CED - Center for Demographic Studies

Sergi Trias Llimós

ORCID 0000-0002-8052-6736 'Ramón y Cajal' Research Fellow

Educational qualifications: Ph.D in Demography (University of Groningen)
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Sergi Trias-Llimós is a post-doctoral researcher in the Centre for Demographic Studies (CED). He is interested in lifestyle-related health outcomes, causes of death and inequalities in health and mortality. Sergi obtained his PhD in Demography from the University of Groningen (the Netherlands). Before joining the CED he worked as research fellow in epidemiology at the London School of Hygiene & Tropical Medicine. In addition, he has a master in Demography from the Autonomous University of Barcelona, and he attended both the European Doctoral School of Demography and the European Educational Programme in Epidemiology. Sergi has publications in top field journals like the International Journal of Epidemiology or Addiction.

2024

Désesquelles, Aline, Sergi Trias-Llimós, Magali Barbieri, Viviana Egidi, Luisa Frova, Francesco Grippo, France Meslé, i Marilena Pappagallo. 2024. «Frailty at Death: A Four-Country Study». N-IUSSP.

2023

Trias-Llimós, Sergi. 2023. «Do Internet usage and education play a role in health inequalities? A study of the Spanish population aged 50-79». The Social Observatory.

Trias-Llimós, Sergi, Jeroen J. A. Spijker, Amand Blanes, i Iñaki Permanyer. 2023. «Age and Cause-of-Death Contributions to Educational Inequalities in Life Expectancy and Lifespan Variation in a Low-Mortality Country: A Cross-Sectional Study of 1.67 Million Deaths in Spain (2016–19)». SSM - Population Health 23:101461. doi: 10.1016/j.ssmph.2023.101461

Trias-Llimós, Sergi, Magali Barbieri, Viviana Egidi, Luisa Frova, Francesco Grippo, France Meslé, Marilena Pappagallo, i Aline Désesquelles. 2023. «Frailty at Death: An Examination of Multiple Causes of Death in Four Low Mortality Countries in 2017». Demographic Research 49:13-30. doi: 10.4054/DemRes.2023.49.2

Piñeiro, Bárbara, Jeroen J. A. Spijker, Sergi Trias-Llimós, Amand Blanes Llorens, i Iñaki Permanyer. 2023. «Trends in Cause-Specific Mortality: Deaths of Despair in Spain, 1980–2019». Journal of Public Health fdad133. doi: 10.1093/pubmed/fdad133

Trias-Llimós, Sergi. 2023. «Do Internet usage and education play a role in health inequalities? A study of the Spanish population aged 50-79». «la Caixa» Fundation, juny.

Permanyer, Iñaki, Francisco Villavicencio, i Sergi Trias-Llimós. 2023. «Healthy Lifespan Inequality: Morbidity Compression from a Global Perspective». European Journal of Epidemiology. doi: 10.1007/s10654-023-00989-3.

Spijker, Jeroen i Sergi Trias-Llimós. 2023. «Cause-Specific Mortality in Spain during the Pandemic: Educational Differences and Its Impact on Life Expectancy». European Journal of Public Health, ckad036.

Fihel, Agnieszka, Sergi Trias‐Llimós, Magdalena M. Muszyńska‐Spielauer, i Markéta Majerová. 2023. «Alcohol‐related Mortality in Four European Countries: A Multiple‐cause‐of‐death Study». Drug and Alcohol Review dar.13624. doi: 10.1111/dar.13624.

Trias-Llimós, Sergi, i Iñaki Permanyer. 2023. «Cause-of-Death Diversity From a Multiple-Cause Perspective in the United States». Demography 10410415. doi: 10.1215/00703370-10410415.

