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1. Web-based science communication at Research Institute level: balancing dissemination, dialogue and promotion in a major Italian scientific institution

Author: Rita Giuffredi, Valentina Grasso, and Alba L’Astorina
Subjects: public communication of science and technology, public engagement with science and technology, strategic communication, digital science communication, institutional communication of science, Communication. Mass media, P87-96
Abstract: This study examines the online communication practices of research institutes affiliated with the Italian National Research Council. The analysis employs a combination of quantitative and qualitative methods to evaluate whether these institutes leverage digital technologies to transition from a unidirectional, strategic approach to communication towards a more dialogic and engaging approach with the public. Specifically, the study analyses the institutes’ websites, assessing their use of communication tools, content, target audience, knowledge flows, and contextualization of communication activities, while also highlighting disciplinary-based differences. Although recent research identified Research Institutes’ level as a promising ground for research communication to flourish, our study suggests that, on average, they still employ digital technologies in the same way as traditional media, disseminating information about institutional advancements rather than fostering interactive dialogue. Communication styles remain grounded in Dissemination and Strategic models, which restricts the ability of research institutes to develop a dynamic and transformative relationship with society.
Published: 2024
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2. How do people perceive flood risk? Findings from a public survey in Tuscany, Italy

Author: Federica Zabini, Valentina Grasso, Alfonso Crisci, and Bernardo Gozzini
Subjects: integrate flood risk management, risk communication, risk perception, River protective works. Regulation. Flood control, TC530-537, Disasters and engineering, TA495
Abstract: Abstract The study of risk perception (RP) has much increased in the last years to improve flood risk management. Effective communication requires an understanding of how the risk of flooding is perceived by residents of different areas. In this work, RP is investigated through a survey involving 483 people living in Tuscany. RP was assessed through a score built on four items covering personal, residence, and sociodemographic variables concerning flood RP. Results showed that: (a) flood RP was moderate; (b) RP was positively correlated with age, higher education, proximity to a river and direct experience; (c) people who experienced floods felt themselves to be more informed and prepared; (d) subjectively perceived risk and experts' risk assessment seemed generally correlated, even if people living in areas at “high risk” tend to underestimate the actual flood risk level; (e) the majority of the respondents considered the government and themselves as equally responsible for personal preparedness; and (f) less than 20% was aware of a Local Emergency Plan. The need of focusing on people living in the riskiest areas with targeted communication campaigns on risk awareness, hazard preparedness, and other implications of the findings in terms of communication strategies are discussed.
Published: 2021
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3. Primavera 2023 Report meteo-climatico per la Toscana

Author: Valentina Grasso, Giorgio Bartolini, Giulio Betti, Daniele Grifoni, Gianni Messeri, Claudio Tei, Tommaso Malaspina Torrigiani, and Roberto Vallorani
Subjects: climate change, weather, clima
Abstract: Report sull'andamento meteo climatico del trimestre primaverile 2023 per laregione Toscana. Il report presenta un resoconto climatico della stagione in oggetto.Le analisi sono prodotte dal gruppo di ricercatori del Consorzio LaMMA e CNR IBE (Istituto per la BioEconomia del Consiglio Nazionale delle Ricerche) che svolge anche il servizio operativo di previsione meteorologica per la Regione Toscana. I dati utilizzati per la classifica più freddi/più caldi e per l'analisi dei trend di temperatura, dal 1955 ad oggi, sono relativi a 4 stazioni (Firenze, Pisa, Arezzo, Grosseto), gestite da ENAV e dal servizio meteorologico dell'Aeronautica Militare. I dati utilizzati per l'analisi dell'andamento della precipitazione, dal 1955 ad oggi, sono relativi a 38 stazioni, distribuite omogeneamente sul territorio regionale e provenienti da stazioni gestite da ENAV, dal servizio meteorologico dell'Aeronautica Militare e dal Servizio Idrologico della Regione Toscana (www.sir.toscana.it). Le analisi sull'andamento delle temperature a livello nazionale sono elaborazioni dell'Istituto di Scienze dell'Atmosfera e del Clima del Consiglio Nazionale delle Ricerche CNR ISAC (www.isac.cnr.it/climstor).
Published: 2023
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4. Autunno 2022. Report meteo-climatico sulla Toscana

Author: Giorgio Bartolini, Giulio Betti, Luca Fibbi, Valentina Grasso, Daniele Grifoni, Claudio Tei, Gianni Messeri, Tommaso Torrigiani Malaspina, and Roberto Vallorani
Subjects: climate change, climate
Abstract: Report sull'andamento meteo climatico della stagione autunnale 2022 per laregione Toscana. Il report presenta un resoconto climatico della stagione in oggetto.Le analisi sono prodotte dal gruppo di ricercatori del Consorzio LaMMA e CNR IBE (Istituto per la BioEconomia del Consiglio Nazionale delle Ricerche) che svolge anche il servizio operativo di previsione meteorologica per la Regione Toscana.I dati utilizzati per la classifica più freddi/più caldi e per l'analisi dei trend di temperatura, dal 1955 ad oggi, sono relativi a 4 stazioni (Firenze, Pisa, Arezzo, Grosseto), gestite da ENAV e dal servizio meteorologico dell'Aeronautica Militare. I dati utilizzati per l'analisi dell'andamento della temperatura, dal 1955 ad oggi, sono relativi a 4 stazioni (Firenze, Pisa, Arezzo, Grosseto), gestite da ENAV e dal servizio meteorologico dell'Aeronautica Militare.I dati utilizzati per l'analisi dell'andamento della precipitazione, dal 1955 ad oggi, sono relativi a 38 stazioni, distribuite omogeneamente sul territorio regionale e provenienti da stazioni gestite da ENAV, dal servizio meteorologico dell'Aeronautica Militare e dal Servizio Idrologico della Regione Toscana (www.sir.toscana.it).
Published: 2023
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5. Workers’ Perception Heat Stress: Results from a Pilot Study Conducted in Italy during the COVID-19 Pandemic in 2020

Author: Michela Bonafede, Miriam Levi, Emma Pietrafesa, Alessandra Binazzi, Alessandro Marinaccio, Marco Morabito, Iole Pinto, Francesca de’ Donato, Valentina Grasso, Tiziano Costantini, and Alessandro Messeri
Subjects: SARS-CoV-2, Health Personnel, Health, Toxicology and Mutagenesis, Public Health, Environmental and Occupational Health, COVID-19, Pilot Projects, Heat Stress Disorders, Cross-Sectional Studies, risk perception, risk knowledge, heat stress prevention measures, heat exposure, occupational injuries, Occupational Exposure, Humans, Perception, Pandemics, Heat-Shock Response, Occupational Health
Abstract: Many workers are exposed to the effects of heat and often to extreme temperatures. Heat stress has been further aggravated during the COVID-19 pandemic by the use of personal protective equipment to prevent SARS-CoV-2 infection. However, workers’ risk perception of heat stress is often low, with negative effects on their health and productivity. The study aims to identify workers’ needs and gaps in knowledge, suggesting the adaptation of measures that best comply with the needs of both workers and employers. A cross-sectional online questionnaire survey was conducted in Italy in the hottest months of 2020 (June–October) through different multimedia channels. The data collected were analyzed using descriptive statistics; analytical tests and analysis of variance were used to evaluate differences between groups of workers. In total, 345 questionnaires were collected and analyzed. The whole sample of respondents declared that heat is an important contributor to productivity loss and 83% of workers did not receive heat warnings from their employer. In this context, the internet is considered as the main source of information about heat-related illness in the workplace. Results highlight the need to increase workers’ perception of heat stress in the workplace to safeguard their health and productivity. About two-thirds of the sample stated that working in the sun without access to shaded areas, working indoors without adequate ventilation, and nearby fire, steam, and hot surfaces, represent the main injuries’ risk factors.
Published: 2022
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6. Risultati indagine servizio Meteo LaMMA. 2020

Author: Valentina Grasso
Subjects: weather, survey
Abstract: Risultati del questionario di valutazione del servizio meteo LaMMA da parte del pubblico. Il report presenta i risultati del questionario che abbiamo proposto agli utenti del sito web del Consorzio LaMMA con l’obiettivo di monitorare il livello di soddisfazione rispetto al servizio di previsione meteorologica e al modo in cui è veicolato. Il questionario è stato diffuso attraverso il sito web LaMMA ed è rimasto in linea per circa 30 giorni, nel mese di dicembre 2020. Complessivamente hanno risposto 788 persone. Le domande erano in tutto 18, suddivise in cinque sezioni che di seguito riepiloghiamo. Informazioni anagrafiche; Uso del meteo e modalità di fruizione; Le previsioni del LaMMA; Nuovo servizio di previsione e nuovo sito Valutazione della App LaMMA; Commenti liberi.
Published: 2021
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7. Autoimmune Hepatitis and Celiac Disease: Case Report Showing an Entero-Hepatic Link

Author: Francesco Tovoli, Roberto De Giorgio, Giacomo Caio, Valentina Grasso, Chiara Frisoni, Mauro Serra, Carla Caputo, Vincenzo Stanghellini, Luigi Bolondi, Roberto Corinaldesi, and Umberto Volta
Subjects: Autoimmune hepatitis, Hypertransaminasemia, γ-Globulins, Anti-dsDNA antibodies, Celiac disease, Diseases of the digestive system. Gastroenterology, RC799-869
Abstract: Celiac disease is an autoimmune disorder primarily targeting the small bowel, although extraintestinal extensions have been reported. The autoimmune processes can affect the liver with manifestations such as primary biliary cirrhosis and autoimmune hepatitis. We describe a 61-year-old woman with celiac disease and an increased levels of aminotransferases. The persistence of increased levels of aminotransferases after 1 year of gluten-free diet and the positivity for an anti-nuclear and anti-double-strand DNA antibodies led to a misdiagnosis of systemic lupus erythematosus-related hepatitis. Based on these findings the patient was placed on steroids, which after a few months were stopped because of the onset of diabetes mellitus. Soon after steroid withdrawal, the patient had a marked increase in aminotransferases and γ-globulins, and a liver biopsy revealed chronic active hepatitis. A course of three months of steroids and azathioprine normalized both biochemical and clinical parameters. Currently the patient is symptom-free and doing well. In conclusion, a hypertransaminasemia persisting after a gluten-free diet should be interpreted as a sign of coexisting autoimmune liver disease. Any autoantibody positivity (in this case to ANA and anti-dsDNA) should be carefully considered in order to avoid misdiagnosis delaying appropriate clinical management.
Published: 2010
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8. An unrecognized disease in routine clinical practice: the Heyde’s syndrome

Author: Beatrice Casadei, Valentina Grasso, Giulio Cariani, Bahjat Barakat, and Raffaele Pezzilli
Subjects: aortic stenosis, angiodysplasia, gastrointestinal bleeding, Heyde’s syndrome, von Willebrand factor, Medicine (General), R5-920
Abstract: Heyde’s syndrome (HS) is a triade constituted by aortic stenosis, gastrointestinal angiodysplasia and deficiency of high-molecular-weight von Willebrand factor multimers. Until now few cases of HS has been reported and we believe of interest to add a new patient having this disorder. We report a case of HS in an 86-year-old female patient admitted for the second episode of melena in the last 4 months. A colonoscopy revealed a bleeding due to angiodysplasia in the ascending colon and an endoscopic argon laser photocoagulation of the colonic angiodysplasia was successfully carried out. Physicians should be aware of the possibilities of acquired von Willebrand disease and gastrointestinal bleeding from angiodysplasia in patients with aortic valve stenosis because a right diagnosis affects the management of these patients, especially in emergency situations.
Published: 2014
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9. How do people perceive flood risk? Findings from a public survey in Tuscany, Italy

Author: Alfonso Crisci, Valentina Grasso, Bernardo Gozzini, and Federica Zabini
Subjects: Environmental Engineering, Flood myth, integrate flood risk management, lcsh:Disasters and engineering, Geography, Planning and Development, lcsh:TC530-537, lcsh:TA495, Public survey, lcsh:River protective works. Regulation. Flood control, Risk perception, risk communication, risk perception, Risk communication, Safety, Risk, Reliability and Quality, Socioeconomics, Psychology, Water Science and Technology
Abstract: The study of risk perception (RP) has much increased in the last years to improve flood risk management. Effective communication requires an understanding of how the risk of flooding is perceived by residents of different areas. In this work, RP is investigated through a survey involving 483 people living in Tuscany. RP was assessed through a score built on four items covering personal, residence, and sociodemographic variables concerning flood RP. Results showed that: (a) flood RP was moderate; (b) RP was positively correlated with age, higher education, proximity to a river and direct experience; (c) people who experienced floods felt themselves to be more informed and prepared; (d) subjectively perceived risk and experts' risk assessment seemed generally correlated, even if people living in areas at “high risk” tend to underestimate the actual flood risk level; (e) the majority of the respondents considered the government and themselves as equally responsible for personal preparedness; and (f) less than 20% was aware of a Local Emergency Plan. The need of focusing on people living in the riskiest areas with targeted communication campaigns on risk awareness, hazard preparedness, and other implications of the findings in terms of communication strategies are discussed.
Published: 2021

10. Risultati indagine servizio meteo LaMMA 2019

Author: Valentina Grasso
Subjects: survey, meteorology
Abstract: Presentazione sintetica dei risultati del questionario proposto agli utenti del sito web delConsorzio LaMMA proposto al fine di monitorareil livello di soddisfazione rispetto al servizio diprevisione meteorologica e al modo in cui èveicolato. Il questionario è stato diffuso attraverso il sito webLaMMA ed è rimasto in linea per circa 30 giorni,nel mese di dicembre 2019. Complessivamente hanno risposto 630 persone. Le domande erano in tutto 18, suddivise in cinquesezioni che di seguito riepiloghiamo. 1. Informazioni anagrafiche; 2. Uso delle informazioni meteo e modalità difruizione; 3. Le previsioni del LaMMA; 4. Valutazione della App LaMMA; 5. Commenti liberi. &nbsp
Published: 2020
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11. Pancreatic ultrasound elastography is not useful to predict the risk of pancreatic fistulas after pancreatic resection

Author: Antonio Colecchia, Margherita Alvisi, Claudio Ricci, Giovanni Marasco, Riccardo Casadei, Valentina Grasso, Federico Ravaioli, Carla Serra, Marasco G., Ricci C., Grasso V., Alvisi M., Serra C., Ravaioli F., Casadei R., and Colecchia A.
Subjects: Male, medicine.medical_specialty, Multivariate analysis, Pilot Projects, 030230 surgery, Gastroenterology, Palpation, Risk Assessment, 03 medical and health sciences, Pancreatic Fistula, 0302 clinical medicine, Pancreatectomy, Postoperative Complications, Pancreatic tumor, Predictive Value of Tests, Internal medicine, medicine, Ultrasound elastography, Humans, Prospective Studies, Pancreatic resection, Pancreas, Aged, Ultrasonography, Pancreatic stiffne, medicine.diagnostic_test, Postoperative pancreatic fistula, business.industry, Middle Aged, medicine.disease, Pancreatic elastography, Elasticity, Surgery, Pancreatic Neoplasms, Pancreatic stiffness, medicine.anatomical_structure, Pancreatic fistula, 030220 oncology & carcinogenesis, Elasticity Imaging Techniques, Female, Elastography, business, Negative Results
Abstract: The clinical usefulness of pancreatic elastography (PE) in the assessment of the pancreatic texture before pancreatic resection still remains uncertain. The aims are: to evaluate the value of pancreatic stiffness in both healthy volunteers and patients affected by pancreatic tumor; to evaluate the ability of PE in predicting clinically relevant postoperative pancreatic fistula (CR-POPF). Pancreatic stiffness of healthy subjects was compared with those of pancreatic tumors measuring shear wave velocity (SWV). In the last group, the ability of preoperative SWV in predicting CR-POPF was evaluated using linear regression. Ninety subjects were consecutively enrolled. No difference was found in SWV in the two groups (1.33 ± 0.31 vs 1.26 ± 0.30, p = 0.337). Multivariate analyses showed that male gender was associated with a softer pancreas (OR 0.74, CI 0.55–0.98, p = 0.035). In the 45 patients suitable for a secondary endpoint, the presence of soft pancreas assessed by surgeon’s palpation (OR 61.21; CI 2.14– > 1000; p = 0.016) and preoperative risk score (OR 1.72; CI 1.01–2.96; p = 0.049) was predictors of CR-POPF. SWV showed a trend in predicting CR-POPF. The pancreatic stiffness far to the pancreatic neoplasm is the same as healthy controls. SWV showed a trend in predicting CR-POPF but the clinical utility is limited.
Published: 2020

