J. López-Gil

Anthropometric Profile, Body Composition, and Game Performance of the Mexican Professional Basketball League Champion Team During the 2025–2026 Basketball Champions League Americas: A Cross-Sectional Study

Background and Objectives: Basketball imposes a marked positional division of labour, and body size, somatotype and body composition are among the variables most consistently monitored in professional practice. Whole-roster studies pairing a complete kinanthropometric assessment with official competition statistics fro...

Body Composition and Physical Fitness in Five-a-Side Soccer for the Blind Players: A Penalized Regression Approach

Background: Five-a-side soccer for the blind (F5) is a Paralympic sport in which there are various performance variables, including anthropometric factors and physical fitness. However, despite this recognition, there is little scientific literature on performance analysis using algorithms to identify the main variable...

Pharmacovigilance signals and regional burden of antibiotic-associated Clostridioides difficile infection: a pharmacovigilance study and Global Burden of Disease Study 2023.

BACKGROUND Despite the substantial global burden of Clostridioides difficile infection (CDI) and its close relationship with antibiotic exposure, evidence characterizing drug- and age-specific risk patterns remains limited. OBJECTIVES This study aimed to characterize antibiotic-associated CDI by assessing drug- and a...

Maternal Influenza Infection During Pregnancy and Neuropsychiatric Disorders in Offspring

Importance Evidence on maternal influenza infection during pregnancy and offspring neuropsychiatric risk remains inconsistent and limited by methodologic concerns. Objective To evaluate the association of maternal influenza infection during pregnancy and offspring neuropsychiatric risk. Design, Setting, and Participant...

Age, Sex, and Waist-to-Height Ratio Approach the Discrimination of Fifty-Four Model Inputs for Prevalent Hypertension: An Explainable Machine Learning Analysis of the Chilean National Health Survey

Background/Objectives: Machine learning is increasingly applied to identify hypertension from broad predictor panels, but whether it outperforms a few routine measurements is unclear. We compared machine learning pipelines against three readily obtained variables in a national Chilean survey. Methods: We analysed 5516...

Regional and national burden of attention-deficit hyperactivity disorder in Asia, 1990-2023: a Global Burden of Disease Study 2023.

Mental Health and Psychological Constructs Related to Performance in Professional, Semi-Professional, and Competitive Adolescent Women’s Soccer Players: A Scoping Review

Background: Mental health has become a fundamental component of the sports world. Although previous studies have addressed psychological aspects of women’s soccer, no comprehensive review has mapped both mental health symptoms and adaptive psychological resources and psychophysiological markers in professional, semi-pr...

The cold‐water immersion recovery–adaptation paradox: Reconciling acute parasympathetic and analgesic benefits with chronic hypertrophy attenuation

Abstract Cold‐water immersion (CWI) is among the most widely used post‐exercise recovery modalities in elite sport and clinical rehabilitation, yet a fundamental paradox now emerges from the evidence: the same protocols that accelerate parasympathetic reactivation and reduce perceived muscle soreness also suppress the...

Clinical inertia in cardiovascular risk management: prevalence, associated factors, and impact on outcomes of the OPM study

Background Clinical inertia, defined as the failure to initiate or intensify therapy when clinically indicated, represents a major and under-addressed barrier to achieving cardiovascular risk (CVR) factor control in primary care. Despite the availability of evidence-based guidelines and effective pharmacological treatm...

Dietary Interventions for Metabolic Dysfunction-Associated Steatotic Liver Disease in Children and Adolescents: A Network Meta-Analysis of Randomized Clinical Trials.

Home food preparation involvement and ultra-processed food consumption in adolescents: the EHDLA study.

In this secondary cross-sectional analysis of 847 Spanish adolescents (aged 12-17 years) from the Eating Healthy and Daily Life Activities (EHDLA) study, we investigated whether frequency of helping with dinner preparation and grocery shopping (<3 or ≥3 times/week) were associated with ultra-processed food (UPF) consum...

Pro-Inflammatory Dietary Profiles Are Associated with Psychosocial Functioning in Spanish Adolescents: Findings from the EHDLA Study

Background: Dietary factors may influence psychosocial outcomes through inflammatory pathways, but evidence in adolescents remains limited. The aim was to examine whether dietary inflammatory potential is associated with psychosocial functioning among Spanish adolescents. Methods: This cross-sectional study is based on...