2022

PIÑEIRO, Bárbara; TRIAS-LLIMÓS, Sergi; SPIJKER, Jeroen; BLANES, Amand; PERMANYER, Iñaki (2022) “Estimation of smoking-related mortality and its contribution to educational inequalities in life expectancy in Spain: an observational study, 2016–2019”. BMJ Open, 12 (8), e059370: 1-8 (ISSN: 2044-6055). doi: 10.1136/bmjopen-2021-059370 I.F.: JCR (SCIE)_2021_Q2_Medicine, General & Internal, i.i. 3.017
SJR_2021_Q1_Medicine (miscellaneous), i.i. 0.982

VIDRA, Nikoletta; TRIAS-LLIMÓS, Sergi; JANSSEN, Fanny (2022) “Impact of Obesity on Life Expectancy Among Different European Countries, 1975–2012”. GARCIA-ALEXANDER, G.; POSTON, Jr. D.L. (Eds) International Handbook of the Demography of Obesity. International Handbooks of Population, 12: 57-77. Springer, Cham (ISBN: 978-3-031-10935-5). https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-031-10936-2_4

TRIAS-LLIMÓS, Sergi; COOK, Sarah, EGGEN, Anne Elise; KUDRYAVTSEV, Alexander V.; MALYUTINA, Sofia; SHKOLNIKOV, Vladimir M.; LEON, David A. (2022) “Socioeconomic inequalities in physiological risk biomarkers and the role of lifestyles among Russians aged 35-69 years”. International Journal for Equity in Health, 21, art. 51: 1-11 (ISSN: 1475-9276). https://doi.org/10.1186/s12939-022-01650-3 I.F.: JCR (SSCI)_2021_Q1_Public, Environmental & Occupational Health, i.i. 4.7
SJR_2021_Q1_Health Policy, i.i. 1.369

TOBÍAS, Aurelio; RIFFE, Tim; RAMIRO, Diego; TRIAS-LLIMÓS, Sergi (2022) “Forthcoming challenges for COVID-19 data collection”. The Lancet Public Health (Correspondence), 7 (3), e208: 1-1 (ISSN: 2468-2667). doi: 10.1016/S2468-2667(22)00029-9 I.F.: JCR (SSCI)_2020_Q1_Public, Environmental & Occupational Health, i.i. 21.648
SJR_2020_Q1_ Public Health, Environmental and Occupational Health, i.i. 7.226

TRIAS-LLIMÓS, Sergi; SPIJKER, Jeroen, J.A. (2022) “Educational differences in alcohol-related mortality and their impact on life expectancy and lifespan variation in Spain (2016–2018): a cross-sectional analysis using multiple causes of death”. BMJ Open, 12 (1), e053205: 1-9 (ISSN: 2044-6055).
http://dx.doi.org/10.1136/bmjopen-2021-053205
I.F.: JCR (SCIE)_2020_Q2_Medicine, general & Internal, i.i. 2.692
SJR_2020_Q1_Medicine (miscellaneous), i.i. 1.132

TRIAS-LLIMÓS, Sergi; BOSQUE-PROUS, Marina; OBRADORS-RIAL, Nuria; TEIXIDÓ-COMPAÑÓ, Ester; BELZA, María José; JANSSEN, Fanny; ESPELT, Albert (2022) “Alcohol and educational inequalities: Hazardous drinking prevalence and all-cause mortality by hazardous drinking group in people aged 50 and older in Europe”. Substance Abuse, 43 (1): 152-160 (ISSN: 0889-7077). https://doi.org/10.1080/08897077.2020.1773597 I.F.: JCR (SSCI)_2020_Q2_Substance Abuse, i.i. 3.716
SJR_2020_Q2_Medicine (miscellaneous), i.i. 0.891

2021

PERMANYER, Iñaki; TRIAS-LLIMÓS; Sergi; SPIJKER, Jeroen (2021) “Best-practice healthy life expectancy vs. life expectancy: Catching up or lagging behind?”. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America-PNAS (Letter), 118 (46), e2115273118: 1-3 (ISSN: 0027-8424). https://doi.org/10.1073/pnas.2115273118 I.F.:
JCR (SCIE)_2020_Q1_Multidisciplinary Sciences, i.i. 11.0205
SJR_2020_Q1_Multidisciplinary, i.i. 5.011

TRIAS-LLIMÓS, Sergi; BILAL, Usama; FRANCO, Manuel; BLANES, Amand; RIFFE, Tim (2021) “Caídas en la esperanza de vida en 2020 y seroprevalencia del SARS-CoV-2”. Gaceta Sanitaria – carta al Director (Online: 28 July 2021):1-2 (ISSN: 0213-9111). https://doi.org/10.1016/j.gaceta.2021.07.002 I.F.:
JCR (SSCI)_Q3_Public, Environmental & Occupational Health. i.i. 2.139
SJR_2020_Q3_Public Health, Environmental and Occupational Health, i.i. 0.444

ESTEVE, Albert; TRIAS-LLIMÓS, Sergi (2021) “Die COVID-19-Pandemie: Die Rolle von Demografie und Demograf*innen”. Discussion Paper (“Post-Pandemic Populations”), 13: 8-12. Population and Policy, Population Europe (ISSN: 2512-6172).