12. Comunicare Partecipare Collaborare. Teorie e buone pratiche negli enti di ricerca

Author: Alba L'Astorina and Rita Giuffredi e Valentina Grasso
Subjects: public engagement, comunicazione della scienza, partecipazione
Abstract: Nel 2009, nel corso della Giornata "Ricercare e Comunicare. Teorie e buone pratiche negli enti di ricerca", venivano presentati i risultati delle prime indagini sulla comunicazione della rete scientifica al Consiglio Nazionale delle Ricerche (CNR). Canali, obiettivi, strumenti, risorse, professionalità, competenze e aspettative degli attori coinvolti nel processo di comunicazione venivano scandagliati allo scopo di comprendere la misura e il senso - per i ricercatori - di un investimento in attività considerate per anni estranee o non prioritarie per la ricerca. Ne emergeva un quadro molto ricco e ancora poco strutturato, che lasciava intravedere nuovi ruoli per chi fa ricerca e nuove prospettive nel rapporto con la società. A 10 anni di distanza, il contesto è cambiato in maniera radicale: scienza aperta, citizen science, ricerca e innovazione responsabili (RRI), social media, sono solo alcuni dei fenomeni che hanno investito il mondo scientifico, ridefinendo strumenti, modalità, attori. Ma quanto questo cambiamento sta riguardando la comunità scientifica del più grande ente multidisciplinare di ricerca italiano, il CNR? Quanti progetti oggi includono nell'attività di ricerca soggetti esterni alla comunità scientifica, come stakeholder, policymaker o la società civile? E come vengono raccontate queste trasformazioni dai ricercatori? Quanto il loro coinvolgimento in attività di ricerca partecipata o di open science è motivato dalla piena consapevolezza della necessità di intraprendere nuovi modi di fare ricerca in una società sempre più complessa? Questi alcuni dei quesiti che lanciamo in questa giornata in cui il confronto tra riflessioni e racconto di esperienze e pratiche è arricchito dal contributo delle diverse prospettive di ricercatrici e ricercatori del CNR e di altre istituzioni di ricerca, studiosi ed esperti di comunicazione e di partecipazione pubblica presenti alla giornata.
Published: 2020

13. CEUS in the differential diagnosis between biliary sludge, benign lesions and malignant lesions

Author: Veronica Gabusi, Elena Mazzotta, Lydia Giannitrapani, Maurizio Soresi, Carla Serra, Cristina Felicani, Antonio De Cinque, Valentina Grasso, Serra, Carla, Felicani, Cristina, Mazzotta, Elena, Gabusi, Veronica, Grasso, Valentina, De Cinque, Antonio, Giannitrapani, Lydia, and Soresi, Maurizio
Subjects: Adult, Male, medicine.medical_specialty, Settore MED/09 - Medicina Interna, Gallbladder disease, Contrast Media, Gallbladder Diseases, Malignancy, Sensitivity and Specificity, Sludge, 030218 nuclear medicine & medical imaging, Diagnosis, Differential, 03 medical and health sciences, 0302 clinical medicine, Ultrasound, Internal Medicine, medicine, Bile, Humans, Radiology, Nuclear Medicine and imaging, Biliary sludge, Malignant disease, Aged, Retrospective Studies, Ultrasonography, business.industry, Gallbladder, Carcinoma, Benign disease, Reproducibility of Results, Washout, Cancer, General Medicine, Middle Aged, medicine.disease, medicine.anatomical_structure, 030220 oncology & carcinogenesis, CEUS, Female, Original Article, Radiology, Differential diagnosis, business
Abstract: PURPOSE: Conventional grayscale ultrasound (US) is accurate in the diagnosis of gallbladder disease (GD), but in some cases, it is not decisive. Contrast-enhanced ultrasound (CEUS) improves the diagnostic accuracy of US. The primary objective of this study is to assess the reliability of CEUS in the diagnosis of sludge; the secondary objective is to assess the ability of CEUS to diagnose cancer. METHODS: We retrospectively reviewed the US of 4137 patients positive for GD. In 43/4137 (1.04%), the use of could not discriminate between sludge and neoplasms. Then, we evaluated CEUS in only 39 of these patients, and in 4/43 (9%) cases it was not performable. After CEUS, the absence of enhancement was considered diagnostic for sludge, while contrast washout within 60 s diagnosed malignant lesions. RESULTS: Among the 39 patients, 16 had biliary sludge and 23 had lesions of the gallbladder wall; 9 of these were carcinomas and 14 were benign tumors. The absence of enhancement was present in 16/16 patients with sludge and in 0/23 patients with lesions of the gallbladder (sensitivity and specificity 100%). Washout was within 60 s in 9/9 gallbladder carcinomas and 2/14 benign lesions (sensitivity 100%; specificity 85%). CONCLUSIONS: US is confirmed to be accurate in the diagnosis of GD. In doubtful cases, CEUS is very accurate in biliary sludge diagnosis. An intralesional washout at 60 s is a pattern of malignancy that can orient towards a correct diagnosis, but it is limited by the presence of false positive results, especially for smaller lesions.
Published: 2018

14. Engaging students and teachers in meteorology and atmospheric sciences: the LaMMA activities

Author: Riccardo Benedetti, Giulio Betti, Ramona Magno, Claudio Tei, Valentina Grasso, Valerio Capecchi, T. Torrigiani, Luca Rovai, Bernardo Gozzini, Federica Zabini, Andrea Orlandi, and Giorgio Bartolini
Subjects: Atmospheric Science, Service (systems architecture), 010504 meteorology & atmospheric sciences, Meteorology, Design activities, school, operations room, LaMMA, 01 natural sciences, Learning opportunities, Mathematics education, Sociology, meteorology, educational modules, 0105 earth and related environmental sciences, students, Ecological Modeling, 05 social sciences, 050301 education, Pollution, Participatory approach, Geophysics, Research council, forecasters, Tuscany, 0503 education
Abstract: Scientific institutes contribute to increase scientific awareness in local communities. They also provide students and teachers with learning opportunities outside the classroom. This is especially true when science centers create opportunities to visit laboratories or design activities based on learning by doing. LaMMA, a public consortium set up by Italian National Research Council and Tuscany Region (Italy), is the official weather service for Tuscany. In recent years LaMMA developed several educational modules on meteorology for different school grades. Activities are performed during a two-hour visit at the LaMMA laboratory. Since 2011 every year more than 1200 students come to visit LaMMA to follow one of the proposed modules on meteorology. Students are engaged in different activities and have the opportunity to visit the LaMMA weather operations room and meet the forecasters. In the last two years, an educational module on climate change based on a participatory approach was proposed to teachers of all school levels. More than 500 teachers and environmental educators from all over Tuscany participated and many of them developed a follow up project in the classroom.
Published: 2017

15. Algoritmo del Clima

Author: Alfonso Crisci, Valentina Grasso and Federica Zabini, Valentina Grasso, and Federica Zabini
Subjects: Clima , Predicibilità, digit , Prato
Abstract: Resources presented to #digit17 Prato
Published: 2017
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16. A New Two-Dimensional Shear Wave Elastography for Noninvasive Assessment of Liver Fibrosis in Healthy Subjects and in Patients with Chronic Liver Disease

Author: Pietro Andreone, Cristina Felicani, Carla Serra, Antonietta D'Errico, Marco Lenzi, Elena Mazzotta, Fabio Conti, Valentina Grasso, and Gabriella Verucchi
Subjects: Liver Cirrhosis, medicine.medical_specialty, Cirrhosis, Chronic liver disease, Gastroenterology, 030218 nuclear medicine & medical imaging, 03 medical and health sciences, 0302 clinical medicine, Fibrosis, Internal medicine, medicine, Humans, Radiology, Nuclear Medicine and imaging, Stage (cooking), Receiver operating characteristic, medicine.diagnostic_test, business.industry, Liver Diseases, Case-control study, medicine.disease, Healthy Volunteers, Liver, Liver biopsy, Case-Control Studies, Cohort, Elasticity Imaging Techniques, 030211 gastroenterology & hepatology, business
Abstract: To assess the performance of two-dimensional shear wave elastography (2D-SWE) on the GE LOGIQ E9 ultrasound system in a cohort of healthy subjects and to investigate its accuracy in the staging of liver fibrosis in patients with chronic liver disease (CLD) using liver biopsy as a reference standard. From October 2014 to June 2016, 54 healthy subjects and 174 patients with CLD were consecutively enrolled. Liver fibrosis stage was assessed by the METAVIR scoring system. 18 (10.3 %) and 17 (9.8 %) patients had advanced fibrosis and cirrhosis, respectively. The correlation of liver stiffness measurement (LSM) and continuous variable was assessed using the Spearman rank correlation. The accuracy of 2D-SWE was evaluated with areas under the receiver operating characteristics curves (AUROC). Reliable LSMs were obtained in all subjects. The interobserver agreement ICC was excellent: 0.847. In healthy subjects, gender, but not anthropometric and biochemical data, were correlated with LSM. In patients with CLD, LSM had a strong positive correlation with fibrosis stage (rho = 0.628; p 0.001). The AUROC was 0.724 for mild fibrosis (F≥ 1), 0.857 for moderate fibrosis (F≥ 2), 0.946 for severe fibrosis (F≥ 3), and 0.935 for cirrhosis (F4). Likewise, good accuracy was observed in the HCV subgroup. The optimal cut-off value in differentiating healthy subjects from CLD patients with any fibrosis was 5.47 kPa with an AUROC of 0.875. 2D-SWE is a reliable and reproducible method to assess LSM with good diagnostic accuracy to assess liver fibrosis in patients with CLD.ZIEL: Beurteilung der Leistungsfähigkeit der zweidimensionalen, auf dem GE LOGIQ E9 Ultraschallsystem durchgeführten Shear-Wave-Elastografie (2D-SWE) in einer Kohorte gesunder Probanden (HS) und die Untersuchung der Genauigkeit beim Staging der Leberfibrose bei Patienten mit chronischer Lebererkrankung (CLD) mittels Leberbiopsie als Referenzstandard. Von Oktober 2014 bis Juni 2016 wurden 54 HS und 174 CLD-Patienten nacheinander aufgenommen. Das Stadium der Leberfibrose wurde durch das METAVIR-Scoring-System beurteilt. Es zeigten 18 Patienten (10,3 %) eine fortgeschrittene Fibrose und 17 Patienten (9,8 %) eine Zirrhose. Die Korrelation der Lebersteifigkeitsmessung (LSM) und der stetigen Variablen wurde mittels Spearman-Rangkorrelation beurteilt. Die Genauigkeit der 2D-SWE wurde durch „Areas Under the Receiver Operating characteristics Curves“ (AUROC) ausgewertet. Eine verlässliche LSM wurden bei allen Probanden erzielt. Die Inter-Observer-Übereinstimmung (ICC) war mit 0,847 hervorragend. In HS waren geschlechtsspezifische, nicht aber anthropometrische und biochemische Daten, mit der LSM korreliert. Bei CLD-Patienten zeigte die LSM eine signifikante positive Korrelation mit dem Fibrose-Stadium (rho = 0,628; p 0,001). Die AUROC betrug 0,724 bei milder Fibrose (F≥ 1), 0,857 bei moderater Fibrose (F≥ 2), 0,946 bei schwerer Fibrose (F≥ 3) und 0,935 bei Zirrhose (F4). Ebenso wurde in der HCV-Untergruppe eine hohe Genauigkeit beobachtet. Der optimale Grenzwert für die Differenzierung der HS von den CLD-Patienten mit jeglicher Fibrose betrug 5,47 kPa bei einer AUROC von 0,875. Die 2D-SWE ist eine verlässige und reproduzierbare Methode zur LSM, um mit hoher diagnostischer Treffsicherheit die Leberfibrose bei CLD-Patienten zu beurteilen.
Published: 2018

17. Italian codified hashtags for weather warning on Twitter – who is really using them?

Author: Marco Morabito, Alfonso Crisci, Valentina Grasso, Paolo Nesi, Gianni Pantaleo, Imad Zaza, and Bernardo Gozzini
Subjects: Atmospheric Science, 010504 meteorology & atmospheric sciences, Syntax (programming languages), business.industry, Computer science, warning, Ecological Modeling, 05 social sciences, Twitter, 050801 communication & media studies, 01 natural sciences, Pollution, Code (semiotics), Weather warning, World Wide Web, Identification (information), 0508 media and communications, Geophysics, Analytics, Social media, business, Relevant information, Weather, 0105 earth and related environmental sciences
Abstract: During emergencies, an increasing number of messages are shared through social media platforms, becoming a primary source of information for lay people and emergency managers. Weather services and institutions have started to employ social media to deliver weather warnings even if sometimes this communication lacks in strategy. In Twitter, for example, hashtagging is very important to associate messages with certain topics; in recent years, codified hashtagging is emerging as a practical way to coordinate Twitter conversations during emergencies and quickly retrieve relevant information. In 2014, a syntax for codified hashtags for weather warning was proposed in Italy: a list of 20 hashtags, realized by combining #allertameteo (weather warning) + XXX, where final letters code the regional identification. This contribution presents a monitoring of Twitter usage of weather warning codified hashtags in Italy (since July 2015) and an analysis of different contexts. Twitter messages were retrieved using TwitterVigilance, a multi-users platform to crawl Twitter data, collect and store messages and perform quantitative analytics, about users, hashtags, tweets/retweets volumes. The Codified Hashtags data set is presented and discussed with main analytics and evaluation of regional contexts where it was successfully employed.
Published: 2018

