Editor activities

• Adolescent Health, Medicine and Therapeutics
  
• Case Reports in Medicine
  
• Infectious Diseases in Obstetrics and Gynecology
  
• International Journal of Endocrinology
  
• International Journal of Women's Health
  
• Maturitas
  
• Obstetrics and Ginecology International
  
• Open Access Journal of Contraception
  
• Open Access Surgery
  
• Patient Intelligence
  
• Patient Preference and Adherence
  
• The Open Psychiatry Journal
  
• The Open Reproductive Science Journal
  
• The Open Women's Health Journal
  
• Therapeutics and Clinical Risk Management
  
• World Journal of Obstetrics and Gynecology
  

Recent papers

• Quality of Life in a Large Cohort of Mid-aged Colombian Women Assessed with the Cervantes Scale. Menopause 2012; in press.

• The B-Lynch technique for the management of intraoperative uterine atony. Journal Obstetrics and Gynecology 2012; in press.

• Factors related to insomnia and sleepiness in the late third trimester of pregnancy. Arch Gynecol Obstet 2012; in press.

• Assessment of sexual function of mid-aged women with the 6-item Female Sexual Function Index. Maturitas 2012; in press.

• The osteoporosis challenge is to improve medication compliance. Climacteric 2012; in press.

• Why sex matters: the biological mechanisms of cardiovascular disease. Gynecol Endocrinol 2012; in press.

• Effect of intravenous hydralazine infusion on maternal plasma nitric oxide levels in gestations complicated with severe preeclampsia: a pilot study. Arch Gynecol Obstet 2012; in press.

• Soy isoflavones improve insulin sensitivity without changing serum leptin among postmenopausal women. Climacteric 2012; in press.

• Depressive disorders and the menopause transition. Maturitas 2012;71:120-30.

• EMAS position statement: Vitamin D and postmenopausal health. Maturitas 2012;71:83-8.

• First-trimester maternal serum 25-hydroxyvitamin D3 status and pregnancy outcome. International Journal of Gynecology and Obstetrics 2012;116:6-9.

• Low maternal vitamin D status during pregnancy requires appropriate therapeutic intervention. Int J Gynaecol Obstet 2012;116:4-5.

• First trimester serum levels of 25-hydroxyvitamin D, free B-Human corionic gonadotropin and pregnancy plasma protein A in Spanish Women. Gynecological Endocrinology 2011; in press.

• Lack of correlation between first trimester maternal serum 25-hydroxyvitamin D levels and ultrasound measured crown-rump length and nuchal translucency. Arch Gynecol Obstet 2011;284:1585-8.

• Association between sexual function and depression in sexually active mid-aged Peruvian women. Climacteric 2011;14:654-60.

• Conventional ovarian cancer screening does not reduce its related mortality in postmenopausal women. Climacteric 2011;14:605-6.

• Vitamin D, sunlight and longevity. Minerva Endocrinologica 2011;36:257-66.

• Effect of combined spinal–epidural analgesia versus epidural analgesia on labor and delivery duration. International Journal of Gynecology and Obstetrics 2011;114:246-50.

• Pro-inflammatory cytokine levels in postmenopausal women with the metabolic syndrome. Gynecological Endocrinology 2011;27:685-91.

• Sexual function assessment in postmenopausal women with the 14-item Changes in Sexual Functioning Questionnaire. Journal Sex Medicine 2011;8:2144-51.

• Body mass index and its correlation to metabolic and hormone parameters in postmenopausal Spanish women. Gynecological Endocrinology 2011;27:678-84.

• First trimester serum 25-hydroxyvitamin status and factors related to lower levels in gravids living in the Spanish Mediterranean Coast. Reproductive Science 2011;18(8):730-6.

• Prevalence of sexual dysfunction and associated factors in young Peruvian university women. Journal Sex Medicine 2011; 1701-9.

• Factors relating to insomnia during the menopausal transition as evaluated by the Insomnia Severity Index. Maturitas 2011;69:157–161.

• Vitamin D and ageing: beyond calcium and bone metabolism. Maturitas 2011;69:27-36.

• Maternal plasma and amniotic fluid coenzyme Q 10 levels in preterm and term gestations: A pilot study. Arch Gynecol Obstet 2011;283 (Suppl 1):S67–S71.

• Present problems and controversies concerning pregnant adolescents. Open Access Journal of Contraception 2011;2;85–94.

• Assessing predictors of sexual function in mid-aged sexually active women. Maturitas 2011;68:387-390.

• Metabolic and hormonal parameters in postmenopausal women ten years after transdermal estradiol treatment, alone or combined to micronized oral progesterone. Gynecological Endocrinology 2011;27:156-162.

• Difficult ("heartsink") patients and clinical communication difficulties. Patient Intelligence 2011;3:1-9.

Papers included in PubMed Medline

Books

• La Menopausia. Como vivirla y superarla sin miedo. 250 páginas. Ediciones Temas de Hoy, Madrid, 1992.

• Hormonas y Antihormonas en Ginecología. 420 páginas. Prensas Universitarias de Zaragoza, Zaragoza, 1998.

• Climaterio y Envejecimiento. Medicina basada en la evidencia. 598 páginas. SEISGE, Zaragoza, 1999.

• Cáncer de mama. Biologia, diagnóstico y tratamiento. 496 páginas. SEISGE, Zaragoza, 2000.

• La salud de la mujer climatérica: Ginecología basada en la evidencia. 452 páginas. IGZ, Zaragoza, 2003.

• Embarazo y parto. 154 páginas. Arguval, Málaga, 2004.

• La menopausia. Claves para vivirla en plena forma. 153 páginas. Arguval, Málaga, 2005.