RIFFE, Tim; ACOSTA, Enrique; TRIAS-LLIMÓS, Sergi; the COVerAGE-DB team (2021) “Data Resource Profile: COVerAGE-DB: a global demographic database of COVID-19 cases and deaths”. International Journal of Epidemiology, 50 (2): 1-17 (ISSN: 0300-5771). DOI: https://doi.org/10.1093/ije/dyab027 I.F.: JCR_2019_Q1_Public, Environmental & Occupational Health, i.i. 3.691
SJR_2020_Q1_Medicine (miscellaneous), i.i. 3.406

TRIAS-LLIMÓS, Sergi (2021) “Reflexiones sobre las estimaciones de mortalidad atribuida al consumo de alcohol a nivel poblacional”. Adicciones: 1-3 (ISSN: 0214-4840). https://doi.org/10.20882/adicciones.1621
I.F.: JCR(SSCI)_2018_Q1_Substance Abuse, i.i. 3.167
SJR_2019_Q2_Medicine (miscellaneous), i.i. 0.716

JANSSEN, Fanny; TRIAS-LLIMÓS, Sergi; KUNST, Anton E. (2021) “Strong combined impact of smoking, obesity, and alcohol on survival improvements in Europe”. IUSSP’s online news magazine (January 25, 2021): 1-6 (ISSN: 2704-7067).

JANSSEN, Fanny; TRIAS-LLIMÓS, Sergi; KUNST, Anton E. (2021) “Profound impact of smoking, alcohol and obesity on improvements in life expectancy”. Blog International Journal of Epidemiology.

JANSSEN, Fanny; TRIAS-LLIMÓS, Sergi; KUNST, Anton E. (2021) “The combined impact of smoking, obesity and alcohol on life-expectancy trends in Europe”. International Journal of Epidemiology, dyaa273 (online 11 January 2021): 1-11 (ISSN: 0300-5771). https://doi.org/10.1093/ije/dyaa273 I.F.: JCR_2019_Q1_Public, Environmental & Occupational Health, i.i. 7.707
SJR_2019_Q1_Medicine (miscellaneous), i.i. 3.555

2020

GBD 2019 Demographics Collaborators (2020) "Global age-sex-specific fertility, mortality, healthy life expectancy (HALE), and population estimates in 204 countries and territories, 1950–2019: a comprehensive demographic analysis for the Global Burden of Disease Study 2019". The Lancet, 396 (10258): 1160-1203 (ISSN: 0140-6736). https://doi.org/10.1016/S0140-6736(20)30977-6

TAMAGNINI, Gabriele;BIONDI, Raoul; RICCIARDI, Gabriella; RUTIGLIANO, Roberta; TRIAS-LLIMÓS, Sergi, et al (2020) "Cardiac surgery in the time of the novel coronavirus: Why we should think to a new normal". Journal of Cardiac Surgery, 65 (8): 1761-1764 (ISSN: 0886-0440). https://doi.org/10.1111/jocs.14741

TRIAS-LLIMÓS, Sergi (2020) "Respuesta a Montes-Santiago y Roseiro-Sordo: «La importancia de las estimaciones de mortalidad relacionadas con el alcohol en España»" / "Reply to Montes-Santiago and Roseiro-Sordo: «The importance of alcohol-related mortality estimates in Spain»". Revista Clínica Española, 220 (2): 144 (ISSN: 0014-2565). https://doi.org/10.1016/j.rce.2019.09.010

JANSSEN, Fanny; EL GEWILY, Shady; BARDOUTSOS, Anastasios; TRIAS-LLIMÓS, Sergi (2020) “Past and Future Alcohol-Attributable Mortality in Europe”. International Journal of Environmental Research and Public Health, 17 (23), 9024: 1-21 (ISSN: 1661-7827). https://doi.org/10.3390/ijerph17239024 I.F.: JCR_2019_Q1_Public, Environmental & Occupational Health, i.i. 2.849
SJR_2019_Q2_Public Health, Environmental and Occupational Health, i.i. 0.739

