• Association between the 2018 WCRF/AICR and the low-risk lifestyle scores with colorectal cancer risk in the Predimed Study

  Barrubés, Laura; Babio, Nancy; Hernández-Alonso, Pablo; Toledo, Estefania; Estruch, Ramón; Ros, Emilio; Fitó Colomer, Montserrat; Alonso-Gómez, Ángel; Fiol, Miquel; Lapetra, José; Serra-Majem, Luis; Pintó Sala, Xavier; Ruiz-Canela, Miguel; Corella, Dolores; Castañer, Olga; Macías-González, Manuel; Salas-Salvadó, Jordi (MDPI, 2020)

  Limited longitudinal studies have been conducted to evaluate colorectal cancer (CRC) incidence based on the updated 2018 World Cancer Research Fund/American Institute for Cancer Research (WCRF/AICR) recommendations or other ...
• Immune cell subtypes and cytokines in lung tumor microenvironment: influence of COPD

  Tang, Jun; Ramis Cabrer, Daniel, 1993-; Curull Serrano, Víctor; Wang, Xuejie; Qin, Liyun; Mateu Jiménez, Mercè, 1990-; Duran Jordà, Xavier, 1974-; Pijuan Andujar, Lara; Rodríguez-Fuster, Alberto; Aguiló Espases, Rafael; Barreiro Portela, Esther (MDPI, 2020)

  Background: The immune microenvironment plays a role in tumorigenesis. Chronic Obstructive Pulmonary Disease (COPD) is an independent risk factor for lung cancer (LC). We hypothesized that immune profile characterized by ...
• The hippo pathway transducers YAP1/TEAD induce acquired resistance to trastuzumab in HER2-Positive breast cancer

  González-Alonso, Paula; Arpí Llucià, Oriol; Rovira Guerín, Ana; Albanell Mestres, Joan; Rojo, Federico (MDPI, 2020)

  Trastuzumab is the first-line targeted therapeutic drug for HER2-positive breast cancer, leading to improved overall survival. However, acquired resistance inevitably occurs. We aimed to identify, quantify, and assess the ...
• Ethnic disparities in hospitalisation for COVID-19 in England: The role of socioeconomic factors, mental health, and inflammatory and pro-inflammatory factors in a community-based cohort study

  Lassale, Camille; Gaye, Bamba; Hamer, Mark; Gale, Catharine R.; Batty, G. David (Elsevier, 2020)

  Background: Differentials in COVID-19 hospitalisations and mortality according to ethnicity have been reported but their origin is uncertain. We examined the role of socioeconomic, mental health, and pro-inflammatory factors ...
• Health inequity in workers of Latin America and the Caribbean

  Silva Peñaherrera, Michael; López Ruiz, María, 1982-; Merino Salazar, Pamela Alexandra, 1978-; Gómez García, Antonio Ramón; Benavides, Fernando G. (Fernando García) (BioMed Central, 2020)

  Background: Latin America and the Caribbean (LAC) is the world's most inequitable region in terms of wealth distribution. The full scale of social inequalities in health has been hidden by the lack of reliable data. This ...
• A demonstration project of Global Alliance against Chronic Respiratory Diseases: Prediction of interactions between air pollution and allergen exposure-the Mobile Airways Sentinel NetworK-Impact of air POLLution on Asthma and Rhinitis approach

  Sofiev, Mikhail; Bédard, Annabelle, 1986-; Basagaña Flores, Xavier; Antó i Boqué, Josep Maria; Bousquet, Jean (Wolters Kluwer (LWW), 2020)

  This review analyzes the state and recent progress in the field of information support for pollen allergy sufferers. For decades, information available for the patients and allergologists consisted of pollen counts, which ...
• Catalonia Suicide Risk Code Epidemiology (CSRC-Epi) study: protocol for a population-representative nested case-control study of suicide attempts in Catalonia, Spain

  Mortier, Philippe; Vilagut Saiz, Gemma, 1975-; Puértolas Gracia, Beatriz; De Inés Trujillo, Ana; Alayo, Itxaso; Ballester, Laura; Blasco Cubedo, Maria Jesús; Elices, Matilde; Gómez Sánchez, Javier; Martín Sánchez, Mario; Pérez Solá, Victor; Alonso Caballero, Jordi; CODIRISC Epidemiology Study Group (BMJ Publishing Group, 2020)

  Introduction: Suicide attempts represent an important public health burden. Centralised electronic health record (EHR) systems have high potential to provide suicide attempt surveillance, to inform public health action ...
• Chronic pain after groin hernia repair: pain characteristics and impact on quality of life

  Bande, David; Moltó, Luis; Pereira Rodríguez, José Antonio; Montes Pérez, Antonio (BioMed Central, 2020)

  Background: Chronic postsurgical pain (CPSP) after hernia repair research has mainly relied on unconfirmed self-reporting. We aimed to describe confirmed CPSP incidence, management, and quality of life (QoL) in a 2-year ...
• The EU-ToxRisk method documentation, data processing and chemical testing pipeline for the regulatory use of new approach methods

  Krebs, Alice; Pastor Maeso, Manuel; Leist, Marcel (Springer, 2020)

  Hazard assessment, based on new approach methods (NAM), requires the use of batteries of assays, where individual tests may be contributed by different laboratories. A unified strategy for such collaborative testing is ...
• Intermittent explosive disorder subtypes in the general population: association with comorbidity, impairment and suicidality

