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1. Structural, Dermal and Ungual Characteristics of the Foot in Patients with Type II Diabetes: (Publication); Background and Objectives: Diabetes is a chronic and metabolic disease, considered as an important public health problem. The objective of this study was to determine the prevalence of podiatric pathology ...; Created on 20 November 2019
2. Effects of Family History on Relative and Absolute Risks for Colorectal Cancer: a Systematic Review and Meta-Analysis: (Publication); BACKGROUND & AIMS: Guidelines recommend individuals with familial colorectal cancer (FCC) to undergo colonoscopy surveillance instead of average-risk screening. However, these recommendations vary widely. ...; Created on 26 September 2019
3. Addition of a 161-SNP polygenic risk score to family history-based risk prediction: Impact on clinical management in non- BRCA1/2 breast cancer families: (Publication); Background The currently known breast cancer-associated single nucleotide polymorphisms (SNPs) are presently not used to guide clinical management. We explored whether a genetic test that incorporates ...; Created on 26 September 2019
4. Time trends in prevalence and incidence rates of childhood overweight and obesity in Portugal: Generation XXI birth cohort: (Publication); Childhood obesity estimates are steadily increasing worldwide. There is strong evidence that overweight children before puberty maintain this nutritional status for life. This study aimed to estimate the ...; Created on 25 September 2019
5. Time trends in prevalence and incidence rates of childhood overweight and obesity in Portugal: Generation XXI birth cohort: (Publication); Childhood obesity estimates are steadily increasing worldwide. There is strong evidence that overweight children before puberty maintain this nutritional status for life. This study aimed to estimate the ...; Created on 25 September 2019
6. Dimension reduction estimation for central mean subspace with missing multivariate response: (Publication); Multivariate response data often arise in practice and they are frequently subject to missingness. Under this circumstance, the standard sufficient dimension reduction (SDR) methods cannot be used directly. ...; Created on 25 September 2019
7. Late HIV Diagnosis but Earlier Antiretroviral Treatment Initiation in Northwest Spain: Impact of Current Treatment Guidelines: (Publication); Background: Current HIV treatment guidelines recommend antiretroviral treatment (ART) initiation for all HIV-infected individuals regardless of CD4 count. This study evaluates the immunological and virological ...; Created on 24 September 2019
8. Prevalence of knee osteoarthritis in a random population sample in people aged 40 and over: (Publication); Introduction: Osteoarthritis is the osteoarticular disease with the highest prevalence worldwide. In industrialized countries, 80% of the population > 65 years suffers from it. Objectives: To determine ...; Created on 24 September 2019
9. Concordance between the Different Cardiovascular Risk Scores in People with Rheumatoid Arthritis and Psoriasis Arthritis: (Publication); Aim. To determine the cardiovascular risk and the concordance between the different scores in people with rheumatoid arthritis (RA) and psoriatic arthritis (PsA). Methods. Observational descriptive study ...; Created on 24 September 2019
10. Discovery of an autoantibody signature for the early diagnosis of knee osteoarthritis: Data from the Osteoarthritis Initiative: (Publication); Objective: To find autoantibodies (AAbs) in serum that could be useful to predict incidence of radiographic knee osteoarthritis (KOA). Design: A Nucleic-acid Programmable Protein Arrays (NAPPA) platform ...; Created on 24 September 2019
11. A two-sample test for the equality of univariate marginal distributions for high-dimensional data: (Publication); A recurring theme in modern statistics is dealing with high-dimensional data whose main feature is a large number, p, of variables but a small sample size. In this context our aim is to address the problem ...; Created on 23 September 2019
12. Goodness-of-fit tests for quantile regression with missing responses: (Publication); Goodness–of–fit tests for quantile regression models, in the presence of missing observations in the response variable, are introduced and analyzed in this paper. The different proposals are based on the ...; Created on 19 September 2019
13. Testing critical points of nonparametric regression curves: application to the management of stalked barnacles: (Publication); Several aquatic living resources are overexploited. An example of this is a barnacle fishery, which is a commercial species that commands high prices in the market. We feel that not enough is known about ...; Created on 23 August 2019
14. Plasma microRNA Profiling Reveals Novel Biomarkers of Epicardial Adipose Tissue: A Multidetector Computed Tomography Study: (Publication); Epicardial adipose tissue (EAT) constitutes a novel parameter for cardiometabolic risk assessment and a target for therapy. Here, we evaluated for the first time the plasma microRNA (miRNA) profile as ...; Created on 22 August 2019
15. Long-term Reintervention After Endovascular Abdominal Aortic Aneurysm Repair: (Publication); Objective: To describe the long-term reintervention rate after endovascular abdominal aortic aneurysm repair (EVR), and identify factors predicting reintervention. Summary of Background Data: EVR is ...; Created on 22 August 2019
16. Goodness-of-fit tests for disorder detection in NGS experiments: (Publication); Next‐generation sequencing (NGS) experiments are often performed in biomedical research nowadays, leading to methodological challenges related to the high‐dimensional and complex nature of the recorded ...; Created on 06 August 2019
