• The use of microindentation for the study of bone properties in type 1 diabetes mellitus patients

  Ballesta, Silvia; Güerri Fernández, Roberto; Chillarón Jordan, Juan José; Güell, A.; Herrera, S.; Torres, E.; Ascoeta, N.G.; Flores-Le-Roux, Juana Antonia; Díez, A. (Springer, 2020)

  Diabetes mellitus is associated with a higher risk of fracture. In this study, we analysed the bone quality of premenopausal women with type 1 diabetes mellitus by microindentation. No differences in bone quality were ...
• Las desigualdades en salud como prioridad política en Barcelona

  Borrell i Thió, Carme (Elsevier, 2020)
• Effect of the financial crisis on socioeconomic inequalities in mortality in small areas in seven spanish cities

  Borrell i Thió, Carme (MDPI, 2020)
• Advancing tools to promote health equity across European Union regions: the EURO-HEALTHY project

  Borrell i Thió, Carme (BioMed Central, 2020)
• Socioeconomic inequalities in suicide mortality in European urban areas before and during the economic recession

  Borrell i Thió, Carme (Oxford University Press, 2020)
• How large is the periablational zone after radiofrequency and microwave ablation? Computer-based comparative study of two currently used clinical devices

  Trujillo Guillén, Macarena; Prakash, Punit; Faridi, Pegah; Radosevic, Aleksandar; Curto, Sergio; Burdío Pinilla, Fernando; Berjano, Enrique J. (Taylor & Francis, 2020)

  Purpose: To compare the size of the coagulation (CZ) and periablational (PZ) zones created with two commercially available devices in clinical use for radiofrequency (RFA) and microwave ablation (MWA), respectively. Methods: ...
• How does a targeted active labour market program impact on the well-being of the unemployed? A concept mapping study on Barcelona "Employment in the Neighbourhoods"

  Puig Barrachina, Vanessa; Malmusi, Davide, 1980-; Artazcoz Lazcano, Lucía, 1963-; Bartoll, Xavier; Clotet, Eva; Cortès-Franch, Imma; Ventura, Lorena; Daban, Ferran; Díez, Elia; Borrell i Thió, Carme (BioMed Central, 2020)

  Background: The "Employment in the neighbourhoods" program is an innovative, tailor-made Active Labour Market Program that has been implemented in 12 neighbourhoods in Barcelona (Spain). Its goal is to get people from ...
• Spatial variability of heat-related mortality in Barcelona from 1992-2015: A case crossover study design

  Ingole, Vijendra; Marí Dell'Olmo, Marc, 1978-; Deluca, Anna; Quijal, Marcos; Borrell i Thió, Carme; Rodríguez Sanz, Maica, 1974-; Achebak, Hicham; Lauwaet, Dirk; Gilabert, Joan; Murage, Peninah; Hajat, Shakoor; Basagaña Flores, Xavier; Ballester, Joan (MDPI, 2020)

  Numerous studies have demonstrated the relationship between summer temperatures and increased heat-related deaths. Epidemiological analyses of the health effects of climate exposures usually rely on observations from the ...
• Educational inequalities in mortality amenable to healthcare. A comparison of European healthcare systems

  Rydland, Håvard T.; Fjær, Erlend L.; Eikemo, Terje A.; Huijts, Tim; Bambra, Clare; Wendt, Claus; Kulhánová, Ivana; Martikainen, Pekka; Dibben, Chris; Kalėdienė, Ramunė; Borrell i Thió, Carme; Leinsalu, Mall; Bopp, Matthias; Mackenbach, Johan P. (Public Library of Science (PLoS), 2020)

  Background: Educational inequalities in health and mortality in European countries have often been studied in the context of welfare regimes or political systems. We argue that the healthcare system is the national level ...
• Effect of the recent economic crisis on socioeconomic inequalities in mortality in nine urban areas in Europe

  Palència Fernàndez, Laia; Gotsens Miquel, Mercè, 1983-; Marí Dell'Olmo, Marc, 1978-; Bosakova, Lucia; Burström, Bo; Costa, Claudia; Deboosere, Patrick; Dzúrová, Dagmar; Lustigova, Michala; Morrison Esteve, Joana, 1977-; Santana, Paula; Borrell i Thió, Carme (Elsevier, 2020)

  Objective: To analyse socioeconomic inequalities in all-cause mortality among men and women in nine European urban areas during the recent economic crisis, and to compare the results to those from two periods before the ...
• The effects of cohousing model on people's health and wellbeing: a scoping review

  Carrere, Juli; Reyes, Alexia; Oliveras, Laura; Fernández, Anna; Peralta Chiriboga, Alejandro Andrés, 1985-; Novoa Pardo, Ana María; Pérez, Katherine; Borrell i Thió, Carme (BioMed Central, 2020)

  Background: Housing is a social determinant of health. Extensive research has highlighted its adverse effects on health. However, less is known about the effects of cohousing typology on health, which has the potential to ...
• The association of energy poverty with health, health care utilisation and medication use in southern Europe

  Oliveras, Laura; Artazcoz Lazcano, Lucía, 1963-; Borrell i Thió, Carme; Palència Fernàndez, Laia; López, Maria José; Gotsens Miquel, Mercè, 1983-; Peralta Chiriboga, Alejandro Andrés, 1985-; Marí Dell'Olmo, Marc, 1978- (Elsevier, 2020)

