Facultat de Ciències de la Salut Blanquerna: Enviaments recents
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Diet-related health inequalities in high-income countries: A scoping review of observational studies
Diet-related health inequalities are a persistent public health challenge in high-income countries, disproportionately affecting socially and economically disadvantaged populations. This study aims to map the existing ...
Agamben and the logic of Geltung ohne Bedeutung (validity without significance) at the foundation of the juridical, political, linguistic, ethical and medical domains
In a letter to his friend Walter Benjamin in 1934, the scholar of religions Gershom Scholem described the status of the law in Kafka’s work as Geltung ohne Bedeutung (validity without significance). He meant that, in Kafka’s ...
Ultra-processed foods consumption as a promoting factor of greenhouse gas emissions, water, energy, and land use: A longitudinal assessment
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 environment ...
Investigating the trustworthiness of randomized controlled trials in osteopathic research: a systematic review with meta-analysis
Objectives To systematically investigate trustworthiness (methodological rigor, transparency, good governance, research integrity, and absence of misconduct) in randomized controlled trials (RCTs) of osteopathic manual ...
Perspective of survivors in perpetrator programme outcome evaluation: results from a case example in the Italian context
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 suitable tools. The ...
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
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 a simplified labelling ...
Increased ultra-processed food consumption is associated with worsening of cardiometabolic risk factors in adults with metabolic syndrome: Longitudinal analysis from a randomized trial
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 in UPF consumption ...
Intensive weight-loss lifestyle intervention using Mediterranean diet and COVID-19 risk in older adults: secondary analysis of PREDIMED-Plus Trial
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 adults. Design Secondary ...
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
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 in adiposity parameters ...
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
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 cumulative MedDiet adherence ...
European dietitians as key agents of the green transition: An exploratory study of their knowledge, attitudes, practices, and training
Introduction: How food systems are currently provisioning food to the population is a matter of debate worldwide. Food systems, driven by widespread and increasing adherence to a westernized dietary pattern, are failing ...
Social influences on adolescents’ dietary behavior in Catalonia, Spain: A qualitative multiple-cases study from the perspective of social capital
Adolescence has been referred to as the last best chance to prevent adult non-communicable diseases. Gaining further evidence on the psychosocial determinants of health behaviors, particularly the impact of peers, social ...
Neighbourhood social capital and obesity: a systematic review of the literature
Social capital, defined as the resources accessed by individuals and groups through social connections, has been posited to be a social determinant of obesity. However, empirical evidence for this association has been ...
La publicació en revistes d’impacte en llengua anglesa: una aproximació als articles de temàtica socioeducativa
L’article presenta el funcionament del procés de publicació científica i facilita informació significativa per als investigadors de l’àmbit socioeducatiu de cara a publicar en revistes de prestigi. Amb aquest objectiu, ...
Family social capital and health – a systematic review and redirection
The level (or scale) at which social capital can be conceptualised and measured ranges potentially from the macro-level (regional or country level), to the mesolevel (neighbourhoods, workplaces, schools), down to the ...
Exercise interventions for adults after liver transplantation (Review)
Background The finding that exercise is inversely related to metabolic syndrome after transplantation is novel and suggests that exercise interventions might provide a means for reducing metabolic syndrome complications ...
Electromyographic analysis of ankle muscles in young adults with Down syndrome before and after the implementation of a physical activity programme based on dance
Introduction People with Down syndrome have difficulties in postural control and exhibit differences in the displacement of their centre of pressure and in muscle activity compared with the general population. Previous ...