18. Implementation of the Frailty Index in hospitalized older patients: Results from the REPOSI register

Author: Matteo, Cesari, Carlotta, Franchi, Laura, Cortesi, Alessandro, Nobili, Ilaria, Ardoino, Pier Mannuccio Mannucci, Mauro, Tettamanti, Luca, Pasina, Francesco, Perticone, Francesco, Salerno, Salvatore, Corrao, Alessandra, Marengoni, Giuseppe, Licata, Francesco, Violi, Gino Roberto Corazza, Tarek Kamal Eldin, Maria Pia Donatella Di Blanca, Giovanna, Lanzo, Sarah, Astuto, Prisco, Domenico, Elena, Silvestri, Caterina, Cenci, Giacomo, Emmi, Gianni, Biolo, Gianfranco, Guarnieri, Michela, Zanetti, Giovanni, Fernandes, Massimiliano, Chiuch, Massimo, Vanoli, Giulia, Grignani, Gianluca, Casella, Edoardo Alessandro Pulixi, Mauro, Bernardi, Silvia Li Bassi, Luca, Santi, Giacomo, Zaccherini, Mannarino, Elmo, Lupattelli, Graziana, Bianconi, Vanessa, Paciullo, Francesco, Ranuccio, Nuti, Roberto, Valenti, Martina, Ruvio, Silvia, Cappelli, Alberto, Palazzuoli, Teresa, Salvatore, Ferdinando Carlo Sasso, Domenico, Girelli, Olivieri, Oliviero, Thomas, Matteazzi, Mario, Barbagallo, Lidia, Plances, Roberta, Alcamo, Luigi, Calvo, Maria, Valenti, Marco, Zoli, Raffaella, Arnò, Franco Laghi Pasini, Pier Leopoldo Capecchi, Maurizio, Bicchi, Giuseppe, Palasciano, Maria Ester Modeo, Maria, Peragine, Fabrizio, Pappagallo, Stefania, Pugliese, Carla Di Gennaro, Alfredo, Postiglione, Maria Rosaria Barbella, Francesco De Stefano, Cappellini, MARIA DOMENICA, Giovanna, Fabio, Sonia, Seghezzi, Margherita Migone De Amicis, Marta, Mancarella, Daniela, Mari, Paolo Dionigi Rossi, Sarah, Damanti, Barbara Brignolo Ottolini, Giulia, Bonini, Emanuela, Miceli, Marco Vincenzo Lenti, Donatella, Padula, Giovanni, Murialdo, Alessio, Marra, Federico, Cattaneo, Maria Beatrice Secchi, Davide, Ghelfi, Luigi, Anastasio, Lucia, Sofia, Carbone, LUIGI MARIA, Giovanni, Davì, Maria Teresa Guagnano, Simona, Sestili, Gerardo, Mancuso, Daniela, Calipari, Mosè, Bartone, Maria Rachele Meroni, Paolo Cavallo Perin, Bartolomeo, Lorenzati, Gabriella, Gruden, Graziella, Bruno, Cristina, Amione, Paolo, Fornengo, Rodolfo, 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Pellegrini, Elisa, Lucia, Carulli, Francesca, Veltri, Angela, Sciacqua, Michele, Quero, Chiara, Bagnato, Lidia, Colangelo, Tania, Falbo, Roberto De Giorgio, DALLA SERRA, Mauro, Valentina, Grasso, Eugenio, Ruggeri, Benzoni, Ilaria, Andrea, Salvi, Leonardi, Roberto, Chiara, Grassini, Ilenia, Mascherona, Minelli, Giorgio, Francesca, Maltese, Giampaolo, Damiani, William, Capeci, Mattioli, Massimo, Giuseppe Pio Martino, Biondi, Lorenzo, Monica, Ormas, Pietro, Pettinari, Roberto, Romiti, Silvia, Messina, Federica, Cavallaro, Riccardi, Ghio, Serena, Favorini, Anna Dal Col, Salvatore, Minisola, Luciano, Colangelo, Antonella, Afeltra, Pamela, Alemanno, Benedetta, Marigliano, Maria Elena Pipita, Pietro, Castellino, Julien, Blanco, Luca, Zanoli, Cattaneo, Marco Natale, Paola, Fracasso, Amoruso, MARIA VALENTINA, Valter, Saracco, Marisa, Fogliati, Carlo, Bussolino, Vittorio, Durante, Giovanna, Eusebi, Daniela, Tirotta, Francesca, Mete, Miriam, Gino, Antonio, Cittadini, Carlo, Vigorito, Michele, 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D'Aurizio, Gabriella, Romanelli, Giuseppe, Amolini, Claudia, Chiesa, Deborah, Picardi, Antonio, Gentilucci, Umberto Vespasiani, Gallo, Paolo, Annoni, Giorgio, Corsi, Maurizio, Zazzetta, Sara, Bellelli, Giuseppe, Szabo, Hajnalka, Arturi, Franco, Succurro, Elena, Rubino, Mariangela, Sesti, Giorgio, Loria, Paola, Becchi, Maria Angela, Martucci, Gianfranco, Fantuzzi, Alessandra, Maurantonio, Mauro, Serra, Maria Grazia, Bleve, Maria Antonietta, Gasbarrone, Laura, Sajeva, Maria Rosaria, Brucato, Antonio, Ghidoni, Silvia, Di Corato, Paola, Agnelli, Giancarlo, Marchesini, Emanuela, Fabris, Fabrizio, Carlon, Michela, Turatto, Francesca, Baritusso, Aldo, Amabile, Annalisa, Omenetto, Elisabetta, Scarinzi, Paolo, Manfredini, Roberto, Molino, Christian, Pala, Marco, Fabbian, Fabio, Boari, Benedetta, De Giorgi, Alfredo, Paolisso, Giuseppe, Rizzo, Maria Rosaria, Laieta, Maria Teresa, Rini, Giovanbattista, Mansueto, Pasquale, Pepe, Ilenia, Borghi, Claudio, Strocchi, Enrico, De Sando, Valeria, Pareo, Ilaria, Sabbà, Carlo, Vella, Francesco Saverio, Suppressa, Patrizia, Valerio, Raffaella, Agosti, Pasquale, Fontana, Flavia, Loparco, Francesca, Capobianco, Caterina, Fenoglio, Luigi, Bracco, Christian, Giraudo, Alessia Valentina, Testa, Elisa, Serraino, Cristina, Fargion, Silvia, Bonara, Paola, Periti, Giulia, Porzio, Marianna, Tiraboschi, Slivia, Peyvandi, Flora, Tedeschi, Alberto, Rossio, Raffaella, Monzani, Valter, Savojardo, Valeria, Folli, Christian, Magnini, Maria, Conca, Alessio, Gobbo, Giulia, Pallini, Giada, Valenti, Miriam, Balduini, Carlo L., Bertolino, Giampiera, Provini, Stella, Quaglia, Federica, Dallegri, Franco, Ottonello, Luciano, Liberale, Luca, Chin, Wu Sheng, Carassale, Laura, Caporotundo, Silvia, Traisci, Giancarlo, De Feudis, Lucrezia, Di Carlo, Silvia, Liberato, Nicola Lucio, Buratti, Alberto, Tognin, Tiziana, Bianchi, Giovanni Battista, Giaquinto, Sabrina, Purrello, Francesco, Di Pino, Antonino, Piro, Salvatore, Rozzini, Renzo, Falanga, Lina, Spazzini, Elena, 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Damiani, Giampaolo, Capeci, William, Mattioli, Massimo, Martino, Giuseppe Pio, Biondi, Lorenzo, Ormas, Monica, Pettinari, Pietro, Romiti, Roberto, Messina, Silvia, Cavallaro, Federica, Ghio, Riccardi, Favorini, Serena, Col, Anna Dal, Minisola, Salvatore, Colangelo, Luciano, Afeltra, Antonella, Alemanno, Pamela, Marigliano, Benedetta, Pipita, Maria Elena, Castellino, Pietro, Blanco, Julien, Zanoli, Luca, Cattaneo, Marco, Fracasso, Paola, Amoruso, Maria Valentina, Saracco, Valter, Fogliati, Marisa, Bussolino, Carlo, Durante, Vittorio, Eusebi, Giovanna, Tirotta, Daniela, Mete, Francesca, Gino, Miriam, Cittadini, Antonio, Vigorito, Carlo, Arcopinto, Michele, Salzano, Andrea, Bobbio, Emanuele, Marra, Alberto Maria, Sirico, Domenico, Moreo, Guido, Scopelliti, Francesco, Gasparini, Francesca, Cocca, Melissa, Ballestrero, Alberto, Ferrando, Fabio, Berra, Sergio, Dassi, Simonetta, Nava, Maria Cristina, Graziella, Bruno, Baldassarre, Stefano, Fragapani, Salvatore, Galanti, Giorgio, Mascherini, Gabriele, Petri, Cristian, Stefani, Laura, Girino, Margherita, Piccinelli, Valeria, Nasso, Francesco, Gioffrè, Vincenza, Pasquale, Maria, Scattolin, Giuseppe, Martinelli, Sergio, Turrin, Mauro, Sechi, Leonardo, Catena, Cristina, Colussi, Gianluca, Nieves, Ramirez Duque, Alberto, Muela Molinero, Pedro, Abad Requejo, Vanessa, Lopez Pelaez, Lara, Tamargo, Xavier, Corbella Viro, Francesc, Formiga, Jesus, Diez Manglano, Esperanza, Bejarano Tello, Esther, Del Corral Behamonte, Maria, Sevil Pura, Romero, Manuel, Blanca, Pinilla Llorente, Cristina, Lopez Gonzalez-Cobo, Victoria, Villalba Garcia M., Saez, Lopez, Bosco, Juan, Susana, Sanz Baena, Marta, Arroyo Gallego, Concepcion, Gonzalez Becerra, Antonio, Fernandez Moyano, Hernandez, Mercedes Gomez, Borrego, Manuel Poyato, Raquel, Pacheco Cuadro, Florencia, Perez Roja, Beatriz, Garcia Olid, Sara, Carrascosa Garcia, Alfonso, Gonzalez-Cruz Cervellera, Marta, Peinado Martinez, Garcia, Sara Carrascosa, Alberto, Ruiz Cantero, Antonio, Albarracín Arraigosa, Montserrat, Godoy Guerrero, Ángel, Barón Ramos Miguel, Manuel, Machin Jose, Ignacio, Novo Veleiro, Lucía, Alvela Suarez, Alfonso, Lopez, David, Rubal Bran, Iria, Iñiguez Vazquez, Monica, Rios Prego, and Alberto, M. M.
Subjects: Gerontology, Male, Multivariate analysis, Frailty, Internal medicine and geriatric wards, Multimorbidity, Physical and cognitive impairment, Internal Medicine, Psychological intervention, Predictive Value of Test, Severity of Illness Index, 0302 clinical medicine, Interquartile range, Frailty, Internal medicine and geriatric wards, Multimorbidity, Physical and cognitive impairment, 80 and over, Medicine, 030212 general & internal medicine, Prospective Studies, Hospital Mortality, Prospective cohort study, Multivariate Analysi, Aged, 80 and over, Prognosis, Aged, Female, Geriatric Assessment, Hospitalization, Humans, Italy, Multivariate Analysis, Predictive Value of Tests, Regression Analysis, Survival Analysis, Frail Elderly, Predictive value of tests, Survival Analysi, Cohort study, Human, Prognosi, Socio-culturale, Regression Analysi, 03 medical and health sciences, Severity of illness, Survival analysis, business.industry, Internal medicine and geriatric ward, Prospective Studie, business, 030217 neurology & neurosurgery
Abstract: Background Frailty is a state of increased vulnerability to stressors, associated to poor health outcomes. The aim of this study was to design and introduce a Frailty Index (FI; according to the age-related accumulation of deficit model) in a large cohort of hospitalized older persons, in order to benefit from its capacity to comprehensively weight the risk profile of the individual. Methods Patients aged 65 and older enrolled in the REPOSI register from 2010 to 2016 were considered in the present analyses. Variables recorded at the hospital admission (including socio-demographic, physical, cognitive, functional and clinical factors) were used to compute the FI. The prognostic impact of the FI on in-hospital and 12-month mortality was assessed. Results Among the 4488 patients of the REPOSI register, 3847 were considered eligible for a 34-item FI computation. The median FI in the sample was 0.27 (interquartile range 0.21–0.37). The FI was significantly predictive of both in-hospital (OR 1.61, 95%CI 1.38–1.87) and overall (HR 1.46, 95%CI 1.32–1.62) mortality, also after adjustment for age and sex. Conclusions The FI confirms its strong predictive value for negative outcomes. Its implementation in cohort studies (including those conducted in the hospital setting) may provide useful information for better weighting the complexity of the older person and accordingly design personalized interventions.
Published: 2018

19. Pancreatic ultrasound elastography and its clinical use in predicting the risk of pancreatic fistulas after pancreatic resection

Author: Francesco Minni, Federico Ravaioli, Riccardo Casadei, Carla Serra, Davide Festi, Valentina Grasso, Carlo Alberto Pacilio, Margherita Alvisi, Claudio Ricci, Antonio Colecchia, Giovanni Marasco, Pacilio, Carlo Alberto, Marasco, Giovanni, Ricci, Claudio, Colecchia, Antonio, Alvisi, Margherita, Serra, Carla, Grasso, Valentina, Ravaioli, Federico, Minni, Francesco, Festi, Davide, and Casadei, Riccardo
Subjects: medicine.medical_specialty, ultrasound elastography, pancreatic fistulas, pancreatic resection, Hepatology, pancreatic resection, business.industry, Endocrinology, Diabetes and Metabolism, Gastroenterology, pancreatic fistulas, ultrasound elastography, Ultrasound elastography, Medicine, Radiology, Pancreatic resection, business
Published: 2018

20. Predicting TV programme audience by using twitter based metrics

Author: Irene Paoli, Imad Zaza, Valentina Grasso, Alfonso Crisci, Gianni Pantaleo, and Paolo Nesi
Subjects: Predicting audience, Social media monitoring, Twitter data analysis, Twitter monitoring, Software, Media Technology, Hardware and Architecture, Computer Networks and Communications, Multimedia, Computer science, 020207 software engineering, 02 engineering and technology, computer.software_genre, 01 natural sciences, World Wide Web, 010104 statistics & probability, Politics, 0202 electrical engineering, electronic engineering, information engineering, 0101 mathematics, computer
Abstract: The predictive capabilities of metrics based on Twitter data have been stressed in different fields: business, health, market, politics, etc. In specific cases, a deeper analysis is required to create useful metrics and models with predicting capabilities. In this paper, a set of metrics based on Twitter data have been identified and presented in order to predict the audience of scheduled television programmes, where the audience is highly involved such as it occurs with reality shows (i.e., X Factor and Pechino Express, in Italy). Identified suitable metrics are based on the volume of tweets, the distribution of linguistic elements, the volume of distinct users involved in tweeting, and the sentiment analysis of tweets. On this ground a number of predictive models have been identified and compared. The resulting method has been selected in the context of a validation and assessment by using real data, with the aim of building a flexible framework able to exploit the predicting capabilities of social media data. Further details are reported about the method adopted to build models which focus on the identification of predictors by their statistical significance. Experiments have been based on the collected Twitter data by using Twitter Vigilance platform, which is presented in this paper, as well.
Published: 2018
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21. Risk factors for three-month mortality after discharge in a cohort of non-oncologic hospitalized elderly patients: Results from the REPOSI study

