• Association between long-term air pollution exposure and DNA methylation: The REGICOR study

  Sayols, Sergi; Fernández Sanlés, Alba; 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 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 ...
• Exposure to disinfection by-products in swimming pools and biomarkers of genotoxicity and respiratory damage - The PISCINA2 Study

  Font-Ribera, Laia; Barreiro Portela, Esther; Gracia Lavedan, Esther; Arjona, Lourdes; de Bont, Jeroen; Tarès, Lluïsa; Vineis, Paolo; Kogevinas, Manolis; Villanueva Belmonte, Cristina (Elsevier, 2019)

  BACKGROUND: Swimming in pools is a healthy activity that entails exposure to disinfection by-products (DBPs), some of which are irritant and genotoxic. OBJECTIVES: We evaluated exposure to DBPs during swimming in a chlorinated ...
• 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. ...
• Predictors of personal exposure to black carbon among women in southern semi-rural Mozambique

  Curto Tirado, Ariadna, 1987-; Donaire González, David; Manacaf, Maria N.; González, Raquel; Sacoor, Charfudin; Rivash, Ioar; Gascon, Mireia; Wellenius, Gregory A.; Querol, Xavier; Sunyer Deu, Jordi; Macetef, Eusébio; Menéndez, Clara; Tonn, Cathryn (Elsevier, 2019)

  Sub-Saharan Africa (SSA) has the highest proportion of people using unclean fuels for household energy, which can result in products of incomplete combustion that are damaging for health. Black carbon (BC) is a useful ...
• Toenail concentrations of trace elements and occupational history in pancreatic cancer

  Camargo, Judit; Pumarega Rodríguez, José Antonio; Alguacil, Juan; Sanz-Gallén, Pere; Gasull Panadès, Magda; Delclos, George L.; Amaral, André F.S.; Porta Serra, Miquel (Elsevier, 2019)

  Background: Some occupations potentially entailing exposure to cadmium, arsenic, lead, selenium, nickel, and chromium have been associated with an increased risk of exocrine pancreatic cancer (EPC), but no studies have ...
• Associations between bone impact microindentation and clinical risk factors for fracture

  Rufus-Membere, Pamela; Holloway-Kew, Kara L.; Diez-Pérez, Adolfo; Kotowicz, Mark A.; Pasco, Julie A. (Oxford University Press, 2019)

  Impact microindentation (IMI) measures bone material strength index (BMSi) in vivo. However, clinical risk factors that affect BMSi are largely unknown. This study investigated associations between BMSi and clinical risk ...
• Accelerated redevelopment of vocal skills is preceded by lasting reorganization of the song motor circuitry

  Vellema, Michiel; Diales Rocha, Mariana; Bascones, Sabrina; Zsebők, Sándor; Dreier, Jes; Leitner, Stefan; Van der Linden, Annemie; Brewer, Jonathan; Gahr, Manfred (eLife, 2019)

  Complex motor skills take considerable time and practice to learn. Without continued practice the level of skill performance quickly degrades, posing a problem for the timely utilization of skilled motor behaviors. Here ...
• Meniscal allograft transplants and new scaffolding techniques

  Pereira, Hélder; Fatih Cengiz, Ibrahim; Gomes, Sérgio; Espregueira-Mendes, João; Ripoll, Pedro L.; Monllau García, Juan Carlos; Reis, Rui L.; Oliveira, J. Miguel (British Editorial Society of Bone & Joint Surgery, 2019)

  Clinical management of meniscal injuries has changed radically in recent years. We have moved from the model of systematic tissue removal (meniscectomy) to understanding the need to preserve the tissue.Based on the increased ...
• Association of first-trimester HbA1c levels with adverse pregnancy outcomes in different ethnic groups

  Mañé, Laura; Flores-Le-Roux, Juana Antonia; Gómez, Nàdia; Chillarón Jordan, Juan José; Llauradó Cabot, Gemma; Gortazar, Lucía; Payà Panadés, Antonio; Pedro-Botet, Juan Carlos; Benaiges Foix, David (Elsevier, 2019)

  Aim: To determine, in a multi-ethnic cohort, the association of first-trimester HbA1c levels with the development of pregnancy complications. Methods: A prospective study between April 2013-October 2016. Participants were ...
• The evolving biomarker landscape for treatment selection in metastatic colorectal cancer

  Taieb, Julien; Jung, Andreas; Sartore Bianch, Andrea; Peeters, Marc; Seligmann, Jenny; Zaanan, Aziz; Burdon, Peter; Montagut Viladot, Clara; Laurent Puig, Pierre (SpringerOpen, 2019)

  The approval of targeted therapies for metastatic colorectal cancer (mCRC) has led to important improvements in patient outcomes. However, it is still necessary to increase individualisation of treatments based on tumour ...
• Prevalence of postprandial hyperglycaemia in basal insulin-treated patients with type 2 diabetes mellitus with controlled fasting glycaemia and elevated glycosylated haemoglobin