TRIAS-LLIMÓS, Sergi; PERMANYER, Iñaki (2020) “A need for better understanding old-age mortality dynamics”. BMJ Global Health, Correspondence letter in response to: Bergeron-Boucher M-P, Aburto JM, Raalte A van. (2020) “Diversification in causes of death in low-mortality countries: emerging patterns and implications”. BMJ Glob Health, 5 (7): e002414 (ISSN: 2059-7908). I.F.: JCR_2019_Q1_Public Health, Environmental & Occupational Health, i.i. 4.280
SJR_2019_Q1_Public Health, Environmental and Occupational Health, i.i. /

TRIAS-LLIMÓS, Sergi; RIFFE, Tim; BILAL, Usama (30.11.2020) “Esperanza de vida y COVID-19”. Blog Piedras de papel.

TRIAS-LLIMÓS, Sergi; PENNELLS, Lisa; TVERDAL, Aage et al (2020) “Quantifying the contribution of established risk factors to cardiovascular mortality differences between Russia and Norway”. Scientific Reports, 10 (20796): 1-8 (ISSN: 2045-2322). https://doi.org/10.1038/s41598-020-77877-3 I.F.: JCR_2019_Q1_Multidisciplinary sciences, i.i. 3.998
SJR_2019_Q1_Multidisciplinary, i.i. 1.341

SAEZ, Marc; FIGUEIRAS GUZMÁN, Adolfo; … TRIAS-LLIMÓS, Sergi et al. (2020) “Covid-19: la malinterpretación de los datos de la pandemia daña la confianza del público”. The Conversation (edición España), 04.11.2020.

TRIAS-LLIMÓS, Sergi; RIFFE, Tim; BILAL, Usama (2020) “Monitoring life expectancy levels during the COVID-19 pandemic: Example of the unequal impact of the first wave on Spanish regions”. Plos One, 15 (11): e0241952: 1-10 (ISSN: 1932-6203). https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0241952
I.F.: JCR_2019_Q2_Multidisciplinary Sciences, i.i. 2.740
SJR_2019_Q1_ Multidisciplinary, i.i. 1.023

TRIAS-LLIMÓS, Sergi; BARDOUTSOS, Anastasios; JANSSEN, Fanny (2020) “Future Alcohol-Attributable Mortality in France Using a Novel Generalizable Age-Period-Cohort Projection Methodology”. Alcohol and Alcoholism, 56 (3): 325-333 (ISSN: 0735-0414). doi: 10.1093/alcalc/agaa107 I.F.: JCR_2019_Q3_Substance Abuse, i.i. 2.078
SJR_2019_Q2_Medicine (miscellaneous), i.i. 0.793

TRIAS-LLIMÓS, Sergi; ALUSTIZA, Ainhoa; PRATS, Clara; TOBIAS, Aurelio; RIFFE, Tim (2020) “The need for detailed COVID-19 data in Spain”. The Lancet Public Health, Correspondence (online: october 9, 2020), 1p. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1016/S2468-2667(20)30234-6 I.F.:
JCR_2019_Q1_ Public, Environmental & Occupational Health 16.292
SJR_2019_Q1_Public Health, Environmental and Occupational Health, i.i. 6.886

MEDFORD, Anthony; TRIAS-LLIMÓS, Sergi (2020) “Population age structure only partially explains the large number of COVID-19 deaths at the oldest ages”. Demographic Research, 43 (19): 533-544 (ISSN: 1435-9871). DOI: 10.4054/DemRes.2020.43.19
I.F.:
JCR_2019_Q3_Demography, i.i. 1.438
SJR_2019_Q1_Demography, i.i. 1,004

TRIAS-LLIMÓS, Sergi; BILAL, Usama (2020) “Impact of the COVID-19 pandemic on life expectancy in Madrid (Spain)”. Journal of Public Health (Correspondence), 42 (3), 635-636 (ISSN: 1741-3842). https://doi.org/10.1093/pubmed/fdaa087 I.F.: JCR_2018_Q2_ Public, Environmental & Occupational Health (SSCI), i.i. 1.648
SJR_2019_Q2_Public Health, Environmental and occupational Health, i.i. 0.812

