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”
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Researchers from the URV, the Universidad de Navarra and the CIBEROBN have analysed more than 90,000 patients over 30years
Bryan Percy Saldivar, international fellow at the Faculty of Chemistry, aims to create a predictive model capable of suggesting the most suitable diet for patients given their health condition, that would reduce clinical screening time and cost
The professor and director of the URV’s Unit of Human Nutrition is on the list of most influential scientists in the world thanks to the impact of his research, according to the list “Highly Cited Researchers 2019”
The finding is from a nutritional study carried out by researchers from the URV’s Human Nutrition Unit, which concludes that regular consumption of nuts by men who follow a western diet improves the quality of their orgasms and their sexual function
The results are from the Predimed-Plus study, and they have been obtained after monitoring for a year almost 2,000 patients suffering from overweight and the metabolic syndrome
Researchers from the Universitat Rovira i Virgili research group Tecnatox have analysed the pollution of the sea, the marine sediment and the beaches of the Tarragona coast with microscopic plastic waste
This is the conclusion reached by researchers from the Human Nutrition Unit of the URV-IISPV after analyzing nearcly 3,000 articles
For the second consecutive year the Universitat Rovira i Virgili has been included in the QS World University Rankings by Subject and has improved its international position with respect to the previous edition
The publication is aimed at primary school children and features content from the Science of Chocolate workshops, during which women researchers from the Universitat Rovira i Virgili and the Institute of Chemical Research of Catalonia explain their research using cocoa as a common denominator