  Tinahones Madueño, Francisco José; Molina Vega, María; Parra Barona, Juan; Flores-Le-Roux, Juana Antonia; Gómez Huelga, Ricardo (BioMed Central, 2019)

  Objective: To study the prevalence of postprandial hyperglycaemia (PPH) in type 2 diabetes mellitus (T2DM) patients treated with basal insulin, having fasting glucose < 130 mg/dL but HbA1c > 7.0% (53 mmol/mol). Methods: ...
• Effects of a mediterranean eating plan on the need for glucose-lowering medications in participants with type 2 diabetes: a subgroup analysis of the PREDIMED trial

  Basterra-Gortari, F. Javier; Ruiz-Canela, Miguel; Martinez-Gonzalez, Miguel A.; Babio, Nancy; Sorlí, J.V.; Fitó Colomer, Montserrat; Ros, Emilio; Gómez-Gracia, Enrique; Fiol, Miquel; Lapetra, José; Estruch, Ramón; Serra-Majem, Luis; Pinto, Xavier; González, José I.; Bulló, Mònica; Castañer, Olga; Alonso-Gómez, A.; Forga, Luis; Arós, Fernando; PREDIMED investigators (American Diabetes Association, 2019)

  OBJECTIVE: To examine the effects of two Mediterranean eating plans (Med-EatPlans) versus a low-fat eating plan on the need for glucose-lowering medications. RESEARCH DESIGN AND METHODS: From the Prevención con Dieta ...
• Plasma lipidomic profiling and risk of type 2 diabetes in the PREDIMED trial

  Razquin, Cristina; Fitó Colomer, Montserrat; Martinez-Gonzalez, Miguel A. (American Diabetes Association, 2018)

  OBJECTIVE: Specific lipid molecular changes leading to type 2 diabetes (T2D) are largely unknown. We assessed lipidome factors associated with future occurrence of T2D in a population at high cardiovascular risk. RESEARCH ...
• Neurodevelopmental correlates of the emerging adult self

  Davey, Christopher G.; Fornito, Alex; Pujol Nuez, Jesús; Breakspear, Michael; Schmaal, Lianne; Harrison, Ben J. (Elsevier, 2019)

  The self-concept - the set of beliefs that a person has about themselves - shows significant development from adolescence to early adulthood, in parallel with brain development over the same period. We sought to investigate ...
• Red and Orange Colors as Dermoscopic Clues for Fish-Tank Granuloma

  Lobato-Berezo, Alejandro; Martín-Ezquerra, Gemma; Vidal-Navarro, Ainhoa; Pujol Vallverdú, Ramon Maria (Derm101, 2019)
• Gender commonalities and differences in risk and protective factors of suicidal thoughts and behaviors: A cross-sectional study of Spanish university students

  Miranda-Mendizábal, Andrea; Torrent, Aina; Mortier, Philippe; Alonso Caballero, Jordi (Wiley, 2019)

  AIM: To assess gender differences in the association between risk/protective factors and suicidal thoughts and behaviors (STB); and whether there is any gender-interaction with those factors and STB; among Spanish university ...
• ResMarkerDB: a database of biomarkers of response to antibody therapy in breast and colorectal cancer

  Pérez-Granado, Judith; Piñero González, Janet, 1977-; Furlong, Laura I., 1971- (Oxford University Press, 2019)

  The clinical efficacy of therapeutic monoclonal antibodies for breast and colorectal cancer has greatly contributed to the improvement of patients' outcomes by individualizing their treatments according to their genomic ...
• Data on a new biomarker for kidney transplant recipients: The number of FoxP3 regulatory T cells in the circulation

  Herrera-Gómez Francisco; del Aguila, Waldo; Tejero-Pedregosa, Armando; Adler, Marcel; Padilla-Berdugo, Rosario; Maurtua-Briseño-Meiggs, Álvaro; Pascual Santos, Julio; Pascual, Manuel; San Segundo, David; Heidt, Sebastiaan; Álvarez, F. Javier; Ochoa-Sangrador, Carlos; Lambert, Claude (Elsevier, 2018)

  This article presents unrevealed details of the systematic review process of the article "The number of FoxP3 regulatory T cells in the circulation may be a predictive biomarker for kidney transplant recipients: A multistage ...
• Comparative efficacy of linezolid and vancomycin for endotracheal tube MRSA biofilms from ICU patients

  Fernández-Barat, Laia; Motos, Ana; Panigada, Mauro; Álvarez Lerma, Francisco; Viña, Lucía; Lopez-Aladid, Ruben; Ceccato, Adrian; Bassi, Gianluigi Li; Nicolau, David P.; Lopez, Yuli; Muñoz, Laura; Guerrero, Laura; Soy, Dolors; Israel, Trinidad; Castro, Pedro; Torres, Antoni (BioMed Central, 2019)

  PURPOSE: To compare the efficacy of systemic treatment with linezolid (LNZ) versus vancomycin (VAN) on methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus (MRSA) burden and eradication in endotracheal tube (ETT) biofilm and ETT ...

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