Browsing by Author "Basagaña Flores, Xavier"

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  • A demonstration project of Global Alliance against Chronic Respiratory Diseases: Prediction of interactions between air pollution and allergen exposure-the Mobile Airways Sentinel NetworK-Impact of air POLLution on Asthma and Rhinitis approach
    Sofiev, Mikhail; Bédard, Annabelle, 1986-; Basagaña Flores, Xavier; Antó i Boqué, Josep Maria; Bousquet, Jean (Wolters Kluwer (LWW), 2020)
    This review analyzes the state and recent progress in the field of information support for pollen allergy sufferers. For decades, information available for the patients and allergologists consisted of pollen counts, which ...
  • A Longitudinal Study on Attention Development in Primary School Children with and without Teacher-Reported Symptoms of ADHD
    Suades González, Elisabet; Forns i Guzman, Joan, 1981-; García Esteban, Raquel; López Vicente, Mònica, 1988-; Esnaola, Mikel; Álvarez Pedrerol, Mar; Júlvez Calvo, Jordi; Cáceres, Alejandro; Basagaña Flores, Xavier; López-Sala, Anna; Sunyer Deu, Jordi (Frontiers, 2017)
    Background: Prospective longitudinal studies are essential in characterizing cognitive trajectories, yet few of them have been reported on the development of attention processes in children. We aimed to explore attention ...
  • Adherence to reporting guidelines increases the number of citations: the argument for including a methodologist in the editorial process and peer-review
    Vilaró, Marta; Cortés, Jordi; Selva-O'Callaghan, Albert; Urrutia, Agustín; Ribera, Josep Maria; Cardellach, Francesc; Basagaña Flores, Xavier; Elmore, Matthew; Vilardell, Miquel; Altman, Douglas; González, José-Antonio; Cobo Valeri, Erik (BioMed Central, 2019)
    Background: From 2005 to 2010, we conducted 2 randomized studies on a journal (Medicina Clínica), where we took manuscripts received for publication and randomly assigned them to either the standard editorial process or ...
  • Advancing tools for human early lifecourse exposome research and translation (ATHLETE): Project overview
    Vrijheid, Martine; Basagaña Flores, Xavier; Gonzalez, Juan Ramon; Porcel, Joana; Bustamante Pineda, Mariona; Casas Sanahuja, Maribel; Dadvand, Payam; Fossati, Serena; Guxens Junyent, Mònica; Maitre, Léa; Nieuwenhuijsen, Mark J.; Ortiz, Rodney; Stratakis, Nikos; Sunyer Deu, Jordi; Slama, Rémy (Wolters Kluwer (LWW), 2021)
    Early life stages are vulnerable to environmental hazards and present important windows of opportunity for lifelong disease prevention. This makes early life a relevant starting point for exposome studies. The Advancing ...
  • Air pollution, brain health and citizen science
    Gignac, Florence, 1993- (Universitat Pompeu Fabra, 2022-07-07)
    The short-term effects of air pollution on brain health have come under investigation only recently. Since environmental health studies are often developed entirely by scientists, citizen science is a promising approach ...
  • Air pollution, noise, blue space, and green space and premature mortality in Barcelona: a mega cohort
    Nieuwenhuijsen, Mark J.; Gascon Merlos, Mireia, 1984-; Martínez, David; Ponjoan, Anna; Blanch, Jordi; García Gil, Maria; Ramos, Rafel; Foraster Pulido, Maria, 1984-; Mueller, Natalie, 1988-; Espinosa Díaz, Ana; Cirach, Marta; Khreis, Haneen; Dadvand, Payam; Basagaña Flores, Xavier (MDPI, 2018)
    Introduction: Cities often experience high air pollution and noise levels and lack of natural outdoor environments, which may be detrimental to health. The aim of this study was to evaluate the effects of air pollution, ...
