Magic brew for a long life in times of globalization: perfect balance between nutrition, physical activity and lifestyle.
Cardiovascular disease is the leading cause of premature death in industrialized countries, accounting for 30% of all deaths worldwide. This public health problem requires priority attention. It has been observed that lifestyle, in particular following a healthy dietary pattern such as the Mediterranean diet, can play a crucial role in the prevention of this disease, as well as in the management of associated risk factors such as diabetes, obesity, hypertension and dyslipidemia, among others. From clinical studies, randomized, large sample size, long-term intervention studies, we obtain results with the maximum objectivity. Therefore, the aim of our group is to find ways to prevent the onset of cardiovascular disease and associated risk factors such as diabetes, dyslipidemia, hypertension or obesity.
Professor Ramon Estruch is a senior consultant at the Internal Medicine Service of Hospital Clínic and principal investigator of the Cardiovascular Risk, Nutrition and Healthy Wrapping group at the FUNDACIÓ DE RECERCA CLÍNIC BARCELONA-INSTITUT D’INVESTIGACIONS BIOMÈDIQUES AUGUST PI I SUNYER. Prof. Estruch, has an h-index of 93, 656 articles, 5 books and 52 book chapters, where 150 of them have been published in journals and magazines of the first quartile and decile as NEJM, The Lancet, The Lancet Endocrinology, JAMA, Annals of Internal Medicine, Circulation and JACC. He has been an investigator in more than 80 competitive projects and has achieved Highly Cited Researcher recognition for Clarivate Analytics from 2018 to 2022. Prof. Estruch has been the leader of several multicenter (and multi-country) randomized trials, such as the PREDIMED study, the PREDIMED-Plus trial, the randomized intervention trial of the SI¡ with MD program, the IMPACT study and the MEDCARS cohort study.
He has received several awards that highlight his scientific career as:
Award for Scientific Trajectory in Food, Nutrition and Health “Dr. Carles Martí Henneberg” 2021.
Josep Trueta Award to the scientific career of the Academy of Medical Sciences of Catalonia and the Balearic Islands 2020.
DAVID KRITCHEVSKY LIFESTYLE Lecture Award, AHA/ASA,PHOENIX, USA, 2016
Award for Excellence in Research of the International Nut and Dried Fruit Foundation. 2018
To highlight her direct or indirect participation in the following clinical guidelines:
Dietary Guidelines for North Americans 2015-2020. 8th ed. USDA: American Heart Association (AHA).
American Stroke Association (ASA)
European Society of Cardiology (ESC)
European Society of Hypertension (ESH)
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Sara Castro
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