Andreu Estela Mantolan

Family Physician.

Family physician trained at the Mallorca Teaching Unit (1987–1989), with a Master’s Degree in Tobacco Dependence from PIUFET (Interuniversity Program for the Training of Specialists in Tobacco Dependence) in 2008.

Coordinator of the Menorca Teaching Unit for 11 years, until 2004. Tutor of family and community medicine residents to the present day.

Collaborator in multicenter and local studies on lifestyle factors: physical exercise, tobacco use and its prevention in adolescents, and more recently on patient empowerment for the adoption of healthier lifestyles.

Highlighted Publications

Unda Villafuerte F, Llobera Cànaves J, Estela Mantolan A, Bassante Flores P, Rigo Carratalà F, Requena Hernández A, Oliver Oliver B, Pou Bordoy J, Moreno Sancho ML, Leiva A, Lorente Montalvo P; MEDICHY Group. Effectiveness of medication self-management, self-monitoring and a lifestyle intervention on hypertension in poorly controlled patients: The MEDICHY randomized trial. Front Cardiovasc Med. 2024 May 21;11:1355037. doi: 10.3389/fcvm.2024.1355037. PMID: 38836068; PMCID: PMC11148777.

Unda Villafuerte F, Llobera Cànaves J, Lorente Montalvo P, Moreno Sancho ML, Oliver Oliver B, Bassante Flores P, Estela Mantolan A, Pou Bordoy J, Rodríguez Ruiz T, Requena Hernández A, Leiva A, Torrent Quetglas M, Coll Benejam JM, D’Agosto Forteza P, Rigo Carratalà F; and the Medichy Group. Effectiveness of a multifactorial intervention, consisting of self-management of antihypertensive medication, self-measurement of blood pressure, hypocaloric and low sodium diet, and physical exercise, in patients with uncontrolled hypertension taking 2 or more antihypertensive drugs: The MEDICHY study. Medicine (Baltimore). 2020 Apr;99(17):e19769. doi: 10.1097/MD.0000000000019769. PMID: 32332617; PMCID: PMC7220514.

Leiva A, Estela A, Bennasar-Veny M, Aguiló A, Llobera J, Yáñez AM. Effectiveness of a complex intervention on smoking in adolescents: A cluster-randomized controlled trial. Prev Med. 2018 Sep;114:88-94. doi: 10.1016/j.ypmed.2018.06.009. Epub 2018 Jun 22. PMID: 29940292.

Yáñez AM, Leiva A, Estela A, Čukić I. The associations of personality traits and parental education with smoking behaviour among adolescents. PLoS One. 2017 Mar 23;12(3):e0174211. doi: 10.1371/journal.pone.0174211. PMID: 28333969; PMCID: PMC5363906.

Leiva A, Estela A, Torrent M, Calafat A, Bennasar M, Yáñez A. Effectiveness of a complex intervention in reducing the prevalence of smoking among adolescents: study design of a cluster-randomized controlled trial. BMC Public Health. 2014 Apr 16;14:373. doi: 10.1186/1471-2458-14-373. PMID: 24739452; PMCID: PMC4008389.

Yañez A, Leiva A, Gorreto L, Estela A, Tejera E, Torrent M. School, family and adolescent smoking. Adicciones. 2013;25(3):253-9. PMID: 23880838.

Projects

Effectiveness of self-management of medication, self-monitoring of blood pressure, diet and physical exercise in reducing blood pressure in patients with difficult control (MEDICHY).

Code: PI17/02108
Project Scope: National
Funding Entity: Instituto de Salud Carlos III
Principal Investigator: Fabián Unda Villafuerte
Start date: 2018
End date: 2020

Multifactorial intervention aimed at reducing the prevalence of smoking in the adolescent population: cluster‑randomized clinical trial.

Code: PI10/00517
Project Scope: National
Funding Entity: Instituto de Salud Carlos III
Principal Investigator: Aina Maria Yáñez Juan
Start date: 2011
End date: 2013