  Energy poverty (EP) is defined as the inability of a household to secure a socially and materially required level of energy services in the home. The main objective of this study was to analyse the association between EP ...
• Evaluación de la atención primaria, versión modificada del instrumento PCAT-A10

  Rocha, Kátia B.; Rodríguez Sanz, Maica, 1974-; Berra Ramos, Silvina del Valle; Borrell i Thió, Carme; Pasarín i Rua, M. Isabel (Elsevier, 2021)

  Objetivo: Evaluar las características métricas del índice Primary Care Assessment Tool de 10 ítems, para adultos (PCAT-A10), versión en castellano y catalán, reducida del original Primary Care Assessment Tool-Adult Edition ...
• ¿Cómo influye la situación laboral en los efectos de la inseguridad residencial sobre la salud?

  Reyes, Alexia; Vásquez-Vera, Hugo, 1982-; Novoa Pardo, Ana María; González Marín, Patricia; Puig Barrachina, Vanessa; Borrell i Thió, Carme (Elsevier, 2021)

  Objetivo: Analizar los efectos de la inseguridad residencial sobre la salud y si estos son modificados por la situación laboral en personas participantes en el programa Treball als Barris, en Barcelona, entre 2015 y 2016. ...
• Whsc1 links pluripotency exit with mesendoderm specification

  Tian, Tian V.; Di Stefano, Bruno, 1984-; Stik, Grégoire; Vila-Casadesús, Maria; Sardina, Jose Luis; Vidal Ocabo, Enrique; Dasti, Alessandro, 1988-; Segura-Morales, Carolina; de Andrés-Aguayo, Luisa; Gómez, Antonio; Goldmann, Johanna; Jaenisch, Rudolf; Graf, T. (Thomas) (Nature Research, 2019)

  How pluripotent stem cells differentiate into the main germ layers is a key question of developmental biology. Here, we show that the chromatin-related factor Whsc1 (also known as Nsd2 and MMSET) has a dual role in ...
• Plasma protein biomarkers for early detection of pancreatic ductal adenocarcinoma

  Yu, Jingru; Ploner, Alexander; Kordes, Maximilian; Löhr, J. Matthias; Nilsson, Magnus; López De Maturana, Evangelina; Estudillo, Lidia; Renz, Harald; Carrato, Alfredo; Molero, Xavier; Real, Francisco X.; Malats i Riera, Núria; Ye, Weimin (Wiley, 2021)

  Pancreatic ductal adenocarcinoma (PDAC) has a poor prognosis, mainly due to late diagnosis at advanced tumor stages. In this study, we aimed to identify plasma protein biomarkers for early detection of PDAC. Totally, 135 ...
• The COVID-19 mirror: reflecting science-societyrelationships across 11 countries

  Metcalfe, Jenni; Riedlinger, Michelle; Bauer, Martin W.; Chakraborty, Anwesha; Gascoigne, Toss; Guenther, Lars; Joubert, Marina; Kaseje, Margaret; Herrera Lima, Susana; Revuelta, Gema; Riise, Jan; Schiele, Bernard (SISSA Medialab, 2020)

  Twelve researchers from 11 countries used autoethnographic techniques, keeping diaries over 10 weeks of the COVID-19 crisis, to observe and reflect on changes in the role and cultural authority of science during important ...
• Efficacy of broccoli and glucoraphanin in COVID-19: From hypothesis to proof-of-concept with three experimental clinical cases

  Bousquet, Jean; Torre Fornell, Rafael de la; Pizarro Lozano, Mª Nieves; Antó i Boqué, Josep Maria (Elsevier, 2020)

  COVID-19 is described in a clinical case involving a patient who proposed the hypothesis that Nuclear factor (erythroid-derived 2)-like 2 (Nrf2)-interacting nutrients may help to prevent severe COVID-19 symptoms. Capsules ...
• Mental health impact of the first wave of COVID-19 pandemic on Spanish healthcare workers: A large cross-sectional survey

  Alonso Caballero, Jordi; Vilagut Saiz, Gemma, 1975-; Mortier, Philippe; Ferrer, Montserrat; Alayo, Itxaso; Sanz, Ferran; Serra, Consol; MINDCOVID Working group (Elsevier, 2020)

  Introduction: Healthcare workers are vulnerable to adverse mental health impacts of the COVID-19 pandemic. We assessed prevalence of mental disorders and associated factors during the first wave of the pandemic among ...
• bsAS, an antisense long non-coding RNA, essential for correct wing development through regulation of blistered/DSRF isoform usage

  Pérez-Lluch, Sílvia; Klein, Cecilia C.; Breschi, Alessandra, 1988-; Ruiz-Romero, Marina; Abad, Amaya; Palumbo, Emilio; Bekish, Lyazzat; Arnan Ros, Carme; Guigó Serra, Roderic (Public Library of Science (PLoS), 2020)

  Natural Antisense Transcripts (NATs) are long non-coding RNAs (lncRNAs) that overlap coding genes in the opposite strand. NATs roles have been related to gene regulation through different mechanisms, including post-transcriptional ...

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