  Scott, Kate M.; Alonso Caballero, Jordi; de Jonge, P.; World Mental Health Surveys collaborators (Cambridge University Press, 2020)

  Aims: Intermittent explosive disorder (IED) is characterised by impulsive anger attacks that vary greatly across individuals in severity and consequence. Understanding IED subtypes has been limited by lack of large, general ...
• The LifeCycle Project-EU child cohort network: a federated analysis infrastructure and harmonized data of more than 250,000 children and parents

  Jaddoe, Vincent W. V.; Sunyer Deu, Jordi; Duijts, Liesbeth; LifeCycle Project Group (SpringerOpen, 2020)

  Early life is an important window of opportunity to improve health across the full lifecycle. An accumulating body of evidence suggests that exposure to adverse stressors during early life leads to developmental adaptations, ...
• Omalizumab updosing in chronic spontaneous urticaria: an overview of Real-World Evidence

  Metz, Martin; Vadasz, Zahava; Kocatürk, Emek; Giménez Arnau, Anna Maria (SpringerOpen, 2020)

  Chronic spontaneous urticaria (CSU) is defined as the spontaneous development of itchy hives and/or angioedema due to known or unknown causes that last for at least 6 weeks. At any given time, CSU is believed to affect ...
• Long-term greenspace exposure and progression of arterial stiffness: the whitehall II cohort study

  Keijzer, Carmen de, 1992-; Foraster Pulido, Maria, 1984-; Basagaña Flores, Xavier; Tonne, Cathryn; Alonso Garcia, Lucia; Valentín, Antònia; Kivimäki, Mika; Nieuwenhuijsen, Mark J.; Alonso Caballero, Jordi; Antó i Boqué, Josep Maria; Singh-Manoux, Archana; Sunyer Deu, Jordi; Dadvand, Payam (National Institute of Environmental Health Sciences (NIEHS), 2020)

  Background: Arterial stiffness, and its progression with age, is an important indicator of cardiovascular aging. Greenspace exposure may protect against arterial stiffness by promoting physical activity, fostering social ...
• Extracellular Granzyme A promotes colorectal cancer development by enhancing gut inflammation

  Santiago, Llipsy; Gil Gómez, Gabriel; Garrido, Marta; Peña, Raúl; Pardo, Julián (Elsevier, 2020)

  If not properly regulated, the inflammatory immune response can promote carcinogenesis, as evident in colorectal cancer (CRC). Aiming to gain mechanistic insight into the link between inflammation and CRC, we perform ...
• Host immune genetic variations influence the risk of developing acute myeloid leukaemia: results from the NuCLEAR consortium

  Sánchez-Maldonado, J.M.; Rodríguez-Sevilla, Juan José; Sainz, J. (Nature Research, 2020)

  The purpose of this study was to conduct a two-stage case control association study including 654 acute myeloid leukaemia (AML) patients and 3477 controls ascertained through the NuCLEAR consortium to evaluate the effect ...
• Design of the β3-adrenergic agonist treatment in chronic pulmonary hypertension secondary to heart failure trial

  Garcia-Lunar, Inés; Solé-González, Eduard; García-Álvarez, Ana (Elsevier, 2020)

  Combined pre-and post-capillary hypertension (CpcPH) is a relatively common complication of heart failure (HF) associated with a poor prognosis. Currently, there is no specific therapy approved for this entity. Recently, ...
• World-Wide FINGERS Network: a global approach to risk reduction and prevention of dementia

  Kivipelto, Miia; Torre Fornell, Rafael de la; Carrillo, Maria C. (Wiley, 2020)

  Reducing the risk of dementia can halt the worldwide increase of affected people. The multifactorial and heterogeneous nature of late-onset dementia, including Alzheimer's disease (AD), indicates a potential impact of ...
• Corrigendum to 'EAU-ESMO Consensus statements on the management of advanced and variant bladder cancer-an international collaborative multistakeholder effort under the auspices of the EAU-ESMO Guidelines Committees' [European Urology 77 (2020) 223-250]

  Witjes, J. Alfred; Bellmunt Molins, Joaquim, 1959-; Horwich, Alan (Elsevier, 2020)
• Plasma p-tau181 accurately predicts Alzheimer's disease pathology at least 8 years prior to post-mortem and improves the clinical characterisation of cognitive decline

  Lantero Rodriguez, Juan; Karikari, Thomas K.; Suárez-Calvet, Marc; Troakes, Claire; King, Andrew; Emersic, Andreja; Aarsland, Dag; Hye, Abdul; Zetterberg, Henrik; Blennow, Kaj; Ashton, Nicholas J. (SpringerOpen, 2020)

  The neuropathological confirmation of amyloid-β (Aβ) plaques and tau neurofibrillary tangles (NFT) remains the gold standard for a definitive diagnosis of Alzheimer's disease (AD). Nowadays, the in vivo diagnosis of AD is ...
• Clinical and biomarker changes of Alzheimer's disease in adults with Down syndrome: a cross-sectional study

  Fortea, Juan; González-Ortiz, Sofía; Lleó, Alberto (Elsevier, 2020)

  Background: Alzheimer's disease and its complications are the leading cause of death in adults with Down syndrome. Studies have assessed Alzheimer's disease in individuals with Down syndrome, but the natural history of ...

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