• Impact of blood rheological strategies on the optimization of patient-specific LAAO configurations for thrombus assessment

  Albors, Carlos; Olivares Miyares, Andy Luis; Iriart, Xavier; Cochet, Hubert; Mill, Jordi; Camara, Oscar (Springer, 2023)

  Left atrial appendage occlusion devices (LAAO) are a feasible alternative for non-valvular atrial fibrillation (AF) patients at high risk of thromboembolic stroke and contraindication to antithrombotic therapies. However, ...
• Sensitivity analysis of left atrial wall modeling approaches and inlet/outlet boundary conditions in fluid simulations to predict thrombus formation

  Albors, Carlos; Mill, Jordi; Kjeldsberg, Henrik A; Viladés-Medel, David; Olivares Miyares, Andy Luis; Valen-Sendstad, Kristian; Camara, Oscar (Springer, 2022)

  In-silico fluid simulations of the left atria (LA) in atrial fibrillation (AF) patients can help to describe and relate patient-specific morphologies and complex flow haemodynamics with the pathophysiological mechanisms ...
• Towards real-time optimization of left atrial appendage occlusion device placement through physics-informed neural networks

  Morales, Xabier; Albors, Carlos; Mill, Jordi; Camara, Oscar (Springer, 2022)

  The adoption of patient-specific computational fluid dynamics (CFD) simulations has been instrumental toward a better understanding of the mechanisms underlying thrombogenesis in the left atrial appendage. Such simulations ...
• Unsupervised machine learning exploration of morphological and haemodynamic indices to predict thrombus formation in the left atrial appendage

  Saiz-Vivó, Marta; Mill, Jordi; Harrison, Josquin; Jimenez-Perez, Guillermo; Legghe, Benoit; Iriart, Xavier; Cochet, Hubert; Piella Fenoy, Gemma; Sermesant, Maxime; Camara, Oscar (Springer, 2022)

  Atrial Fibrillation (AF) is the most common cardiac arrhythmia, and it is associated with an increased risk of embolic stroke. It is known that AF-related thrombus formation occurs predominantly in the left atrial appendage ...
• Emergencia climática y empleo, un reto que no podemos ignorar en salud laboral

  Benavides, Fernando G. (Fernando García) (Associació Catalana de Salut Laboral, 2024)
• Assessment of human SARS CoV-2-Specific T-Cell responses elicited In Vitro by new computationally designed mRNA immunogens (COVARNA)

  Esteban, Ignasi; Pastor-Quiñones, Carmen; Usero, Lorena; Aurrecoechea, Elena; Franceschini, Lorenzo; Esprit, Arthur; Gelpí, Josep Lluís; Martínez-Jiménez, Francisco; López Bigas, Núria; Breckpot, Karine; Thielemans, Kris; Leal, Lorna; Gómez, Carmen Elena; Sisteré-Oró, Marta; Meyerhans, Andreas; Esteban, Mariano; Alonso Fernández, María José; García, Felipe; Plana, Montserrat; COVARNA Consortium (MDPI, 2023)

  The COVID-19 pandemic has brought significant changes and advances in the field of vaccination, including the implementation and widespread use of encapsidated mRNA vaccines in general healthcare practice. Here, we present ...
• Multiscale networks in multiple sclerosis

  Kennedy, Keith Endres; García Ojalvo, Jordi; Villoslada, Pablo (Public Library of Science (PLoS), 2024)

  Complex diseases such as Multiple Sclerosis (MS) cover a wide range of biological scales, from genes and proteins to cells and tissues, up to the full organism. In fact, any phenotype for an organism is dictated by the ...
• Asthma and rhinitis control in adolescents and young adults: A real-world MASK-air study

  Sousa Pinto, Bernardo; Antó i Boqué, Josep Maria; MASK-air think tank (Wiley, 2024)

  Background: In allergic rhinitis and asthma, adolescents and young adult patients are likely to differ from older patients. We compared adolescents, young adults and adults on symptoms, control levels, and medication ...
• A new blood DNA methylation signature for Koolen-de Vries syndrome: Classification of missense KANSL1 variants and comparison to fibroblast cells

  Awamleh, Zain; Choufani, Sanaa; Wu, Wendy; Rots, Dmitrijs; Dingemans, Alexander J. M.; Nadif Kasri, Nael; Boronat i Llop, Susanna, 1965-; Ibáñez-Micó, Salvador; Cuesta Herraiz, Laura; Ferrer, Irene; Martínez Carrascal, Antonio; Pérez Jurado, Luis Alberto; Aznar Laín, Gemma; Ortigoza Escobar, Juan Darío; de Vries, Bert B. A.; Koolen, David A.; Weksberg, Rosanna (Nature Research, 2024)

