Joan Ballester

TL;DR: The Barcelona Superblocks were estimated to help reduce harmful environmental exposures while simultaneously increase PA levels and access to green space, and thereby provide substantial health benefits, and are expected for other cities that face similar challenges of environmental pollution, climate change vulnerability and low PA levels.

TL;DR: This study suggests that the causative agent of KD is a preformed toxin or environmental agent rather than an organism requiring replication, and provides support for the concept and feasibility of a windborne pathogen.

TL;DR: Results suggest that the environmental trigger for KD could be wind-borne, and efforts to isolate the causative agent should focus on the microbiology of aerosols.

TL;DR: The link between temperature, humidity and daily numbers of deaths in nearly 200 European regions is shown, which is subsequently used to infer transient projections of mortality under state-of-the-art high-resolution greenhouse gas scenario simulations, suggesting that human lifespan might indeed increase if a substantial degree of adaptation to warm temperatures takes place.

TL;DR: Between 1980 and 2016, the risk and attributable fraction of cardiovascular deaths due to warm and cold temperatures decreased for men and women across all age groups, and the observed warming of the climate has occurred in parallel with substantial adaptation to both high and low temperatures.