J. López-Gil

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...

Development Boards and Microcontroller Platforms in Sports and Physical Activity: A Systematic Review

For sports and health professionals, microcontroller-based systems can represent an effective way to implement objective and individualized monitoring, especially in high-performance contexts.

Adherence to Lifestyle Medicine and Sleep-Related Problems Among First-Year University Students in Quito, Ecuador, 2024–2025: A Cross-Sectional Study

Higher lifestyle medicine adherence was associated with lower odds of sleep-related problems, including in post-hoc analyses when the sleep domain was omitted from the U-SMILE total, which support multidimensional lifestyle medicine approaches for sleep health promotion in university settings.

Is Chronotype Related to Eating Distractions Among Adolescents? The EHDLA Study

Background: Screen-based distractions during meals are increasingly common during adolescence and have been linked to less healthy eating behaviors. Chronotype, an individual’s circadian preference for morningness or eveningness, is associated with differences in alertness, self-regulation, and recreational screen use...

The Adaptive Cellular State Model: A Conceptual Framework Linking Dietary Quality to Exercise-Induced Cellular Adaptation

Exercise is a recurrent multidimensional perturbation that initiates biological adaptation, yet responses to comparable training programmes remain heterogeneous. This critical narrative Review introduces the Adaptive Cellular State (ACS) Model as a heuristic framework for examining how the biological context present be...