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30 years recording the heart
People from Girona are grateful that it’s been 30 years that a group of scientists from IMIM-Hospital del Mar and experts from the hospitals of Girona are closely following the evolution of their hearts. The REGICOR project celebrated on May 30 its 30th anniversary with a scientific meeting with more than 250 participants,wher they recalled some of the most important achievements of these three decades.
To be highlighted amongst these is the establishment, for the first time in history, of the incidence of heart attacks in Spain, which is about 200 in 100,000. Furthermore, Spain’s biggest DNA library has been created, which contains samples from about 10,000 healthy people and 10,000 cardiovascular patients, as well as information about the evolution of their diseases.
Another important result has been the creation of adapted cardiovascular risk tables, which are currently used in all Catalonia and which have been proposed for the rest of Spain. Until now the American tables were used, but in the US there’s three times more cases of heart attacks than here.

Download here the REGICOR report on the occasion of its 30th anniversary | Pictures

The first paper of the REGICOR-HERMES Study is available

'Trends in Cardiovascular Risk Factor Prevalence (1995-2000-2005) in Northeastern Spain'

European Journal of Cardiovascular Prevention and Rehabilitation, 2007

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The paper of the VERIFICA Study is now available

'Validity of an adaptation of the Framingham cardiovascular risk function: the VERIFICA Study'

Journal of Epidemiology and Community Health, 2007

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Topics in High-dimensional Genetic Data Analysis.

The course on “Topics in High-dimensional Genetic Data Analysis”, organized by Joan Vila, researcher of the Cardiovascular Epidemiology and Genetics research group at IMIM, will take place next September 7. The course will be given by Dr. Andrea S Foulkes, Associate Professor of Biostatistics at the University of Massachusetts School of Public Health and Health Sciences, and will take place at the Còrsega i Sardenya room at the IMIM (Dr Aiguader, 80).