Acknowledgments

Thematic Cooperative Research Networks

2006. CIBER RESP CB 06/02/0029
CIBER for Epidemiology and Public Health.

2006. CIBER OBENU CB 06/03/0028
CIBER for Obesity and Nutrition.

2006. RETICS General Subdirectorate for Networks
HERACLES Network RD/0009/0000
Genetic and environmental determinants of vascular dysfunction in hypertension and ischemic heart disease.

2006. Network Coordination: HERACLES RD/0009/0000
Genetic and environmental determinants of vascular dysfunction in hypertension and ischemic heart disease.

2006. RECAVA Network: FIS-PI-06/1251
Risk factors, progression and treatment of cardiovascular diseases, and their molecular and cellular mechanisms.

2003. RCESP Network: FIS C03/09
Network of Research Centres on Epidemiology and Public Health.

2003. PREDIMED Network: FIS G03/140
Effects of diet on primary prevention of cardiovascular disease.

2003. ERICE Network: FIS G03/065
Study of regional variability in cardiovascular risk factors and development of a risk equation for the Spanish population.

2003. HERACLES Network: FIS G03/45
Genetic and environmental determinants of vascular dysfunction in hypertension and ischemic heart disease.

2003. RECAVA Network: FIS C03/01
Risk factors, progression and treatment of cardiovascular diseases, and their molecular and cellular mechanisms.

Fons d’Investigació Sanitària

2006. Research Grant: FIS. CP05/00290
‘Fine-mapping’ for the identification of genes and genetic variations related to acute myocardial infarction: The FIMAGAMI Case-Control Study.

2006. Research Grant: FIS-PI 06/2025
Genetic-environmental interactions and their relationship to essential hypertension, endothelial dysfunction and cardiovascular events in follow-up of a population-based cohort.

2004. Coordinated Project: FIS-1556
Management of acute coronary syndrome (MÁSCARA updated register). Impact of the new definition of acute myocardial infarction on epidemiological monitoring outcomes.

2002. Research Grant: FIS-0471
Prediction of coronary risk in southern Mediterranean Europe (Project HERMES).

2001. Research Grant: FIS-0105
Hidden risk factors for acute myocardial infarction (FORTIAM-RESCATE II Study).

1999. Research Grant: FIS-9342
High-density lipoproteins, apo A1, paraoxanase, genetic polymorphisms, oxidated low-density lipoproteins, cardiovascular risk factors.

1999. Research Grant: FIS-0013
Potential protective factors against coronary disease in Spain and their molecular basis.

1999. Research Grant: FIS-0655
Chlamydia Pneumoniae and Citomegalovirus infection and relationship with oxidative status, myocardial infarct, and population prevalence in Girona.

1997. Advanced Study Grant: FIS-5324
Polimorfismes genètics i malaltia coronària: estudi cas-control en pacients d’edat inferior a 60 anys i en persones sanes d’edat superior a 74 anys.

1996. Advanced Study Grant: FIS-5653
Impacte sobre la supervivença dels canvis en el maneig de l’infart agut de miocardi.

1996. Coordinated Project: FIS-0026
Registre poblacional d’infarts de miocardi en 6 zones d’Espanya: monitorització de la incidència, la taxa d’atac, la letalitat i la mortalitat de la cardiopatia isquèmica entre 1996 i 1998. Estudi IBÉRICA.

1996. Research Grant: FIS 96/1571
Genetic polymorphisms and coronary heart disease: Case-Control study in patients younger than 60 years and healthy individuals older than 74 years. .

1994. Research Grant: FIS 94/0539
Study of risk factors in the population of Girona.

1993. Research Grant: FIS-0568
Study of ischemic heart disease incidence and event, morbidity and mortality rates in 6 Girona comarques (counties).

1992. Coordinated Project: FIS-0009
Study of diagnostic and treatment resource utilitzation (RESCATE).

1991. Travel Grant: FIS-7826
Support for conference attendance: III Congress of the European Society of Cardiology: Subsequent cardiac mortality after a first myocardial infarction. The role of clinical parameters in the in-hospital period. Amsterdam, The Netherlands.

