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NCD Risk Factor Collaboration (NCD-RisC); Álvarez Pedrerol, Mar; Marrugat de la Iglesia, Jaume; Porta Serra, Miquel; Sunyer Deu, Jordi (eLife, 2016)Being taller is associated with enhanced longevity, and higher education and earnings. We reanalysed 1472 population-based studies, with measurement of height on more than 18.6 million participants to estimate mean height ...
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Gerdtsson, Anna S.; Malats i Riera, Núria; Säll, Anna; Real, Francisco X.; Porta Serra, Miquel; Skoog, Petter; Persson, Helena; Wingren, Christer; Borrebaeck, Carl A. K. (Hindawi Publishing Corporation, 2015)Background. Pancreatic ductal adenocarcinoma (PDAC) is an aggressive disease with rapid tumor progression and poor prognosis. This study was motivated by the lack of sensitive and specific PDAC biomarkers and aimed to ...
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Walsh, Naomi; Porta Serra, Miquel; Real, Francisco X.; Stolzenberg-Solomon, Rachael Z. (Oxford University Press, 2018)Genome-wide association studies (GWAS) identify associations of individual single-nucleotide polymorphisms (SNPs) with cancer risk but usually only explain a fraction of the inherited variability. Pathway analysis of genetic ...
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Ibarluzea, Jesús; Aurrekoetxea, Juan José; Porta Serra, Miquel; Sunyer Deu, Jordi; Ballester Díez, Ferran (Elsevier, 2016)La biomonitorización de sustancias tóxicas ha sido incorporada por buena parte de los países más desarrollados, con el objetivo de conocer sus concentraciones en muestras biológicas. Estas sustancias se incorporan al ...
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Fernandez, Mariana F.; Pumarega Rodríguez, José Antonio; Porta Serra, Miquel; Molina-Molina, Jose Manuel; Arrebola, Juan Pedro; Olea, Nicolás (Elsevier, 2017)We aimed to assess changes in the total effective xenoestrogen burden (TEXB) -a biomarker of combined effect of mixtures of xenoestrogens- in breast cancer patients at surgery (breast adipose tissue) and at different time ...
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Pumarega Rodríguez, José Antonio; Larrea, Cristina; Muñoz, Araceli; Pallarès, Natàlia; Gasull Panadès, Magda; Rodríguez, Giselle; Jariod, Manel; Porta Serra, Miquel (Elsevier, 2017)OBJECTIVE: To explore factors influencing perceptions and viewpoints on the responsibility for the presence of toxic substances in food, on enforcement of laws and regulations that control human exposure to toxic substances ...
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Davó-Blanes, M. Carmen; Vives Cases, Carmen; Barrio-Fernández, José Luis; Porta Serra, Miquel; Benavides, Fernando G. (Fernando García); Gil de Miguel, Ángel; Grupo de la 2a Reunión del Foro de Profesorado Universitario de Salud Pública en el Grado de Medicina (Elsevier, 2016)Objetivo: Consensuar las competencias profesionales de salud pública que deben adquirir los estudiantes en el Grado en Medicina y los contenidos fundamentales que debe incluir la materia de salud pública según el criterio ...
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Porta Serra, Miquel; Kogevinas, Manolis; Zumeta García, Eider; Sunyer Deu, Jordi; Ribas Fitó, Núria; Grupo de Trabajo sobre Compuestos Tóxicos Persistentes y Salud del IMIM (Elsevier, 2002)La contaminación por compuestos tóxicos persistentes (CTP) de la población general es un hecho relevante desde una perspectiva de salud pública. Es, asimismo, importante para el sistema sanitario asistencial y para las ...
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Cavalier, Haleigh; Trasande, Leonardo; Porta Serra, Miquel (Wiley, 2023)Knowledge of the role in cancer etiology of environmental exposures as pesticides is a prerequisite for primary prevention. We review 63 epidemiological studies on exposure to pesticides and cancer risk in humans published ...
