Amaya Jimeno

• Medical Doctor at Servicio Murciano de Salud

Resistance training (RT) is a nonpharmacological complement to cancer treatments due to its effectiveness in attenuating sarcopenia, cardiotoxicity, fatigue, and emotional disorders common in oncology patients. To adequately program and evaluate the acute or long-term effects of this type of training, a proper evaluation of the patients' strength l...

The aim of this study was to determine the effectiveness of physical exercise, respiratory muscle training and the self-management WHO recommendations leaflet on the recovery of physical fitness, quality of life and symptom status in people with post COVID-19 conditions. Eighty non-hospitalized adults with a post-COVID-19 condition were randomly as...

Purpose: The aim of the study was to compare the outcomes of patients with post-COVID-19 condition undergoing supervised therapeutic exercise intervention or following the self-management WHO (World Health Organization) rehabilitation leaflet. Methods: A randomized controlled trial that included 39 participants with post-COVID-19 condition who h...

The aim of this study was to determine the relationship between physical fitness, cardiopulmonary function and patient-reported severity of symptoms in people with post-COVID-19 condition. We examined ambulatory patients (n = 72) with post-COVID-19 condition who had a chronic symptomatic phase lasting > 12 weeks from the onset of symptoms, but had...

Patients recovering from COVID-19 commonly report persistence of dyspnea, exertional fatigue, and difficulties in carrying out their daily activities. However, the nature of these symptoms is still unknown. The purpose of the study was to identify limiting causes of cardiopulmonary origin for the performance of physical exercise in post-COVID-19 co...

The coronavirus disease (COVID-19), caused by severe acute respiratory syndrome-coronavirus-2 (SARS-CoV-2) infection, is leading to unknown and unusual health conditions that are challenging to manage. Post-COVID-19 syndrome is one of those challenges, having become increasingly common as the pandemic evolves. The latest estimates suggest that 10 t...

Objective: To comment on the role of Physical Education in promoting health during the pandemic time.Key PointsThe measures imposed to control the transmission of COVID-19 have caused a negative impact on physical activity among schoolchildren affecting their health.Physical Education must be one of the fundamental elements for health promotion in...

Introduction: Single-nucleotide polymorphisms (SNPs) in the region of the Interleukin 28B (IL28B) gene on chromosome 19, coding for the interferon (IFN)-λ3, are involved in hepatitis c virus (HCV), spontaneous clearance. There is little information on the degree of liver fibrosis (LF) in HIV patients, who have had spontaneous clearance of HCV. Our...

Introduction: A gradual increase in severe cases due to Streptococcus pyogenes or Streptococcus beta-hemolytic group A (SGA), has been detected in the last few decades. Methods: Retrospective study of bacteremia due to S.pyogenes detected between January 2009 and January 2013 in Cartagena. The annual incidence for severe bacteremia has been esti...

Purpose of the study To know the different reasons why we decide not to treat or to delay the antiviral treatment against HCV in HIV coinfected patients. Methods Prospective cohort of HIV and HCV coinfected patients, followed in the Infectious Diseases Department of the Santa Lucia Universitary Hospital (Cartagena, Spain) between 1/12/2011 and 28/...

Purpose of the study To know the main epidemiological, virological and therapeutic characteristics of HCV infection and the degree of hepatic fibrosis in a cohort of HIV‐HCV co‐infected patients in a health area of southeastern of Spain. Methods Prospective cohort of co‐infected HIV‐HCV patients followed in the University Hospital of Saint Lucia (...