Author: Luca, Pasina, Laura, Cortesi, Mara, Tiraboschi, Alessandro, Nobili, Giovanna, Lanzo, Mauro, Tettamanti, Carlotta, Franchi, Pier Mannuccio Mannucci, Silvia, Ghidoni, Andrea, Assolari, Antonio, Brucato, Domenico, Prisco, Elena, Silvestri, Caterina, Cenci, Giacomo, Emmi, Gianni, Biolo, Gianfranco, Guarnieri, Michela, Zanetti, Giovanni, Fernandes, Massimo, Vanoli, Giulia, Grignani, Gianluca, Casella, Mauro, Bernardi, Silvia Li Bassi, Luca, Santi, Giacomo, Zaccherini, Elmo, Mannarino, Graziana, Lupattelli, Vanessa, Bianconi, Francesco, Paciullo, Ranuccio, Nuti, Roberto, Valenti, Martina, Ruvio, Silvia, Cappelli, Alberto, Palazzuoli, Teresa, Salvatore, Ferdinando Carlo Sasso, Domenico, Girelli, Oliviero, Olivieri, Thomas, Matteazzi, Mario, Barbagallo, Lidia, Plances, Roberta, Alcamo, Giuseppe, Licata, Luigi, Calvo, Maria, Valenti, Marco, Zoli, Raffaella, Arnò, Franco Laghi Pasini, Pier Leopoldo Capecchi, Maurizio, Bicchi, Giuseppe, Palasciano, Maria Ester Modeo, Maria, Peragine, Fabrizio, Pappagallo, Stefania, Pugliese, Carla Di Gennaro, Alfredo, Postiglione, Maria Rosaria Barbella, Francesco De Stefano, Maria Domenica Cappellini, Giovanna, Fabio, Sonia, Seghezzi, Margherita Migone De Amicis, Daniela, Mari, Paolo Dionigi Rossi, Sarah, Damanti, Barbara Brignolo Ottolini, Gino Roberto Corazza, Emanuela, Miceli, Marco Vincenzo Lenti, Donatella, Padula, Giovanni, Murialdo, Alessio, Marra, Federico, Cattaneo, Maria Beatrice Secchi, Davide, Ghelfi, Luigi, Anastasio, Lucia, Sofia, Maria, Carbone, Giovanni, Davì, Maria Teresa Guagnano, Simona, Sestili, Gerardo, Mancuso, Daniela, Calipari, Mosè, Bartone, Maria Rachele Meroni, Paolo Cavallo Perin, Bartolomeo, Lorenzati, Gabriella, Gruden, Graziella, Bruno, Cristina, Amione, Paolo, Fornengo, Rodolfo, Tassara, Deborah, Melis, Lara, Rebella, Giuseppe, Delitala, Vincenzo, Pretti, Maristella Salvatora Masala, Luigi, Bolondi, Leonardo, Rasciti, Ilaria, Serio, Filippo Rossi Fanelli, Antonio, Amoroso, Alessio, Molfino, Enrico, Petrillo, Giuseppe, Zuccalà, Francesco, Franceschi, Guido De Marco, Cordischi, Chiara, Sabbatini, Marta, Giuseppe, Romanelli, Claudia, Amolini, Deborah, Chiesa, Alessandra, Marengoni, Antonio, Picardi, Umberto Vespasiani Gentilucci, Paolo, Gallo, Giorgio, Annoni, Maurizio, Corsi, Sara, Zazzetta, Giuseppe, Bellelli, Franco, Arturi, Elena, Succurro, Mariangela, Rubino, Giorgio, Sesti, Paola, Loria, Maria Angela Becchi, Gianfranco, Martucci, Alessandra, Fantuzzi, Mauro, Maurantonio, Stefano, Carta, Sebastiana, Atzori, Maria Grazia Serra, Maria Antonietta Bleve, Laura, Gasbarrone, Maria Rosaria Sajeva, Paola Di Corato, Giancarlo, Agnelli, Emanuela, Marchesini, Fabrizio, Fabris, Michela, Carlon, Francesca, Turatto, Aldo, Baritusso, Manfredini, Roberto, Christian, Molino, Marco, Pala, Fabbian, Fabio, Benedetta, Boari, Alfredo De Giorgi, Giuseppe, Paolisso, Maria Rosaria Rizzo, Maria Teresa Laieta, Giovanbattista, Rini, Pasquale, Mansueto, Ilenia, Pepe, Claudio, Borghi, Enrico, Strocchi, Valeria De Sando, Carlo, Sabbà, Francesco Saverio Vella, Patrizia, Suppressa, Raffaella, Valerio, Caterina, Capobianco, Luigi, Fenoglio, Christian, Bracco, Alessia Valentina Giraudo, Elisa, Testa, Cristina, Serraino, Silvia, Fargion, Paola, Bonara, Giulia, Periti, Marianna, Porzio, Flora, Peyvandi, Alberto, Tedeschi, Raffaella, Rossio, Valter, Monzani, Valeria, Savojardo, Christian, Folli, Maria, Magnini, Francesco, Salerno, Alessio, Conca, Giulia, Gobbo, Balduini, Carlo L., Giampiera, Bertolino, Stella, Provini, Federica, Quaglia, Franco, Dallegri, Luciano, Ottonello, Luca, Liberale, Wu Sheng Chin, Laura, Carassale, Silvia, Caporotundo, Giancarlo, Traisci, Lucrezia De Feudis, Silvia Di Carlo, Nicola Lucio Liberato, Alberto, Buratti, Tiziana, Tognin, Giovanni Battista Bianchi, Sabrina, Giaquinto, Francesco, Purrello, Antonino Di Pino, Salvatore, Piro, Renzo, Rozzini, Lina, Falanga, Giuseppe, Montrucchio, Elisabetta, Greco, Pietro, Tizzani, Paolo, Petitti, Antonio, Perciccante, Alessia, Coralli, Raffaella, Salmi, Piergiorgio, Gaudenzi, Susanna, Gamberini, Andrea, Semplicini, Lucia, Gottardo, Gianluigi, Vendemiale, Gaetano, Serviddio, Roberta, Forlano, Cesare, Masala, Antonio, Mammarella, Raparelli, Valeria, Francesco, Violi, Stefania, Basili, Ludovica, Perri, Raffaele, Landolfi, Massimo, Montalto, Antonio, Mirijello, Carla, Vallone, Martino, Bellusci, Donatella, Setti, Filippo, Pedrazzoli, Luigina, Guasti, Luana, Castiglioni, Andrea, Maresca, Alessandro, Squizzato, Marta, Molaro, Marco, Bertolotti, Chiara, Mussi, Maria Vittoria Libbra, Andrea, Miceli, Elisa, Pellegrini, Lucia, Carulli, Francesco, Perticone, Angela, Sciacqua, Michele, Quero, Chiara, Bagnato, Roberto, Corinaldesi, DE GIORGIO, Roberto, Mauro, Serra, Valentina, Grasso, Eugenio, Ruggeri, Andrea, Salvi, Roberto, Leonardi, Chiara, Grassini, Ilenia, Mascherona, Giorgio, Minelli, Francesca, Maltese, Armando, Gabrielli, Massimo, Mattioli, William, Capeci, Giuseppe Pio Martino, Salvatore, Corrao, Silvia, Messina, Riccardi, Ghio, Serena, Favorini, Anna Dal Col, Salvatore, Minisola, Luciano, Colangelo, Antonella, Afeltra, Pamela, Alemanno, Benedetta, Marigliano, Pietro, Castellino, Julien, Blanco, Luca, Zanoli, Marco, Cattaneo, Paola, Fracasso, Maria Valentina Amoruso, Valter, Saracco, Marisa, Fogliati, Carlo, Bussolino, Vittorio, Durante, Giovanna, Eusebi, Daniela, Tirotta, Francesca, Mete, Miriam, Gino, Antonio, Cittadini, Michele, Arcopinto, Andrea, Salzano, Emanuele, Bobbio, Alberto Maria Marra, Domenico, Sirico, Guido, Moreo, Francesco, Scopelliti, Francesca, Gasparini, Melissa, Cocca, Nieves Ramirez Duque, Alberto Muela Molinero, Pedro Abad Requejo, Vanessa Lopez Pelaez, Lara, Tamargo, Xavier Corbella Viros, Francesc, Formiga, Jesus Diez Manglano, Esperanza Bejarano Tello, Esther Del Corral Behamonte, Maria Sevil Puras, Manuel, Romero, Blanca Pinilla Llorente, Cristina Lopez Gonzalez-Cobos, Victoria Villalba Garcia, M., Juan Bosco Lopez Saez, Susana Sanz Baena, Marta Arroyo Gallego, Concepcion Gonzalez Becerra, Antonio Fernandez Moyano, Mercedes Gomez Hernandez, Manuel Poyato Borrego, Raquel Pacheco Cuadros, Florencia Perez Rojas, Beatriz Garcia Olid, Sara Carrascosa Garcia, Alfonso Gonzalez-Cruz Cervellera, Marta Peinado Martinez, Alberto Ruiz Cantero, Antonio Albarracín Arraigosa, Montserrat Godoy Guerrero, Miguel Angel Barón Ramos, Jose Manuel Machin, Ignacio Novo Veleiro, Lucia Alvela Suarez, Alfonso, Lopez, David Rubal Bran, Iria Iñiguez Vazquez, and Monica Rios, Prego.
Subjects: Male, Aging, Pediatrics, Health (social science), Bedridden, 030204 cardiovascular system & hematology, Logistic regression, DISEASE, PALLIATIVE CARE, Bedridden Persons, 0302 clinical medicine, Risk Factors, 80 and over, Medicine, 030212 general & internal medicine, Hypoalbuminemia, Prospective Studies, Prospective cohort study, PREDICTORS, Aged, 80 and over, Frailty, Mortality, Prognosis, Aged, Female, Follow-Up Studies, Frail Elderly, Hospital Units, Humans, Internal Medicine, Italy, Logistic Models, Patient Discharge, Absolute risk reduction, CANCER, Severe dementia, Cohort, medicine.medical_specialty, Renal function, Socio-culturale, ILLNESS, VALIDATION, 03 medical and health sciences, SCORE, OLDER PATIENTS, business.industry, Mortality, Bedridden, Prognosis, Frailty, PALLIATIVE CARE, 6-MONTH MORTALITY, OLDER PATIENTS, VALIDATION, DISEASE, SCORE, PREDICTORS, ILLNESS, CANCER, ADULTS, ADULTS, medicine.disease, 6-MONTH MORTALITY, Physical therapy, Geriatrics and Gerontology, business, Gerontology
Abstract: Background Short-term prognosis, e.g. mortality at three months, has many important implications in planning the overall management of patients, particularly non-oncologic patients in order to avoid futile practices. The aims of this study were: i) to investigate the risk of three-month mortality after discharge from internal medicine and geriatric wards of non-oncologic patients with at least one of the following conditions: permanent bedridden status during the hospital stay; severely reduced kidney function; hypoalbuminemia; hospital admissions in the previous six months; severe dementia; ii) to establish the absolute risk difference of three-month mortality of bedridden compared to non-bedridden patients. Methods This prospective cohort study was run in 102 Italian internal medicine and geriatric hospital wards. The sample included all patients with three-months follow-up data. Bedridden condition was defined as the inability to walk or stand upright during the whole hospital stay. The following parameters were also recorded: estimated GFR ≤ 29 mL/min/1.73 m2; severe dementia; albuminemia ≪2.5 g/dL; hospital admissions in the six months before the index admission. Results Of 3915 patients eligible for the analysis, three-month follow-up were available for 2058, who were included in the study. Bedridden patients were 112 and the absolute risk difference of mortality at three months was 0.13 (CI 95% 0.08–0.19, p ≪ 0.0001). Logistic regression analysis also adjusted for age, sex, number of drugs and comorbidity index found that bedridden condition (OR 2.10, CI 95% 1.12–3.94), severely reduced kidney function (OR 2.27, CI 95% 1.22–4.21), hospital admission in the previous six months (OR 1.96, CI 95% 1.22–3.14), severe dementia (with total or severe physical dependence) (OR 4.16, CI 95% 2.39–7.25) and hypoalbuminemia (OR 2.47, CI 95% 1.12–5.44) were significantly associated with higher risk of three-month mortality. Conclusions Bedridden status, severely reduced kidney function, recent hospital admissions, severe dementia and hypoalbuminemia were associated with higher risk of three-month mortality in non-oncologic patients after discharge from internal medicine and geriatric hospital wards.
Published: 2018

22. Clinical Severity, Age, and Sex Overcome Cardiometabolic Morbidities but Not Stroke as Predictors of Mortality in Elderly Inpatients: Data From the REgistro POliterapie Società Italiana di Medicina Interna Registry

