• AGREEing on Guidelines for Nutrition Management of Adult Severe Burn Patients 

      Grammatikopoulou M.G., Theodoridis X., Gkiouras K., Stamouli E.-M., Mavrantoni M.-E., Dardavessis T., Bogdanos D.P. (2019)
      Background: Severe burns are associated with a plethora of profound metabolic, immunologic, and physiologic responses, demanding prompt and adequate management. The objective of the present study was to review, compare, ...
    • Association between Vaccination Status and Mortality among Intubated Patients with COVID-19-Related Acute Respiratory Distress Syndrome 

      Siempos I.I., Grapsa E., Adamos G., Andrianopoulos I., Tsolaki V., Giannakoulis V.G., Karavidas N., Giannopoulou V., Sarri K., Mizi E., Gavrielatou E., Papathanakos G., Mantzarlis K.D., Mastora Z., Magira E., Koulouras V., Kotanidou A., Siempos I.I. (2022)
      Importance: Although vaccination substantially reduces the risk of severe COVID-19, it is yet unknown whether vaccinated patients who develop COVID-19 and require invasive mechanical ventilation have lower mortality than ...
    • Blockchain based uniform price double auctions for energy markets 

      Foti M., Vavalis M. (2019)
      The energy sector is undergoing a massive transformation that greatly affects and is being affected by its market mechanisms. This paper presents the design, the prototype implementation and the analysis of a decentralized, ...
    • A cohort of fat enough but malnourished hemodialysis patients 

      Eleftheriadis T., Liakopoulos V., Stefanidis I. (2020)
      [No abstract available]
    • Competing mortality in patients with neuroendocrine tumors 

      Low S.K., Giannis D., Bahaie N.S., Trong B.L.H., Moris D., Huy N.T. (2019)
      Objectives: Patients with neuroendocrine tumors (NETs) are at increased risk of mortality from competing causes in light of the improvement in overall survival over recent decades. The purpose of this study was to explore ...
    • COVID-19 Phenotypes and Comorbidity: A Data-Driven, Pattern Recognition Approach Using National Representative Data from the United States 

      Vavougios G.D., Stavrou V.T., Konstantatos C., Sinigalias P.-C., Zarogiannis S.G., Kolomvatsos K., Stamoulis G., Gourgoulianis K.I. (2022)
      The aim of our study was to determine COVID-19 syndromic phenotypes in a data-driven manner using the survey results based on survey results from Carnegie Mellon University’s Delphi Group. Monthly survey results (>1 million ...
    • Creation and implementation of a European registry for patients with McArdle disease and other muscle glycogenoses (EUROMAC registry) 

      Pinós T., Andreu A.L., Bruno C., Hadjigeorgiou G.M., Haller R.G., Laforêt P., Lucía A., Martín M.A., Martinuzzi A., Navarro C., Oflazer P., Pouget J., Quinlivan R., Sacconi S., Scalco R.S., Toscano A., Vissing J., Vorgerd M., Wakelin A., Martí R., Baruch N., Ortega F.J., San-Millán B., Vieitez I., Vavla M., Musumeci O., Scalco R., Hadjgeorgiou G., Zintzaras E., Zülow E., Haller R., Durmus H., Santalla A., EUROMAC Consortium (2020)
      Background: International patient registries are of particular importance for rare disorders, as they may contribute to overcome the lack of knowledge derived from low number of patients and limited awareness of these ...
    • Decentralized blockchain-based consensus for Optimal Power Flow solutions 

      Foti M., Mavromatis C., Vavalis M. (2021)
      We design, implement and analyze a decentralized consensus algorithm based on the blockchain technology for the solution of the Optimal Power Flow problem. The proposed algorithm enables independent power grid nodes, without ...
    • Does boardroom gender diversity affect shareholder wealth? Evidence from bank mergers and acquisitions 

      Tampakoudis I., Andrikopoulos A., Nerantzidis M., Kiosses N. (2022)
      We explore the effect of the presence of female directors in boards of directors on the economic impact of bank mergers and acquisitions (M&As). Using a unique, hand-collected dataset on 1,130 M&As announced by U.S. banks ...
    • Eco-efficiency estimation with quantile stochastic frontiers: Evidence from the United States 

      Tsionas M.G., Tzeremes N.G. (2022)
      This paper based on quantile stochastic frontier framework constructs quantile eco-efficiency measures. Using the estimates from the quantile stochastic frontier, the eco-performance of the U.S. states for nitrogen oxides ...
    • Estimated Reductions in Added Sugar Intake among US Children and Youth in Response to Sugar Reduction Targets 

      Vercammen K.A., Dowling E.A., Sharkey A.L., Johnson Curtis C., Wang J., Kenney E.L., Micha R., Mozaffarian D., Moran A.J. (2022)
      Background: In 2021, the National Salt and Sugar Reduction Initiative (NSSRI) released voluntary sugar reduction targets for packaged foods and drinks in the United States. Objective: The objectives of this study were to ...
    • Examining Socioeconomic and Computational Aspects of Vaccine Pharmacovigilance 

