Browsing by Author "Kogevinas, Manolis"

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  • A birth cohort study in the Middle East: the Qatari birth cohort study (QBiC) phase I
    Sadoun, Eman; Leventakou, Vasiliki; Casas Sanahuja, Maribel; Ahmed, Heba Fawzy; Kogevinas, Manolis; Fthenou, Eleni (BioMed Central, 2017)
    BACKGROUND: The latest scientific reports raise concerns about the rapidly increasing burden of chronic diseases in the state of Qatar. Pregnant Qatari women often confront complications during pregnancy including gestational ...
  • A call for urgent action to safeguard our planet and our health in line with the helsinki declaration
    Halonen, Jaana I.; Kogevinas, Manolis; Nieuwenhuijsen, Mark J.; Antó i Boqué, Josep Maria (Elsevier, 2021)
    In 2015, the Rockefeller Foundation-Lancet Commission launched a report introducing a novel approach called Planetary Health and proposed a concept, a strategy and a course of action. To discuss the concept of Planetary ...
  • A multi-omic analysis of birthweight in newborn cord blood reveals new underlying mechanisms related to cholesterol metabolism
    Alfano, Rossella; Kogevinas, Manolis; Sunyer Deu, Jordi; Vrijheid, Martine; Plusquin, Michelle (Elsevier, 2020)
    Background: Birthweight reflects in utero exposures and later health evolution. Despite existing studies employing high-dimensional molecular measurements, the understanding of underlying mechanisms of birthweight remains ...
  • A multivariate approach to investigate the combined biological effects of multiple exposures
    Jain, Pooja; Vineis, Paolo; Liquet, Benoît; Vlaanderen, Jelle; Bodinier, Barbara; van Veldhoven, Karin; Kogevinas, Manolis; Athersuch, Toby J.; Font-Ribera, Laia; Villanueva Belmonte, Cristina; Vermeulen, Roel; Chadeau-Hyam, Marc (BMJ Publishing Group, 2018)
    Epidemiological studies provide evidence that environmental exposures may affect health through complex mixtures. Formal investigation of the effect of exposure mixtures is usually achieved by modelling interactions, which ...
  • A single nucleotide polymorphism tags variation in the arylamine N-acetyltransferase 2 phenotype in populations of European background
    García Closas, Montserrat; Hein, David W.; Silverman, Debra T.; Malats i Riera, Núria; Yeager, Meredith; Jacobs, Kevin; Doll, Mark A.; Figueroa, Jonine D.; Baris, Dalsu; Schwenn, Molly; Kogevinas, Manolis; Johnson, Alison; Chatterjee, Nilanjan; Moore, Lee E.; Moeller, Timothy; Real, Francisco X.; Chanock, Stephen J.; Rothman, Nathaniel (Lippincott Williams & Wilkins, 2011)
    The arylamine N-acetyltransferase 2 (NAT2) slow acetylation phenotype is an established risk factor for urinary bladder cancer. We reported earlier on this risk association using NAT2 phenotypic categories inferred from ...
  • Aberrant Epstein-Barr virus antibody patterns and chronic lymphocytic leukemia in a Spanish multicentric case-control study
    Casabonne, Delphine; Benavente, Yolanda; Robles Hellín, Claudia, 1980-; Costas, Laura; Alonso, Esther; González, Eva; Tardón, Adonina; Dierssen Sotos, Trinidad; Gimeno Vázquez, Eva; Aymerich, Marta; Campo, Elias; Castaño Vinyals, Gemma; Aragonés, Núria; Pollan, Marina; Kogevinas, Manolis; Juwana, Hedy; Middeldorp, Jaap; de Sanjosé, Silvia (BioMed Central, 2015)
    Background: Epstein-Barr virus (EBV)-related malignancies harbour distinct serological responses to EBV antigens. We hypothesized that EBV serological patterns can be useful to identify different stages of chronic lymphocytic ...
  • Adequacy of early-stage breast cancer systemic adjuvant treatment to Saint Gallen-2013 statement: the MCC-Spain study
    Gómez-Acebo, Inés; Sala, Maria; Castaño Vinyals, Gemma; Kogevinas, Manolis; Llorca, Javier (Nature Research, 2021)
    The St Gallen Conference endorsed in 2013 a series of recommendations on early breast cancer treatment. The main purpose of this article is to ascertain the clinical factors associated with St Gallen-2013 recommendations ...
