• 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 ...
• 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 ...
• “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 ...
• Inclusiones desiguales en Latinoamérica y Europa: homofobia y racismo bajo el prisma del homonacionalismo

  Domínguez-Amorós, Marius; Freude, Leon (Federación Española de Sociología, 2021)

  El término homonacionalismo ofrece una nueva aproximación a la relación entre racismo y tolerancia con gais y lesbianas en sociedades contemporáneas. Este trabajo presenta un estudio comparativo sobre la extensión y evolución ...
• Aprendizaje servicio, género y TIC. De la desigualdad de género en las TIC a la generación de vocaciones tecnológicas en el ámbito educativo

  Vergés Bosch, Núria; Freude, Leon; Camps Calvet, Clara; Collado Sevilla, Ana Antonia (FahrenHouse Ediciones, 2021)

  Pese a los esfuerzos de las últimas décadas, las desigualdades de género en el acceso a los estudios y trabajos TIC persisten. Aunque la exclusión de las mujeres de las TIC responde a múltiples causas, la investigación ...
• Impact of COVID-19 pandemic on the PREDIMED-Plus randomized clinical trial: Effects on the interventions, participants follow-up, and adiposity

  Paz-Graniel, Indira; Fitó Colomer, Montserrat; Castañer, Olga; Goday Arno, Alberto; Schröder, Helmut; Salas Salvadó, Jordi (Frontiers, 2023)

  Background: The COVID-19 pandemic has affected the implementation of most ongoing clinical trials worldwide including the PREDIMED-Plus study. The PREDIMED-Plus is an ongoing, multicenter, controlled intervention trial, ...
• Comparative effects of glucagon-like peptide-1 receptors agonists, 4-dipeptidyl peptidase inhibitors, and metformin on metabolic syndrome

  Bouzas, Cristina; Goday Arno, Alberto; Muñoz, Miguel Ángel; Satorres, Alba; Fitó Colomer, Montserrat; Tur, J. Antoni (Elsevier, 2023)

  Aims To assess the comparative effects of glucagon-like peptide-1 receptor agonists (GLP-1RA), 4-dipeptidyl peptidase inhibitors (DPP-4I), and metformin treatment during one year on metabolic syndrome (MetS) components ...
• Increase from low to moderate, but not high, caffeinated coffee consumption is associated with favorable changes in body fat

  Henn, Mathias; Fitó Colomer, Montserrat; Schröder, Helmut; Ruiz-Canela, Miguel (Elsevier, 2023)

  Background & aims Higher consumption of coffee and caffeine has been linked to less weight gain and lower body mass index in prospective cohort studies. The aim of the study was to longitudinally assess the association ...
• Pan-pox-specific T-cell responses in HIV-1-infected individuals after JYNNEOS vaccination

  Sisteré-Oró, Marta; Du, Juan; Wortmann, Diana D. J.; Filippi, Marina D.; Cañas-Ruano, Esperanza; Arrieta Aldea, Itziar; Marcos-Blanco, Agustín; Castells, Xavier; Grau Cerrato, Santiago; García-Giralt, Natalia; Perez-Zsolt, Daniel; Boreika, Rytis; Izquierdo-Useros, Nuria; Güerri Fernández, Roberto; Meyerhans, Andreas (Wiley, 2024)

  People living with human immunodeficiency virus (HIV) are the individuals most affected by the current Monkeypox virus outbreak that was first announced in May 2022. Here we report Pan-pox-specific T-cell responses in a ...
• NK cell-triggered CCL5/IFNγ-CXCL9/10 axis underlies the clinical efficacy of neoadjuvant anti-HER2 antibodies in breast cancer

