• Quantitative and qualitative evaluation of the COMPASS mobile app: a citizen science project

  Grau Magaña, Maria (Taylor & Francis, 2021)
• Environmental and individual exposure to secondhand aerosol of electronic cigarettes in confined spaces: Results from the TackSHS Project

  Pascual Esteban, José A. (Wiley, 2021)
• Do individuals with autoimmune disease have increased risk of subclinical carotid atherosclerosis and stiffness?

  Grau Magaña, Maria (Nature Research, 2021)
• Carotid atherosclerosis in virologically suppressed HIV patients: comparison with a healthy sample and prediction by cardiovascular risk equations

  Saumoy, Maria; Di Yacovo, Silvana; Pérez, S.; Sánchez Quesada, José Luis; Valdivielso, Jose Manuel; Subirana Cachinero, Isaac; Imaz, Arkaitz; Tiraboschi, Juan M.; García, Benito; Ordóñez Llanos, Jordi; Benítez, Susana; Podzamczer, Daniel; Grau Magaña, Maria (Wiley, 2021)

  Objectives: To compare the prevalence of carotid atherosclerosis in virologically suppressed HIV patients with that of a community sample, and to evaluate the capacity of various cardiovascular risk (CVR) equations for ...
• Risks and benefits of percutaneous coronary intervention in spontaneous coronary artery dissection

  Kotecha, Deevia; Garcia Guimaraes, Marcos; Adlam, David (BMJ Publishing Group, 2021)

  Objective: To investigate percutaneous coronary intervention (PCI) practice in an international cohort of patients with spontaneous coronary artery dissection (SCAD). To explore factors associated with complications and ...
• Precarious employment and stress: the biomedical embodiment of social factors. PRESSED Project Study Protocol

  Bolíbar, Mireia; Belvis, Francesc Xavier; Jódar, Pere; Vives Vergara, Alejandra, 1971-; Méndez, Fabrizio; Bartoll, Xavier; Pozo Mendoza, Óscar J., 1975-; Gómez-Gómez, Àlex; Padrosa, Eva; Benach, Joan; Julià Pérez, Mireia, 1981- (Frontiers, 2021)

  The PRESSED project aims to explain the links between a multidimensional measure of precarious employment and stress and health. Studies on social epidemiology have found a clear positive association between precarious ...
• The value of companion dogs as a source of social support for their owners: findings from a pre-pandemic representative sample and a convenience sample obtained during the COVID-19 lockdown in Spain

  Bowen, Jonathan; Bulbena Vilarrasa, Antonio; Fatjó, Jaume (Frontiers, 2021)

  Dogs are a source of companionship and comfort for their owners, but the degree to which this might translate into real emotional and social support has not been quantified. Emotional and social support are essential to ...
• Non-medical use of prescription gabapentinoids (gabapentin and pregabalin) in five european countries

  Fonseca Casals, Francina, 1972-; Lenahan, William; Dart, Richard C.; Papaseit Fontanet, Esther; Dargan, Paul I.; Wood, David M.; Guareschi, Marilena; Maremmani, Icro; Auriacombe, Marc; Farré Albaladejo, Magí; Scherbaum, Norbert; Torrens, Marta (Frontiers, 2021)

  Background: Non-medical use (NMU) of prescription GABA analogs (pregabalin and gabapentin) has been reported especially in opiate dependent persons. However, by now the prevalence of NMU of gabapentinoids in the general ...
• Integration of the ICD-11 and DSM-5 dimensional systems for personality disorders into a unified taxonomy with non-overlapping traits

  Gutiérrez, Fernando; Peri, Josep M.; Gárriz, Miguel; Vall, Gemma; Arqué, Estela; Ruiz, Laura; Condomines, Jaume; Calvo, Natalia; Ferrer, Marc; Sureda, Bárbara (Frontiers, 2021)

  The promise of replacing the diagnostic categories of personality disorder with a better-grounded system has been only partially met. We still need to understand whether our main dimensional taxonomies, those of the ...
• Alexithymia in patients with substance use disorders and its relationship with psychiatric comorbidities and health-related quality of life

  Palma-Álvarez, Raul F.; Ros-Cucurull, Elena; Daigre, Constanza; Perea Ortueta, Marta; Serrano Pérez, Pedro; Martínez Luna, Nieves; Salas Martínez, Anna; Robles-Martínez, María; Ramos Quiroga, Josep Antoni; Roncero, Carlos; Grau-López, Lara (Frontiers, 2021)

  Background: Alexithymia frequently correlates with several psychiatric disorders, including substance use disorder (SUD). However, most studies reporting the associations between alexithymia and psychiatric disorders have ...
• The translational relevance of human circulating memory cutaneous lymphocyte-associated antigen positive T cells in inflammatory skin disorders

  de Jesús-Gil, Carmen; Sans-de San Nicolás, Lídia; García Jiménez, Irene; Ferran Farrés, Marta; Celada, Antonio; Chiriac, Anca; Pujol Vallverdú, Ramon Maria; Santamaría-Babí, Luis Francisco (Frontiers, 2021)

  Circulating memory T cells are heterogeneous in their tissue tropism. The skin-seeking T cell subset expresses the cutaneous lymphocyte-associated antigen (CLA) on their surface. CLA+ memory T cells not only migrate from ...
• Preoperative breast magnetic resonance imaging in patients with ductal carcinoma in situ: a systematic review for the European Commission Initiative on Breast Cancer (ECIBC)