Author: Salvatore, Corrao, Alessandra, Marengoni, Giuseppe, Natoli, Alessandro, Nobili, Piermannuccio, Mannucci, Francesco, Perticone, Domenico, Prisco, Elena, Silvestri, Caterina, Cenci, Tommaso, Barnini, Giuseppe, Delitala, Stefano, Carta, Sebastiana, Atzori, Gianfranco, Guarnieri, Michela, Zanetti, Annalisa, Spalluti, Maria Grazia Serra, Maria Antonietta Bleve, Massimo, Vanoli, Giulia, Grignani, Gianluca, Casella, Laura, Gasbarrone, Giorgio, Maniscalco, Massimo, Gunelli, Daniela, Tirotta, Antonio, Brucato, Silvia, Ghidoni, Paola Di Corato, Mauro, Bernardi, Silvia Li Bassi, Luca, Santi, Giancarlo, Agnelli, Emanuela, Marchesini, Elmo, Mannarino, Graziana, Lupattelli, Pamela, Rondelli, Francesco, Paciullo, Fabrizio, Fabris, Michela, Carlon, Francesca, Turatto, Maria Cristina Baroni, Marianna, Zardo, Manfredini, Roberto, Christian, Molino, Marco, Pala, Fabbian, Fabio, Ranuccio, Nuti, Roberto, Valenti, Martina, Ruvio, Silvia, Cappelli, Giuseppe, Paolisso, Maria Rosaria Rizzo, Maria Teresa Laieta, Teresa, Salvatore, Ferdinando Carlo Sasso, Riccardo, Utili, Emanuele Durante Mangoni, Daniela, Pinto, Oliviero, Olivieri, Anna Maria Stanzial, Renato, Fellin, Volpato, Stefano, Sioulis, Fotini, Mario, Barbagallo, Ligia, Dominguez, Lidia, Plances, Daniela, D’Angelo, Giovanbattista, Rini, Pasquale, Mansueto, Ilenia, Pepe, Giuseppe, Licata, Luigi, Calvo, Maria, Valenti, Claudio, Borghi, Enrico, Strocchi, Elisa, Rebecca, Marco, Zoli, Elisa, Fabbri, Donatella, Magalotti, Alberto, Auteri, Anna Laura Pasqui, Luca, Puccetti, Franco Laghi Pasini, Pier Leopoldo Capecchi, Maurizio, Bicchi, Carlo, Sabbà, Francesco Saverio Vella, Alessandro, Marseglia, Chiara Valentina Luglio, Giuseppe, Palasciano, Maria Ester Modeo, Annamaria, Aquilino, Raffaele, Pallante, Stefania, Pugliese, Caterina, Capobianco, Alfredo, Postiglione, Maria Rosaria Barbella, Francesco De Stefano, Luigi, Fenoglio, Chiara, Brignone, Christian, Bracco, Alessia, Giraudo, Giuseppe, Musca, Olga, Cuccurullo, Luigi, Cricco, Alessandra, Fiorentini, Maria Domenica Cappellini, Giovanna, Fabio, Sonia, Seghezzi, Margherita Migone De Amicis, Silvia, Fargion, Paola, Bonara, Mara, Bulgheroni, Rosa, Lombardi, Marianna, Porzio, Giulia, Periti, Fabio, Magrini, Ferdinando, Massari, Tatiana, Tonella, Flora, Peyvandi, Alberto, Tedeschi, Raffaella, Rossio, Guido, Moreo, Barbara, Ferrari, Luisa, Roncari, Valter, Monzani, Valeria, Savojardo, Christian, Folli, Maria, Magnini, Daniela, Mari, Paolo Dionigi Rossi, Sarah, Damanti, Silvia, Prolo, Maria Sole Lilleri, Giuliana, Micale, Mauro, Podda, Carlo, Selmi, Francesca, Meda, Francesco, Salerno, Silvia, Accordino, Alessio, Conca, Valentina, Monti, Gino Roberto Corazza, Emanuela, Miceli, Marco Vincenzo Lenti, Donatella, Padula, Balduini, Carlo L., Giampiera, Bertolino, Stella, Provini, Federica, Quaglia, Giovanni, Murialdo, Marta, Bovio, Franco, Dallegri, Luciano, Ottonello, Alessandra, Quercioli, Alessandra, Barreca, Maria Beatrice Secchi, Davide, Ghelfi, Wu Sheng Chin, Laura, Carassale, Silvia, Caporotundo, Luigi, Anastasio, Lucia, Sofia, Maria, Carbone, Giancarlo, Traisci, Lucrezia De Feudis, Silvia Di Carlo, Giovanni, Davì, Maria Teresa Guagnano, Simona, Sestili, Elisabetta, Bergami, Emanuela, Rizzioli, Carlo, Cagnoni, Luca, Bertone, Antonio, Manucra, Alberto, Buratti, Tiziana, Tognin, Nicola Lucio Liberato, Giordano, Bernasconi, Barbara, Nardo, Giovanni Battista Bianchi, Sabrina, Giaquinto, Giampiero, Benetti, Michela, Quagliolo, Giuseppe Riccardo Centenaro, Francesco, Purrello, Antonino Di Pino, Salvatore, Piro, Gerardo, Mancuso, Daniela, Calipari, Mosè, Bartone, Francesco, Gullo, Michele, Cortellaro, Marina, Magenta, Francesca, Perego, Maria Rachele Meroni, Marco, Cicardi, Antonio Gidaro Marina Magenta, Andrea, Sacco, Antonio, Bonelli, Gaetano, Dentamaro, Renzo, Rozzini, Lina, Falanga, Alessandro, Giordano, Paolo Cavallo Perin, Bartolomeo, Lorenzati, Gabriella, Gruden, Graziella, Bruno, Giuseppe, Montrucchio, Elisabetta, Greco, Pietro, Tizzani, Giacomo, Fera, Maria Loreta Di Luca, Donatella, Renna, Antonio, Perciccante, Alessia, Coralli, Rodolfo, Tassara, Deborah, Melis, Lara, Rebella, Giorgio, Menardo, Stefania, Bottone, Elsa, Sferrazzo, Claudio, Ferri, Rinaldo, Striuli, Rosa, Scipioni, Raffaella, Salmi, Piergiorgio, Gaudenzi, Susanna, Gamberini, Franco, Ricci, Cosimo, Morabito, Roberto, Fava, Andrea, Semplicini, Lucia, Gottardo, Gianluigi, Vendemiale, Gaetano, Serviddio, Roberta, Forlano, Luigi, Bolondi, Leonardo, Rasciti, Ilaria, Serio, Cesare, Masala, Antonio, Mammarella, Valeria, Raparelli, Filippo Rossi Fanelli, Massimo, Delfino, Antonio, Amoroso, Francesco, Violi, Stefania, Basili, Ludovica, Perri, Pietro, Serra, Vincenzo, Fontana, Marco, Falcone, Raffaele, Landolfi, Antonio, Grieco, Antonella, Gallo, Giuseppe, Zuccalà, Francesco, Franceschi, Guido De Marco, Cordischi, Chiara, Sabbatini, Marta, Martino, Bellusci, Donatella, Setti, Filippo, Pedrazzoli, Giuseppe, Romanelli, Caterina, Pirali, Claudia, Amolini, Enrico Agabiti Rosei, Damiano, Rizzoni, Luana, Castoldi, Antonio, Picardi, Umberto Vespasiani Gentilucci, Chiara, Mazzarelli, Paolo, Gallo, Luigina, Guasti, Luana, Castiglioni, Andrea, Maresca, Alessandro, Squizzato, Sara, Contini, Marta, Molaro, Giorgio, Annoni, Maurizio, Corsi, Sara, Zazzetta, Marco, Bertolotti, Chiara, Mussi, Roberto, Scotto, Maria Alice Ferri, Francesca, Veltri, Franco, Arturi, Elena, Succurro, Giorgio, Sesti, Umberto, Gualtieri, Angela, Sciacqua, Michele, Quero, Chiara, Bagnato, Paola, Loria, Maria Angela Becchi, Gianfranco, Martucci, Alessandra, Fantuzzi, Mauro, Maurantonio, Roberto, Corinaldesi, Roberto De Giorgio, Mauro, Serra, Valentina, Grasso, Eugenio, Ruggeri, Lorenzo Mauro Carozza, Fabio, Pignatti, Corrao, S., Marengoni, A., Natoli, G., Nobili, A., Mannucci, P., and Perticone, F.
Subjects: Male, Pediatrics, medicine.medical_specialty, REPOSI study, Clinical severity, age, stroke, risk factors, elderly, REPOSI study, Socio-culturale, 030204 cardiovascular system & hematology, Age and sex, elderly, Severity of Illness Index, 03 medical and health sciences, Sex Factors, 0302 clinical medicine, Metabolic Diseases, medicine, risk factors, Humans, Clinical severity, Hospital Mortality, Registries, 030212 general & internal medicine, Stroke, Aged, Aged, 80 and over, Inpatients, business.industry, Age Factors, medicine.disease, age, Italy, Cardiovascular Diseases, Female, Morbidity, Geriatrics and Gerontology, business
Published: 2016

23. Weather events identification in social media streams: tools to detect their evidence in Twitter

Author: Imad Zaza, Federica Zabini, Paolo Nesi, Alfonso Crisci, Gianni Pantaleo, and Valentina Grasso
Subjects: World Wide Web, Identification (information), Social media optimization, Computer science, Emerging technologies, Data Science, Emerging Technologies, Natural Language and Speech, Network Science and Online Social Networks, Social media, STREAMS
Abstract: Severe weather impact identification and monitoring through social media data is a good challenge for data science. In last years we assisted to an increase of natural disasters, also due to climate change. Many works showed that during such events people tend to share specific messages by of mean of social media platforms, especially Twitter. Not only they contribute to"situational" awareness also improving the dissemination of information during emergency but can be used to assess social impact of crisis events. We present in this work preliminary findings concerning how temporal distribution of weather related messages may help the identification of severe events that impacted a community. Severe weather events are recognizable by observing the synchronization of twitter streams volumes concerning extractions by using different but semantically graduate terms and hash-tags including the specific containing geo-content names. Impacting events seems immediately recognizable by graphical representation of weather streams and when the time-line show a specific parallel-wise pattern that we named "Half Onion Shape". Different but weather semantically linked twitter streams could exhibits different magnitude, in order to their term popularity, but they show, when a weather event occurs, the same temporal relative maximum. In reason of to these interesting indications, that needs to be confirmed through more deeper analysis, and of the great use of social media, as Twitter, during crisis events it's becoming fundamental to have a suite of suitable tools to monitor social media data. For Twitter data a comprehensive suite of tools is presented: the DISIT-Twitter Vigilance Platform for twitter data retrieve,management and visualization.
Published: 2017
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24. Defining aging phenotypes and related outcomes: Clues to recognize frailty in hospitalized older patients

Author: Marcucci, Maura, Carlotta, Franchi, Alessandro, Nobili, Pier Mannuccio Mannucci, Ilaria, Ardoino, Mauro, Tettamanti, Luca, Pasina, Francesco, Perticone, Francesco, Salerno, Salvatore, Corrao, Giuseppe, Licata, Francesco, Violi, Gino Roberto Corazza, Tarek Kamal Eldin, Maria Pia Donatella Di Blanca, Prisco, Domenico, Elena, Silvestri, Caterina, Cenci, Giacomo, Emmi, Gianni, Biolo, Gianfranco, Guarnieri, Michela, Zanetti, Giovanni, Fernandes, Massimo, Vanoli, Giulia, Grignani, Gianluca, Casella, Mauro, Bernardi, Silvia Li Bassi, Luca, Santi, Giacomo, Zaccherini, Mannarino, Elmo, Lupattelli, Graziana, Bianconi, Vanessa, Paciullo, Francesco, Ranuccio, Nuti, Roberto, Valenti, Martina, Ruvio, Silvia, Cappelli, Alberto, Palazzuoli, Teresa, Salvatore, Ferdinando Carlo Sasso, Domenico, Girelli, Olivieri, Oliviero, Thomas, Matteazzi, Mario, Barbagallo, Lidia, Plances, Roberta, Alcamo, Luigi, Calvo, Maria, Valenti, Marco, Zoli, Raffaella, Arnò, Franco Laghi Pasini, Pier Leopoldo Capecchi, Maurizio, Bicchi, Giuseppe, Palasciano, Maria Ester Modeo, Maria, Peragine, Fabrizio, Pappagallo, Stefania, Pugliese, Carla Di Gennaro, Alfredo, Postiglione, Maria Rosaria Barbella, Francesco De Stefano, Cappellini, MARIA DOMENICA, Giovanna, Fabio, Sonia, Seghezzi, Margherita Migone De Amicis, Daniela, Mari, Paolo Dionigi Rossi, Sarah, Damanti, Barbara Brignolo Ottolini, Emanuela, Miceli, Marco Vincenzo Lenti, Donatella, Padula, Giovanni, Murialdo, Alessio, Marra, Federico, Cattaneo, Maria Beatrice Secchi, Davide, Ghelfi, Luigi, Anastasio, Lucia, Sofia, Carbone, LUIGI MARIA, Giovanni, Davì, Maria Teresa Guagnano, Simona, Sestili, Gerardo, Mancuso, Daniela, Calipari, Mosè, Bartone, Maria Rachele Meroni, Paolo Cavallo Perin, Bartolomeo, Lorenzati, Gabriella, Gruden, Graziella, Bruno, Cristina, Amione, Paolo, Fornengo, Rodolfo, Tassara, Deborah, Melis, Lara, Rebella, Giuseppe, Delitala, Vincenzo, Pretti, Maristella Salvatora Masala, Luigi, Bolondi, Leonardo, Rasciti, Ilaria, Serio, Filippo Rossi Fanelli, Antonio, Amoroso, Alessio, Molfino, Enrico, Petrillo, Giuseppe, Zuccalà, Francesco, Franceschi, Guido De Marco, Cordischi, Chiara, Sabbatini, Marta, Giuseppe, Romanelli, Claudia, Amolini, Deborah, Chiesa, Alessandra, Marengoni, Antonio, Picardi, Umberto Vespasiani Gentilucci, Paolo, Gallo, Giorgio, Annoni, Maurizio, Corsi, Sara, Zazzetta, Giuseppe, Bellelli, Franco, Arturi, Elena, Succurro, Mariangela, Rubino, Giorgio, Sesti, Paola, Loria, Maria Angela Becchi, Gianfranco, Martucci, Alessandra, Fantuzzi, Mauro, Maurantonio, Stefano, Carta, Sebastiana, Atzori, Maria Grazia Serra, Maria Antonietta Bleve, Laura, Gasbarrone, Maria Rosaria Sajeva, Antonio, Brucato, Silvia, Ghidoni, Paola Di Corato, Agnelli, Giancarlo, Marchesini, Emanuela, Fabrizio, Fabris, Michela, Carlon, Francesca, Turatto, Aldo, Baritusso, Roberto, Manfredini, Christian, Molino, Marco, Pala, Fabio, Fabbian, Benedetta, Boari, Alfredo De Giorgi, Giuseppe, Paolisso, Maria Rosaria Rizzo, Maria Teresa Laieta, Giovanbattista, Rini, Pasquale, Mansueto, Ilenia, Pepe, Claudio, Borghi, Enrico, Strocchi, Valeria De Sando, Carlo, Sabbà, Francesco Saverio Vella, Patrizia, Suppressa, Raffaella, Valerio, Caterina, Capobianco, Luigi, Fenoglio, Christian, Bracco, Alessia Valentina Giraudo, Elisa, Testa, Cristina, Serraino, Silvia, Fargion, Paola, Bonara, Giulia, Periti, Marianna, Porzio, Flora, Peyvandi, Alberto, Tedeschi, Raffaella, Rossio, Valter, Monzani, Valeria, Savojardo, Christian, Folli, Maria, Magnini, Alessio, Conca, Giulia, Gobbo, Balduini, Carlo L., Giampiera, Bertolino, Stella, Provini, Federica, Quaglia, Franco, Dallegri, Luciano, Ottonello, Luca, Liberale, Wu Sheng Chin, Laura, Carassale, Silvia, Caporotundo, Giancarlo, Traisci, Lucrezia De Feudis, Silvia Di Carlo, Nicola Lucio Liberato, Alberto, Buratti, Tiziana, Tognin, Giovanni Battista Bianchi, Sabrina, Giaquinto, Francesco, Purrello, Antonino Di Pino, Salvatore, Piro, Renzo, Rozzini, Lina, Falanga, Giuseppe, Montrucchio, Elisabetta, Greco, Pietro, Tizzani, Paolo, Petitti, Antonio, Perciccante, Alessia, Coralli, Raffaella, Salmi, Piergiorgio, Gaudenzi, Susanna, Gamberini, Andrea, Semplicini, Lucia, Gottardo, Gianluigi, Vendemiale, Gaetano, Serviddio, Roberta, Forlano, Cesare, Masala, Antonio, Mammarella, Valeria, Raparelli, Stefania, Basili, Ludovica, Perri, Raffaele, Landolfi, Massimo, Montalto, Antonio, Mirijello, Carla, Vallone, Martino, Bellusci, Donatella, Setti, Filippo, Pedrazzoli, Luigina, Guasti, Luana, Castiglioni, Andrea, Maresca, Alessandro, Squizzato, Marta, Molaro, Bertolotti, Marco, Chiara, Mussi, Maria Vittoria Libbra, DI MICELI, Andrea, Pellegrini, Elisa, Lucia, Carulli, Angela, Sciacqua, Michele, Quero, Chiara, Bagnato, Roberto, Corinaldesi, Roberto De Giorgio, DALLA SERRA, Mauro, Valentina, Grasso, Eugenio, Ruggeri, Andrea, Salvi, Leonardi, Roberto, Chiara, Grassini, Ilenia, Mascherona, Minelli, Giorgio, Francesca, Maltese, Armando, Gabrielli, Mattioli, Massimo, William, Capeci, Giuseppe Pio Martino, Silvia, Messina, Riccardi, Ghio, Serena, Favorini, Anna Dal Col, Salvatore, Minisola, Luciano, Colangelo, Antonella, Afeltra, Pamela, Alemanno, Benedetta, Marigliano, Pietro, Castellino, Julien, Blanco, Luca, Zanoli, Cattaneo, Marco Natale, Paola, Fracasso, Amoruso, MARIA VALENTINA, Valter, Saracco, Marisa, Fogliati, Carlo, Bussolino, Vittorio, Durante, Giovanna, Eusebi, Daniela, Tirotta, Francesca, Mete, Miriam, Gino, Antonio, Cittadini, Michele, Arcopinto, Andrea, Salzano, Emanuele, Bobbio, Alberto Maria Marra, Domenico, Sirico, Guido, Moreo, Francesco, Scopelliti, Francesca, Gasparini, Melissa, Cocca, Ramirez Duque Nieves, Muela Molinero Alberto, Abad Requejo Pedro, Lopez Pelaez Vanessa, Tamargo, Lara, Corbella Viros Xavier, Formiga, Francesc, Diez Manglano Jesus, Bejarano Tello Esperanza, Del Corral Behamonte Esther, Sevil Puras Maria, Manuel, Romero, Pinilla Llorente Blanca, Lopez Gonzalez-Cobos Cristina, Victoria, Villalba Garcia M., Lopez, Saez, Juan, Bosco, Sanz Baena Susana, Arroyo Gallego Marta, Gonzalez Becerra Concepcion, Fernandez Moyano Antonio, Mercedes Gomez Hernandez, Manuel Poyato Borrego, Pacheco Cuadros Raquel, Perez Rojas Florencia, Garcia Olid Beatriz, Carrascosa Garcia Sara, Gonzalez-Cruz Cervellera Alfonso, Peinado Martinez Marta, Ruiz Cantero Alberto, Albarracín Arraigosa Antonio, Godoy Guerrero Montserrat, Barón Ramos Miguel Ángel, Machin Jose Manuel, Novo Veleiro Ignacio, Alvela Suarez Lucía, Lopez, Alfonso, Rubal Bran David, Iñiguez Vazquez Iria, Rios Prego Monica, Marcucci, M., Franchi, C., Nobili, A., Mannucci, P. 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V., Padula, D., Murialdo, G., Marra, A., Cattaneo, F., Secchi, M. B., Ghelfi, D., Anastasio, L., Leiter, Sofia, Carbone, M., Davi, G., Guagnano, M. T., Sestili, S., Mancuso, G., Calipari, D., Bartone, M., Meroni, M. R., Perin, P. C., Lorenzati, B., Gruden, G., Bruno, G., Amione, C., Fornengo, P., Tassara, R., Melis, D., Rebella, L., Delitala, G., Pretti, V., Masala, M. S., Bolondi, L., Rasciti, L., Serio, I., Fanelli, F. R., Amoroso, A., Molfino, A., Petrillo, E., Zuccala, G., Franceschi, F., De Marco, G., Chiara, C., Marta, S., Romanelli, G., Amolini, C., Chiesa, D., Picardi, A., Gentilucci, U. V., Gallo, P., Annoni, G., Corsi, M., Zazzetta, S., Bellelli, G., Arturi, F., Succurro, E., Rubino, M., Sesti, G., Loria, P., Becchi, M. A., Martucci, G., Fantuzzi, A., Maurantonio, M., Carta, S., Atzori, S., Serra, M. G., Bleve, M. A., Gasbarrone, L., Sajeva, M. 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Subjects: Background: Because frailty is a complex phenomenon associated with poor outcomes, the identification of patient profiles with different care needs might be of greater practical help than to look for a unifying definition. This study aimed at identifying aging phenotypes and their related outcomes in order to recognize frailty in hospitalized older patients. Methods: Patients aged 65 or older enrolled in internal medicine and geriatric wards participating in the REPOSI registry. Relationships among variables associated to sociodemographic, physical, cognitive, functional, and medical status were explored using a multiple correspondence analysis. The hierarchical cluster analysis was then performed to identify possible patient profiles. Multivariable logistic regression was used to verify the association between clusters and outcomes (in-hospital mortality and 3-month postdischarge mortality and rehospitalization). Results: 2,841 patients were included in the statistical analyses. Four clusters were identified: the healthiest (I), those with multimorbidity (II), the functionally independent women with osteoporosis and arthritis (III), and the functionally dependent oldest old patients with cognitive impairment (IV). There was a significantly higher in-hospital mortality in Cluster II (odds ratio [OR] = 2.27, 95% confidence interval [CI] = 1.15-4.46) and Cluster IV (OR = 5.15, 95% CI = 2.58-10.26) and a higher 3-month mortality in Cluster II (OR = 1.66, 95% CI = 1.13-2.44) and Cluster IV (OR = 1.86, 95% CI = 1.15-3.00) than in Cluster I. Conclusions: Using alternative analytical techniques among hospitalized older patients, we could distinguish different frailty phenotypes, differently associated with adverse events. The identification of different patient profiles can help defining the best care strategy according to specific patient needs, Male, Aging, Osteoporosis, we could distinguish different frailty phenotypes, 030204 cardiovascular system & hematology, Logistic regression, 0302 clinical medicine, Internal medicine and geriatric wards, Aging phenotype, 80 and over, Medicine, Cluster analysi, LS4_4, 95% CI = 1.15-3.00) than in Cluster I. Conclusions: Using alternative analytical techniques among hospitalized older patients, 030212 general & internal medicine, Hospital Mortality, Prospective Studies, Prospective cohort study, physical, Outcome, 95% CI = 2.58-10.26) and a higher 3-month mortality in Cluster II (OR = 1.66, Aged, 80 and over, Frailty, 95% confidence interval [CI] = 1.15-4.46) and Cluster IV (OR = 5.15, Cognition, Hospitalization, Phenotype, aging phenotypes, cluster analysis, frailty, internal medicine and geriatric wards, outcomes, Female, 841 patients were included in the statistical analyses. Four clusters were identified: the healthiest (I), Human, medicine.medical_specialty, the identification of patient profiles with different care needs might be of greater practical help than to look for a unifying definition. This study aimed at identifying aging phenotypes and their related outcomes in order to recognize frailty in hospitalized older patients. Methods: Patients aged 65 or older enrolled in internal medicine and geriatric wards participating in the REPOSI registry. Relationships among variables associated to sociodemographic, Frail Elderly, Socio-culturale, Aging phenotypes, Cluster analysis, Outcomes, Aged, Humans, Geriatric Assessment, cognitive, 03 medical and health sciences, Multiple correspondence analysis, Internal medicine, differently associated with adverse events. The identification of different patient profiles can help defining the best care strategy according to specific patient needs, Adverse effect, Background: Because frailty is a complex phenomenon associated with poor outcomes, Aging phenotypes, Cluster analysis, Frailty, Internal medicine and geriatric wards, Outcomes, 95% CI = 1.13-2.44) and Cluster IV (OR = 1.86, business.industry, and the functionally dependent oldest old patients with cognitive impairment (IV). There was a significantly higher in-hospital mortality in Cluster II (odds ratio [OR] = 2.27, Settore MED/09 - MEDICINA INTERNA, and medical status were explored using a multiple correspondence analysis. The hierarchical cluster analysis was then performed to identify possible patient profiles. Multivariable logistic regression was used to verify the association between clusters and outcomes (in-hospital mortality and 3-month postdischarge mortality and rehospitalization). Results: 2, Odds ratio, medicine.disease, Confidence interval, Internal medicine and geriatric ward, Prospective Studie, functional, Physical therapy, Geriatrics and Gerontology, business
Abstract: Background Because frailty is a complex phenomenon associated with poor outcomes, the identification of patient profiles with different care needs might be of greater practical help than to look for a unifying definition. This study aimed at identifying aging phenotypes and their related outcomes in order to recognize frailty in hospitalized older patients. Methods Patients aged 65 or older enrolled in internal medicine and geriatric wards participating in the REPOSI registry. Relationships among variables associated to sociodemographic, physical, cognitive, functional, and medical status were explored using a multiple correspondence analysis. The hierarchical cluster analysis was then performed to identify possible patient profiles. Multivariable logistic regression was used to verify the association between clusters and outcomes (in-hospital mortality and 3-month postdischarge mortality and rehospitalization). Results 2,841 patients were included in the statistical analyses. Four clusters were identified: the healthiest (I); those with multimorbidity (II); the functionally independent women with osteoporosis and arthritis (III); and the functionally dependent oldest old patients with cognitive impairment (IV). There was a significantly higher in-hospital mortality in Cluster II (odds ratio [OR] = 2.27, 95% confidence interval [CI] = 1.15-4.46) and Cluster IV (OR = 5.15, 95% CI = 2.58-10.26) and a higher 3-month mortality in Cluster II (OR = 1.66, 95% CI = 1.13-2.44) and Cluster IV (OR = 1.86, 95% CI = 1.15-3.00) than in Cluster I. Conclusions Using alternative analytical techniques among hospitalized older patients, we could distinguish different frailty phenotypes, differently associated with adverse events. The identification of different patient profiles can help defining the best care strategy according to specific patient needs.
Published: 2017