17. A new semantic-based feature selection method for spam filtering: (Publication); The Internet emerged as a powerful infrastructure for the worldwide communication and interaction of people. Some unethical uses of this technology (for instance spam or viruses) generated challenges in ...; Created on 15 January 2019
18. A hybrid ARIMA–SVM model for the study of the remaining useful life of aircraft engines: (Publication); In this research, an algorithm is presented for predicting the remaining useful life (RUL) of aircraft engines from a set of predictor variables measured by several sensors located in the engine. RUL prediction ...; Created on 10 October 2018
19. Parametric estimates for the receiver operating characteristic curve generalization for non-monotone relationships: (Publication); Diagnostic procedures are based on establishing certain conditions and then checking if those conditions are satisfied by a given individual. When the diagnostic procedure is based on a continuous marker, ...; Created on 22 May 2018
20. Sequential double cross-validation for assessment of added predictive ability in high-dimensional OMIC applications: (Publication); Enriching existing predictive models with new biomolecular markers is an important task in the new multi-omic era. Clinical studies increasingly include new sets of omic measurements which may prove their ...; Created on 03 October 2018
21. Improving stability of prediction models based on correlated omics data by using network approaches: (Publication); ... typically used to deal with the high dimensionality of these datasets. However, due to the presence of correlation in the datasets, it is difficult to select the best model and application of these methods ...; Created on 22 May 2018
22. Geographically Weighted Principal Components Analysis to assess diffuse pollution sources of soil heavy metal: Application to rough mountain areas in Northwest Spain.: (Publication); Heavy metal pollution can result in the degradation of the soil, air and water bodies' quality affecting the health of all living organism. We analyze the spatial distribution of the concentrations of ...; Created on 24 January 2018
23. On the Combination of Omics Data for Prediction of Binary Outcomes: (Publication); Enrichment of predictive models with new biomolecular markers is an important task in high-dimensional omic applications. Increasingly, clinical studies include several sets of such omics markers available ...; Created on 10 October 2018
24. Hábitos podológicos en personas con alteraciones ungueales: (Publication); Objective: To determine the prevalence of onychocryptosis and onychomycosis confirmed by culture in subjects attending a Podiatric University Hospital and to describe their podiatric habits. Method: ...; Created on 08 October 2018
25. An extended sequential goodness-of-fit multiple testing method for discrete data: (Publication); The sequential goodness-of-fit (SGoF) multiple testing method has recently been proposed as an alternative to the familywise error rate-And the false discovery rate-controlling procedures in high-dimensional ...; Created on 23 January 2018
26. Clinical experience with the integrase inhibitors Dolutegravir and Elvitegravir in HIV-infected patients: Efficacy, safety and tolerance: (Publication); Two integrase inhibitors (INSTIs), dolutegravir (DTG) and elvitegravir/cobicistat (EVG/COBI), have joined recently the pharmacotherapy arsenal against HIV. This study evaluated the efficacy and tolerability ...; Created on 19 September 2017
27. Highly sensitive marker panel for guidance in Lung Cancer Rapid Diagnostic Units: (Publication); While evidence for lung cancer screening implementation in Europe is awaited, Rapid Diagnostic Units have been established in many hospitals to accelerate the early diagnosis of lung cancer. We seek to ...; Created on 18 September 2017
28. Measuring the efficiency of the Spanish Olympic Sports Federations: (Publication); Research question: The most common result in the analysis of efficiency in multisport competitions like the Olympic Games using the data envelopment analysis (DEA) is a ranking of the participating countries. ...; Created on 18 September 2017
29. The adverse prognostic effect of tumor budding on the evolution of cutaneous head and neck squamous cell carcinoma.: (Publication); Background: Tumor budding is a readily detectable histopathologic feature that has been recognized as an adverse prognostic factor in several human cancers. Objective: We sought to assess the correlation ...; Created on 18 September 2017
30. Incidence of cardiovascular events and associated risk factors in kidney transplant patients: a competing risks survival analysis: (Publication); Background: The high prevalence of cardiovascular risk factors among the renal transplant population accounts for increased mortality. The aim of this study is to determine the incidence of cardiovascular ...; Created on 18 September 2017
31. Keys to Success in High Level Water Polo Teams: (Publication); The aim of this study was to identify specific offensive performance indicators that distinguish the top clubs from the others in the Male Honour Division of the Spanish Water Polo League. A total of 88 ...; Created on 18 September 2017
32. Deformation analysis in tunnels through curve clustering: (Publication); Deformations in tunnels and galleries due to confinement pressures can occur continuously but also at discrete time intervals. We propose a methodology to detect discrete significant deformations in tunnels ...; Created on 18 September 2017
33. High levels of atrial natriuretic peptide and copeptin and mortality risk: (Publication); Objective: To determine whether high levels of mid-regional pro-atrial natriuretic peptide (MR-proANP), copeptin, and procalcitonin (PCT) plasma concentrations are associated with increased mortality risk. Methods: ...; Created on 18 September 2017
