Browsing by Author "Rivas, Ioar"

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  • Airborne copper exposure in school environments associated with poorer motor performance and altered basal ganglia.
    Pujol Martí, Jesús, 1981-; Fenoll, Raquel; Macià, Dídac; Martínez-Vilavella, Gerard; Álvarez Pedrerol, Mar; Rivas, Ioar; Forns i Guzman, Joan, 1981-; Deus, Joan; Blanco Hinojo, Laura, 1981-; Querol, Xavier; Sunyer Deu, Jordi (Willey, 2016)
    INTRODUCTION: Children are more vulnerable to the effects of environmental elements. A variety of air pollutants are among the identified factors causing neural damage at toxic concentrations. It is not obvious, however, ...
  • Ambient air pollution and overweight and obesity in school-aged children in Barcelona, Spain
    De Bont, Jeroen, 1989-; Casas Sanahuja, Maribel; Barrera Gómez, Jose; Cirach, Marta; Rivas, Ioar; Valvi, Damaskini, 1983-; Álvarez Pedrerol, Mar; Dadvand, Payam; Sunyer Deu, Jordi; Vrijheid, Martine (Elsevier, 2019)
    Background: Ambient air pollution may increase the risk of overweight and obesity in children. However, available evidence is still scarce and has mainly focused on ambient air pollution exposure occurring at home without ...
  • 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 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 ...
  • 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 ...
  • Child exposure to indoor and outdoor air pollutants in schools in Barcelona, Spain
    Rivas, Ioar; Viana, Maria Carmen; Moreno, Teresa; Pandolfi, Marco; Amato, Fulvio; Reche, Cristina; Bouso, Laura; Álvarez Pedrerol, Mar; Sunyer Deu, Jordi; Alastuey, Andrés; Querol, Xavier (Elsevier, 2014)
    Proximity to road traffic involves higher health risks because of atmospheric pollutants. In addition to outdoor air, indoor air quality contributes to overall exposure. In the framework of the BREATHE study, indoor and ...
  • Effect of exposure to polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbons on basal ganglia and attention-deficit hyperactivity disorder symptoms in primary school children
    Mortamais, Marion; Pujol Martí, Jesús, 1981-; van Drooge, Barend L.; Macià, Dídac; Martínez-Vilavella, Gerard; Reynes, Christelle; Sabatier, Robert; Rivas, Ioar; Grimalt Obrador, Joan; Forns i Guzman, Joan, 1981-; Álvarez Pedrerol, Mar; Querol, Xavier; Sunyer Deu, Jordi (Elsevier, 2017)
    Background: Polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbons (PAHs) have been proposed as environmental risk factors for attention deficit hyperactivity disorder (ADHD). The effects of these pollutants on brain structures potentially ...
  • Effects of prenatal exposure to particulate matter air pollution on corpus callosum and behavioral problems in children
    Mortamais, Marion; Pujol Martí, Jesús, 1981-; Martínez-Vilavella, Gerard; Fenoll, Raquel; Reynes, Christelle; Sabatier, Robert; Rivas, Ioar; Forns i Guzman, Joan, 1981-; Vilor Tejedor, Natàlia, 1988-; Alemany, Silvia; Cirach, Marta; Alvarez, Mar; Nieuwenhuijsen, Mark J.; Sunyer Deu, Jordi (Elsevier, 2019)
    Objective: Air pollution (AP) may affect neurodevelopment, but studies about the effects of AP on the growing human brain are still scarce. We aimed to investigate the effects of prenatal exposure to AP on lateral ventricles ...
  • Exposure to road traffic noise and cognitive development in schoolchildren in Barcelona, Spain: a population-based cohort study
    Foraster Pulido, Maria, 1984-; Esnaola, Mikel; López Vicente, Mònica, 1988-; Rivas, Ioar; Álvarez Pedrerol, Mar; Persavento, Cecilia; Sebastian-Galles, Nuria; Pujol Martí, Jesús; Dadvand, Payam; Sunyer Deu, Jordi (Public Library of Science (PLoS), 2022)
    Background: road traffic noise is a prevalent and known health hazard. However, little is known yet about its effect on children's cognition. We aimed to study the association between exposure to road traffic noise and the ...
  • Field comparison of portable and stationary instruments for outdoor urban air exposure assessments
    Viana, Maria Carmen; Rivas, Ioar; Reche, Cristina; Fonseca, Ana Sofía; Pérez, Noemí; Querol, Xavier; Alastuey, Andrés; Álvarez Pedrerol, Mar; Sunyer Deu, Jordi (Elsevier, 2015)
    The performance of three portable monitors (micro-aethalometer AE51, DiscMini, Dusttrak DRX) was assessed for outdoor air exposure assessment in a representative Southern European urban environment. The parameters evaluated ...
  • How to protect school children from the neurodevelopmental harms of air pollution by interventions in the school environment in the urban context
    Rivas, Ioar; Querol, Xavier; Wright, John; Sunyer Deu, Jordi (Elsevier, 2018)
    Recently, there has been a flurry of publications assessing the effect of air pollution on neurodevelopment. Here we present a summary of the results obtained within the BRain dEvelopment and Air polluTion ultrafine particles ...
  • Identification of technical problems affecting performance of DustTrak DRX aerosol monitors
    Rivas, Ioar; Mazaheri, Mandana; Viana, Mar; Moreno, Teresa; Clifford, Samuel; He, Congrong; Bischof, Oliver F.; Martins, Vânia; Reche, Cristina; Alastuey, Andrés; Álvarez Pedrerol, Mar, 1981-; Sunyer Deu, Jordi; Morawska, Lidia; Querol, Xavier (Elsevier, 2017)
    The TSI DustTrak Aerosol Monitor is a portable real-time instrument widely used for particulate matter (PM) mass concentrations monitoring. The aim of this work is to report on issues that have arisen from the use of the ...
