Articles (Hospital del Mar Research Institute)

 

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  • Miranda-Olivos, Romina; Baenas, Isabel; Steward, Trevor; Granero, Roser; Pastor, Antonio; Sánchez, Isabel; Juaneda-Seguí, Asier; Pino-Gutiérrez, Amparo del; Fernández-Formoso, José A.; Vilarrasa, Nuria; Guerrero-Pérez, Fernando; Virgili, Núria; López-Urdiales, Rafael; Jiménez Murcia, Susana; Torre Fornell, Rafael de la; Soriano Mas, Carles; Fernández Aranda, Fernando (Nature Research, 2023)
    Anorexia nervosa (AN) is a severe psychiatric disorder characterized by a harmful persistence of self-imposed starvation resulting in significant weight loss. Research suggests that alterations in the nucleus accumbens ...
  • Torres, Marta; Serra-Sutton, Vicky; Soriano, Joan B.; Ferrer Forés, Maria Montserrat; Trejo, Alex; Benavides, Fernando G. (Fernando García); Lumbreras, Blanca; Pérez-Gómez, Beatriz; Pijoán, José Ignacio; Monguet, Josep M.; Barbé, Ferran; Pollán, Marina; Alonso Caballero, Jordi; Espallargues, Mireia; Serrano-Blanco, Antoni (Elsevier, 2023)
    Background: In 2021, the Spanish Ministry of Health launched the CIBERPOSTCOVID project to establish what post COVID was. The present study reports the level of agreement among stakeholders on post COVID and its clinical ...
  • Karachaliou, Marianna; Damianaki, Irene; Moudatsaki, Maria; Margetaki, Katerina; Roumeliotaki, Theano; Bempi, Vicky; Moudatsaki, Marina; Chatzi, Lida Vaia; Vafeiadi, Marina, 1983-; Kogevinas, Manolis (MDPI, 2023)
    Background: In Greece, influenza vaccination is currently recommended for children with high-risk conditions. There are limited data on influenza vaccination uptake among Greek children with and without high-risk conditions. ...
  • Velázquez-Cortés, Daniel; Nieuwenhuijsen, Mark J.; Jerrett, Michael; Rojas Rueda, David, 1979- (Elsevier, 2023)
    Background: To improve physical activity in Latin American cities, several interventions have been promoted, such as Open Streets programmes. Our study aims to quantify the health and economic effects of Open Streets-related ...
  • Mayoral, Karina; Lizano-Barrantes, Catalina; Zamora, Víctor; Pont Acuña, Àngels; Miret, Carme; Barrufet González, Cristina; Caballero-Rabasco, María Araceli; Praena-Crespo, Manuel; Bercedo, Alberto; Valdesoiro-Navarrete, Laura; Guerra, María Teresa; Pardo Cladellas, Yolanda; Martínez Zapata, María José; Garin Boronat, Olatz, 1979-; Ferrer Forés, Maria Montserrat; ARCA Group (European Respiratory Society, 2023)
    Background: We aim to assess the impact of montelukast on paediatric patients with asthma/allergic rhinitis, measured using patient-reported outcome measures, compared with other treatments or placebo. Methods: Protocol ...
  • Castano-Vinyals, Gemma; Aragonés, Núria; Pérez-Gómez, Beatriz; Martín, Vicente; Llorca, Javier; Moreno, Víctor; Altzibar, Jone Miren; Ardanaz, Eva; Sanjosé Llongueras, Silvia de; Jiménez-Moleón, José Juan; Tardón, Adonina; Alguacil, Juan; Peiró, Rosana; Marcos-Gragera, Rafael; Navarro, Carmen; Pollán, Marina; Kogevinas, Manolis; MCC-Spain Study Group (Elsevier, 2015)
    Introduction. We present the protocol of a large population-based case-control study of 5 common tumors in Spain (MCC-Spain) that evaluates environmental exposures and genetic factors. Methods. Between 2008-2013, 10,183 ...
  • Casas Sanahuja, Maribel; Martínez, David; Kogevinas, Manolis; García, Ana María; Nieuwenhuijsen, Mark J.; Vrijheid, Martine (NOROSH, 2015)
    Objectives. We assessed whether maternal employment during pregnancy – overall and in selected occupational sectors – is associated with birth weight, small for gestational age (SGA), term low birth weight (LBW), length ...
  • Carrión, Sílvia; Torres-Collado, Laura; Castañer, Olga (CSIC, 2016)
    This review highlights the human studies that explore the benefits of the Mediterranean diet and olive oil, based on gene expression analysis. We summarized consistent human transcriptomic studies on cardiovascular risk, ...
  • Cano-Plazas, Sara; Lacueva-Pérez, Laia; Cabrera Torres, Esther; Zabalegui, Adelaida (Universidad de La Sabana - Palabra clave, 2017)
