Facultat de Ciències de la Salut Blanquerna: Recent submissions
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Women’s caesarean section preferences: A multicountry cross-sectional survey in low- and middle-income countries
(Midwifery, 2024, 132: 103979, 2024-05)Objective To measure the proportion of women's preferences for CS in hospitals with high caesarean section rates and to identify related factors. Design A cross-sectional hospital-based postpartum ... -
How does hospital organisation influence the use of caesarean sections in lowand middle-income countries? A cross-sectional survey in Argentina, Burkina Faso, Thailand and Vietnam for the QUALI-DEC project
(BMC Pregnancy and Childbirth, 2024, 24: 67, 2024-01)Background Improving the understanding of non-clinical factors that lead to the increasing caesarean section (CS) rates in many low- and middle-income countries is currently necessary to meet the ... -
Metodología de estudio ante la sospecha de infección por hongos
(Álvarez Lerma, F. (Coord.). (2002). Infecciones fúngicas en pacientes críticos. Ergon., 2002) -
Criterios terapéuticos de las infecciones fúngicas abdominales
(Álvarez Lerma, F. (Coord.). (2000). Infecciones fúngicas en las complicaciones infecciosas de cirugía abdominal. Ad Hoc., 2000) -
Farmacología del sistema cardiovascular
(Mestres Miralles, C., Duran i Hortolà, M., Nogués Llort, M. R. (Coords.). (2017). Fundamentos de farmacología para fisioterapeutas. Médica Panamericana, 2017) -
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 ...