  • Impact of commuting exposure to traffic-related air pollution on cognitive development in children walking to school
    Álvarez Pedrerol, Mar; Rivas, Ioar; López Vicente, Mònica, 1988-; Suades González, Elisabet; Donaire González, David; Cirach, Marta; de Castro, Montserrat; Esnaola, Mikel; Basagaña Flores, Xavier; Dadvand, Payam; Nieuwenhuijsen, Mark J.; Sunyer Deu, Jordi (Elsevier, 2017)
    A few studies have found associations between the exposure to traffic-related air pollution at school and/or home and cognitive development. The impact on cognitive development of the exposure to air pollutants during ...
  • Infection induced SARS-CoV-2 seroprevalence and heterogeneity of antibody responses in a general population cohort study in Catalonia Spain
    Karachaliou, Marianna; Moncunill, Gemma; Espinosa Díaz, Ana; Castaño Vinyals, Gemma; Jiménez, Alfons; Vidal, Marta; Santano, Rebeca; Barrios, Diana; Jiménez, Alfons; Puyol, Laura; Mayer, Leonie; Rubio, Rocío; O'Callaghan-Gordo, Cristina; Fossati, Serena; Rivas, Ioar; Vrijheid, Martine; Izquierdo, Luis; Aguilar, Ruth; Basagaña Flores, Xavier; García Aymerich, Judith; Dobaño, Carlota; Kogevinas, Manolis (Nature Research, 2021)
    Sparse data exist on the complex natural immunity to SARS-CoV-2 at the population level. We applied a well-validated multiplex serology test in 5000 participants of a general population study in Catalonia in blood samples ...
  • Interaction between airborne copper exposure and ATP7B polymorphisms on inattentiveness in scholar children
    Alemany, Silvia; Vilor-Tejedor, Natàlia; Bustamante Pineda, Mariona; Álvarez Pedrerol, Mar, 1981-; Rivas, Ioar; Forns i Guzman, Joan, 1981-; Querol, Xavier; Pujol Martí, Jesús, 1981-; Sunyer Deu, Jordi (Elsevier, 2017)
    Recent research indicates that airborne copper exposure in scholar children negatively affects brain functioning. These effects are likely to be influenced by the efficiency of copper metabolism, which is partly regulated ...
  • Neurodevelopmental deceleration by urban fine particles from different emission sources: a longitudinal observational study.
    Basagaña Flores, Xavier; Esnaola, Mikel; Rivas, Ioar; Amato, Fulvio; Álvarez Pedrerol, Mar; Forns i Guzman, Joan, 1981-; López Vicente, Mònica, 1988-; Pujol Martí, Jesús, 1981-; Nieuwenhuijsen, Mark J.; Querol, Xavier; Sunyer Deu, Jordi (National Institute of Environmental Health Sciences, 2016)
    BACKGROUND: A few studies have reported associations between traffic-related air pollution exposure at schools and cognitive development. The role of PM components or sources other than traffic on cognitive development has ...
  • Organic air quality markers of indoor and outdoor PM 2.5 aerosols in primary schools from Barcelona
    van Drooge, Barend L.; Rivas, Ioar; Querol, Xavier; Sunyer Deu, Jordi; Grimalt Obrador, Joan (MDPI, 2020)
    Airborne particulate matter with an aerodynamic diameter smaller than 2.5 µg, PM2.5 was regularly sampled in classrooms (indoor) and playgrounds (outdoor) of primary schools from Barcelona. Three of these schools were ...
  • Outdoor infiltration and indoor contribution of UFP and BC, OC, secondary inorganic ions and metals in PM2.5 in schools
    Rivas, Ioar; Viana, Maria Carmen; Moreno, Teresa; Bouso, Laura; Pandolfi, Marco; Álvarez Pedrerol, Mar; Forns i Guzman, Joan, 1981-; Alastuey, Andrés; Sunyer Deu, Jordi; Querol, Xavier (Elsevier, 2015)
    Infiltration of outdoor-sourced particles into indoor environments in 39 schools in Barcelona was assessed during school hours. Tracers of road traffic emissions (NO2, Equivalent Black Carbon (EBC), Ultrafine Particles ...
  • Partitioning of trace elements and metals between quasi-ultrafine, accumulation and coarse aerosols in indoor and outdoor air in schools
    Viana, Maria Carmen; Rivas, Ioar; Querol, Xavier; Alastuey, Andrés; Álvarez Pedrerol, Mar; Bouso, Laura; Sioutas, Constantinos; Sunyer Deu, Jordi (Elsevier, 2015)
    Particle size distribution patterns of trace elements and metals across three size fractions (<0.25 μm, quasi-ultrafine particles, q-UF; 0.25–2.5 μm, accumulation particles; 2.5–10 μm, coarse particles) were analysed in ...
  • Road traffic and sandy playground influence on ambient pollutants in schools
    Minguillón, María Cruz; Rivas, Ioar; Moreno, Teresa; Alastuey, Andrés; Font, Oriol; Córdoba, Patricia; Álvarez Pedrerol, Mar; Sunyer Deu, Jordi; Querol, Xavier (Elsevier, 2015)
    Urban air pollution has a greater impact on children's health compared to adults. In the framework of the BREATHE (BRain dEvelopment and Air polluTion ultrafine particles in scHool childrEn) project, the present work studies ...