• Drinking water nitrate and human health: an updated review

  Ward, Mary H.; Jones, Rena R.; Brender, Jean D.; Kok, Theo M. de; Weyer, Peter J.; Nolan, Bernard T.; Villanueva, Cristina M.; van Breda, Simone G. (MDPI, 2018)

  Nitrate levels in our water resources have increased in many areas of the world largely due to applications of inorganic fertilizer and animal manure in agricultural areas. The regulatory limit for nitrate in public drinking ...
• Response to: comment on "the gut microbiome profile in obesity: a systematic review"

  Castañer, Olga; Schröder, Helmut, 1958- (Hindawi, 2018)
• The gut microbiome profile in obesity: a systematic review

  Castañer, Olga; Goday Arno, Alberto; Park, Yong-Moon; Lee, Seung-Hwan; Magkos, Faidon; Shiow, Sue-Anne Toh Ee; Schröder, Helmut, 1958- (Hindawi, 2018)
• Bullous pemphigoid induced by dipeptidyl peptidase-4 inhibitors. Eight cases with clinical and immunological characterization

  García-Díez, Irene; Ivars-Lleó, Marta; López-Aventín, Daniel; Ishii, Norito; Hashimoto, Takashi; Iranzo, Pilar; Pujol Vallverdú, Ramon Maria; España, Agustín; Herrero-González, Josep E. (Wiley, 2018)

  BACKGROUND: Dipeptidyl peptidase-4 (DPP-4) inhibitors have increasingly been identified as causative agents of bullous pemphigoid. The clinical and immunological characteristics of this pemphigoid variant are still unclear. ...
• Is iron deficiency modulating physical activity in COPD?

  Martín-Ontiyuelo, Clara; Rodó-Pin, Anna; Sancho Muñoz, Antonio; Martinez-Llorens, Juana María; Admetlló Papiol, Mireia; Molina Ferragut, Luis; Gea Guiral, Joaquim; Barreiro Portela, Esther; Rodríguez Chiaradía, Diego A. (DOVE Medical Press, 2019)

  There is evidence that iron plays a key role in the adequate functioning of skeletal muscle. While it has been demonstrated that nonanemic iron deficiency (NAID) affects exercise tolerance and response to exercise training ...
• Effect of mistimed eating patterns on breast and prostate cancer risk (MCC-Spain Study)

  Kogevinas, Manolis; Espinosa Díaz, Ana; Papantoniou, Kyriaki, 1983-; Castaño Vinyals, Gemma; Romaguera Bosch, Dora (Wiley-Blackwell, 2018)

  Modern life involves mistimed sleeping and eating patterns that in experimental studies are associated with adverse health effects. We assessed whether timing of meals is associated with breast and prostate cancer risk ...
• Behavioural biomarkers and mobile mental health: a new paradigm

  Hidalgo Mazzei, Diego; Young, Allan H.; Vieta, Eduard; Colom, Francesc (SpringerOpen, 2018)

  Over recent decades, the field of psychiatry has allocated a vast amount of resources and efforts to make available more accurate and objective methods to diagnose, assess and monitor treatment outcomes in psychiatric ...
• Effectiveness of the physical activity intervention program in the PREDIMED-Plus study: a randomized controlled trial

  Schröder, Helmut, 1958-; Cárdenas, Gabriela; Cárdenas, Gabriela; Cárdenas, Gabriela; Goday Arno, Alberto; Salas-Salvadó, Jordi; REDIMED-Plus investigators (BioMed Central, 2018)

  BACKGROUND: The development and implementation of effective physical activity (PA) intervention programs is challenging, particularly in older adults. After the first year of the intervention program used in the ongoing ...
• Omalizumab updosing for better disease control in chronic spontaneous urticaria patients

  Kocatürk, Emek; Deza Vargas, Luis Gustavo; Kızıltaç, Kübra; Giménez Arnau, Anna Maria (Karger (S. Karger AG), 2018)

  The recommended dose of omalizumab for the treatment of chronic spontaneous urticaria (CSU) is 300 mg every 4 weeks, but there is no recommendation for patients who do not benefit from this dose. Our aim is to present the ...
• Diastolic dysfunction and exercise capacity in patients with metabolic syndrome and overweight/obesity

  Alonso-Gómez, A.; Tojal Sierra, Lucas; Fortuny Fraub, Elena; Goicolea Güemeza, Leire; Aboitiz Uribarria, Ane; Portillo, María P.; Toledo, Estefania; Schröder, Helmut, 1958-; Salas Salvadó, Jordi; Arós, Fernando (Elsevier, 2018)

  BACKGROUND: Left ventricle diastolic dysfunction (LVDD) is a common finding in high risk individuals, its presence being associated with reduced exercise capacity (EC). We assessed the prevalence of LVDD, applying the 2016 ...
• Insulin-like growth factor levels and chronic lymphocytic leukaemia: results from the MCC-Spain and EpiLymph-Spain studies