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Yuan, Fangcheng; Porta Serra, Miquel; Real, Francisco X.; Stolzenberg-Solomon, Rachael Z. (American Association for Cancer Research (AACR), 2020)Registry-based epidemiologic studies suggest associations between chronic inflammatory intestinal diseases and pancreatic ductal adenocarcinoma (PDAC). As genetic susceptibility contributes to a large proportion of chronic ...
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Pearce, Neil E.; Zahm, Sheila Hoar; Andersen, Aage; Antó i Boqué, Josep Maria; Cardis, Elisabeth; Grimsrud, Tom K.; Kjaerheim, Kristina; Kogevinas, Manolis; Porta Serra, Miquel (National Institute of Environmental Health Sciences, 2015)Background: Recently the International Agency for Research on Cancer (IARC) Programme for the Evaluation of Carcinogenic Risks to Humans has been criticized for several of its evaluations, and also the approach used to ...
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Bosch, Guillermo; Posso, Margarita; Louro, Javier; Román, Marta; Porta Serra, Miquel; Castells, Xavier; Macià Guilà, Francesc Assís (eLife, 2022)Background: To assess the effect of the COVID-19 pandemic on performance indicators in the population-based breast cancer screening program of Parc de Salut Mar (PSMAR), Barcelona, Spain. Methods: we conducted a before-and-after, ...
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Porta Serra, Miquel; Pumarega Rodríguez, José Antonio; Gasull Panadès, Magda; Aguilar, Ruth; Henríquez Hernández, Luis Alberto; Basagaña Flores, Xavier; Zumbado, Manuel; Villar García, Judit; Rius, Cristina; Mehta, Sneha; Vidal, Marta; Jiménez, Alfons; Campi, Laura; Lop Gros, Joan; Pérez Luzardo, Octavio L.; Dobaño, Carlota; Moncunill, Gemma (Elsevier, 2023)Background: There is wide, largely unexplained heterogeneity in immunological and clinical responses to SARS-CoV-2 infection. Numerous environmental chemicals, such as persistent organic pollutants (POPs) and chemical ...
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Gasull Panadès, Magda; Pumarega Rodríguez, José Antonio; Iglesias Coma, Mar; Kühn, Tilman; Porta Serra, Miquel (Elsevier, 2019)BACKGROUND: The use of biomarkers of environmental exposure to explore new risk factors for pancreatic cancer presents clinical, logistic, and methodological challenges that are also relevant in research on other complex ...
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Pumarega Rodríguez, José Antonio; Gasull Panadès, Magda; Lee, Duk-Hee; López, Tomàs; Porta Serra, Miquel (Public Library of Science (PLoS) , 2016)Human exposure to environmental chemicals as persistent organic pollutants (POPs) is usually assessed considering each pollutant individually, with little attention to concentrations of mixtures in individuals or social ...
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Amaral, André F.S.; Porta Serra, Miquel; Silverman, Debra T.; Milne, Roger L.; Kogevinas, Manolis; Rothman, Nathaniel; Cantor, Kenneth P; Jackson, Brian P.; Pumarega Rodríguez, José Antonio; López, Tomàs; Carrato, Alfredo; Guarner, Luisa; Real, Francisco X.; Malats i Riera, Núria (BMJ Publishing Group, 2012)Background and Aims: Knowledge on the aetiology of exocrine pancreatic cancer (EPC) is scant. The best established risk factor for EPC is tobacco smoking. Among other carcinogens, tobacco contains cadmium, a metal previously ...
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Porta Serra, Miquel; Gasull Panadès, Magda; Pumarega Rodríguez, José Antonio; Giménez-Robert, Àlex; Vineis, Paolo (Oxford University Press, 2022)Background: Findings and limitations of previous studies on persistent organic pollutants (POPs) and pancreatic cancer risk support conducting further research in prospective cohorts. Methods: We conducted a prospective ...
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Llorente, Carolina; Revuelta, Gema; Carrió, Mar; Porta Serra, Miquel (Public Library of Science (PLoS), 2019)The increasing perception that public communication in science and technology is an important tool to create a knowledge society is encouraging numerous public engagement activities. However, too little is known about ...
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Hernández-Quevedo, Cristina; Lopez-Valcarcel, Beatriz G.; Porta Serra, Miquel (American Public Health Association (APHA), 2018)
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