1990. Travel Grant: FIS-7800
Support for conference attendance: II National Meeting of the Sociedad Española de Arteriosclerosis: Lipoproteínas de densidad intermedia y fenotipos de la apolipoproteína E en la enfermedad cardiovascular. Sevilla, Spain.

2003. Research Project: UE SANCO 2003/134
Public Health Outcome Research and Indicators Collection. EUPHORIC.

2002. Research Project: UE QLK4-CT-2002-O2236
Air pollution and inflammatory response in Myocardial Infarction Survivors: Gene-Environment Interaction in a High Risk Group. AIRGENE Project.

2001. Research Project: UE QLK1-CT-2001-00287
The effect of olive oil consumption on oxidative damage in European Populations. The EUROLIVE Study.

Catalan Health Service

2004. Jordi Gol i Gurina Foundation
Agreement to conduct the VERIFICA study (Validez de la Ecuación de Riesgo Individual de Framingham de Incidentes Coronarios Adaptada) to validate an adaptation of the Framingham Equation for use in Spain.

1997. Servei Català de la Salut. CatSalut.
Funding of the REGICOR Project (Registre Gironí del Cor).

Agency for University and Research Grants Management / Interdepartmental Commission on Research and Technological Innovation

Ministry of Education and Science

1999. Bilateral Italo-Spanish Action of the Ministerio de Educació i Ciència. MEC COOP/ITALIA-953202680
Assessment of ischemic heart disease risk attributable to classical risk factors in the Mediterranean region.

Ministry of Health and Consumer Affairs

2003. Conference Organization: 03/MSC-136.10.102
XXV Anniversary of the REGICOR Study (Registre Gironí del Cor).

Interministry Commission on Science and Technology

2004. Research Project: Comissió Interministerial de Ciència i Tecnologia (CICYT). SAF-08173-C03-00
Molecular mechanisms involved in the protective role of olive oil against the development of atheroschlerotic processes.

2001. Research Project: Comissió Interministerial de Ciència i Tecnologia (CICYT). SAF-0431
Gene-environment interactions and their relationship with high-density lipoproteins and cardiovascular events in the follow-up of a population-based cohort.

1997. Research Project: Comissió Interministerial de Ciència i Tecnologia (CICYT). FD-0626
Potential protective factors against coronary disease in Spain and their molecular basis

1997. Exchange Grant: Commission for Cultural, Educational and Scientific Exchange between the United States and Spain

Comparison of an area with high incidence of myocardial infarction and high prevalence of cardiovascular risk factors (Framingham, Massachusetts, United States) and an area with a high prevalence of cardiovascular risk factors but low incidence of myocardial infarction (Girona, Spain).

Spanish Cardiology Society

2002. Research Project: Societat Espanyola de Cardiologia. Beca Fundació Espanyola del Cor.
Unification of Cardiovascular Risk Equations in South Europe (HERMES).

2001. Research Project: Societat Espanyola de Cardiologia. Secció Cardiopatia Isquèmica.
Project Coordination: Hospital register of acute myocardial infarcts II (PRIAMHO II.

2000. Fellowship for basic and clinical research in cardiology. Sociedad Española de Cardiología.
Hidden risk factors of acute myocardial infarction (FORTIAM).

1995. Research Project: Societat Espanyola de Cardiologia. Ischemic Heart Disease Section
Project Coordination: Hospital register of acute myocardial infarcts(PRIAMHO)’.

Catalan Cardiology Society

2003. Research Project: Societat Catalana de Cardiologia. Beca de recerca.
Sport practice and atrial fibrillation.

1996. Research Project: Societat Catalana de Cardiologia. Beca de recerca.
Polymorphisms of the lipoprotein lipase gene associated with a cardiovascular risk profile in a representative sample of the population of Girona.

Emergency Medical Systems 

1990. Agreement. Sistemes d’Emergències Mèdiques SEM S.A.
Collaborative agreement between IMAS and SEM S.A. for the maintenance of the register of myocardial infarcts in 6 Girona comarques (counties).