      Soldatou V., Soldatos A., Soldatos T. (2019)
      Background. Vaccine pharmacovigilance relates to the detection of adverse events, their assessment, understanding, and prevention, and communication of their risk to the public. These activities can be tedious and long ...
    • An exploratory survey of heat stress management programs in the electric power industry 

      Kaltsatou A., Notley S.R., Flouris A.D., Kenny G.P. (2021)
      Workers in the electric power industry commonly perform physically demanding jobs in hot environments, which combined with the protective clothing worn, places them at risk of disease and health problems related to ...
    • Exploring the effectiveness of clustering algorithms for capturing water consumption behavior at household level 

      Ioannou A.E., Creaco E.F., Laspidou C.S. (2021)
      As water scarcity becomes more prevalent, the analysis of urban water consumption patterns at the consumer level and the estimation of the corresponding water demand for water utility are expected to be among the top ...
    • The failure of success: cyclic recurrences of a globally invasive pest 

      Zhao Z., Hui C., Plant R.E., Su M., Papadopoulos N.T., Carpenter T.E., Li Z., Carey J.R. (2019)
      In the six decades since 1960, the oriental fruit fly, Bactrocera dorsalis (Hendel), has been announced successfully eradicated in California by the U.S. Department of Agriculture a total of 564 times. This includes ...
    • First reported isolation of an emerging opportunistic pathogen (Elizabethkingia anophelis) from hospital water systems in Greece 

      Kyritsi M.A., Mouchtouri V.A., Pournaras S., Hadjichristodoulou C. (2018)
      After the Elizabethkingia anophelis outbreak in Wisconsin, USA, an active search for the detection of the microorganism in hospital water systems from Central and Northern Greece was performed from June to December 2016. ...
    • Geographical variation in therapy for bloodstream infections due to multidrug-resistant Enterobacteriaceae: a post-hoc analysis of the INCREMENT study 

      Harris P.N.A., Pezzani M.D., Gutiérrez-Gutiérrez B., Viale P., Hsueh P.-R., Ruiz-Garbajosa P., Venditti M., Tumbarello M., Navarro-Francisco C., Calbo E., Akova M., Giamarellou H., Oliver A., Almirante B., Gasch O., Martínez-Martínez L., Schwaber M.J., Daikos G., Pitout J., Peña C., Hernández-Torres A., Doi Y., Pérez F., Tuon F.F., Tacconelli E., Carmeli Y., Bonomo R.A., Pascual Á., Paterson D.L., Rodríguez-Baño J., del Toro M.D., Gálvez J., Falcone M., Russo A., Karaiskos I., Trecarichi E.M., Losito A.R., García-Vázquez E., Gómez J., Roilides E., Iosifidis E., Pournaras S., Prim N., Navarro F., Mirelis B., Origüen J., Juan R.S., Fernández-Ruiz M., Almela M., de la Calle C., Martínez J.A., Morata L., Larrosa N., Puig-Asensio M., Bou G., Molina J., González V., Bermejo J., Rucci V., de Gopegui E.R., Marinescu C.I., Fariñas M.C., Cano M.E., Gozalo M., Paño-Pardo J.R., Mora-Rillo M., Gómez-Zorrilla S., Tubau F., Tsakris A., Zarkotou O., Antoniadou A., Poulakou G., Souli M., Lowman W., Virmani D., Torre-Cisneros J., Machuca I., Gracia-Ahufinger I., Azap Ö.K., Helvaci Ö., Sahin A.O., Cantón R., Pintado V., Bartoletti M., Giannella M., Peter S., Hamprecht A., Badia C., Xercavins M., Fontanals D., Jové E., ESGBIS/REIPI/INCREMENT Group (2017)
      We describe regional differences in therapy for bloodstream infection (BSI) caused by extended-spectrum β-lactamase-producing Enterobacteriaceae (ESBL-E) or carbapenemase-producing Enterobacteriaceae (CPE). Patients (n = ...
    • Global, regional, and national consumption of animal-source foods between 1990 and 2018: findings from the Global Dietary Database 

