI (adjusted hazard ratio 0.58; 95% confidence interval 0.38–0.83; p = 0.0020).
“Our study shows that long-term outcomes after a heart attack while travelling can be good if you get prompt treatment,” said Dr Nishio. “It is important that, when you are over the immediate emergency phase, and return home, you see your doctor to find out how you can reduce your risk of a second event by improving your lifestyle and potentially taking preventive medication.”
He continued “We also found that overall, patients were more likely to die during follow-up if they were older, had prior heart attack, or had chronic kidney disease. If you fall into any of these groups or have other risk factors like high blood pressure, smoking or obesity, it is particularly important to make sure you know the emergency number at home and at any travel destination.”
Dr Nishio noted that local patients had a higher rate of non-cardiac death, mainly due to cancer. “This may be because most non-residents were from urban areas where people tend to be more health conscious, actively seek medical advice, and have a greater choice of treatment than in remote areas like the Izu peninsula,” he said. “In addition, having a heart attack while away from home is a traumatic event that may create a lasting impression and greater health awareness when patients return home.”
“If you are travelling and experience heart attack symptoms such as pain in the chest, throat, neck, back, stomach or shoulders that lasts for more than 15 minutes, call an ambulance without delay,” said study author Dr Ryota Nishio, of the Department of Cardiology, Juntendo University Shizuoka Hospital, Izunokuni, Japan.
This observational study included 2,564 patients who had a heart attack and rapid treatment with a stent (percutaneous coronary intervention; PCI) between 1999 and 2015 at Juntendo University Shizuoka Hospital. The hospital is on the Izu peninsula, a popular tourist destination near Mount Fuji, and is the regional centre for PCI.
The researchers compared the demographic and clinical characteristics in residents versus people travelling. Patients were followed up for 16 years and the death rates were compared between groups. Mortality data were collected from medical records, telephone contact, and postal questionnaires.
A total of 192 patients (7.5%) were travelling at the onset of the heart attack. Patients who were travelling were younger and had a higher prevalence of ST-elevation myocardial infarction (STEMI), a serious type of heart attack in which a major artery supplying blood to the heart is blocked.
The median follow-up period was 5.3 years. Locals had a significantly higher rate of all-cause death (25.4%) compared to non-residents (16.7%; p = 0.0015) but the rate of death from cardiac causes was comparable between groups.
Heart attacks during a trip were associated with a 42% lower risk of long-term all-cause death than those that occurred in residents, after adjusting for age, sex, hypertension, diabetes, dyslipidaemia, chronic kidney disease, current smoking, prior heart attack, Killip class,2 and STEMI (adjusted hazard ratio 0.58; 95% confidence interval 0.38–0.83; p = 0.0020).
“Our study shows that long-term outcomes after a heart attack while travelling can be good if you get prompt treatment,” said Dr Nishio. “It is important that, when you are over the immediate emergency phase, and return home, you see your doctor to find out how you can reduce your risk of a second event by improving your lifestyle and potentially taking preventive medication.”
He continued “We also found that overall, patients were more likely to die during follow-up if they were older, had prior heart attack, or had chronic kidney disease. If you fall into any of these groups or have other risk factors like high blood pressure, smoking or obesity, it is particularly important to make sure you know the emergency number at home and at any travel destination.”
Dr Nishio noted that local patients had a higher rate of non-cardiac death, mainly due to cancer. “This may be because most non-residents were from urban areas where people tend to be more health conscious, actively seek medical advice, and have a greater choice of treatment than in remote areas like the Izu peninsula,” he said. “In addition, having a heart attack while away from home is a traumatic event that may create a lasting impression and greater health awareness when patients return home.”
01 March 2019
Los Premios SaluDigital reconocen las mejores iniciativas de eSalud desarrolladas en 2018
La tercera edición de los
Premios SaluDigital, organizados por el Observatorio de
Comunicación en Salud Digital, impulsado por el Grupo Mediforum y Novartis,
además de otros colaboradores del sector, han reconocido las mejores
iniciativas de eSalud desarrolladas en 2018. Concretamente, la organización ha
valorado aquellos proyectos que contribuyen a mejorar la salud, el bienestar y
la calidad de vida de las personas a través de las nuevas tecnologías.
