Fernando J García López

Biographic Data

ID6175197
NAMEFernando J García López
GIVEN NAMESFernando J García
FAMILY NAMELópez
SIGNATURELÓPEZ F J G
AFFILIATIONSInstituto de Salud Carlos III
VERIFIEDNo
TOTAL WORKS7
TOTAL CITATIONS0
WORKS AS AUTHOR7
WORKS AS EDITOR0
FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR2021
LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR2026
H-INDEX0

  • Variant Creutzfeldt–Jakob disease surveillance in Spain, 1993–2021

    Open AccessJesús de Pedro-Cuesta, Fernando J García López et al.ARTICLEFrontiers in Public Health2026

    Background: Variant Creutzfeldt-Jakob disease (vCJD) is a fatal transmissible prion disorder attributed primarily to the ingestion of meat from cattle infected with bovine spongiform encephalopathy (BSE), and it can also be transmitted through blood transfusions and occupational exposure in laboratories. As of July 2024, 233 deaths had been recorded in 12 countries, mostly in the United Kingdom (UK) and France. Objective: This study aimed to desc…

  • La escandalosa carencia de información sanitaria en residencias de mayores

    Open AccessMaria-Victoria Zunzunegui, María Victoria Zunzunegui et al.ARTICLEGaceta Sanitaria2025

  • Unequal impact of Covid-19 on excess deaths, life expectancy, and premature mortality in Spanish regions (2020-2021)

    Open AccessNazrul Islam, Fernando García López et al.ARTICLEGaceta Sanitaria2024

    We aimed to estimate regional inequalities in excess deaths and premature mortality in Spain during 2020 and 2021, before high vaccination coverage against COVID-19. With data from the National Institute of Statistics, within each region, sex, and age group, we estimated the excess deaths, the change in life expectancy at birth ( e 0 ) and age 65 ( e 65 ) and years of life lost as the difference between the observed and expected deaths using a ti…

  • La desconocida mortalidad de la población en las residencias de personas mayores de España

    Open AccessMaria-Victoria Zunzunegui, María Victoria Zunzunegui et al.ARTICLEGaceta Sanitaria2023

    Es necesario conocer la mortalidad de las personas mayores que viven en residencias para evaluar sus determinantes, incluyendo las características estructurales y organizativas de estos centros y su relación con la utilización de servicios sanitarios y sociales. Al querer investigar la mortalidad de la población mayor de 65 años que vive en residencias durante la COVID-19 nos encontramos con la imposibilidad de identificar a las personas fallecid…

  • Public and Patients’ Perspectives Towards Data and Sample Sharing for Research

    Open AccessMaría C Sánchez, Juan Carlos Hernández Clemente et al.ARTICLEJournal of Empirical Research on…2023

    We aimed to review the attitudes and perspectives of the public and patients towards the sharing of data and biospecimens for research and to identify common dimensions, regardless of setting. Our review included systematic, scoping or thematic reviews of empirical studies retrieved from Medline (PubMed interface), Web of Science, Scopus, ProQuest and Cochrane Reviews. The main themes identified and synthesised across the 14 reviews were readines…

  • Association of disability with mortality in the Spanish adult non-institutionalised population

    Open AccessJavier Damián, Alicia Padron-Monedero et al.ARTICLEJournal of Epidemiology and…2022References: 15

    BACKGROUND: There are scant studies focused on measuring the association between disability and all-cause mortality based on large representative national samples of the community-dwelling adult population; moreover, the number of such studies which also include cause-specific mortality is yet lower. METHODS: Longitudinal cohort study that used baseline data from 162 381 adults who participated in a countrywide disability survey (2008). A nationa…

  • Conflicts of interest among scientific foundations and societies in the field of childhood nutrition

    Open AccessGuadalupe Guzmán-Caro, Fernando García López et al.ARTICLEGaceta Sanitaria2021

    To describe food-industry sponsorships of associations active in the field of childhood nutrition and obesity prevention in Spain in 2017-2018. The associations were located at https://www.google.es/ using the words “society”, “foundation” or “federation” in combination with the terms “nutrition”, “obesity”, “childhood”, “paediatrics” and “diabetes”. Sponsorship was defined as the declaration of funding received or the appearance of a food compan…