  • Ambient temperature and risk of motor vehicle crashes: a countrywide analysis in Spain
    Basagaña Flores, Xavier; de la Peña-Ramirez, Carlos (Elsevier, 2023)
    Background: Some studies have documented that cold or hot ambient temperatures increase the risk of motor vehicle crashes. However, the number of existing studies is still limited, especially for the effects of cold. ...
  • Applying the exposome concept in birth cohort research: a review of statistical approaches
    Santos, Susana; Maitre, Léa; Warembourg, Charline; Agier, Lydiane; Richiardi, Lorenzo; Basagaña Flores, Xavier; Vrijheid, Martine (Springer, 2020)
    The exposome represents the totality of life course environmental exposures (including lifestyle and other non-genetic factors), from the prenatal period onwards. This holistic concept of exposure provides a new framework ...
  • ARIA digital anamorphosis: Digital transformation of health and care in airway diseases from research to practice
    Bousquet, Jean; Antó i Boqué, Josep Maria; Basagaña Flores, Xavier; García Aymerich, Judith (Wiley-Blackwell, 2020)
    Digital anamorphosis is used to define a distorted image of health and care that may be viewed correctly using digital tools and strategies. MASK digital anamorphosis represents the process used by MASK to develop the ...
  • 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 ...
  • Association between early life exposure to air pollution and working memory and attention
    Rivas, Ioar; Basagaña Flores, Xavier; Cirach, Marta; López Vicente, Mònica, 1988-; Suades González, Elisabet; García Esteban, Raquel; Álvarez Pedrerol, Mar; Dadvand, Payam; Sunyer Deu, Jordi (National Institute of Environmental Health Sciences (NIEHS), 2019)
    Background: Although previous studies have reported negative associations between exposure to air pollution and cognition, studies of the effects of prenatal and postnatal exposures in early childhood have been limited. ...
  • Association between long-term air pollution exposure and DNA methylation: The REGICOR study
    Sayols, Sergi; Fernández Sanlés, Alba, 1988-; Prats Uribe, Albert; Subirana Cachinero, Isaac; Plusquin, Michelle; Künzli, Nino; Marrugat de la Iglesia, Jaume; Basagaña Flores, Xavier; Elosua Llanos, Roberto (Elsevier, 2019)
    INTRODUCTION: Limited evidence suggests that epigenetic mechanisms may partially mediate the adverse effects of air pollution on health. Our aims were to identify new genomic loci showing differential DNA methylation ...
  • Association between long-term exposure to traffic-related air pollution and subclinical atherosclerosis: the REGICOR study
    Rivera, Marcela, 1982-; Basagaña Flores, Xavier; Aguilera Jiménez, Inmaculada, 1977-; Foraster Pulido, Maria, 1984-; Agis, David; Groot, Eric de; Pérez Grau, Laura; Mendez, Michelle A.; Bouso, Laura; Targa, Jaume; Ramos, Rafel; Sala, Joan; Marrugat de la Iglesia, Jaume; Elosua Llanos, Roberto; Künzli, Nino (National Institute of Environmental Health Sciences (NIEHS), 2013)
    BACKGROUND: Epidemiological evidence of the effects of long-term exposure to air pollution on the chronic processes of atherogenesis is limited. OBJECTIVE: We investigated the association of long-term exposure to traffic-related ...
  • Association between traffic-related air pollution in schools and cognitive development in primary school children: a prospective cohort study
    Sunyer Deu, Jordi; Esnaola, Mikel; Álvarez Pedrerol, Mar; Forns i Guzman, Joan, 1981-; Rivas, Ioar; López Vicente, Mònica, 1988-; Suades González, Elisabet; Foraster Pulido, Maria, 1984-; García Esteban, Raquel; Basagaña Flores, Xavier; Viana, Maria Carmen; Cirach, Marta; Moreno, Teresa; Alastuey, Andrés; Sebastián Gallés, Núria; Nieuwenhuijsen, Mark J.; Querol, Xavier (Public Library of Science, 2015)
    Air pollution is a suspected developmental neurotoxicant. Many schools are located in close proximity to busy roads, and traffic air pollution peaks when children are at school. We aimed to assess whether exposure of ...