La directora de Comunicación y
Relaciones con los Pacientes de Novartis, Begoña Gómez, destaca que “estamos
muy orgullosos de colaborar desde el principio con los Premios SaluDigital
porque creemos que este tipo de iniciativas fomentan la puesta en marcha de
proyectos que unen salud y tecnología, mejorando el funcionamiento del sistema
sanitario y la calidad de vida de las personas”. Además, añade que “el apoyo de
este tipo de iniciativas pone de manifiesto el compromiso de Novartis con los
pacientes y su apuesta por las nuevas tecnologías en sanidad para obtener
resultados más eficientes y duraderos”.
La edición de este año ha destacado
por el gran número de proyectos presentados por parte de diferentes entidades,
sociedades científicas, asociaciones de pacientes, empresas de desarrollo
tecnológico y particulares, todos ellos divididos en diez categorías.
En la clasificación de Mejor
iniciativa Pública en Salud Digital, se ha reconocido al proyecto STIQ del
Hospital Universitario Rey Juan Carlos, orientado a mejorar la experiencia del
paciente en el circuito quirúrgico. Como mejor iniciativa Privada, la ganadora
ha sido Humans 4 Health by Cigna, que nace con el objetivo de
consolidarse como espacio de referencia para el intercambio de conocimiento en
salud y bienestar en la empresa.
El mejor proyecto de App de
Salud ha sido para FirstCall, la primera aplicación de colaboración
ciudadana para casos de emergencia a nivel mundial. La iniciativa más destacada
en Telemedicina es Inhalcheck, una herramienta tecnológica para teleasistencia
de pacientes con asma y enfermedad pulmonar obstructiva crónica (EPOC). El
mejor proyecto de Aplicación de Medicina se lo ha llevado el Monitor del Dolor,
un proyecto diseñado por un equipo multidisciplinar especialista en dolor e
ingeniería informática. En la categoría de Wearables el ganador ha sido el
proyecto Dexcom G6, el primer sistema de monitorización continua de la glucosa.
EGOM, un blog de ginecología y
obstetricia, ha sido la iniciativa vencedora en la categoría Mejor Blog de
Salud. Paralelamente, Globin, un sistema inteligente de asesoramiento
personalizado en apoyo psicológico y hábitos saludables para pacientes con
cáncer y su entorno, ha sido el más destacado en la categoría de Mejor Proyecto
en Fase de Desarrollo. Esta iniciativa ha recibido 2.000 euros para contribuir
a la finalización del proyecto.
El Premio a la Personalidad Digital
del Año se ha entregado a Julio Mayol, Profesor Titular de Cirugía de la
Universidad Complutense de Madrid y Director Médico del Hospital Clínico San
Carlos. Por su parte, el reconocimiento a la Institución Digital del Año lo ha
recibido el Hospital Universitario La Princesa, por considerar la eSalud como
un área estratégica del centro médico.
El jurado lo han formado Pedro
Cano, CEO de Berbés Asociados; José Luis Enríquez, CEO de Real Life Data; Luis
Truchado, CEO de Erogalenus; Ana López-Alonso, directora de comunicación de
Cofares; Natalia Armstrong, External Communications Manager de
Novartis; Begoña Sánchez, Marketing Communications Manager España de Linde
Healthcare; Enrique González Morales, director médico y Relaciones
Institucionales de Idemm Farma; Sergio Blanco, director del Grupo
Mediforum y Juan Blanco Coronado, CEO del Grupo Mediforum, como
secretario.
LA DEPRESIÓN PROVOCA EN ESPAÑA, DE MEDIA, UNA DISCAPACIDAD FUNCIONAL COMPLETA DE 47 DÍAS AL AÑO EN CADA PACIENTE
El XXVII Curso de Actualización en
Psiquiatría, que se celebra en Vitoria-Gasteiz, ha acogido la celebración de
una mesa redonda sobre el trastorno depresivo mayor en la que se ha puesto de
manifiesto que “en España, se ha estimado que la depresión provoca una
discapacidad funcional completa de 47 días al año, en promedio, y una
discapacidad funcional parcial de 60 días al año”.
