Esther García García-Esquinas
She is a doctor, specialist in Preventive Medicine and Public Health by training, and has been researching for more than 10 years on possible modifiable factors that influence the health of the population. Particularly, she is interested in knowing the role of socioeconomic inequalities, lifestyles and some environmental pollutants in the health of the elderly. In relation to pain, she has published, together with other members of the group in which my research work is inserted, several articles based on data from a cohort of subjects representative of the non-institutionalized Spanish population over 65 years of age who have been followed for 10 years. In them, it is observed that chronic pain is a risk factor for cardiovascular disease and frailty, but that it can improve with greater adherence to a Mediterranean diet pattern. In addition, she was able to determine, together with her collaborators, that among the reasons why older women suffer more pain than men are a higher frequency of osteoarthritis and arthritis, a greater number of mobility and agility problems, poorer mental health and poorer quality of sleep, and less recreational physical exercise.
Esther is a professor in the Department of Preventive Medicine and Public Health at the Autonomous University of Madrid, and currently has a position as Senior Scientist at the National Center for Epidemiology (Carlos III Health Institute). She also belongs to CIBERESP (Ciber for Epidemiology and Public Health)
Relevant scientific articles
https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/31486377/ https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/30307470/