  Casabonne, Delphine; Benavente, Yolanda; Costas, Laura; Robles Hellín, Claudia, 1980-; González, Eva; de la Banda, Esmeralda; Alonso, Esther; Aymerich, Marta; Campo, Elias; Marcos-Gragera, Rafael; Tardón, Adonina; Olmedo-Requena, Rocío; Gimeno Vázquez, Eva; Martınez-Lopez, Alba; Casanovas, Oriol; Castaño Vinyals, Gemma; Aragonés, Núria; Pollan, Marina; Kogevinas, Manolis; de Sanjosé, Silvia (Wiley-Blackwell, 2019)
• Corticosteroid treatment in critically ill patients with severe influenza pneumonia: a propensity score matching study

  Moreno, Gerard; Marín Corral, Judith; Loeches, I. M. (Springer, 2018)

  PURPOSE: To determine clinical predictors associated with corticosteroid administration and its association with ICU mortality in critically ill patients with severe influenza pneumonia. METHODS: Secondary analysis of a ...
• Extremely high levels of vancomycin can cause severe renal toxicity

  Barceló-Vidal, Jaime; Rodríguez García, Eva; Grau Cerrato, Santiago (Dove Medical Press, 2018)

  Vancomycin has usually been associated with nephrotoxicity. Generally, this toxicity is presented as proximal tubular cells injury with or without necrosis and as acute interstitial nephritis. However, development of both ...
• Health-related quality of life in men with prostate cancer undergoing active surveillance versus radical prostatectomy, external-beam radiotherapy, prostate brachytherapy and reference population: a cross-sectional study

  Sureda Gomila, Antoni; Fumadó Ciutat, Lluis; Ferrer Forés, Montserrat; Garín, O.; Bonet, X.; Mir, M.C.; Abascal, J.M.; Vigués, F.; Cecchini, L.; Suárez Novo, José Francisco (BioMed Central, 2019)

  BACKGROUND: The purpose of this study is to describe Health-Related Quality of Life (HRQoL) of localized prostate cancer patients in an Active Surveillance (AS) program, and to compare them with those undergoing radical ...
• Occupational exposures and 20-year incidence of COPD: the European Community Respiratory Health Survey

  Lytras, Theodoros, 1987-; Kogevinas, Manolis; Carsin, Anne-Elie; Antó i Boqué, Josep Maria; García Aymerich, Judith; Zock, Jan-Paul (BMJ Publishing Group, 2018)

  Background: Occupational exposures have been associated with an increased risk of COPD. However, few studies have related objectively assessed occupational exposures to prospectively assessed incidence of COPD, using ...
• DNA methylation in childhood asthma: an epigenome-wide meta-analysis

  Xu, Chengjian; Bustamante Pineda, Mariona; García Aymerich, Judith; Antó i Boqué, Josep Maria; Sunyer Deu, Jordi; Koppelman, Gerard H. (Elsevier, 2018)

  Background: DNA methylation profiles associated with childhood asthma might provide novel insights into disease pathogenesis. We did an epigenome-wide association study to assess methylation profiles associated with childhood ...
• Urban upbringing and childhood respiratory and allergic conditions: A multi-country holistic study

  Tischer, Christina; Dadvand, Payam; Basagaña Flores, Xavier; Sunyer Deu, Jordi; Antó i Boqué, Josep Maria (Elsevier, 2018)

  Objective: We integratively assessed the effect of different indoor and outdoor environmental exposures early in life on respiratory and allergic health conditions among children from (sub-) urban areas. Methods: This study ...
• Simulations meet machine learning in structural biology

  Pérez, Adrià; Martínez Rosell, Gerard; De Fabritiis, Gianni (Elsevier, 2018)

  Classical molecular dynamics (MD) simulations will be able to reach sampling in the second timescale within five years, producing petabytes of simulation data at current force field accuracy. Notwithstanding this, MD will ...
• Mediterranean diet and quality of life: Baseline cross-sectional analysis of the PREDIMED-PLUS trial

  Galilea-Zabalza, Iñigo; Zomeño Fajardo, Maria Dolores; Muñoz, Miguel Ángel; Fitó Colomer, Montserrat; PREDIMED-PLUS Study Investigators (Public Library of Science (PLoS), 2018)

  We assessed if a 17-item score capturing adherence to a traditional Mediterranean diet (MedDiet) was associated with better health-related quality of life among older Spanish men and women with overweight or obesity harboring ...
• The role impairment associated with mental disorder risk profiles in the WHO World Mental Health International College Student Initiative

  Alonso Caballero, Jordi; Vilagut Saiz, Gemma, 1975-; Mortier, Philippe; Auerbach, Randy P.; Bruffaerts, Ronny; Cuijpers, Pim; Demyttenaere, Koen; Ebert, David D.; Ennis, Edel; Gutiérrez‐García, Raul A.; Green, Jennifer Greif; Hasking, Penelope; Lee, Sue; Bantjes, Jason; Nock, Matthew K.; Pinder-Amaker, Stephanie; Sampson, Nancy A.; Zaslavsky, Alan M.; Kessler, Ronald C.; WHO WMH‐ICS Collaborators (Wiley, 2018)

  OBJECTIVE: The objective of this study is to assess the contribution of mental comorbidity to role impairment among college students. METHODS: Web-based self-report surveys from 14,348 first-year college students (Response ...

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