Reina Sofía University General Hospital (Murcia)
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Senior scientific researcher and co-principal investigator of Clinical Virology and Zoonoses at the Maimónides Institute for Biomedical Research in Córdoba (IMIBIC), member of CIBERINFEC, Infectious Diseases Area, researcher at the Reina Sofía University Hospital – Infectious Diseases UGC and president of GEHEP (Viral Hepatitis Study Group, SEIMC)
Head physician of the Preventive Medicine Department at Reina Sofía University General Hospital (Murcia) and associate professor in the Department of Social and Health Sciences at the University of Murcia
According to the newspaper El País, the Catalan Regional Government has reported a case of swine flu —not swine fever, which is caused by another virus and does not affect humans— in an 83-year-old person in the province of Lleida. The newspaper points out that, as the patient had no contact with pigs that could transmit the virus, they may have been infected by another person.
Moderate-intensity physical activity, such as walking at an average speed of 5 km/h for an additional five minutes per day, is associated with a 10% reduction in all-cause mortality among most adults, according to a study published in The Lancet. The research also found that reducing sedentary time by 30 minutes per day was associated with an estimated 7% reduction in all-cause mortality if adopted by most adults. The study analyzed data from more than 135,000 adults from Norway, Sweden, the United States, and the United Kingdom, with an average follow-up of eight years.