Browsing by Author "Ballester, Joan"

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  • A systematic review of ambient heat and sleep in a warming climate
    Chevance, Guillaume; Minor, Kelton; Vielma, Constanza; Campi, Emmanuel; O'Callaghan-Gordo, Cristina; Basagaña Flores, Xavier; Ballester, Joan; Bernard, Paquito (Elsevier, 2024)
    Climate change is elevating nighttime and daytime temperatures worldwide, affecting a broad continuum of behavioral and health outcomes. Disturbed sleep is a plausible pathway linking rising ambient temperatures with several ...
  • Ambient air temperature exposure and foetal size and growth in three European birth cohorts
    Essers, Esmée; Granés, Laura; Delaney, Scott; Ballester, Joan; Santos, Susana; Petricola, Sami; Yang, Tiffany C.; Fernández-Somoano, Ana; Bereziartua, Ainhoa; Ballester Díez, Ferran; Tardón, Adonina; Tardón, Adonina; Vrijheid, Martine; Lertxundi, Aitana; McEachan, Rosemary R.C.; El Marroun, Hanan; Tiemeier, Henning; Iñiguez, Carmen; Guxens Junyent, Mònica (Elsevier, 2024)
    Introduction: Ambient air temperature may affect birth outcomes adversely, but little is known about their impact on foetal growth throughout pregnancy. We evaluated the association between temperature exposure during ...
  • Ambient temperature and seasonal variation in inpatient mortality from respiratory diseases: a retrospective observational study
    Achebak, Hicham; García Aymerich, Judith; Rey, Grégoire; Chen, Zhaoyue; Méndez Turrubiates, Raúl Fernando; Ballester, Joan (Elsevier, 2023)
    Background: The seasonal fluctuation in mortality and hospital admissions from respiratory diseases, with a winter peak and a summer trough, is widely recognized in extratropical countries. However, little is known about ...
  • Association between ambient temperature and heat waves with mortality in South Asia: Systematic review and meta-analysis
    Dimitrova, Asya, 1988-; Ingole, Vijendra; Basagaña Flores, Xavier; Ranzani, Otavio; Milà, Carles; Ballester, Joan; Tonne, Cathryn (Elsevier, 2021)
    Background: South Asia is highly vulnerable to climate change and is projected to experience some of the highest increases in average annual temperatures throughout the century. Although the adverse impacts of ambient ...
  • Changing the urban design of cities for health: The superblock model
    Mueller, Natalie, 1988-; Rojas Rueda, David, 1979-; Khreis, Haneen; Cirach, Marta; Andrés, David; Ballester, Joan; Bartoll, Xavier; Daher, Carolyn; Deluca, Anna; Echave, Cynthia; Milà, Carles; Márquez, Sandra; Palou, Joan; Pérez, Katherine; Tonne, Cathryn; Stevenson, Mark; Rueda, Salvador; Nieuwenhuijsen, Mark J. (Elsevier, 2020)
    Background: Car-dependent city planning has resulted in high levels of environmental pollution, sedentary lifestyles and increased vulnerability to the effects of climate change. The Barcelona Superblock model is an ...
  • Climate trends at a hotspot of chronic kidney disease of unknown causes in Nicaragua, 1973-2014
    Petropoulos, Zoe E.; Ramirez Rubio, Oriana; Scammell, Madeleine K.; Laws, Rebecca L.; Lopez-Pilarte, Damaris; Amador, Juan José; Ballester, Joan; O'Callaghan-Gordo, Cristina; Brooks, Daniel R. (MDPI, 2021)
    An ongoing epidemic of chronic kidney disease of uncertain etiology (CKDu) afflicts large parts of Central America and is hypothesized to be linked to heat stress at work. Mortality rates from CKDu appear to have increased ...