  Pathogenic variants in KANSL1 and 17q21.31 microdeletions are causative of Koolen-de Vries syndrome (KdVS), a neurodevelopmental syndrome with characteristic facial dysmorphia. Our previous work has shown that syndromic ...
• Clonal chromosomal mosaicism and loss of chromosome Y in elderly men increase vulnerability for SARS-CoV-2

  Pérez Jurado, Luis Alberto; Cáceres, Alejandro; Balagué-Dobón, Laura; Esko, Tõnu; López de Heredia, Miguel de; Quintela Garcia, Ines; Cruz, Raquel; Lapunzina, Pablo Daniel; Carracedo, Ángel; SCOURGE Cohort Group; González, Juan Ramón (Nature Research, 2024)

  The pandemic caused by severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2 (SARS-CoV-2, COVID-19) had an estimated overall case fatality ratio of 1.38% (pre-vaccination), being 53% higher in males and increasing exponentially ...
• Regulation of β-cell death by ADP-ribosylhydrolase ARH3 via lipid signaling in insulitis

  Sarkar, Soumyadeep; Ramos-Rodríguez, Mireia; Juan-Mateu, Jonàs; Pasquali, Lorenzo; Nakayasu, Ernesto S. (BioMed Central, 2024)

  Background: Lipids are regulators of insulitis and β-cell death in type 1 diabetes development, but the underlying mechanisms are poorly understood. Here, we investigated how the islet lipid composition and downstream ...
• Overeducation and childcare time

  Kucel, Aleksander; Vilalta-Bufí, Montserrat (Emerald, 2023)

  Purpose. Research shows that parental employment and education status affect the amount of parental childcare time, which is a fundamental determinant of children's outcomes. In this paper, the authors study whether being ...
• Jueces penales y punitivismo en España

  Blay Gil, Ester; Varona Gómez, Daniel; López Riba, José María; Jiménez-García, Juan Ramón (Sociedad Española de Investigación Criminológica (SEIC), 2022)

  Este trabajo busca conocer el papel de los jueces en la deriva punitiva que según la doctrina mayoritaria caracteriza la evolución reciente del sistema penal español. Ello no es posible acudiendo a datos oficiales, por lo ...
• “Pero luego te arrepientes”. La juventud gitana navegando dilemas de aspiración

  Bereményi, Bálint Ábel; Hellgren, Zenia (Universidad de Granada, 2022)

  Este artículo reflexiona acerca de los dilemas de aspiración de las personas gitanas españolas en su transición de la escuela al trabajo (TET). El estudio de la TET de los jóvenes gitanos arroja luz sobre las desigualdades ...
• The influence of economic factors on the relationship between partnership status and health: a gender approach to the Spanish case

  Gumà, Jordi (MDPI, 2022)

  This study explores the relevance of economic factors (e.g., a household’s economic capacity and the prevailing economic context) to understand the relationship between the partnership status and the health of Spanish adult ...
• What influences individual perception of health? Using machine learning to disentangle self-perceived health

  Gumà, Jordi (Elsevier, 2021)

  Self-perceived health is a subjective health outcome that summarizes all the health conditions and is widely used in population health studies. Yet, despite its well-known relationship with survival, it is still unclear ...
• Analysing homophobia, xenophobia and sexual nationalisms in Africa: comparing quantitative attitudes data to reveal societal differences

  Freude, Leon; Waites, Matthew (SAGE Publications, 2021)

  To problematise Western discourses of a homophobic Africa, there is a need to analyse evidence of homophobia and its interplay with other attitudes, in ways that explore contextual differences. Hence, this article offers ...
• Recensió d’Out of time. The queer politics of postcoloniality de Rahul Rao

  Freude, Leon (Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona, 2022)
• La articulación del racismo y la homofobia en los valores de la población europea

  Freude, Leon; Vergés Bosch, Núria (Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona, 2022)

  Racismo y homofobia representan dos grandes desafíos para las sociedades contemporáneas. El síndrome de enemistad grupal (SEG) y el homonacionalismo representan dos conceptos, aparentemente opuestos, para la comprensión ...
• Valors homonacionalistes? La proposta d’una dimensionalització per a un instrument de mesura propi

  Freude, Leon (Universitat de Barcelona. Observatori del Conflicte Social, 2022)

  En el debat sobre els nacionalismes la diversitat sexual i de gènere acostuma a ser obviada. La proposta conceptual de l'homonacionalisme omple aquest buit. L'homonacionalisme descriu com a partir dels anys 2000 la diversitat ...

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