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Diana Puente Baliarda

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Diana Puente Baliarda

Holding a degree in Medicine from the Autonomous University of Barcelona, a Master's degree in Public Health Methodology from the Université Libre de Bruxelles (Belgium) and a PhD in biomedical research from the Pompeu Fabra University. Its activities are related to the epidemiology of cancer and long COVID, among others. Employment contract at the Institut Universitari de Recerca en Atenció Primària Jordi Gol (IDIAPJGol) since 2005. She obtained a contract for "Support for Research in the National Health System" (Carlos III Health Institute: 2006-08) and a "Stabilization of female researchers" contract (Carlos III Health Institute / Autonomous Community of Catalonia: 2008-11). She led the project entitled "Metabolic syndrome and cancer risk: case-control study with data from the Information System for the Development of Research in Primary Care (SIDIAP) in Catalonia (PI17/0091)", funded by the FIS 2017. He co-leads the project entitled "Covid19 persistent" funded by the Department of Health in 2020. He has tutored TFM work and has directed 2 doctoral theses: Tomàs López: Metabolic syndrome and incidence and mortality from cancer among the Catalan population (25/06/2025); Gemma Torrell: The erosion of the value of narration as a source of knowledge in clinical practice. The case of long COVID, currently active. He has participated in the drafting of national and European proposals, increasing contacts with international researchers. He has participated in reviews of national and international journals. He has attended national and international conferences as a speaker of oral communications. He is currently a member of the GRenSSAP (Research Group in Primary Care Health Services), accredited by AGAUR and REDICAPPST. Since 2020 she has been part of the Innovation Agency of IDIAPJGol.

Projects

  • Actitudes de los profesionales de atención primaria y de los usuarios respecto al cribado poblacional del cáncer de colon y recto

    Principal Investigator: Maria Llagostera

    Funding entity: (2008 - 2011)

  • Adiposidad durante la vida y riesgo y mortalidad de cáncer: el rol de comorbilidades e intervenciones para pérdida de peso

    Principal Investigator: Duarte-Salles Salles, Talita

    Funding entity: (2023)

  • Alianza en Innovación e Industrialización Sanitaria del eje Mediterráneo

    Funding entity: (2020 - 2024)

  • AMADIX: Nova conexio AMADIX - ICS per entrar a un consorci europeu

    Funding entity: (2024)

  • Aplicatiu Salut+Social: Eina TIC per a la implementació de l?atenció integrada social i sanitària

    Funding entity: (2023)

  • BIOCROSS

    Funding entity: (2024)

Recent publications

  • López-Jiménez T, Plana-Ripoll O, Duarte-Salles T, Palomar-Cros A, Puente D. The effect between metabolic syndrome and life expectancy after cancer diagnosis: Catalan cohort study. BMC Public Health. 2025 Jan; 25(1):178. doi:10.1186/s12889-025-21437-9. Epub 2025 Jan 16. pmc:PMC11740694. PMID:39825260.

  • Torrell G, Puente D, Jacques-Aviñó C, Carrasco-Ribelles LA, Violán C, López-Jiménez T, Royano V, Cantón AM, Medina-Perucha L, Rodríguez-Giralt I, Berenguera A. Characterisation, symptom pattern and symptom clusters from a retrospective cohort of Long COVID patients in primary care in Catalonia. BMC Infect Dis. 2024 Jan; 24(1):82. doi:10.1186/s12879-023-08954-x. Epub 2024 Jan 15. pmc:PMC10789045. PMID:38225587.

  • Reyes C, Pistillo A, Fernández-Bertolín S, Recalde M, Roel E, Puente D, Sena AG, Blacketer C, Lai L, Alshammari TM, Ahmed WU, Alser O, Alghoul H, Areia C, Dawoud D, Prats-Uribe A, Valveny N, de Maeztu G, Sorlí Redó L, Martinez Roldan J, Lopez Montesinos I, Schilling LM, Golozar A, Reich C, Posada JD, Shah N, You SC, Lynch KE, DuVall SL, Matheny ME, Nyberg F, Ostropolets A, Hripcsak G, Rijnbeek PR, Suchard MA, Ryan P, Kostka K, Duarte-Salles T. Characteristics and outcomes of patients with COVID-19 with and without prevalent hypertension: a multinational cohort study. BMJ Open. 2021 12; 11(12):e057632. doi:10.1136/bmjopen-2021-057632. Epub 2021 Dec 22. pmc:PMC8704062. PMID:34937726.

  • López-Jiménez T, Duarte-Salles T, Plana-Ripoll O, Recalde M, Xavier-Cos F, Puente D. Association between metabolic syndrome and 13 types of cancer in Catalonia: A matched case-control study. PLoS One. 2022 ; 17(3):e0264634. doi:10.1371/journal.pone.0264634. Epub 2022 Mar 04. pmc:PMC8896701. PMID:35245317.

  • Roel E, Pistillo A, Recalde M, Fernández-Bertolín S, Aragón M, Soerjomataram I, Jenab M, Puente D, Prieto-Alhambra D, Burn E, Duarte-Salles T. Cancer and the risk of coronavirus disease 2019 diagnosis, hospitalisation and death: A population-based multistate cohort study including 4?618?377 adults in Catalonia, Spain. Int J Cancer. 2021 Oct; doi:10.1002/ijc.33846. Epub 2021 Oct 16. PMID:34655476.

  • Berenguera A, Jacques-Aviñó C, Medina-Perucha L, Puente D. Long term consequences of COVID-19. Eur J Intern Med. 2021 10; 92:34-35. doi:10.1016/j.ejim.2021.08.022. Epub 2021 Sep 02. pmc:PMC8410511. PMID:34509350.

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