Publications by authors named "Toni Galmes"
Health implications of mobility during pregnancy entail a need to understand pregnant women's activity spaces. We present ActMAP, a framework for quantifying multiple aspects of activity spaces from distinct trips and stays derived from GPS data. We applied ActMAP to data from 238 pregnant women in Barcelona, Spain (2018-2020) and explored weekday, weekend and intraday associations between pregnancy trimester and activity spaces.
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- The study investigates the effects of legacy and next-generation PFAS on fetal growth and fetoplacental hemodynamics in a cohort of 747 pregnant women in Barcelona.
- It measures various PFAS levels in maternal plasma, evaluates fetal growth via ultrasounds, and uses Doppler ultrasound to assess blood flow dynamics.
- Findings indicate potential links between legacy PFAS exposure and decreased fetal growth, although most associations are not statistically significant; future research is needed to explore next-generation PFAS effects.
Background: Air pollution is the leading environmental risk factor for health. Assessing outdoor air pollution exposure with detailed spatial and temporal variability in urban areas is crucial for evaluating its health effects.
Aim: We developed and compared Land Use Regression (LUR), dispersion (DM), and hybrid (HM) models to estimate outdoor concentrations for NO, PM, black carbon (BC), and PM (Fe, Cu, Zn) in Barcelona.