25. Pattern of in-hospital changes in drug use in the older people from 2010 to 2016

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M., Marengoni, A., Perticone, F., Tettamanti, M., Salerno, F., Corrao, S., Licata, G., Violi, F., Corazza, G. R., Marcucci, M., Eldin, T. K., Donatella Di Blanca, M. P., Lanzo, G., Astuto, S., Cortesi, L., Prisco, D., Silvestri, E., Cenci, C., Emmi, G., Biolo, G., Guarnieri, G., Zanetti, M., Fernandes, G., Chiuch, M., Vanoli, M., Grignani, G., Casella, G., Pulixi, E. A., Bernardi, M., Li Bassi, S., Santi, L., Zaccherini, G., Mannarino, E., Lupattelli, G., Bianconi, V., Paciullo, F., Nuti, R., Valenti, R., Ruvio, M., Cappelli, S., Palazzuoli, A., Salvatore, T., Sasso, F. C., Girelli, D., Olivieri, O., Matteazzi, T., Barbagallo, M., Plances, L., Alcamo, R., Calvo, L., Valenti, M., Zoli, M., Arno, R., Pasini, F. L., Capecchi, P. L., Bicchi, M., Palasciano, G., Modeo, M. E., Peragine, M., Pappagallo, F., Pugliese, S., Di Gennaro, C., Postiglione, A., Barbella, M. R., De Stefano, F., Cappellini, M. D., Fabio, G., Seghezzi, S., De Amicis, M. M., Mancarella, M., Mari, D., Rossi, P. D., Damanti, S., Ottolini, B. B., Bonini, G., Miceli, E., Lenti, M. V., Padula, D., Murialdo, G., Marra, A., Cattaneo, F., Secchi, M. B., Ghelfi, D., Anastasio, L., Sofia, L., Carbone, M., Davi, G., Guagnano, M. T., Sestili, S., Mancuso, G., Calipari, D., Bartone, M., Meroni, M. R., Perin, P. C., Lorenzati, B., Gruden, G., Bruno, G., Amione, C., Fornengo, P., Tassara, R., Melis, D., Rebella, L., Delitala, G., Pretti, V., Masala, M. S., Pes, C., Bolondi, L., Rasciti, L., Serio, I., Fanelli, F. R., Amoroso, A., Molfino, A., Petrillo, E., Zuccala, G., Franceschi, F., De Marco, G., Chiara, C., Marta, S., D'Aurizio, G., Romanelli, G., Amolini, C., Chiesa, D., Picardi, A., Gentilucci, U. V., Gallo, P., Annoni, G., Corsi, M., Zazzetta, S., Bellelli, G., Szabo, H., Arturi, F., Succurro, E., Rubino, M., Sesti, G., Loria, P., Becchi, M. A., Martucci, G., Fantuzzi, A., Maurantonio, M., Serra, M. G., Bleve, M. A., Gasbarrone, L., Sajeva, M. R., Brucato, A., Ghidoni, S., Di Corato, P., Agnelli, G., Marchesini, E., Fabris, F., Carlon, M., Turatto, F., Baritusso, A., Amabile, A., Omenetto, E., Scarinzi, P., Manfredini, R., Molino, C., Pala, M., Fabbian, F., Boari, B., De Giorgi, A., Paolisso, G., Rizzo, M. R., Laieta, M. T., Rini, G., Mansueto, P., Pepe, I., Borghi, C., Strocchi, E., De Sando, V., Pareo, I., Sabba, C., Vella, F. S., Suppressa, P., Valerio, R., Agosti, P., Fontana, F., Loparco, F., Capobianco, C., Fenoglio, L., Bracco, C., Giraudo, A. V., Testa, E., Serraino, C., Fargion, S., Bonara, P., Periti, G., Porzio, M., Tiraboschi, S., Peyvandi, F., Tedeschi, A., Rossio, R., Monzani, V., Savojardo, V., Folli, C., Magnini, M., Conca, A., Gobbo, G., Pallini, G., Balduini, C. L., Bertolino, G., Provini, S., Quaglia, F., Dallegri, F., Ottonello, L., Liberale, L., Chin, W. S., Carassale, L., Caporotundo, S., Traisci, G., De Feudis, L., Di Carlo, S., Liberato, N. L., Buratti, A., Tognin, T., Bianchi, G. B., Giaquinto, S., Purrello, F., Di Pino, A., Piro, S., Rozzini, R., Falanga, L., Spazzini, E., Montrucchio, G., Greco, E., Tizzani, P., Petitti, P., Perciccante, A., Coralli, A., Salmi, R., Gaudenzi, P., Gamberini, S., Semplicini, A., Gottardo, L., Vendemiale, G., Serviddio, G., Forlano, R., Masala, C., Mammarella, A., Raparelli, V., Basili, S., Perri, L., Landolfi, R., Montalto, M., Mirijello, A., Vallone, C., Bellusci, M., Setti, D., Pedrazzoli, F., Guasti, L., Castiglioni, L., Maresca, A., Squizzato, A., Molaro, M., Bertolotti, M., Mussi, C., Libbra, M. V., Miceli, A., Pellegrini, E., Carulli, L., Veltri, F., Sciacqua, A., Quero, M., Bagnato, C., Colangelo, L., Falbo, T., De Giorgio, R., Serra, M., Grasso, V., Ruggeri, E., Ilaria, B., Salvi, A., Leonardi, R., Grassini, C., Mascherona, I., Minelli, G., Maltese, F., Damiani, G., Capeci, W., Mattioli, M., Martino, G. P., Biondi, L., Ormas, M., Pettinari, P., Romiti, R., Messina, S., Cavallaro, F., Ghio, R., Favorini, S., Dal Col, A., Minisola, S., Afeltra, A., Alemanno, P., Marigliano, B., Pipita, M. E., Castellino, P., Blanco, J., Zanoli, L., Cattaneo, M., Fracasso, P., Amoruso, M. V., Saracco, V., Fogliati, M., Bussolino, C., Durante, V., Eusebi, G., Tirotta, D., Mete, F., Gino, M., Cittadini, A., Vigorito, C., Arcopinto, M., Salzano, A., Bobbio, E., Marra, A. M., Sirico, D., Moreo, G., Scopelliti, F., Gasparini, F., Cocca, M., Ballestrero, A., Ferrando, F., Berra, S., Dassi, S., Nava, M. C., Graziella, B., Baldassarre, S., Fragapani, S., Galanti, G., Mascherini, G., Petri, C., Stefani, L., Girino, M., Piccinelli, V., Nasso, F., Gioffre, V., Pasquale, M., Scattolin, G., Martinelli, S., Turrin, M., Sechi, L., Catena, C., Colussi, G., Nieves, R. D., Alberto, M. M., Pedro, A. R., Vanessa, L. P., Lara, T., Xavier, C. V., Francesc, F., Jesus, D. M., Esperanza, B. T., Esther, D. C. B., Maria, S. P., Romero, M., Blanca, P. L., Cristina, L. G. -C., Victoria, V. G. M., Saez, L., Bosco, J., Susana, S. B., Marta, A. G., Concepcion, G. B., Antonio, F. M., Hernandez, M. G., Borrego, M. P., Raquel, P. C., Florencia, P. R., Beatriz, G. O., Sara, C. G., Alfonso, G. -C. C., Marta, P. M., Garcia, S. C., Alberto, R. C., Antonio, A. A., Montserrat, G. G., Angel, B. R. M., Manuel, M. J., Ignacio, N. V., Lucia, A. S., Alfonso, L., David, R. B., Iria, I. V., Monica, R. P., Franchi, C, Ardoino, I, Nobili, A, Pasina, L, Mannucci, P, Marengoni, A, Perticone, F, Tettamanti, M, Salerno, F, Corrao, S, Licata, G, Violi, F, Corazza, G, Marcucci, M, Eldin, T, Donatella Di Blanca, M, Lanzo, G, Astuto, S, Cortesi, L, Prisco, D, Silvestri, E, Cenci, C, Emmi, G, Biolo, G, Guarnieri, G, Zanetti, M, Fernandes, G, Chiuch, M, Vanoli, M, Grignani, G, Casella, G, Pulixi, E, Bernardi, M, Li Bassi, S, Santi, L, Zaccherini, G, Mannarino, E, Lupattelli, G, Bianconi, V, Paciullo, F, Nuti, R, Valenti, R, Ruvio, M, Cappelli, S, Palazzuoli, A, Salvatore, T, Sasso, F, Girelli, D, Olivieri, O, Matteazzi, T, Barbagallo, M, Plances, L, Alcamo, R, Calvo, L, Valenti, M, Zoli, M, Arno, R, Pasini, F, Capecchi, P, Bicchi, M, Palasciano, G, Modeo, M, Peragine, M, Pappagallo, F, Pugliese, S, Di Gennaro, C, Postiglione, A, Barbella, M, De Stefano, F, Cappellini, M, Fabio, G, Seghezzi, S, De Amicis, M, Mancarella, M, Mari, D, Rossi, P, Damanti, S, Ottolini, B, Bonini, G, Miceli, E, Lenti, M, Padula, D, Murialdo, G, Marra, A, Cattaneo, F, Secchi, M, Ghelfi, D, Anastasio, L, Sofia, L, Carbone, M, Davi, G, Guagnano, M, Sestili, S, Mancuso, G, Calipari, D, Bartone, M, Meroni, M, Perin, P, Lorenzati, B, Gruden, G, Bruno, G, Amione, C, Fornengo, P, Tassara, R, Melis, D, Rebella, L, Delitala, G, Pretti, V, Masala, M, Pes, C, Bolondi, L, Rasciti, L, Serio, I, Fanelli, F, Amoroso, A, Molfino, A, Petrillo, E, Zuccala, G, Franceschi, F, De Marco, G, Chiara, C, Marta, S, D'Aurizio, G, Romanelli, G, Amolini, C, Chiesa, D, Picardi, A, Gentilucci, U, Gallo, P, Annoni, G, Corsi, M, Zazzetta, S, Bellelli, G, Szabo, H, Arturi, F, Succurro, E, Rubino, M, Sesti, G, Loria, P, Becchi, M, Martucci, G, Fantuzzi, A, Maurantonio, M, Serra, M, Bleve, M, Gasbarrone, L, Sajeva, M, Brucato, A, Ghidoni, S, Di Corato, P, Agnelli, G, Marchesini, E, Fabris, F, Carlon, M, Turatto, F, Baritusso, A, Amabile, A, Omenetto, E, Scarinzi, P, Manfredini, R, Molino, C, Pala, M, Fabbian, F, Boari, B, De Giorgi, A, Paolisso, G, Rizzo, M, Laieta, M, Rini, G, Mansueto, P, Pepe, I, Borghi, C, Strocchi, E, De Sando, V, Pareo, I, Sabba, C, Vella, F, Suppressa, P, Valerio, R, Agosti, P, Fontana, F, Loparco, F, Capobianco, C, Fenoglio, L, Bracco, C, Giraudo, A, Testa, E, Serraino, C, Fargion, S, Bonara, P, Periti, G, Porzio, M, Tiraboschi, S, Peyvandi, F, Tedeschi, A, Rossio, R, Monzani, V, Savojardo, V, Folli, C, Magnini, M, Conca, A, Gobbo, G, Pallini, G, Balduini, C, Bertolino, G, Provini, S, Quaglia, F, Dallegri, F, Ottonello, L, Liberale, L, Chin, W, Carassale, L, Caporotundo, S, Traisci, G, De Feudis, L, Di Carlo, S, Liberato, N, Buratti, A, Tognin, T, Bianchi, G, Giaquinto, S, Purrello, F, Di Pino, A, Piro, S, Rozzini, R, Falanga, L, Spazzini, E, Montrucchio, G, Greco, E, Tizzani, P, Petitti, P, Perciccante, A, Coralli, A, Salmi, R, Gaudenzi, P, Gamberini, S, Semplicini, A, Gottardo, L, Vendemiale, G, Serviddio, G, Forlano, R, Masala, C, Mammarella, A, Raparelli, V, Basili, S, Perri, L, Landolfi, R, Montalto, M, Mirijello, A, Vallone, C, Bellusci, M, Setti, D, Pedrazzoli, F, Guasti, L, Castiglioni, L, Maresca, A, Squizzato, A, Molaro, M, Bertolotti, M, Mussi, C, Libbra, M, Miceli, A, Pellegrini, E, Carulli, L, Veltri, F, Sciacqua, A, Quero, M, Bagnato, C, Colangelo, L, Falbo, T, De Giorgio, R, Grasso, V, Ruggeri, E, Ilaria, B, Salvi, A, Leonardi, R, Grassini, C, Mascherona, I, Minelli, G, Maltese, F, Damiani, G, Capeci, W, Mattioli, M, Martino, G, Biondi, L, Ormas, M, Pettinari, P, Romiti, R, Messina, S, Cavallaro, F, Ghio, R, Favorini, S, Dal Col, A, Minisola, S, Afeltra, A, Alemanno, P, Marigliano, B, Pipita, M, Castellino, P, Blanco, J, Zanoli, L, Cattaneo, M, Fracasso, P, Amoruso, M, Saracco, V, Fogliati, M, Bussolino, C, Durante, V, Eusebi, G, Tirotta, D, Mete, F, Gino, M, Cittadini, A, Vigorito, C, Arcopinto, M, Salzano, A, Bobbio, E, Sirico, D, Moreo, G, Scopelliti, F, Gasparini, F, Cocca, M, Ballestrero, A, Ferrando, F, Berra, S, Dassi, S, Nava, M, Graziella, B, Baldassarre, S, Fragapani, S, Galanti, G, Mascherini, G, Petri, C, Stefani, L, Girino, M, Piccinelli, V, Nasso, F, Gioffre, V, Pasquale, M, Scattolin, G, Martinelli, S, Turrin, M, Sechi, L, Catena, C, Colussi, G, Nieves, R, Alberto, M, Pedro, A, Vanessa, L, Lara, T, Xavier, C, Francesc, F, Jesus, D, Esperanza, B, Esther, D, Maria, S, Romero, M, Blanca, P, Cristina, L, Victoria, V, Saez, L, Bosco, J, Susana, S, Marta, A, Concepcion, G, Antonio, F, Hernandez, M, Borrego, M, Raquel, P, Florencia, P, Beatriz, G, Sara, C, Alfonso, G, Marta, P, Garcia, S, Alberto, R, Antonio, A, Montserrat, G, Angel, B, Manuel, M, Ignacio, N, Lucia, A, Alfonso, L, David, R, Iria, I, and Monica, R
