• 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 ...
• Zipf's Law, unbounded complexity and open-ended evolution

  Corominas Murtra, Bernat; Seoane, Luís F., 1985-; Solé Vicente, Ricard, 1962- (Royal Society, 2018)

  A major problem for evolutionary theory is understanding the so-called open-ended nature of evolutionary change, from its definition to its origins. Open-ended evolution (OEE) refers to the unbounded increase in complexity ...
• Differentiating resting brain states using ordinal symbolic analysis

  Quintero-Quiroz, Carlos; Montesano, Luis; Pons, Antonio J.; Torrent, Maria Carme; García Ojalvo, Jordi; Masoller, Cristina (American Institute of Physics (AIP), 2018)

  Symbolic methods of analysis are valuable tools for investigating complex time-dependent signals. In particular, the ordinal method defines sequences of symbols according to the ordering in which values appear in a time ...
• The associations of earlier trauma exposures and history of mental disorders with PTSD after subsequent traumas

  Kessler, Ronald C.; Alonso Caballero, Jordi; WHO World Mental Health Survey Collaborators (Nature Research, 2018)

  Although earlier trauma exposure is known to predict posttraumatic stress disorder (PTSD) after subsequent traumas, it is unclear whether this association is limited to cases where the earlier trauma led to PTSD. Resolution ...
• Post-traumatic stress disorder associated with sexual assault among women in the WHO World Mental Health Surveys

  Scott, Kate M.; Koenen, Karestan C.; King, Andrew; Petukhova, Maria; Alonso Caballero, Jordi; Bromet, Evelyn J.; Bruffaerts, Ronny; Bunting, Brentan; de Jonge, Peter; Haro Abad, Josep Maria; Karam, Elie G.; Lee, Sing; Medina Mora, Maria Elena; Navarro Mateu, Fernando; Sampson, Nancy A.; Shahly, Victoria; Stein, Dan J.; Torres, Yolanda; Zaslavsky, Alan M.; Kessler, Ronald C. (Cambridge University Press, 2018)

  Background: Sexual assault is a global concern with post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD), one of the common sequelae. Early intervention can help prevent PTSD, making identification of those at high risk for the disorder ...
• 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 ...
• Global, regional, and national disability-adjusted life-years (DALYs) for 359 diseases and injuries and healthy life expectancy (HALE) for 195 countries and territories, 1990–2017: a systematic analysis for the Global Burden of Disease Study 2017

  GBD 2017 DALYs and HALE Collaborators (Elsevier, 2018)

  Background: How long one lives, how many years of life are spent in good and poor health, and how the population's state of health and leading causes of disability change over time all have implications for policy, planning, ...
• Measuring progress from 1990 to 2017 and projecting attainment to 2030 of the health-related Sustainable Development Goals for 195 countries and territories: a systematic analysis for the Global Burden of Disease Study 2017

  GBD 2017 SDG Collaborators (Elsevier, 2018)

  Background: Efforts to establish the 2015 baseline and monitor early implementation of the UN Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) highlight both great potential for and threats to improving health by 2030. To fully deliver ...
• Population and fertility by age and sex for 195 countries and territories, 1950–2017: a systematic analysis for the Global Burden of Disease Study 2017

  GBD 2017 Population and Fertility Collaborators (Elsevier, 2018)

  Background: Population estimates underpin demographic and epidemiological research and are used to track progress on numerous international indicators of health and development. To date, internationally available estimates ...
• Global, regional, and national comparative risk assessment of 84 behavioural, environmental and occupational, and metabolic risks or clusters of risks for 195 countries and territories, 1990-2017: a systematic analysis for the Global Burden of Disease Study 2017

  GBD 2017 Risk Factor Collaborators (Elsevier, 2018)

  Background: The Global Burden of Diseases, Injuries, and Risk Factors Study (GBD) 2017 comparative risk assessment (CRA) is a comprehensive approach to risk factor quantification that offers a useful tool for synthesising ...
• Global, regional, and national age-sex-specific mortality for 282 causes of death in 195 countries and territories, 1980-2017: a systematic analysis for the Global Burden of Disease Study 2017

  GBD 2017 Causes of Death Collaborators (Elsevier, 2018)

  Background: Global development goals increasingly rely on country-specific estimates for benchmarking a nation's progress. To meet this need, the Global Burden of Diseases, Injuries, and Risk Factors Study (GBD) 2016 ...
• Global, regional, and national age-sex-specific mortality and life expectancy, 1950-2017: a systematic analysis for the Global Burden of Disease Study 2017

  GBD 2017 Mortality Collaborators (Elsevier, 2018)

  Background: Assessments of age-specific mortality and life expectancy have been done by the UN Population Division, Department of Economics and Social Affairs (UNPOP), the United States Census Bureau, WHO, and as part of ...
• Episodic memory and executive functions in cognitively healthy individuals display distinct neuroanatomical correlates which are differentially modulated by aging

  Cacciaglia, Raffaele; Molinuevo, José Luis; Sánchez Benavides, Gonzalo; Falcón, Carles; Gramunt, Nina; Brugulat-Serrat, Anna; Grau-Rivera, Oriol; Gispert López, Juan Domingo; ALFA Study (Wiley, 2018)

  The neuroanatomical bases of episodic memory (EM) and executive functions (EFs) have been widely addressed in patients with brain damage and in individuals with neurologic disorders. These studies reported that larger brain ...
• A computational reconstruction of Papio phylogeny using Alu insertion polymorphisms

  Jordan, Vallmer E.; Walker, Jerilyn A.; Beckstrom, Thomas O.; Steely, Cody J.; McDaniel, Cullen L.; St Romain, Corey P.; Baboon Genome Analysis Consortium; Worley, Kim C.; Phillips-Conroy, Jane; Jolly, Clifford J.; Rogers, Jeffrey; Konkel, Miriam K.; Batzer, Mark A. (BioMed Central, 2018)

  Background: Since the completion of the human genome project, the diversity of genome sequencing data produced for non-human primates has increased exponentially. Papio baboons are well-established biological models for ...
• Analysis of lineage-specific Alu subfamilies in the genome of the olive baboon, Papio anubis

  Steely, Cody J.; Baker, Jasmine N.; Walker, Jerilyn A.; Loupe, Charles D.; Baboon Genome Analysis Consortium; Batzer, Mark A. (BioMed Central, 2018)

  Background: Alu elements are primate-specific retroposons that mobilize using the enzymatic machinery of L1 s. The recently completed baboon genome project found that the mobilization rate of Alu elements is higher than ...
• 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 ...
• Suicidal thoughts and behaviors: prevalence and association with distal and proximal factors in spanish university students

  Blasco Cubedo, Maria Jesús; Vilagut Saiz, Gemma, 1975-; Almenara, José; Roca, Miquel; Piqueras, José Antonio; Gabilondo Cuéllar, Andrea; Lagares, Carolina; Soto-Sanz, Victoria; Alayo, Itxaso; Forero, Carlos G.; Echeburúa, Enrique; Gili, Margalida; Cebrià, Ana Isabel; Bruffaerts, Ronny; Auerbach, Randy P.; Nock, Matthew K.; Kessler, Ronald C.; Alonso Caballero, Jordi; UNIVERSAL study group (Wiley-Blackwell, 2018)

  Objective: We report on the prevalence of suicidal thoughts and behaviors in Spanish university students and their risk and protective factors (distal/proximal; individual/environmental). Methods: First‐year university ...

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