DECIDE: Delphi Expert Consensus Statement on Inflammatory Bowel Disease Dysplasia Shared Management Decision-Making

Background and Aims Inflammatory bowel disease colitis-associated dysplasia is managed with either enhanced surveillance and endoscopic resection or prophylactic surgery. The rate of progression to cancer after a dysplasia diagnosis remains uncertain in many cases and patients have high thresholds for accepting proctocolectomy. Individualised discussion of management options is encouraged to take place between patients…

DatAC: A visual analytics platform to explore climate and air quality indicators associated with the COVID-19 pandemic in Spain

The coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) pandemic has caused an unprecedented global health crisis, with several countries imposing lockdowns to control the coronavirus spread. Important research efforts are focused on evaluating the association of environmental factors with the survival and spread of the virus and different works have been published, with contradictory results in some cases.…

Dairy Product Intake and Risk of Type 2 Diabetes in EPIC-InterAct: A Mendelian Randomization Study

OBJECTIVE To estimate the causal association between intake of dairy products and incident type 2 diabetes. RESEARCH DESIGN AND METHODS The analysis included 21,820 European individuals (9,686 diabetes cases) of the EPIC-InterAct case-cohort study. Participants were genotyped, and rs4988235 (LCT-12910C>T), a SNP for lactase persistence (LP) which enables digestion of dairy sugar, i.e., lactose, was…

Cyberbullying and Associated Factors in Member Countries of the European Union: A Systematic Review and Meta-Analysis of Studies with Representative Population Samples

The aim of this study is to conduct a systematic review and meta-analysis to summarise the current state of empirical research and establish an up-to-date estimate of the prevalence of cyberbullying through the gathering of self-reported experiences from representative population samples from EU countries. Bibliographic searches were conducted on main electronic databases for studies until…

Cyber sexual harassment against women and impact on health. A cross-sectional study in a representative population sample

Background This study focuses on the frequency of cyber sexual harassment (CSH) and examines its link with five health impact indicators (self-perceived health, medication, suicidal ideation, suicide attempts and use of health services). Methods Analyzing the data provided by the 2019 Macro-survey on violence against women in Spain, two items of which refer to CSH.…

cvauroc: Command to compute cross-validated area under the curve for ROC analysis after predictive modeling for binary outcomes

Receiver operating characteristic (ROC) analysis is used for comparing predictive models in both model selection and model evaluation. ROC analysis is often applied in clinical medicine and social science to assess the tradeoff between model sensitivity and specificity. After fitting a binary logistic or probit regression model with a set of independent variables, the predictive…

Cumulative Burden of Colorectal Cancer-Associated Genetic Variants is More Strongly Associated With Early-onset vs Late-onset Cancer

Background & Aims Early-onset colorectal cancer (CRC, in persons younger than 50 years old) is increasing in incidence; yet, in the absence of a family history of CRC, this population lacks harmonized recommendations for prevention. We aimed to determine whether a polygenic risk score (PRS) developed from 95 CRC-associated common genetic risk variants was associated…

Cuidando al Profesional de la Salud. Habilidades emocionales y de comunicación

Relacionarse con los pacientes es un arte. Relacionarse con otros profesionales es, también, un arte. Y como todo arte requiere un cierto porcentaje de inspiración y, muy especialmente, un elevadísimo porcentaje de transpiración; esto es, de esfuerzo, de entrega, a veces incluso de derroche. En esta publicación que el lector tiene en sus manos le ofrecemos un gran…

Cuidando al Formador. Habilidades emocionales y de comunicación

Bibiana Navarro Matillas, José Luis Bimbela Pedrola   Estudios recientes concluyen que formar a otros conlleva riesgos importantes para la salud. Tanto para la salud física (problemas osteoarticulares, vocales y/o estomacales), como para la salud emocional (dificultades a la hora de afrontar las situaciones debido a niveles elevados de ansiedad, angustia, impotencia o rabia) y, desde luego también para…