34. Penalized empirical likelihood for high-dimensional partially linear varying coefficient model with measurement errors: (Publication); For the high-dimensional partially linear varying coefficient models where covariates in the nonparametric part are measured with additive errors, we, in this paper, study asymptotic distributions of a ...; Created on 08 September 2017
35. Impact of PI3K/AKT/mTOR pathway activation on the prognosis of patients with head and neck squamous cell carcinomas: (Publication); The PI3K/AKT/mTOR signaling pathway has emerged as one of the most frequently deregulated in head and neck squamous cell carcinomas (HNSCC). Numerous alterations of various upstream and downstream components ...; Created on 04 November 2016
36. Forecasting SO2 pollution incidents by means of quantile curves based on additive models: (Publication); More than 90% of the sulfur dioxide in the air comes from human sources. Because of the adverse health effects of high levels of sulfur dioxide, specific regulations have been adopted to manage and reduce ...; Created on 04 November 2016
37. Adjusted p‐values for SGoF multiple test procedure: (Publication); In the field of multiple comparison procedures, adjusted p-values are an important tool to evaluate the significance of a test statistic while taking the multiplicity into account. In this paper, we introduce ...; Created on 01 September 2017
38. Severe acute kidney injury in critically ill children: Epidemiology and prognostic factors: (Publication); Introduction: Acute kidney injury (AKI) is a severe complication in critically ill children. The aim of the study was to describe the characteristics of AKI, as well as to analyse the prognostic factors ...; Created on 01 September 2017
39. Improvement of mineral and bone metabolism markers in associated with better survival in hemodialysis patients: the COSMOS study: (Publication); Abnormalities in serum phosphorus, calcium and parathyroid hormone (PTH) have been associated with poor survival in haemodialysis patients. This COSMOS (Current management Of Secondary hyperparathyroidism: ...; Created on 01 September 2017
40. Ventricular Tachycardia and Early Fibrillation in Brugada Syndrome and Ischemic Cardiomyopathy Patients Show Predictable Frequency-Phase Properties on the Precordial ECG Consistent with the Respective ...: (Publication); Background Ventricular fibrillation (VF) has been proposed to be maintained by localized high-frequency sources. We tested whether spectral-phase analysis of the precordial ECG enabled identification of ...; Created on 01 September 2017
41. Predicting malignant and tuberculous pleural effusions through demographics and pleural fluid analysis of patients effusions: (Publication); IntroductionThe differential diagnosis of malignant and tuberculous pleural effusion is frequently difficult. ObjectivesThe aim of our study is to determine the discrimination value of demographic ...; Created on 01 September 2017
42. Circulating inflammatory miRNA signature in response to different doses of aerobic exercise: (Publication); While moderate acute exercise has been associated with strong anti-inflammatory mechanisms, strenuous exercise has been linked to deleterious inflammatory perturbations. It is therefore fundamental to ...; Created on 01 September 2017
43. Asessing the suitability of the minimum capture size and protection regimes in the gooseneck barnacle shellfishery: (Publication); The suitability of a total-length-based, minimum capture-size and different protection regimes was investigated for the gooseneck barnacle Pollicipes pollicipes shellfishery in N Spain. For this analysis, ...; Created on 01 September 2017
44. Effectiveness of azacitidine in unselected high-risk myelodysplastic syndromes: Results from the Spanish Registry: (Publication); The benefit of azacitidine treatment in survival of high-risk myelodysplastic syndromes (MDS) patients compared with conventional care treatment (CCT) has not been established outside clinical trials. ...; Created on 01 September 2017
45. Geometric optimization of trough collectors using terrestrial laser scanning: feasibility analysis using a new statistical assessment method: (Publication); We propose a new methodology to assess whether the shape of a measured object fits a known surface. The method is based on calculating uncertainty spheres for a specific confidence level obtained by kernel ...; Created on 04 September 2017
46. High variation in hypoxanthine determination after analytical treatment of vitreous humor samples: (Publication); Created on 04 September 2017
47. A Bootstrap-Based Covariate Selection Method for Modelling the Risk of Lightning-Induced Fires at a Local Scale: A Case Study in Northwest Spain: (Publication); In lightning-induced fire risk prediction models, the number of potential predictors is usually high, with some redundancy among them. It is therefore important to select the best subset of predictors ...; Created on 04 September 2017
48. A Simulation Study on the Impact of Strong Dependence in High-Dimensional Multiple-Testing I: The Case without Effects: (Publication); When working with high-dimensional biological data the so-called multiple hypothesis testing problem emerges. That is, when many separate tests are performed, several will be significant by chance provoking ...; Created on 10 January 2019
49. Selecting variables in regression models. A new approach to the prediction of time series of SO2: (Publication); A question that tends to arise in multiple regression models (with p variables), and that has not been totally satisfactory solved, is to determine the best subset or subsets of q q≤p) predictors which ...; Created on 21 September 2017
50. Selecting variables in regression models. A new approach to the prediction of time series of SO2: (Publication); A question that tends to arise in multiple regression models (with p variables), and that has not been totally satisfactory solved, is to determine the best subset or subsets of q q≤p) predictors which ...; Created on 08 September 2017