ZUERAS, Pilar; RUTIGLIANO, Roberta; TRIAS-LLIMÓS, Sergi (2020) "Marital status, living arrangements, and mortality in middle and older age in Europe". International Journal of Public Health, 1-10 (online: 29 April 2020 / ISSN: 1661-8556). DOI: 10.1007/s00038-020-01371-w I.F.:
JCR_2018_Q2_Public, Environmental & Occupational Health, i.i. 2.373
SJR_2019_Q1_Health (social science), i.i. 1.048

2019

VIDRA, Nikoletta; TRIAS-LLIMÓS, Sergi; JANSSEN, Fanny (2019) "Impact of obesity on life expectancy among different European countries: secondary analysis of population-level data over the 1975–2012 period". BMJ Open, 9 (7): 1-18 (ISSN: 2044-6055). http://dx.doi.org/10.1136/bmjopen-2018-028086

2018

TRIAS-LLIMÓS, Sergi; KUNST, Anton E.; JASILIONIS, Domantas; JANSSEN, Fanny (2018) "The contribution of alcohol to the East-West life expectancy gap in Europe from 1990 onward". International Journal of Epidemiology, 47 (3): 731–739 (ISSN: 0300-5771). https://doi.org/10.1093/ije/dyx244

TRIAS-LLIMÓS, Sergi; JANSSEN, Fanny (2018) "Alcohol and gender gaps in life expectancy in eight Central and Eastern European countries". European Journal of Public Health, 28 (4): 687–692 (ISSN: 1101-1262). https://doi.org/10.1093/eurpub/cky057

Nikoletta Vidra, Maarten J. Bijlsma, Sergi Trias-Llimós & Fanny Janssen (2018) "Past trends in obesity-attributable mortality in eight European countries: an application of age–period–cohort analysis". International Journal of Public Health, 63 (6): 683-692 (ISSN: 1661-8556). https://doi.org/10.1007/s00038-018-1126-2

TRIAS-LLIMÓS, Sergi; MARTIKAINEN, Pekka; MÄKELÄ, Pia; JANSSEN, Fanny (2018) "Comparison of different approaches for estimating age-specific alcohol-attributable mortality: The cases of France and Finland". Plos One, 13 (3): e0194478 (ISSN: 1932-6203). https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0194478

2017

TRIAS-LLIMÓS, Sergi; BIJLSMA, Maarten; JANSSEN, Fanny (2017) "The role of birth cohorts in long‐term trends in liver cirrhosis mortality across eight European countries". Addiction, 112 (2): 250-258 (e-ISSN: 1360-0443). https://doi.org/10.1111/add.13614

TRIAS-LLIMÓS, Sergi; MUSZYNSKA, Magdalena; CÁMARA, Antonio D.; JANSSEN, Fanny (2017) "Smoking cessation among European older adults: the contributions of marital and employment transitions by gender". European Journal of Ageing, 14 (2): 189-198 (ISSN: 1613-9372). https://doi.org/10.1007/s10433-016-0401-4

2015

ZUERAS, Pilar; CÁMARA, Antonio D.; BLANES, Amand; TRIAS-LLIMÓS, Sergi (2015) “Desigualdad social y niveles de discapacidad entre los mayores españoles”. Encrucijadas. Revista Crítica de Ciencias Sociales (“Salud, diversidad funcional y dependència”), 10(a1003): 1-25 (ISSN: 2174-6753). | [PDF]

CÁMARA, Antonio D.; ZUERAS, Pilar; BLANES, Amand; TRIAS-LLIMÓS, Sergi (2015) "Componentes generacionales y socioeconómicos de la discapacidad entre los mayores españoles / Generational and Socio-Economic Components of Disability Among the Elderly Population in Spain". Revista Española de Investigaciones Sociológicas, 151(VII-IX): 23-41. Centro de Investigaciones Sociológicas (CIS).

2023-2024

Novel measures in cardiovascular mortality and inequalities therein

Funding entity: Fundación BBVA

2022

Understanding the role of health literacy and the digital divide in socioeconomic inequalities in health and well-being

Funding entity: Social Observatory of "la Caixa"

Reference: Ref. FS21-1B059