  • Adherence to nutrition-based cancer prevention guidelines and breast, prostate and colorectal cancer risk in the MCC-Spain case-control study
    Romaguera Bosch, Dora; Gracia Lavedan, Esther; Molinuevo, Amaia; De Batlle, Jordi; Mendez, Michelle A.; Moreno, Víctor; Vidal, Carmen; Castelló, Adela; Pérez-Gómez, Beatriz; Martín Sánchez, Vicente; Molina, Antonio; Dávila-Batista, Verónica; Dierssen Sotos, Trinidad; Gómez-Acebo, Inés; Llorca, Javier; Guevara, Marcela; Castilla, Jesús; Urtiaga, Carmen; Llorens-Ivorra, Cristóbal; Fernández-Tardón, Guillermo; Tardón, Adonina; Lorca Marín, José Andrés; Marcos-Gragera, Rafael; Huerta, José María; Olmedo-Requena, Rocío; Jiménez-Moleón, José Juan; Altzibar, Jone Miren; de Sanjosé, Silvia; Pollan, Marina; Aragonés, Núria; Castaño Vinyals, Gemma; Kogevinas, Manolis; Amiano, Pilar (Wiley, 2017)
    Prostate, breast and colorectal cancer are the most common tumours in Spain. The aim of the present study was to evaluate the association between adherence to nutrition-based guidelines for cancer prevention and prostate, ...
  • Agreement among mediterranean diet pattern adherence indexes: MCC-Spain Study
    Olmedo-Requena, Rocío; Castaño Vinyals, Gemma; Kogevinas, Manolis; Martín Sánchez, Vicente (MDPI, 2019)
    There are many different methods used to measure the degree of adherence to a Mediterranean diet (MD), limiting comparison and interpretation of their results. The concordance between different methodologies has been ...
  • Alkylphenolic compounds and risk of breast and prostate cancer in the MCC-Spain study
    Peremiquel-Trillas, Paula; Tusquets Trias de Bes, Ignacio; Castaño Vinyals, Gemma; Kogevinas, Manolis; Costas, Laura (Elsevier, 2019)
    BACKGROUND: Alkylphenolic compounds are chemicals with endocrine disrupting properties that have been widely used in industry with important changes in their usage over time. Few epidemiologic studies have evaluated the ...
  • Ambient air pollution in relation to SARS-CoV-2 infection, antibody response, and COVID-19 disease: a Cohort study in Catalonia, Spain (COVICAT Study)
    Kogevinas, Manolis; Castaño Vinyals, Gemma; Karachaliou, Marianna; Espinosa Díaz, Ana; Garcia Aymerich, Judith; Jiménez, Alfons; Vidal, Marta; O’Callaghan-Gordo, Cristina; Cirach, Marta; Santano, Rebeca; Barrios, Diana; Puyol, Laura; Rubio, Rocío; Izquierdo, Luis; Nieuwenhuijsen, Mark J.; Dadvand, Payam; Aguilar, Ruth; Moncunill, Gemma; Dobaño, Carlota; Tonne, Cathryn (National Institute of Environmental Health Sciences (NIEHS), 2021)
    Background: emerging evidence links ambient air pollution with coronavirus 2019 (COVID-19) disease, an association that is methodologically challenging to investigate. Objectives: we examined the association between long-term ...
  • Antibody responses to flagellin C and streptococcus gallolyticus pilus proteins in colorectal cancer
    Butt, Julia; Kogevinas, Manolis; Aragonés, Núria (Nature Research, 2019)
    Antibodies to Streptococcus gallolyticus subspecies gallolyticus (SGG) have been associated with colorectal cancer (CRC). Because SGG may correlate with impaired gut epithelia, we assessed the association of antibodies to ...
  • Application of multi-SNP approaches Bayesian LASSO and AUC-RF to detect main effects of inflammatory-gene variants associated with bladder cancer risk
    López De Maturana, Evangelina; Ye, Yuanqing; Calle, M. Luz; Rothman, Nathaniel; Urrea, Víctor; Kogevinas, Manolis; Petrus, Sandra; Chanock, Stephen J.; Tardón, Adonina; García Closas, Montserrat; González Neira, Anna; Vellalta, Gemma; Carrato, Alfredo; Navarro i Cuartiellas, Arcadi, 1969-; Lorente-Galdós, Belén, 1981-; Silverman, Debra T.; Real, Francisco X.; Wu, Xifeng; Malats i Riera, Núria (Public Library of Science (PLoS), 2013)
    The relationship between inflammation and cancer is well established in several tumor types, including bladder cancer. We performed an association study between 886 inflammatory-gene variants and bladder cancer risk in ...
