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• 26/10/2011 - Press release

  New guidelines to report studies of genetic and molecular risk factors more accurate and ethical

  New guidelines which provide an easy to use checklist for the accurate and ethical reporting of studies involving genetic or molecular risk factors for disease have been proposed by a group of international researchers among them Miquel Porta, head of the group of Clinical and molecular epidemiology of cancer at IMIM (Hospital del Mar Research Institute), and are published in this week’s PLoS Medicine

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• 08/09/2011 - Press release

  The Size and Burden of Mental Disorders and Other Disorders of the Brain in Europe – It’s worse than we thought

  A major landmark study released a few days ago by the European College of Neuropsychopharmacology (ECNP) in which IMIM (Hospital del Mar Research Institute) has participated, sheds new light on the state of Europe’s mental and neurological health.

  Més informació "The Size and Burden of Mental Disorders and Other Disorders of the Brain in Europe – It’s worse than we thought"

• 09/03/2011 - Events

  First international index developed to predict suicidal behavior

  Although thousands of people commit suicide worldwide each year, researchers and doctors do not have any method for evaluating a person's likelihood of thinking about or trying to commit suicide. An international group of scientists, in which the IMIM (Hospital del Mar Research Institute) has participated, has devised the first risk index in order to prevent suicides.

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• 16/11/2010 - Press release

  Jordi Sunyer has been awarded the Advanced Grant for scientific excellence

  

  One of the grants awarded by the European Research Council (ERC) this year was for the BREATHE (BRain dEvelopment and Air polluTion ultrafine particles in scHool ChildrEn) project directed by Dr. Jordi Sunyer, co-director of the Research Centre for Environmental Epidemiology (CREAL) and director of the IMIM Research Programme in Epidemiology and Public Health.

  Més informació "Jordi Sunyer has been awarded the Advanced Grant for scientific excellence"

• 25/10/2010 - Press release

  A multi-stage genome-wide association study of bladder cancer identifies several new susceptibility loci

  

  A large collaborative multi-stage study led by the US National Cancer NCI and based on the Spanish Bladder Cancer (SBCS) / EPICURO Study jointly coordinated by Spanish National Cancer Research Centre (CNIO) and the Centre de Recerca en Epidemiologia Ambiental (CREAL) and IMIM, has identified several new genetic variants associated with bladder cancer risk and validated recently reported variants.

  Més informació "A multi-stage genome-wide association study of bladder cancer identifies several new susceptibility loci"

• 19/10/2010 - Press release

  Diseases considered as mild most affect a country’s productivity

  

  Days of absence due to illness are the main source of lost human capital for a country’s economy. A paper led by researchers from the IMIM Health Services Research Group (Hospital del Mar Research Institute), has studied what mental and physical disorders occur most commonly and account for days of absence from the usual daily activity.

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• 03/12/2009 - General information

  Eating Disorders are a Public Health Problem that Affect Young Women to a Greater Extent

  

  As part of the European Study of the Epidemiology of Mental Disorders (ESEMeD) and the World Mental Health Survey Initiative (WMH project), researchers from the Municipal Institute for Medical Research (IMIM-Hospital del Mar) have participated in a study to establish the prevalence of the major eating disorders: anorexia, bulimia and binge eating disorder.

  Més informació "Eating Disorders are a Public Health Problem that Affect Young Women to a Greater Extent"

• 30/11/2009 - General information

  Unemployment, low level of education and living as a couple worsen the perception of social discrimination among individuals with mental disorders

  

  For the first time, researchers from the Municipal Institute of Medical Research (IMIM-Hospital del Mar) have studied, within the international study setting of ESEMeD, how individuals with mental disorders perceive social rejection and how this affects their well-being and the progress of their illness. Individuals with a mental disorder who feel stigmatised have a lower quality of life and more social and work-related limitations than those with a mental disorder who do not feel stigmatised.

  Més informació "Unemployment, low level of education and living as a couple worsen the perception of social discrimination among individuals with mental disorders"

• 28/09/2009 - Press release

  Moderate physical activity can help stop the evolution of COPD

  We must stress that every year, 18.000 Spaniards die from COPD, a figure that makes it the top cause of avoidable death in Spain and the only pathology related to smoking that continues to be on the rise. According to the EPISCAN study, the prevalence of COPD in Spain currently extends to 10.2% of the population –nearly one and a half million citizens.

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• 28/08/2009 - Press release

  Estimating the risk of death in COPD

  

  Chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD) affects almost half of smokers of advanced age. Although clinical manifestations and disease severity vary greatly across patients, treatment is often similar. Through the development of a new risk index for COPD patients, researchers are seeking ways to improve this situation.

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