Alvaro Urbano-Márquez
University of Barcelona
188 Papers
2K Citations
Alvaro Urbano-Márquez is an academic researcher from University of Barcelona. The author has contributed to research in topics: Myopathy & Skeletal muscle. The author has an hindex of 54, co-authored 188 publications. Previous affiliations of Alvaro Urbano-Márquez include Carlos III Health Institute.
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Papers
High Alcohol Intake as a Risk and Prognostic Factor for Community-Acquired Pneumonia
Joaquim Fernández-Solà,Antoni Junqué,Ramon Estruch,R. Monforte,Antoni Torres,Alvaro Urbano-Márquez +5 more
TL;DR: High alcohol intake is the main risk factor for developing community-acquired pneumonia in middle-aged people, which confers a worse prognosis in these patients, who should be treated with broad-spectrum antibiotics for a longer period.
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Autonomic and Peripheral Neuropathies in Patients With Chronic Alcoholism: A Dose-Related Toxic Effect of Alcohol
R. Monforte,Ramon Estruch,Josep Valls-Solé,Josep M. Nicolás,Villalta J,Alvaro Urbano-Márquez +5 more
TL;DR: Alcohol appears to be toxic to autonomic and peripheral nerves in a dose-dependent manner in patients with chronic alcoholism.
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Regional cerebral blood flow-SPECT in chronic alcoholism: relation to neuropsychological testing.
Josep M. Nicolás,Ana M. Catafau,Ramon Estruch,Francisco Lomeña,Manuel Salamero,R Herranz,R. Monforte,Carlos Cardenal,Alvaro Urbano-Márquez +8 more
TL;DR: Asymptomatic chronic alcoholics frequently showed reversible frontal lobe hypoperfusion, which is related to recent ethanol intake, reflects brain function impairment and is independent of brain atrophy.
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Reduced steady-state levels of mitochondrial RNA and increased mitochondrial DNA amount in human brain with aging.
Antoni Barrientos,Jordi Casademont,Francesc Cardellach,Xavier Estivill,Alvaro Urbano-Márquez,Virginia Nunes +5 more
TL;DR: It is suggested that the increase of the mtDNA levels could be considered as an inefficient compensatory mechanism to maintain the normal levels of mtRNA transcripts, which could play a role in the process of senescence in human brain.
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A strong initial systemic inflammatory response is associated with higher corticosteroid requirements and longer duration of therapy in patients with giant-cell arteritis.
José Hernández-Rodríguez,Ana García-Martínez,Jordi Casademont,Xavier Filella,María-José Esteban,Alfonso López-Soto,Joaquim Fernández-Solà,Alvaro Urbano-Márquez,Josep M. Grau,Maria C. Cid +9 more
TL;DR: GCA patients with a strong initial systemic inflammatory reaction have more elevated circulating levels of IL-6 and TNFalpha, have higher and more prolonged corticosteroid requirements, and experience more disease flares during corticosterone therapy than Patients with a weak systemic acute phase response.
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