  Canelo Aybar, Carlos; Taype Rondan, Alvaro; Zafra Tanaka, Jessica Hanae; Rigau, David; Graewingholt, Axel; Lebeau, Annette; Pérez Gómez, Elsa; Rossi, Paolo Giorgi; Langedam, Miranda; Posso, Margarita; Parmelli, Elena; Saz Parkinson, Zuleika; Alonso Coello, Pablo (Springer, 2021)

  Objective: To evaluate the impact of preoperative MRI in the management of Ductal carcinoma in situ (DCIS). Methods: We searched the PubMed, EMBASE and Cochrane Library databases to identify randomised clinical trials ...
• Evaluation of data quality in the Spanish EURECCA Esophagogastric Cancer Registry

  Cero, Maja Dal; Gimeno, M.; Grande Posa, Luís; Pera Roman, Manuel Ramón; Spanish EURECCA Esophagogastric Cancer Group (Elsevier, 2021)

  Background: Although the number of nationwide clinical registries in upper gastrointestinal cancer is increasing, few of them perform regular clinical audits. The Spanish EURECCA Esophagogastric Cancer Registry (SEEGCR) ...
• Leisure time physical activity is associated with improved HDL functionality in high cardiovascular risk individuals: a cohort study

  Hernáez, Álvaro; Soria-Florido, Maria; Castañer, Olga; Pintó Sala, Xavier; Estruch, Ramón; Salas Salvadó, Jordi; Corella, Dolores; Alonso-Gómez, Ángel; Martínez-González, Miguel A.; Schröder, Helmut, 1958-; Ros, Emilio; Serra Majem, Lluís; Fiol, Miquel; Lapetra, José; Gómez Gracia, Enrique; Fitó Colomer, Montserrat; Lassale, Camille (Oxford University Press, 2020)

  Aims: Physical activity has consistently been shown to improve cardiovascular health and high-density lipoprotein-cholesterol levels. However, only small and heterogeneous studies have investigated the effect of exercise ...
• Dietary folate intake and metabolic syndrome in participants of PREDIMED-Plus study: a cross-sectional study

  Navarrete-Muñoz, Eva-María; Fitó Colomer, Montserrat; Castañer, Olga; Zomeño Fajardo, Maria Dolores; Goday Arno, Alberto; García de la Hera, Manoli (Springer, 2021)

  Purpose: We examined the association between dietary folate intake and a score of MetS (metabolic syndrome) and its components among older adults at higher cardiometabolic risk participating in the PREDIMED-Plus trial. ...
• A multisite analysis of the concordance between visual image interpretation and quantitative analysis of [18F]flutemetamol amyloid PET images

  Bucci, Marco; Savitcheva, Irina; Farrar, Gill; Salvadó, Gemma; Collij, Lyduine E.; Doré, Vincent; Gispert López, Juan Domingo; Gunn, Roger; Hanseeuw, Bernard; Hansson, Oskar; Shekari, Mahnaz; Lhommel, Renaud; Molinuevo, José Luis; Rowe, Christopher; Sur, Cyrille; Whittington, Alex; Buckley, Christopher; Nordberg, Agneta (Springer, 2021)

  Background: [18F]flutemetamol PET scanning provides information on brain amyloid load and has been approved for routine clinical use based upon visual interpretation as either negative (equating to none or sparse amyloid ...
• Prenatal and postnatal exposure to acetaminophen in relation to autism spectrum and attention-deficit and hyperactivity symptoms in childhood: Meta-analysis in six European population-based cohorts

  Alemany, Silvia; Avella García, Claudia B., 1982-; García Esteban, Raquel; Casas Sanahuja, Maribel; Júlvez Calvo, Jordi; Sunyer Deu, Jordi (Springer, 2021)

  The potential etiological role of early acetaminophen exposure on Autism Spectrum Conditions (ASC) and Attention-Deficit/Hyperactivity Disorder (ADHD) is inconclusive. We aimed to study this association in a collaborative ...
• The relationship between self-care, long-term mortality, and heart failure hospitalization: insights from a real-world cohort study

  Calero Molina, Esther; Hidalgo, Encarnacion; Rosenfeld, Laia; Verdú-Rotellar, José María; Verdú Soriano, Jose; Garay, Alberto; Alcoberro, Lidia; Jiménez-Marrero, Santiago; Garcimartín Cerezo, Paloma; Yun, Sergi; Guerrero, Carmen; Moliner Borja, Pedro; Delso, Cristina; Alcober, Laia; Enjuanes Grau, Cristina; Comín Colet, Josep (Oxford University Press, 2021)

  Aims: The assumption that improved self-care in the setting of heart failure (HF) care necessarily translates into improvements in long-term mortality and/or hospitalization is not well established. We aimed to study the ...
• Epidemiological characteristics and outcomes of COVID-19 cases: mortality inequalities by socio-economic status, Barcelona, Spain, 24 February to 4 May 2020

  Politi, Julieta; Martín Sánchez, Mario; Mercuriali, Lilas; Borras Bermejo, Blanca; López Contreras, Joaquín; Vilella, Anna; Villar García, Judit; COVID-19 Surveillance Working Group of Barcelona; Orcau, Àngels; García de Olalla, Patrícia; Rius, Cristina (European Centre for Disease Prevention and Control (ECDC), 2021)

  Background: Population-based studies characterising outcomes of COVID-19 in European settings are limited, and effects of socio-economic status (SES) on outcomes have not been widely investigated. Aim: We describe the ...
• The effect of physical activity on asthma incidence over 10 years: population-based study

  Russell, Melissa Anne; Carsin, Anne-Elie; García Aymerich, Judith (European Respiratory Society, 2021)

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