Spanish Society of Family and Community Medicine (SemFYC)
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Specialist in Family and Community Medicine and member of the LGTBIQ+ Health Group of the Madrid Society of Family and Community Medicine
Family doctor and Research spokesperson at the Spanish Society of Family and Community Medicine
Family physician, associate professor at the faculty of medicine of the University of Zaragoza, member of the Tobacco Group of semFYC and delegate of the National Committee for Smoking Prevention.
In certain hospital interventions that replace medical doctors with nurses, there is little or no difference in patient mortality and quality of life, according to research that brings together the results of 82 previous studies, and includes data from healthcare personnel from different specialities. "While our findings suggest there is merit in pursuing [nurse-physician substitution] as a solution to shortages and maldistribution of doctors, it is also important to consider the implications of [nurse-physician substitution] on the availability of nurses and future developments in the scope of nursing practice," the authors write in the study, published in the Cochrane Database of Systematic Reviews.
The inclusion of transgender women in women's sports categories is a controversial decision. To compare body composition and physical fitness between transgender and cisgender women, a team from Brazil has conducted a meta-analysis encompassing 52 studies and 6,485 individuals, analysing these values before and after gender-affirming hormone therapy. Although trans women showed greater lean mass—an indicator of muscle mass—there were no significant differences in upper or lower body strength, nor in maximum oxygen consumption, compared to cis women one to three years after hormone therapy. ‘The current evidence is, for the most part, of low certainty and heterogeneous quality, but it does not support theories about the inherent athletic advantages of trans women over cis women,’ say the authors of the study, published in the British Journal of Sports Medicine.
E-cigarettes, vapes, pods, mods... The popularity of these devices continues to grow, especially among young people. According to a Spanish survey, more than half of the adolescents aged 14 to 18 have used them at some point. Vaping control varies from country to country: in Spain, vaping products have been regulated since 2017 and the new anti-smoking plan aims to equate their legislation to that of tobacco, while the United States imposes fewer restrictions. In this brief guide, we explain what is known and not known on controversial issues such as the safety of electronic cigarettes, their risks or whether they are useful to quit tobacco.
This Friday, the Interterritorial Council of the National Health System approved the Comprehensive Plan for the Prevention and Control of Smoking (PIT). The document, which incorporates 147 proposals from the autonomous communities, has not achieved consensus among all of them.
A study published in JAMA Pediatrics has analysed bone density in 75 transgender youth who underwent hormone blockade in adolescence, followed by hormone treatment.