  • Daylight saving time affects European mortality patterns
    Lévy, Laurent; Robine, Jean-Marie; Rey, Grégoire; Méndez Turrubiates, Raúl Fernando; Quijal-Zamorano, Marcos; Achebak, Hicham; Ballester, Joan; Rodó, Xavier; Herrmann, François R. (Nature Research, 2022)
    Daylight saving time (DST) consists in a one-hour advancement of legal time in spring offset by a backward transition of the same magnitude in fall. It creates a minimal circadian misalignment that could disrupt sleep and ...
  • Does surrounding greenness moderate the relationship between apparent temperature and physical activity? Findings from the PHENOTYPE project
    Ho, Janice Y.; Zijlema, Wilma; Triguero Mas, Margarita, 1985-; Donaire González, David; Valentín, Antònia; Ballester, Joan; Chan, Emily Y.Y.; Goggins, William B.; Mo, Phoenix K.H.; Kruize, Hanneke; Berg, Magdalena van den; Gražulevičienė, Regina; Gidlow, Christopher J.; Jerrett, Michael; Seto, Edmund; Barrera Gómez, Jose; Nieuwenhuijsen, Mark J. (Elsevier, 2021)
    Background: Physical activity can be affected by both meteorological conditions and surrounding greenness, but few studies have evaluated the effects of these environmental factors on physical activity simultaneously. This ...
  • Drivers of the time-varying heat-cold-mortality association in Spain: A longitudinal observational study
    Achebak, Hicham; Rey, Grégoire; Lloyd, Simon J.; Quijal-Zamorano, Marcos; Méndez Turrubiates, Raúl Fernando; Ballester, Joan (Elsevier, 2023)
    Background: A number of studies have reported reductions in mortality risk due to heat and cold over time. However, questions remain about the drivers of these adaptation processes to ambient temperatures. We aimed to ...
  • Estimating daily air temperature and pollution in Catalonia: A comprehensive spatiotemporal modelling of multiple exposures
    Milà, Carles; Ballester, Joan; Basagaña Flores, Xavier; Nieuwenhuijsen, Mark J.; Tonne, Cathryn (Elsevier, 2023)
    Environmental epidemiology studies require models of multiple exposures to adjust for co-exposure and explore interactions. We estimated spatiotemporal exposure to surface air temperature and pollution (PM2.5, PM10, NO2, ...
  • Estimation of pan-European, daily total, fine-mode and coarse-mode Aerosol Optical Depth at 0.1° resolution to facilitate air quality assessments
    Chen, Zhao-Yue; Méndez Turrubiates, Raúl Fernando; Petetin, Hervé; Lacima, Aleksander; Pérez García-Pando, Carlos; Ballester, Joan (Elsevier, 2024)
    Aerosol Optical Depth (AOD) data derived from satellites is crucial for estimating spatially-resolved PM concentrations, but existing AOD data over land remain affected by several limitations (e.g., data gaps, coarser ...
  • Evolution of temperature-attributable mortality trends looking at social inequalities: An observational case study of urban maladaptation to cold and heat
    Ellena, Marta; Ballester, Joan; Costa, Giuseppe; Achebak, Hicham (Elsevier, 2022)
    Background: To date, little is known about the temporal variation of the temperature-mortality association among different demographic and socio-economic groups. The aim of this work is to investigate trends in cold- and ...
  • Heat-related mortality in Europe during the summer of 2022
    Ballester, Joan; Quijal-Zamorano, Marcos; Méndez Turrubiates, Raúl Fernando; Pegenaute Pérez, Ferran; Herrmann, François R.; Robine, Jean-Marie; Basagaña Flores, Xavier; Tonne, Cathryn; Antó i Boqué, Josep Maria; Achebak, Hicham (Nature Research, 2023)
    Over 70,000 excess deaths occurred in Europe during the summer of 2003. The resulting societal awareness led to the design and implementation of adaptation strategies to protect at-risk populations. We aimed to quantify ...
  • Local mortality impacts due to future air pollution under climate change scenarios
    Ingole, Vijendra; Dimitrova, Asya, 1988-; Sampedro, Jon; Sacoor, Charfudin; Acacio, Sozinho; Juvekar, Sanjay; Roy, Sudipto; Moraga, Paula; Basagaña Flores, Xavier; Ballester, Joan; Antó i Boqué, Josep Maria; Tonne, Cathryn (Elsevier, 2022)
    The health impacts of global climate change mitigation will affect local populations differently. However, most co-benefits analyses have been done at a global level, with relatively few studies providing local level ...