  Santana-Hernández, Sara; Suárez Olmos, Jesús; Servitja Tormo, Sonia; Berenguer-Molins, Pau; Costa García, Marcel, 1989-; Comerma Blesa, Laura, 1983-; Rea, Anna; Perera Bel, Júlia; Menendez Romero, Silvia; Arpí Llucià, Oriol; Bermejo, Begoña; Martínez, María Teresa; Cejalvo, Juan Miguel; Comino-Méndez, Iñaki; Pascual, Javier; Alba, Emilio; López-Botet, M. (Miguel); Rojo, Federico; Rovira, Ana; Albanell Mestres, Joan; Muntasell i Castellví, Aura, 1972- (BioMed Central, 2024)

  Background: The variability in responses to neoadjuvant treatment with anti-HER2 antibodies prompts to personalized clinical management and the development of innovative treatment strategies. Tumor-infiltrating Natural ...
• Decomposing patterns of college marital sorting in 118 countries: structural constraints versus assortative mating

  Permanyer, Iñaki; Esteve, Albert; Garcia, Joan (Elsevier, 2019)

  Two broad forces shape the patterns of marital sorting by education: structural constraints and assortative mating. However, we lack specific and comparative quantification of the extent of these two forces. In this paper, ...
• Social mobility and partnering: the salience of mobility homogamy

  Esping-Andersen, Gøsta, 1947-; Boertien, Diederik; Giorgi, Julien (Elsevier, 2023)

  Does intergenerational social mobility influence individuals' partner choices? If so, are the socially mobile more likely to partner with someone from their origin or destination class? Or do they, if torn between the ...
• Unmarried cohabitation and its fertility in Ireland: towards post-Catholic family dynamic

  Laplante, Benoît; Castro-Martín, Teresa; Cortina, Clara; Fostik, Ana (SAGE Publications, 2020)

  Ireland was known for being conservative in family matters. The 2015 referendum that allowed same-sex marriage and the 2018 one that allowed abortion showed this is no longer true. This article aims at better understanding ...
• Emotions, power, and environmental conflict: expanding the ‘emotional turn’ in political ecology

  González-Hidalgo, Marien; Zografos, Christos (SAGE Publications, 2020)

  Building on the framework of emotional political ecology, we seek to expand ways of studying the relationships between emotion, power, and environmental conflict. Our review of work in feminist studies, human geography, ...
• Dietary intake of polychlorinated dibenzo-p-dioxins and furans, adiposity and obesity status

  Khoury, Nadine; Castañer, Olga; Salas-Salvadó, Jordi (Elsevier, 2023)

  Introduction The principal source of exposure to Polychlorinated dibenzo-p-dioxins and polychlorinated dibenzo-p-furans (PCDD/Fs) in humans comes from food intake. PCDD/Fs, are a family of potential endocrine disruptors ...
• The CLEF-2024 CheckThat! Lab: check-worthiness, subjectivity, persuasion, roles, authorities, and adversarial robustness.

  Barrón Cedeño, Alberto; Alam, Firoj; Chakraborty, Tanmoy; Elsayed, Tamer; Nakov, Preslav; Przybyła, Piotr; Struß, Julia Maria; Haouari, Fatima; Hasanain, Maram; Ruggeri, Federico; Song, Xingyi; Suwaileh, Reem (Springer, 2024)

  The first five editions of the CheckThat! lab focused on the main tasks of the information verification pipeline: check-worthiness, evidence retrieval and pairing, and verification. Since the 2023 edition, it has been ...
• Estimated phytate intake is associated with bone mineral density in mediterranean postmenopausal women

  Sanchís, Pilar; Prieto, Rafael M.; Konieczna, Jadwiga; Grases, Félix; Abete, Itziar; Salas-Salvadó, Jordi; Martín, Vicente; Ruiz-Canela, Miguel; Babio, Nancy; García-Gavilán, Jesús Francisco; Goday Arno, Alberto; Costa-Bauza, Antonia; Martínez, José Alfredo; Romaguera Bosch, Dora (MDPI, 2023)

  The main objective of this work was to explore the association of dietary phytate intake with bone mineral density (BMD) in a Mediterranean population of postmenopausal women. For this purpose, a cross-sectional analysis ...

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