Subjects: Registrie, Male, pharmacoepidemiology, Epidemiology, Discharged alive, 030204 cardiovascular system & hematology, internal medicine and geriatric ward, drug use, excessive polypharmacy, internal medicine and geriatric wards, older people, polypharmacy, 0302 clinical medicine, Drug Prescription, Risk Factors, 80 and over, Pharmacology (medical), 030212 general & internal medicine, Registries, At-Risk Population, media_common, Aged, 80 and over, Overtime, drug use, excessive polypharmacy, internal medicine and geriatric wards, older people, pharmacoepidemiology, polypharmacy, Pharmacoepidemiology, Hospitalization, Italy, Female, Medical emergency, Human, Drug, medicine.medical_specialty, media_common.quotation_subject, Socio-culturale, Drug Prescriptions, 03 medical and health sciences, Hospital discharge, medicine, Internal Medicine, Humans, Aged, Polypharmacy, Inpatients, business.industry, Risk Factor, medicine.disease, Emergency medicine, Older people, business
Abstract: Purpose: To assess the pattern of in-hospital changes in drug use in older patients from 2010 to 2016. Methods: People aged 65years or more acutely hospitalized in those internal medicine and geriatric wards that did continuously participate to the REgistro POliterapie Società Italiana di Medicina Interna register from 2010 to 2016 were selected. Drugs use were categorized as 0 to 1 drug (very low drug use), 2 to 4 drugs (low drug use), 5 to 9 drugs (polypharmacy), and 10 or more drugs (excessive polypharmacy). To assess whether or not prevalence of patients in relation to drug use distribution changed overtime, adjusted prevalence ratios (PRs) was estimated with log-binomial regression models. Results: Among 2120 patients recruited in 27 wards continuously participating to data collection, 1882 were discharged alive and included in this analysis. The proportion of patients with very low drug use (0-1 drug) at hospital discharge increased overtime, from 2.7% in 2010 to 9.2% in 2016. Results from a log-logistic adjusted model confirmed the increasing PR of these very low drug users overtime (particularly in 2014 vs 2012, PR 1.83 95% CI 1.14-2.95). Moreover, from 2010 to 2016, there was an increasing number of patients who, on polypharmacy at hospital admission, abandoned it at hospital discharge, switching to the very low drug use group. Conclusion: This study shows that in internal medicine and geriatric wards continuously participating to the REgistro POliterapie Società Italiana di Medicina Interna register, the proportion of patients with a very low drug use at hospital discharge increased overtime, thus reducing the therapeutic burden in this at risk population.
Published: 2017

26. Antipsychotic prescription and mortality in hospitalized older persons

Author: Deborah, Chiesa, Alessandra, Marengoni, Alessandro, Nobili, Mauro, Tettamanti, Luca, Pasina, Carlotta, Franchi, Codjo, D Djade, Salvatore, Corrao, Francesco, Salerno, Maura, Marcucci, Giuseppe, Romanelli, Pier Mannuccio Mannucci, Domenico, Prisco, Elena, Silvestri, Caterina, Cenci, Tommaso, Barnini, Giuseppe, Delitala, Stefano, Carta, Sebastiana, Atzori, Gianfranco, Guarnieri, Michela, Zanetti, Annalisa, Spalluti, Maria Grazia Serra, Maria Antonietta Bleve, Massimo, Vanoli, Giulia, Grignani, Gianluca, Casella, Laura, Gasbarrone, Giorgio, Maniscalco, Massimo, Gunelli, Daniela, Tirotta, Antonio, Brucato, Silvia, Ghidoni, Paola Di Corato, Mauro, Bernardi, Silvia Li Bassi, Luca, Santi, Giancarlo, Agnelli, Emanuela, Marchesini, Elmo, Mannarino, Graziana, Lupattelli, Pamela, Rondelli, Francesco, Paciullo, Fabrizio, Fabris, Michela, Carlon, Francesca, Turatto, Maria Cristina Baroni, Marianna, Zardo, Manfredini, Roberto, Christian, Molino, Marco, Pala, Fabbian, Fabio, Ranuccio, Nuti, Roberto, Valenti, Martina, Ruvio, Silvia, Cappelli, Giuseppe, Paolisso, Maria Rosaria Rizzo, Maria Teresa Laieta, Teresa, Salvatore, Ferdinando Carlo Sasso, Riccardo, Utili, Emanuele Durante Mangoni, Daniela, Pinto, Oliviero, Olivieri, Anna Maria Stanzial, Fellin, Renato, Volpato, Stefano, Sioulis, Fotini, Mario, Barbagallo, Ligia, Dominguez, Lidia, Plances, Daniela, D’Angelo, Giovanbattista, Rini, Pasquale, Mansueto, Ilenia, Pepe, Giuseppe, Licata, Luigi, Calvo, Maria, Valenti, Claudio, Borghi, Enrico, Strocchi, Elisa Rebecca Rinaldi, Marco, Zoli, Elisa, Fabbri, Donatella, Magalotti, Alberto, Auteri, Anna Laura Pasqui, Luca, Puccetti, Franco Laghi Pasini, Pier Leopoldo Capecchi, Maurizio, Bicchi, Carlo, Sabbà, Francesco Saverio Vella, Alessandro, Marseglia, Chiara Valentina Luglio, Giuseppe, Palasciano, Maria Ester Modeo, Annamaria, Aquilino, Pallante, Raffaele, Stefania, Pugliese, Caterina, Capobianco, Alfredo, Postiglione, Maria Rosaria Barbella, Francesco De Stefano, Luigi, Fenoglio, Chiara, Brignone, Christian, Bracco, Alessia, Giraudo, Giuseppe, Musca, Olga, Cuccurullo, Luigi, Cricco, Alessandra, Fiorentini, Maria Domenica Cappellini, Giovanna, Fabio, Sonia, Seghezzi, Margherita Migone De Amicis, Silvia, Fargion, Paola, Bonara, Mara, Bulgheroni, Rosa, Lombardi, Marianna, Porzio, Giulia, Periti, Fabio, Magrini, Ferdinando, Massari, Tatiana, Tonella, Flora, Peyvandi, Alberto, Tedeschi, Raffaella, Rossio, Guido, Moreo, Barbara, Ferrari, Luisa, Roncari, Valter, Monzani, Valeria, Savojardo, Christian, Folli, Maria, Magnini, Daniela, Mari, Paolo Dionigi Rossi, Sarah, Damanti, Silvia, Prolo, Maria Sole Lilleri, Giuliana, Micale, Mauro, Podda, Carlo, Selmi, Francesca, Meda, Silvia, Accordino, Alessio, Conca, Valentina, Monti, Gino Roberto Corazza, Emanuela, Miceli, Marco Vincenzo Lenti, Donatella, Padula, Balduini, Carlo L., Giampiera, Bertolino, Stella, Provini, Federica, Quaglia, Giovanni, Murialdo, Marta, Bovio, Franco, Dallegri, Luciano, Ottonello, Alessandra, Quercioli, Alessandra, Barreca, Maria Beatrice Secchi, Davide, Ghelfi, Wu Sheng Chin, Laura, Carassale, Silvia, Caporotundo, Luigi, Anastasio, Lucia, Sofia, Maria, Carbone, Giancarlo, Traisci, Lucrezia De Feudis, Silvia Di Carlo, Giovanni, Davì, Maria Teresa Guagnano, Simona, Sestili, Elisabetta, Bergami, Emanuela, Rizzioli, Carlo, Cagnoni, Luca, Bertone, Antonio, Manucra, Alberto, Buratti, Tiziana, Tognin, Nicola Lucio Liberato, Giordano, Bernasconi, Barbara, Nardo, Giovanni Battista Bianchi, Sabrina, Giaquinto, Giampiero, Benetti, Michela, Quagliolo, Giuseppe Riccardo Centenaro, Francesco, Purrello, Antonino Di Pino, Salvatore, Piro, Gerardo, Mancuso, Daniela, Calipari, Mosè, Bartone, Francesco, Gullo, Michele, Cortellaro, Marina, Magenta, Francesca, Perego, Maria Rachele Meroni, Marco, Cicardi, Antonio Gidaro Marina Magenta, Andrea, Sacco, Antonio, Bonelli, Gaetano, Dentamaro, Renzo, Rozzini, Lina, Falanga, Alessandro, Giordano, Paolo Cavallo Perin, Bartolomeo, Lorenzati, Gabriella, Gruden, Graziella, Bruno, Giuseppe, Montrucchio, Elisabetta, Greco, Pietro, Tizzani, Giacomo, Fera, Maria Loreta Di Luca, Donatella, Renna, Antonio, Perciccante, Alessia, Coralli, Rodolfo, Tassara, Deborah, Melis, Lara, Rebella, Giorgio, Menardo, Stefania, Bottone, Elsa, Sferrazzo, Claudio, Ferri, Rinaldo, Striuli, Rosa, Scipioni, Raffaella, Salmi, Piergiorgio, Gaudenzi, Susanna, Gamberini, Franco, Ricci, Cosimo, Morabito, Roberto, Fava, Andrea, Semplicini, Lucia, Gottardo, Gianluigi, Vendemiale, Gaetano, Serviddio, Roberta, Forlano, Luigi, Bolondi, Leonardo, Rasciti, Ilaria, Serio, Cesare, Masala, Antonio, Mammarella, Raparelli, Valeria, Filippo Rossi Fanelli, Massimo, Delfino, Antonio, Amoroso, Francesco, Violi, Stefania, Basili, Ludovica, Perri, Pietro, Serra, Vincenzo, Fontana, Marco, Falcone, Raffaele, Landolfi, Antonio, Grieco, Antonella, Gallo, Giuseppe, Zuccalà, Francesco, Franceschi, Guido De Marco, Cordischi, Chiara, Sabbatini, Marta, Martino, Bellusci, Donatella, Setti, Filippo, Pedrazzoli, Caterina, Pirali, Claudia, Amolini, Enrico Agabiti Rosei, Damiano, Rizzoni, Luana, Castoldi, Antonio, Picardi, Umberto Vespasiani Gentilucci, Chiara, Mazzarelli, Paolo, Gallo, Luigina, Guasti, Luana, Castiglioni, Andrea, Maresca, Alessandro, Squizzato, Sara, Contini, Marta, Molaro, Giorgio, Annoni, Maurizio, Corsi, Sara, Zazzetta, Marco, Bertolotti, Chiara, Mussi, Roberto, Scotto, Maria Alice Ferri, Francesca, Veltri, Franco, Arturi, Elena, Succurro, Giorgio, Sesti, Umberto, Gualtieri, Francesco, Perticone, Angela, Sciacqua, Michele, Quero, Chiara, Bagnato, Paola, Loria, Maria Angela Becchi, Gianfranco, Martucci, Alessandra, Fantuzzi, Mauro, Maurantonio, Roberto, Corinaldesi, DE GIORGIO, Roberto, Mauro, Serra, Valentina, Grasso, Eugenio, Ruggeri, Lorenzo Mauro Carozza, Fabio, Pignatti., Chiesa, D., Marengoni, A., Nobili, A., Tettamanti, M., Pasina, L., Franchi, C., Djade, C., Corrao, S., Salerno, F., Marcucci, M., Romanelli, G., and Mannucci, P.
Subjects: Male, Socio-culturale, Older person, Antipsychotic, Cognition, Economica, Antipsychotics, Hospitalization, Mortality, Older persons, Gerontology, Geriatrics and Gerontology, Psychiatry and Mental Health, Humans, Psychomotor Agitation, Aged, antipsychotics, hospitalization, mortality, older persons, Aged, 80 and over, Mental Disorders, Patient Discharge, antipsychotics, Italy, hospitalization, mortality, older persons, Dementia, Female, Antipsychotic Agents
Abstract: Background: Recent scientific reports have shown that older persons treated with antipsychotics for dementia-related behavioural symptoms have increased mortality. However, the impact of these drugs prescribed during hospitalization has rarely been assessed. We aimed to investigate whether antipsychotics are associated with an increased risk of mortality during hospitalization and at 3-month follow-up in elderly inpatients. Methods: We analyzed data gathered during two waves (2010 and 2012) by the REPOSI (Registro Politerapie SocietÃ Italiana Medicina Interna). All new prescriptions of antipsychotic drugs during hospitalization, whether maintained or discontinued at discharge, were collected, and logistic regression models were used to analyze their association with in-hospital and 3-month mortality. Covariates were age, sex, the Short Blessed Test (SBT) score, and the Cumulative Illness Rating Scale. Results: Among 2703 patients included in the study, 135 (5%) received new prescriptions for antipsychotic drugs. The most frequently prescribed antipsychotic during hospitalization and eventually maintained at discharge was haloperidol (38% and 36% of cases, respectively). Patients newly prescribed with antipsychotics were older and had a higher Cumulative Illness Rating Scale comorbidity index both at admission and at discharge compared to those who did not receive a prescription. Of those prescribed antipsychotics, 71% had an SBT score â¥10 (indicative of dementia), 12% had an SBT score of 5-9 (indicative of questionable dementia); and 17% had an SBT score
Published: 2017