      Miller V., Reedy J., Cudhea F., Zhang J., Shi P., Erndt-Marino J., Coates J., Micha R., Webb P., Mozaffarian D., Abbott P., Abdollahi M., Abedi P., Abumweis S., Adair L., Al Nsour M., Al-Daghri N., Al-Hamad N., Al-Hooti S., Al-Zenki S., Alam I., Ali J.H., Alissa E., Anderson S., Anzid K., Arambepola C., Arici M., Arsenault J., Asciak R., Barbieri H.E., Barengo N., Barquera S., Bas M., Becker W., Beer-Borst S., Bergman P., Biró L., Boindala S., Bovet P., Bradshaw D., Bukhary N.B., Bundhamcharoen K., Caballero M., Calleja N., Cao X., Capanzana M., Carmikle J., Castetbon K., Castro M., Cerdena C., Chang H.-Y., Charlton K., Chen Y., Chen M.F., Chiplonkar S., Cho Y., Chuah K.-A., Costanzo S., Cowan M., Damasceno A., Dastgiri S., De Henauw S., DeRidder K., Ding E., Dommarco R., Don R., Duante C., Duleva V., Duran Aguero S., Ekbote V., El Ati J., El Hamdouchi A., El-kour T., Eldridge A., Elmadfa I., Esteghamati A., Etemad Z., Fadzil F., Farzadfar F., Fernandez A., Fernando D., Fisberg R., Forsyth S., Gamboa-Delgado E., Garriguet D., Gaspoz J.-M., Gauci D., Geleijnse M., Ginnela B., Grosso G., Guessous I., Gulliford M., Gunnarsdottir I., Hadden W., Hadziomeragic A., Haerpfer C., Hakeem R., Haque A., Hashemian M., Hemalatha R., Henjum S., Hinkov H., Hjdaud Z., Hoffman D., Hopping B., Houshiar-rad A., Hsieh Y.-T., Hung S.-Y., Huybrechts I., Hwalla N.C., Ibrahim H.M., Ikeda N., Illescas-Zarate D., Inoue M., Janakiram C., Jayawardena R., Jeewon R., Jitnarin N., Johansson L., Jonsdottir O., Jundishapur A., Kally O., Kandiah M., Karupaiah T., Keinan-Boker L., Kelishadi R., Khadilkar A., Kim C.-I., Koksal E., Konig J., Korkalo L., Koster J., Kovalskys I., Krishnan A., Kruger H., Kuriyan-Raj R., Kweon S., Lachat C., Lai Y., Lanerolle P., Laxmaiah A., Leclercq C., Lee M.-S., Lee H.-J., Lemming E.W., Li Y., Lindström J., Ling A., Liputo N.I., Lopez-Jaramillo P., Luke A., Lukito W., Lupotto E., Ma Y., Mahdy Z.A., Malekzadeh R., Manan W., Marchioni D., Marques L.L., Marques-Vidal P., Martin-Prevel Y., Mathee A., Matsumura Y., Mazumdar P., Memon A., Mensink G., Meyer A., Mirmiran P., Mirzaei M., Misra P., Misra A., Mitchell C., Mohamed H.J., Mohammadi-Nasrabadi F., Mohammadifard N., Moy F.M., Musaiger A., Mwaniki E., Myhre J., Nagalla B., Naska A., Ng S.A., Ng S.W., Ngoan L.T., Noshad S., Ochoa A., Ocke M., Odenkirk J., Oh K., Oleas M., Olivares S., Orfanos P., Ortiz-Ulloa J., Otero J., Ovaskainen M.-L., Pakseresht M., Palacios C., Palmer P., Pan W.-H., Panagiotakos D., Parajuli R., Park M., Pekcan G., Petrova S., Piaseu N., Pitsavos C., Polasa K., Posada L., Pourfarzi F., Preston A.M., Rached I., Rahbar A.R., Rehm C., Richter A., Riley L., Salanave B., Sánchez-Romero L.M., Sarrafzadegan N., Sawada N., Sekiyama M., Selamat R., Shamsuddin K., Shariff Z.M., Sharma S., Sibai A.M., Sinkko H., Sioen I., Sisa I., Skeaff S., Steingrimsdottir L., Strand T., Suarez-Ortegon M.F., Swaminathan S., Swan G., Sygnowska E., Szabo M., Szponar L., Tan-Khouw I., Tapanainen H., Tayyem R., Tedla B., Tedstone A., Templeton R., Termote C., Thanopoulou A., Thorgeirsdottir H., Thorsdottir I., Trichopoulos D., Trichopoulou A., Tsugane S., Turrini A., van Oosterhout C., Vartiainen E., Veerman J.L., Virtanen S., Vollenweider P., Vossenaar M., Waidyatilaka I., Waskiewicz A., Waterham E., Wieler L., Wondwossen T., Wu S., Yaakub R., Yap M., Yusof S., Zaghloul S., Zajkás G., Zapata M., Zarina K., Zohoori F.V., Global Dietary Database (2022)
      Background: Diet is a major modifiable risk factor for human health and overall consumption patterns affect planetary health. We aimed to quantify global, regional, and national consumption levels of animal-source foods ...
    • Greek Surgeon Pavlos Ioannou's Possible Influence on William Halsted's Famous Radical Mastectomy 

      Tsoucalas G., Vladimiros L., Sgantzos M. (2017)
      Pavlos Ioannou performed an innovative surgical operation for breast cancer in Vienna University Hospital in 1861. A few years later, after his return to Greece, an operation performed on his closest friend's child, which ...
    • Health impact and cost-effectiveness of achieving the national salt and sugar reduction initiative voluntary sugar reduction targets in the united states: A microsimulation study 

      Shangguan S., Mozaffarian D., Sy S., Lee Y., Liu J., Wilde P.E., Sharkey A.L., Dowling E.A., Marklund M., Abrahams-Gessel S., Gaziano T.A., Micha R. (2021)
      BACKGROUND: High intake of added sugar is linked to weight gain and cardiometabolic risk. In 2018, the US National Salt and Sugar Reduction Initiative proposed government-supported voluntary national sugar reduction targets. ...