  • ARIA 2016: Care pathways implementing emerging technologies for predictive medicine in rhinitis and asthma across the life cycle
    Bousquet, Jean; Antó i Boqué, Josep Maria; Kogevinas, Manolis; Sunyer Deu, Jordi; Zidarn, M. (BioMed Central, 2016)
    The Allergic Rhinitis and its Impact on Asthma (ARIA) initiative commenced during a World Health Organization workshop in 1999. The initial goals were (1) to propose a new allergic rhinitis classification, (2) to promote ...
  • Assessment of the Combined Effect of Epstein-Barr Virus and Plasmodium falciparumInfections on Endemic Burkitt Lymphoma Using a Multiplex Serological Approach
    Aguilar, Ruth; Casabonne, Delphine; O’Callaghan-Gordo, Cristina; Vidal, Marta; Campo, Joseph J.; Mutalima, Nora; Angov, Evelina; Dutta, Sheetij; Gaur, Deepak; Chitnis, Chetan E.; Chauhan, Virander; Michel, Angelika; de Sanjosé, Silvia; Waterboer, Tim; Kogevinas, Manolis; Newton, Rob; Dobaño, Carlota (Frontiers, 2017)
    Epstein-Barr virus (EBV) is a necessary cause of endemic Burkitt lymphoma (eBL), while the role of Plasmodium falciparum in eBL remains uncertain. This study aimed to generate new hypotheses on the interplay between both ...
  • Association between polyphenol intake and breast Cancer risk by menopausal and hormone receptor status
    Vitelli Storelli, Facundo; Castaño Vinyals, Gemma; Kogevinas, Manolis; Martín Sánchez, Vicente (MDPI, 2020)
    There is limited evidence of phenolic compounds acting as protective agents on several cancer types, including breast cancer (BC). Nevertheless, some polyphenol classes have not been investigated and there is a lack of ...
  • Association between polyphenol intake and gastric cancer risk by anatomic and histologic subtypes: MCC-Spain
    Rubín-García, María; Vitelli Storelli, Facundo; Molina, Antonio J.; Zamora-Ros, Raúl; Aragonés, Núria; Ardanaz Aicua, Eva; Castaño Vinyals, Gemma; Obón-Santacana Mireia; Gómez-Acebo, Inés; Molina-Barceló, Ana; Fernández-Tardón, Guillermo; Jiménez-Moleón, José Juan; Alguacil Ojeda, Juan; Chirlaque, María Dolores; Toledo, Estefania; Pérez-Gómez, Beatriz; Pollan, Marina; Kogevinas, Manolis; Martín, Vicente (MDPI, 2020)
    Several anticancer properties have been largely attributed to phenolics in in vivo and in vitro studies, but epidemiologic evidence is still scarce. Furthermore, some classes have not been studied in relation to gastric ...
  • Association of diabetes and diabetes treatment with incidence of breast cancer
    García-Esquinas, Esther; Castaño Vinyals, Gemma; Sala Serra, Maria; Kogevinas, Manolis; Pollan, Marina (Springer, 2015)
    AIMS: The aim of this study was to evaluate the association of diabetes and diabetes treatment with risk of postmenopausal breast cancer. METHODS: Histologically confirmed incident cases of postmenopausal breast (N = 916) ...
  • Association of early life exposure to phthalates with obesity and cardiometabolic traits in childhood: sex specific associations
    Vafeiadi, Marina, 1983-; Myridakis, Antonis; Roumeliotaki, Theano; Margetaki, Katerina; Chalkiadaki, Georgia; Dermitzaki, Eirini; Venihaki, Maria; Sarri, Katerina; Vassilaki, Maria; Leventakou, Vasiliki; Stephanou, Euripides G.; Kogevinas, Manolis; Chatzi, Leda (Frontiers, 2018)
    Few studies have investigated longitudinal associations between early life phthalate exposure and subsequent obesity and cardiovascular risks in children with inconsistent results. We aimed to evaluate the associations ...
  • Association of Prenatal Exposure to Persistent Organic Pollutants with Obesity and Cardiometabolic Traits in Early Childhood: The Rhea Mother-Child Cohort (Crete, Greece).
    Vafeiadi, Marina, 1983-; Georgiou, Vaggelis; Chalkiadaki, Georgia; Rantakokko, Panu; Kiviranta, Hannu; Karachaliou, Marianna; Fthenou, Eleni; Venihaki, Maria; Sarri, Katerina; Vassilaki, Maria; Kyrtopoulos, Sosterios A.; Oken, Emily; Kogevinas, Manolis; Chatzi, Leda (National Institute of Environmental Health Sciences (NIEHS), 2015)
    BACKGROUND: Prenatal exposure to endocrine-disrupting chemicals such as persistent organic pollutants (POPs) may increase risk of obesity later in life. OBJECTIVE: We examined the relation of in utero POPs exposure to ...