  • Long-term evaluation of surface air pollution in CAMSRA and MERRA-2 global reanalyses over Europe (2003–2020)
    Lacima, Aleksander; Petetin, Hervé; Soret, Albert; Bowdalo, Dene; Jorba, Oriol; Chen, Zhaoyue; Méndez Turrubiates, Raúl Fernando; Achebak, Hicham; Ballester, Joan; Pérez García-Pando, Carlos (European Geosciences Union (EGU), 2023)
    Over the last century, our societies have experienced a sharp increase in urban population and fossil-fuelled transportation, turning air pollution into a critical issue. It is therefore key to accurately characterize the ...
  • Long-term exposure to air pollution and severe COVID-19 in Catalonia: a population-based cohort study
    Ranzani, Otavio; Alari, Anna; Olmos, Sergio; Milà, Carles; Rico, Alex; Ballester, Joan; Basagaña Flores, Xavier; Chaccour, Carlos; Dadvand, Payam; Duarte Salles, Talita, 1985-; Foraster Pulido, Maria, 1984-; Nieuwenhuijsen, Mark J.; Sunyer Deu, Jordi; Valentín, Antònia; Kogevinas, Manolis; Lazcano Dobao, Uxue; Avellaneda Gómez, Carla; Vivanco Hidalgo, Rosa María; Tonne, Cathryn (Nature Research, 2023)
    The association between long-term exposure to ambient air pollutants and severe COVID-19 is uncertain. We followed 4,660,502 adults from the general population in 2020 in Catalonia, Spain. Cox proportional models were fit ...
  • Population exposure to multiple air pollutants and its compound episodes in Europe
    Chen, Zhao-Yue; Petetin, Hervé; Méndez Turrubiates, Raúl Fernando; Achebak, Hicham; Pérez García-Pando, Carlos; Ballester, Joan (Nature Research, 2024)
    Air pollution remains as a substantial health problem, particularly regarding the combined health risks arising from simultaneous exposure to multiple air pollutants. However, understanding these combined exposure events ...
  • Short-term exposure to air pollution and hospital admission after COVID-19 in Catalonia: the COVAIR-CAT study
    Alari, Anna; Ranzani, Otavio; Olmos, Sergio; Milà, Carles; Rico, Alex; Ballester, Joan; Basagaña Flores, Xavier; Dadvand, Payam; Duarte Salles, Talita, 1985-; Nieuwenhuijsen, Mark J.; Vivanco Hidalgo, Rosa María; Tonne, Cathryn (Oxford University Press, 2024)
    Background: A growing body of evidence has reported positive associations between long-term exposure to air pollution and poor COVID-19 outcomes. Inconsistent findings have been reported for short-term air pollution, mostly ...
  • Social inequalities in heat-attributable mortality in the city of Turin, northwest of Italy: a time series analysis from 1982 to 2018
    Ellena, Marta; Ballester, Joan; Mercogliano, Paola; Ferracin, Elisa; Barbato, Giuliana; Costa, Giuseppe; Ingole, Vijendra (BioMed Central, 2020)
    Background: Understanding context specific heat-health risks in urban areas is important, especially given anticipated severe increases in summer temperatures due to climate change effects. We investigate social inequalities ...
  • Spatial Bayesian distributed lag non-linear models (SB-DLNM) for small-area exposure-lag-response epidemiological modelling
    Quijal-Zamorano, Marcos; Martinez-Beneito, Miguel-Angel; Ballester, Joan; Marí Dell'Olmo, Marc, 1978- (Oxford University Press, 2024)
    Background: Distributed lag non-linear models (DLNMs) are the reference framework for modelling lagged non-linear associations. They are usually used in large-scale multi-location studies. Attempts to study these associations ...

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