  • Association of fish consumption and mercury exposure during pregnancy with metabolic health and inflammatory biomarkers in children
    Stratakis, Nikos; Borràs, Eva; Sabidó Aguadé, Eduard, 1981-; Basagaña Flores, Xavier; Bustamante Pineda, Mariona; Casas Sanahuja, Maribel; Fossati, Serena; González Ruiz, Juan Ramón; Maitre, Léa; Urquiza, José M.; Vrijheid, Martine; Chatzi, Leda (JAMA Network, 2020)
    IMPORTANCE: The balance of mercury risk and nutritional benefit from fish intake during pregnancy for the metabolic health of offspring to date is unknown. OBJECTIVE: To assess the associations of fish intake and mercury ...
  • Association of long-term exposure to traffic-related air pollution with blood pressure and hypertension in an adult population-based cohort in Spain (the REGICOR study)
    Foraster Pulido, Maria, 1984-; Basagaña Flores, Xavier; Aguilera Jiménez, Inmaculada, 1977-; Rivera, Marcela, 1982-; Agis, David; Bouso, Laura; Deltell, Alexandre; Marrugat de la Iglesia, Jaume; Ramos, Rafel; Sunyer Deu, Jordi; Vila, Joan; Elosua Llanos, Roberto; Künzli, Nino (National Institute of Environmental Health Sciences (NIEHS), 2014)
    Background: Long-term exposure to traffic-related air pollution may increase blood pressure (BP) and induce hypertension. However, evidence supporting these associations is limited, and they may be confounded by exposure ...
  • Association of prenatal exposure to endocrine-disrupting chemicals with liver injury in children
    Midya, Vishal; Andrušaitytė, Sandra; Basagaña Flores, Xavier; Casas Sanahuja, Maribel; Fossati, Serena; Gražulevičienė, Regina; Maitre, Léa; Urquiza, José M.; Vrijheid, Martine; Valvi, Damaskini, 1983- (American Medical Association, 2022)
    Importance: Prenatal exposures to endocrine-disrupting chemicals (EDCs) may increase the risk for liver injury in children; however, human evidence is scarce, and previous studies have not considered potential EDC-mixture ...
  • Association of residential air pollution, noise, and greenspace with initial ischemic stroke severity
    Vivanco Hidalgo, Rosa María; Avellaneda Gómez, Carla; Dadvand, Payam; Cirach, Marta; Ois Santiago, Angel Javier; Gómez González, Alejandra; Rodríguez-Campello, Ana; Ceballos, Pablo de; Basagaña Flores, Xavier; Zabalza, Ana; Cuadrado-Godia, Elisa; Sunyer Deu, Jordi; Roquer, Jaume; Wellenius, Gregory A. (Elsevier, 2019)
    BACKGROUND AND PURPOSE: A number of environmental risk factors of acute ischemic stroke have been identified, but few studies have evaluated the influence of the outdoor environment on stroke severity. We assessed the ...
  • Associations between sources of particle number and mortality in four European cities
    Rivas, Ioar; Vicens Estaran, Laia; Basagaña Flores, Xavier; Tobías, Aurelio; Katsouyanni, Klea; Walton, Heather; Hüglin, Christoph; Alastuey, Andrés; Kulmala, Markku; Harrison, Roy M.; Pekkanen, Juha; Querol, Xavier; Sunyer Deu, Jordi; Kelly, Frank (Elsevier, 2021)
    Background: The evidence on the association between ultrafine (UFP) particles and mortality is still inconsistent. Moreover, health effects of specific UFP sources have not been explored. We assessed the impact of UFP ...
  • Atherosclerosis and air pollution: understanding traffic-related exposure and its effects.
    Rivera, Marcela, 1982- (Universitat Pompeu Fabra, 2012-03-16)
    This thesis contributes to the characterization of the spatial distribution of NO2, heavy metals and UFP in Girona, to the methodology in air pollution exposure assessment studying different markers of traffic-related air ...