Este dato y otros han sido presentados
por la profesora Margalida Gili, catedrática de Psicología Social y vicedecana
de la Facultad de Medicina de la Universidad de las Islas Baleares (UIB). La
experta, en su ponencia sobre epidemiología del trastorno depresivo mayor, ha
destacado que “la depresión está asociada a un nivel significativo de
discapacidad, con implicaciones sustanciales en la calidad de vida de estos
pacientes y en su entorno familiar, laboral y social”. Según un estudio de la
Organización Mundial de la Salud (OMS), las tasas de discapacidad asociadas con
la depresión “son mayores que las producidas por otras enfermedades crónicas
como la hipertensión, diabetes, artritis y el dolor de espalda” y, según el
mismo organismo internacional, “en el grupo de edad de 15 a 44 años, la
depresión es la primera causa de discapacidad en el mundo, medida en años de
vida vividos con discapacidad (AVD)”.
En el ámbito de la atención primaria, “un
29% de los pacientes que acuden a consulta lo hacen por presentar un trastorno
depresivo. De éstos, el 19,1% presenta de manera simultánea un trastorno de
ansiedad y un 18,6% un trastorno somatomorfo (enfermedades caracterizadas por
molestias diversas pero cuyo origen no está claro), siendo un 11,5% de
pacientes quienes presentan las tres patologías de forma simultánea”.
Además, los pacientes con depresión
“tienen un mayor riesgo de desarrollar enfermedades cardiovasculares (accidente
cerebrovascular e infarto agudo de miocardio), diabetes, otros trastornos
psiquiátricos y ser consumidores de drogas”.
2,5 millones de españoles tuvieron
depresión en 2017
La profesora Gili ha manifestado que “la
OMS sitúa el número de personas con depresión en España durante el año 2017 en
alrededor de 2,5 millones de personas”. En cuanto al riesgo de que la población
general desarrolle, al menos, un episodio de depresión grave a lo largo de la
vida “es casi el doble en mujeres que en hombres”.
La depresión, aunque puede aparecer a
cualquier edad, “presenta prevalencias más elevadas entre los 15 y los 45 años,
edades en la que es de vital importancia el rendimiento escolar y laboral, así
como las relaciones personales”. Los datos muestran que “la prevalencia de
trastornos depresivos varía según el rango de edad, estatus socioeconómico o
género”.
Diagnóstico y tratamiento
La ponente del Curso de Actualización en
Psiquiatría ha manifestado en su alocución que “diferentes trabajos publicados
cifran en un 50% los trastornos depresivos que no reciben tratamiento o no
reciben el tratamiento adecuado (psicofármacos, psicoterapia o una combinación
de ambos)”.
Los estudios también muestran que
“aproximadamente, un 40% de los pacientes abandona el tratamiento y otro
porcentaje importante no lo cumple como le ha sido prescrito. Asimismo, los
datos señalan que cada episodio depresivo incrementa la probabilidad de una
recurrencia posterior; un 60% de los pacientes que ha sufrido un episodio
depresivo presenta al menos una recurrencia a lo largo de su vida”.
Según ha indicado la catedrática, “en la
depresión, la dificultad en el diagnóstico, el difícil acceso a un tratamiento
eficaz, la recurrencia y la falta de respuesta al tratamiento representan
grandes retos que deben ser afrontados”.
Depresión y suicidio
El suicidio se relaciona con una gran
variedad de trastornos mentales graves y, en el caso de la depresión, “el
riesgo es 21 veces superior a la población general. La tasa de prevalencia del
suicidio en España se sitúa en torno al 6,5-7 por 100.000 habitantes. Esto
significa cerca de 10 muertes por suicidio cada día, la primera causa de muerte
no natural”.
La profesora Margalida Gili ha concluido
señalando que el trastorno depresivo mayor “constituye un importante problema
de salud pública dada su elevada prevalencia, las grandes tasas de discapacidad
y mortalidad que implica, su repercusión social, económica (un coste total a
nivel europeo estimado en 118 mil millones de euros y un gasto anual de cinco
mil millones en el caso de España) y su impacto en los sistemas de salud”.
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