The professor and director of the URV’s Human Nutrition Unit is among the most influential scientists in the world due to the impact of his research, according to the “Highly Cited Researchers 2021” list
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Pilar Galán has helped create a bank of biological samples for understanding the mechanisms involved in the relationship between food and cardiovascular disease, cancer, obesity and diabetes and has launched food labels containing nutritional information.
The Predimed-Plus study shows that the Mediterranean diet has the capacity to modify our microbiota. This diet induces changes in our microbiota that could be related to its healthy effect
274 individual European scientists and 26 expert associations have signed a Call demanding the European Commission “to adopt Nutriscore as soon as possible in the interest of both consumers and public health”
URV researchers have studied the association between the metabolism of this molecule, choline, and the emergence of two cardicac pathologies: atrial fibrillation and cardiac insufficiency. These results may help to determine some biomarkers that predict certain cardiovascular diseases
Adding nuts to a Western‐style diet has an effect on its epigenetics. This research shows, for the first time, that there are regions in the sperm epigenome that respond to the diet, which would explain why diet can modulate male fertility
Is a systematic review and meta-analysis of all the studies published to date. These results suggest that overweight/obesity prevention should be considered at an early age to avoid deleterious effects on reproductive health
A newly identified “metabolic signature” can evaluate an individual’s adherence and metabolic response to the Mediterranean diet and help predict future risk of developing cardiovascular disease (CVD), according to new research led by Harvard University with collaborators from the Broad Institute and Universitat Rovira i Virgili
The results of the PREDIMED study suggest that the most up-to-date recommendations of the international organisation World Cancer Research Fund/American Institute for Cancer Research to maintain a healthy lifestyle reduce the risk of colorectal in older people with a high cardiovascular risk. The results of the study have been published in the “Journal of Clinical Medicine”
Researchers from the URV, the Universidad de Navarra and the CIBEROBN have analysed more than 90,000 patients over 30years