Carlos De Mestral

Biographic Data

ID4321154
NAMECarlos De Mestral
GIVEN NAMESCarlos
FAMILY NAMEDe Mestral
SIGNATUREDE MESTRAL C
AFFILIATIONSDepartment of Epidemiology and Public Health, University College London, London, UK
ORCID0000-0002-0237-882X
VERIFIEDYes
TOTAL WORKS6
TOTAL CITATIONS3
WORKS AS AUTHOR6
WORKS AS EDITOR0
FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR2017
LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR2025
H-INDEX1

  • Covid-19 pandemic-related changes in teleworking, emotional exhaustion, and occupational burnout

    Open AccessAnshu Uppal, Nick Pullen et al.ARTICLEBMC Public Health2025

    Decreased teleworking frequency and not having the possibility of telework were associated with higher emotional exhaustion and diagnosed burnout. As organizations reconsider their telework policies in a post-pandemic era, they should consider the impact of such organizational changes on employee wellbeing

  • Socioeconomic conditions and children's mental health and quality of life during the Covid-19 pandemic

    Open AccessElsa Lorthe, Viviane Richard et al.ARTICLESSM - Population Health2023

    We found considerable differences in adverse outcomes across social strata. Our results suggest that, post-pandemic, interventions to address social inequities in HRQoL should focus on specific intersectional strata involving adolescents and families experiencing financial hardship, while those aiming to improve mental health should target all children and adolescents

  • Association of public care in childhood with social, criminal, cognitive, and health outcomes in middle-age

    Tiffany H Xie, Tiffany Xie et al.ARTICLEJournal of Epidemiology and…2021Cited by: 3References: 35

    Background Children who have been exposed to public (out-of-home) care experience a range of negative outcomes by late adolescence and early adulthood. The longer-term impact of childhood care is, however, uncertain. Aim To examine if there is a prospective association between childhood public care and adverse life outcomes in middle-age. Methods We used data from the UK 1958 birth cohort study of 18 558 individuals. Parents reported offspring ca…

  • Out‐of‐home care in childhood and biomedical risk factors in middle‐age

    Open AccessCarlos De Mestral, Steven Bell et al.ARTICLEAmerican Journal of Human Biology2020

    OBJECTIVE: With there being an apparent impact of experience of out-of-home care in childhood on chronic disease and mortality, we examined how such adversity might be embodied such that it has a measurable impact on human biology, so mediating this relationship. METHODS: We used data from the UK National Child Development Study in which exposure to public care was prospectively gathered on three occasions up to age 16. Study members also partici…

  • The contribution of health behaviors to socioeconomic inequalities in health

    Open AccessĐorđe Petrović, Carlos De Mestral et al.ARTICLEPreventive Medicine2018

  • Socioeconomic Determinants of Sodium Intake in Adult Populations of High-Income Countries

    Carlos De Mestral, Ana-Lucia Mayén et al.ARTICLEAmerican Journal of Public Health2017

    Background. A poorer quality diet among individuals with low socioeconomic status (SES) may partly explain the higher burden of noncommunicable disease among disadvantaged populations. Because there is a link between sodium intake and noncommunicable diseases, we systematically reviewed the current evidence on the social patterning of sodium intake. Objectives. To conduct a systematic review and a meta-analysis of the evidence on the association …