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Evaluating the co-creation process in public health interventions: the PROSECO framework
(Public health, 2025, 245: 105783, 2025-05)Objectives To date, there is a lack of evaluation frameworks to guide the planning and conducting of the evaluation of co-creation in public health. This study aims to identify and set the components ... -
Ultra-processed foods consumption as a promoting factor of greenhouse gas emissions, water, energy, and land use: A longitudinal assessment
(Science of the total environment, 2023, 891: 164417, 2023-09)Background Dietary patterns can produce an environmental impact. Changes in people's diet, such as the increased consumption of ultra-processed food (UPF) can not only influence human health but also ... -
Investigating the trustworthiness of randomized controlled trials in osteopathic research: a systematic review with meta-analysis
(Journal of Clinical Epidemiology, 2025, 183: 111788, 2025-04)Objectives To systematically investigate trustworthiness (methodological rigor, transparency, good governance, research integrity, and absence of misconduct) in randomized controlled trials (RCTs) of ... -
Perspective of survivors in perpetrator programme outcome evaluation: results from a case example in the Italian context
(Culture e Studi del Sociale, 8(2), 86-101., 2023-12)Perpetrator programmes have been widely developed in recent years. Despite this, their outcomes remain controversial. The main challenge in evaluating perpetrator programmes is the lack of ... -
Intensive weight-loss lifestyle intervention using Mediterranean diet and COVID-19 risk in older adults: secondary analysis of PREDIMED-Plus Trial
(The Journal of nutrition, health and aging, 2023, 27(12): 1162-1167, 2023-12)Objectives We tested the effects of a weight-loss intervention encouraging energy-reduced MedDiet and physical activity (PA) in comparison to ad libitum MedDiet on COVID-19 incidence in older ... -
Increased ultra-processed food consumption is associated with worsening of cardiometabolic risk factors in adults with metabolic syndrome: Longitudinal analysis from a randomized trial
(Atherosclerosis, 2023, 377: 12-23, 2023-07)Background and aims The association between changes in ultra-processed food (UPF) consumption and cardiometabolic risk (CMR) factors remains understudied. We evaluated the association between changes ... -
Association of adiposity and its changes over time with COVID‑19 risk in older adults with overweight/obesity and metabolic syndrome: a longitudinal evaluation in the PREDIMED‑Plus cohort
(BMC Medicine, 2023, 21: 390, 2023-10)Abstract Background Cross-sectionally, older age and obesity are associated with increased coronavirus disease-2019 (COVID-19) risk. We assessed the longitudinal associations of baseline and changes ... -
Nutritional quality of food as represented by the FSAm-NPS nutrient profiling system underlying the Nutri-Score label and cancer risk in Europe: Results from the EPIC prospective cohort study
(PLoS Medicine, 2018, 15(9): e1002651, 2018-09)Background Helping consumers make healthier food choices is a key issue for the prevention of cancer and other diseases. In many countries, political authorities are considering the implementation of ... -
Adherence to a Mediterranean diet and leisure-time physical activity are associated with reduced initiation of antidepressant, anxiolytic, antipsychotic and antiseizure drug use in older adults: a cohort study
(Age and ageing, 2025, 54(4): afaf088, 2025-04)Background We explored how adherence to the Mediterranean diet (MedDiet) and leisure-time physical activity (LTPA) impact psychoactive medication use in older adults. Methods We assessed the ... -
Stigma and fear of getting sick in the care of people living with HIV: an exploratory systematic review
(Le Infezioni in Medicina, 2024, 32(2): 168-182, 2024-06)The aim of the present study was to explore the stigma and fear of getting sick in health professionals who treat people living with HIV. An exploratory systematic review was conducted. The search was ... -
What has been studied about attitudes and social stigma towards HIV/AIDS? A global bibliometric study with correlations on global health HIV-related indicators
(Healthcare, 2025, 13(8): 891, 2025-04)This study aimed to assess, through health metrics and bibliometric analysis, the global research on attitudes and social stigma of people living with HIV/AIDS and to identify research findings, gaps, ... -
Identifying metabolomic mediators of the physical activity and colorectal cancer relationship
(Cancer epidemiology, biomarkers and prevention, 2025, 34(4): 578-587, 2025-04)Background: Current evidence suggests higher physical activity (PA) levels are associated with a reduced risk of colorectal cancer. However, the mediating role of the circulating metabolome in this ... -
Heterogeneity of colorectal cancer risk factors by anatomical subsite in 10 European countries: A multinational cohort study
(Clinical Gastroenterology and Hepatology, 2019, 17(7): 1323-1331, 2019-06)Background & Aims Colorectal cancer located at different anatomical subsites may have distinct etiologies and risk factors. Previous studies that have examined this hypothesis have yielded inconsistent ... -
Estimated substitution of tea or coffee for sugar-sweetened beverages was associated with lower type 2 diabetes incidence in case–cohort analysis across 8 European countries in the EPIC-InterAct study
(The Journal of nutrition, 2019, 149(11): 1985-1993, 2019-11)Background Beverage consumption is a modifiable risk factor for type 2 diabetes (T2D), but there is insufficient evidence to inform the suitability of substituting 1 type of beverage for another. Ob ... -
Plant foods, dietary fibre and risk of ischaemic heart disease in the European Prospective Investigation into Cancer and Nutrition (EPIC) cohort
(International Journal of Epidemiology, 2021, 50(1): 212-222, 2021-02)Background Epidemiological evidence indicates that diets rich in plant foods are associated with a lower risk of ischaemic heart disease (IHD), but there is sparse information on fruit and vegetable ... -
The Contradictions in the criteria for diagnosing hypermobile Ehlers–Danlos syndrome as reflecting some of the philosophical debates about the threshold between the normal and the pathological
(The Journal of Medicine and Philosophy, 2025, 16 d'abril: 1-14, 2025-04)The arrival of some diagnoses tends to bring about relief because it validates suffering and grants access to social legitimization, medical resources, and economic aid. This is the case of the Ehlers–Danlos ... -
Metabolic signatures of healthy lifestyle patterns and colorectal cancer risk in a European cohort
(Clinical Gastroenterology and Hepatology, 2022, 20(5): e1061-e1082, 2022-05)Background & Aims Colorectal cancer risk can be lowered by adherence to the World Cancer Research Fund/American Institute for Cancer Research (WCRF/AICR) guidelines. We derived metabolic signatures of ... -
Adherence to the western, prudent and mediterranean dietary patterns and colorectal cancer risk: findings from the Spanish cohort of the European Prospective Investigation into Cancer and Nutrition (EPIC-Spain)
(Nutrients, 2022, 14(15): 3085, 2022-07)The aim of this study was to explore the association between three previously identified dietary patterns (Western, Prudent, and Mediterranean) and colorectal cancer (CRC) risk by sex and cancer subtype. ... -
Prospective and Mendelian randomization analyses on the association of circulating fatty acid binding protein 4 (FABP‑4) and risk of colorectal cancer
(BMC Medicine, 2023, 21: 391, 2023-10)Background Fatty acid binding protein 4 (FABP-4) is a lipid-binding adipokine upregulated in obesity, which may facilitate fatty acid supply for tumor growth and promote insulin resistance and inflammation ... -
Diet and lifestyle in relation to small intestinal cancer risk: findings from the European Prospective Investigation into Cancer and Nutrition (EPIC)
(Cancer Causes and Control, 2023, 34: 927-937, 2023-06)Purpose The incidence of small intestinal cancer (SIC) is increasing, however, its aetiology remains unclear due to a lack of data from large-scale prospective cohorts. We examined modifiable risk ...