    Objetivo: evaluar la validez y la fiabilidad de la versión española del instrumento Expectativas y conocimiento recibido del paciente hospitalizado (ECPH/CRPH) en pacientes con osteoartritis intervenidos de artroplastia ...
  • Bustamante Pineda, Mariona; Hernandez-Ferrer, Carles, 1987-; Sarria-Trujillo, Yaris; Harrison, Graham I.; Nonell Mazelón, Lara; Kang, Wenjing; Friedländer, Marc R.; Estivill, Xavier, 1955-; González, Juan Ramón; Nieuwenhuijsen, Mark J.; Young, Antony R. (Elsevier, 2017)
    The molecular basis of many health outcomes attributed to solar ultraviolet radiation (UVR) is unknown. We tested the hypothesis that they may originate from transcriptional changes in blood cells. This was determined by ...
  • Osorio Yáñez, Citlalli; Clemente Batalha Pardal, Diana, 1990-; Maitre, Léa; Vives Usano, Marta, 1990-; Bustamante Pineda, Mariona; Martínez, David; Casas Sanahuja, Maribel; Urquiza, José M.; Tamayo-Uria, Ibon; Sunyer Deu, Jordi; Vrijheid, Martine (Elsevier, 2020)
    Telomere length and mitochondrial DNA content are considered biomarkers of cellular aging, oxidative stress, and inflammation, but there is almost no information on their association with tobacco smoke exposure in fetal ...
  • 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 ...
  • López Vicente, Mònica, 1988-; Tiemeier, Henning; Wildeboer, Andrea; Muetzel, Ryan L.; Verhulst, Frank C.; Jaddoe, Vincent W.V.; Sunyer Deu, Jordi; White, Tonya (Taylor & Francis, 2017)
    We studied cortical morphology in relation to sports participation and type of sport using a large sample of healthy children (n = 911). Sports participation data was collected through a parent-reported questionnaire. ...
  • Pinto, Leonardo A.; Guerra, Stefano; Antó i Boqué, Josep Maria; Postma, Dirkje S.; Koppelman, Gerard H.; Jongste, Johan C. de; Gehring, Ulrike; Smit, Henriëtte A.; Wijga, Alet (Wiley, 2017)
    Background: Being born large for gestational age (LGA) is a marker of increased growth velocity in fetal life and a risk factor for childhood overweight. Both being born LGA and childhood overweight may influence the ...
  • Briggs, Katharine; Barber, Chris; Cases, Montserrat; Marc, Philippe; Steger-Hartmann, Thomas (Elsevier, 2015)
    A first analysis of a database of shared preclinical safety data for 1214 small molecule drugs and drug candidates extracted from 3970 reports donated by thirteen pharmaceutical companies for the eTOX project (www.etoxproject.eu) ...
  • Peralta, Gabriela P.; Forns i Guzman, Joan, 1981-; García de la Hera, Manuela; González, Llúcia; Guxens Junyent, Mònica; López Vicente, Mònica, 1988-; Sunyer Deu, Jordi; García Aymerich, Judith (Lippincott Williams & Wilkins, 2018)
    Objective: To analyze associations between time spent sleeping, watching TV, engaging in cognitively stimulating activities, and engaging in physical activity, all at 4 years, and (1) attention-deficit/hyperactivity disorder ...
  • Levie, Deborah; Korevaar, Tim I. M.; Mulder, Tessa A.; Bath, Sarah C.; Dineva, Mariana; Lopez-Espinosa, Maria-José; Basterrechea, Mikel; Santa Marina, Loreto; Rebagliato, Marisa; Sunyer Deu, Jordi; Rayman, Margaret P.; Tiemeier, Henning; Peeters, Robin P.; Guxens Junyent, Mònica (Mary Ann Liebert, Inc, 2019)
    Background: Thyroid hormone is essential for optimal fetal brain development. Evidence suggests that both low and high maternal thyroid hormone availability may have adverse effects on child neurodevelopmental outcomes, ...
  • 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 ...
  • Pierangeli, Ilaria; Nieuwenhuijsen, Mark J.; Cirach, Marta; Rojas Rueda, David, 1979- (Elsevier, 2020)
    Background: Air pollution is one of the major health risk factors in urban populations. Air pollution has been associated with asthma in children. Air pollution has also been suggested to be distributed unequally within ...
  • Otero Hernández, Isabel; Nieuwenhuijsen, Mark J.; Rojas Rueda, David, 1979- (Elsevier, 2018)
    Background: Bike-sharing systems (BSS) have been implemented in several cities around the world as policies to mitigate climate change, reduce traffic congestion, and promote physical activity. This study aims to assess ...

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