27. Communication and interpretation of regional weather forecasts: a survey of the Italian public

Author: Francesco Meneguzzo, Bernardo Gozzini, Ramona Magno, Valentina Grasso, and Federica Zabini
Subjects: Global Forecast System, Atmospheric Science, Probability of precipitation, Operations research, Computer science, media_common.quotation_subject, Global warming, Context (language use), Model output statistics, Service (economics), Econometrics, Relevance (information retrieval), Consensus forecast, media_common
Abstract: The aim of the present study is to contribute to the correctness and effectiveness of weather forecast communication, the importance of which has been steadily growing along with the improvement in numerical weather prediction models and methods as well as the general awareness about the increase of extreme events within a context of global climate change. An extensive survey was conducted among the general users of the weather forecasts issued by the regional meteorological service of Tuscany, Italy (LaMMA Consortium), which resulted in 2388 volunteers responding to the questions aimed at better understanding of how people access, interpret and use weather forecasts. The survey also includes some items investigated in previous research, allowing comparison with similar findings in other countries. The most critical issue concerns the uncertainty information, investigated with the main aim of verifying the existence and relevance of inferential mechanisms in the interpretation of weather icons and maps used in LaMMA forecasts to assess uncertainty. The present study also discusses users' interpretations of the probability of precipitation forecasts and their preferences on how forecast uncertainty is conveyed. Results show that, even if the Italian public is accustomed to strictly deterministic weather forecasts, people attribute uncertainty to them on their own even if lacking any explicit indication, thus suggesting the need to supplement the existing forecasts with both graphical and textual information about uncertainty, particularly in the case of precipitation forecasts.
Published: 2014

28. Differences in liver stiffness values obtained with new ultrasound elastography machines and Fibroscan: A comparative study

Author: Antonio Colecchia, Cosima Schiavone, L. Mulazzani, Veronica Salvatore, N. Gamal, Luigi Bolondi, Giovanni Marasco, Federico Ravaioli, Joules Fabrice Sitouok Nkamgho, Giacomo Ruggieri, Elena Mazzotta, Valentina Grasso, Roberto Di Donato, Alessia Ferrarini, Carla Serra, Davide Festi, Fabio Piscaglia, Cristina Felicani, Vito Cantisani, Ilaria Serio, Piscaglia, Fabio, Salvatore, Veronica, Mulazzani, Lorenzo, Cantisani, Vito, Colecchia, Antonio, Di Donato, Roberto, Felicani, Cristina, Ferrarini, Alessia, Nesrine, Gamal, Grasso, Valentina, Marasco, Giovanni, Mazzotta, Elena, Ravaioli, Federico, Ruggieri, Giacomo, Serio, Ilaria, Sitouok Nkamgho, Joules Fabrice, Serra, Carla, Festi, Davide, Schiavone, Cosima, and Bolondi, Luigi
Subjects: Liver Cirrhosis, Male, medicine.medical_specialty, Transient elastography, Liver fibrosis, Concordance, Sensitivity and Specificity, Statistics, Nonparametric, 030218 nuclear medicine & medical imaging, 03 medical and health sciences, Elasticity Imaging Techniques, 0302 clinical medicine, Cirrhosis, fibroscan, liver fibrosis, shear wave elastography, transient elastography, elasticity imaging techniques, female, hepatitis C, humans, liver, liver cirrhosis, male, sensitivity and specificity, statistics nonparametric, Liver stiffness, Ultrasound elastography, medicine, Humans, Fibroscan, Shear wave elastography, Hepatology, Gastroenterology, Cirrhosi, medicine.diagnostic_test, business.industry, Liver fibrosi, Hepatitis C, Liver, 030211 gastroenterology & hepatology, Female, Radiology, Elastography, business, Nuclear medicine
Abstract: Background and aims Whether Fibroscan thresholds can be immediately adopted for none, some or all other shear wave elastography techniques has not been tested. The aim of the present study was to test the concordance of the findings obtained from 7 of the most recent ultrasound elastography machines with respect to Fibroscan. Methods Sixteen hepatitis C virus-related patients with fibrosis ≥2 and having reliable results at Fibroscan were investigated in two intercostal spaces using 7 different elastography machines. Coefficients of both precision (an index of data dispersion) and accuracy (an index of bias correction factors expressing different magnitudes of changes in comparison to the reference) were calculated. Results Median stiffness values differed among the different machines as did coefficients of both precision (range 0.54–0.72) and accuracy (range 0.28–0.87). When the average of the measurements of two intercostal spaces was considered, coefficients of precision significantly increased with all machines (range 0.72–0.90) whereas of accuracy improved more scatteredly and by a smaller degree (range 0.40–0.99). Conclusions The present results showed only moderate concordance of the majority of elastography machines with the Fibroscan results, preventing the possibility of the immediate universal adoption of Fibroscan thresholds for defining liver fibrosis staging for all new machines.
Published: 2016

29. THU-180-Treatment of genotype 3 HCV infection in the large real-life 'Navigatore Lombardia' multicentre cohort: Results from three different regimens

Author: Maria Grazia Rumi, Mauro Viganò, Alberto Colombo, Sherrie Bhoori, Antonella d'Arminio Monforte, Riccardo Centenaro, Luisa Pasulo, Sergio Lazzaroni, Alessandro Soria, Andrea Capretti, Maria Cristina Vinci, Pietro Lampertico, Gianpiero Aimo, Chiara Molteni, Andrea Lombardi, Alessio Aghemo, Silvia Polo, Alessia Giorgini, Federico Gatti, Paola Brambilla, Elisabetta Degasperi, E. Dionigi, Anna Spolti, Paolo Bonfanti, Anna De Bona, Luca Valenti, Stefania Salpietro, Marta Borghi, Esther Merlini, Natalia Terreni, Giuliano Rizzardini, Valentina Grasso, Paolo Viganò, Sara Gritti, Paolo Grossi, Roberta D'Ambrosio, Simona Landonio, Alessandra Gambaro, Daniele Bella, Massimo Puoti, Ombretta Spinelli, Caterina Uberti-Foppa, Angelo Pan, Monica Schiavini, Mariella Di Marco, Paolo Poggio, Barbara Menzaghi, Canio Carriero, Hamid Hasson, Elisa Colella, Roberto Boldizzoni, Nunzia Bottalico, Stefano Fagiuoli, Angiola Spinetti, Cecilia Liani, Giuseppe Lapadula, Guido Colloredo Mels, Massimo Graffeo, Franco Noventa, Luciana Scabeni, Roberta Soffredini, Roberto Gulminetti, Marie Graciella Pigozzi, and Isabella Carderi
Subjects: medicine.medical_specialty, Hepatology, business.industry, Internal medicine, Diabetes mellitus, Cohort, Genotype, Medicine, business, medicine.disease
Published: 2019

30. The open data geoportal of the Lamma Consortium

Author: Manuela Corongiu, Raffaella Ferrari, Franceso Pasi, Lorenzo Bottai, Bernardo Gozzini, Claudio Tei, Riccardo Mari, Luca Fibbi, Simone Giannecchini, Federica Zabini, Daniele Grifoni, and Valentina Grasso
Subjects: World Wide Web, Open data, Open source, Computer science, open data, Spatial and Geographic Information Systems, World Wide Web and Web Science, Databases, Web service, computer.software_genre, computer, Geoportal
Abstract: The new Lamma Open Data platform (http://dati.lamma.toscana.it) allows data download related to information delivered / managed by the Consortium, encouraging the reuse both at technical and legal level. The datasets, over 220, belong to the weather forecast and geospatial topics above all, but they are in continuous updating, both spatial and no spatial (such as administrative documentation). Lamma open data platform integrates in a harmonised interface, most off the spatial dataset already available through the Lamma geoportal (http://geoportale.lamma.rete.toscana.it/MapStore/public/), now available for download as open data. The particularity of meteorological information is their organization in models, archives and formats according to the type of information, source of acquisition and level of elaboration. These formats are not all functional or directly manageable in their entirety, as data to be made available and immediately accessible. The datasets therefore require a preliminary phase of evaluation and analysis of the contents to identify the most appropriate elements for publication via filters and elaborations that maintain the significance of the variables to be highlighted. A synergic and integrated infrastructure for spatial data has been carried out through open source softwares. The LaMMA Geoportal integrates, in a single simple but powerful interface, the functionalities of research, display and download of the available data. This objective is to provide a ready-to-use tool for all users who do not intend to connect directly to the services offered or to download (and therefore reutilize) the data: in this case we relied on the software Open Source MapStore. The open data platform is directly connected to the Geonetwork metadata catalogue that in turn automatically provide a real-time ingestion of datasets in geoportal. The Lamma open data infrastructure has been implemented by the use of CKAN software. All the datasets are made available according to the CC-BY license - Attribution Creative Commons. That choice will allow an easier federation with Open Tuscany (http://dati.toscana.it/), the open data portal of Tuscany Regional Government that until now has hosted, as supplementary task, some Lamma Consortium datasets. The open data infrastructure has been implemented thanks to the Life+IMAGINE European contribution and with the support of the Geosolutions company.
Published: 2016

31. Role of Room Temperature Sputtered High Conductive and High Transparent Indium Zinc Oxide Film Contacts on the Performance of Orange, Green, and Blue Organic Light Emitting Diodes

Author: Elangovan Elamurugu, Valentina Grasso, Gonçalo Gonçalves, Pedro Barquinha, Vito Lambertini, Mauro Brignone, Luís Pereira, Rodrigo Martins, and Elvira Fortunato
Subjects: 010302 applied physics, Materials science, Polymers and Plastics, business.industry, chemistry.chemical_element, 02 engineering and technology, Zinc, 021001 nanoscience & nanotechnology, Condensed Matter Physics, 7. Clean energy, 01 natural sciences, Amorphous solid, Indium tin oxide, Anode, chemistry, Sputtering, 0103 physical sciences, OLED, Transmittance, Optoelectronics, 0210 nano-technology, business, Transparent conducting film
Abstract: The core of this paper concerns the use of an amorphous transparent conductive oxide (a-TCO), whose performance is on par with the classical indium tin oxide (ITO) films as a transparent contact in organic light emitting diodes (OLEDs). The main advantage of indium zinc oxide (IZO) films relies on their amorphous structure and high mobility that turns them likely to be used with high conductivity and high transmittance even at the infrared region. The mobility of IZO films (47.8 cm 2 V ―1 . s ―1 ) surpasses the one exhibited by ITO films (26.4 cm 2 . V ―1 · s ―1 ), which along with its smoother surface and better current distribution plays an important role on OLEDs performance. Besides their similar turn-on voltage, the devices using IZO anodes exhibit higher power efficiency than the ITO ones, which is 66, 18, and 62% for orange, green, and blue OLEDs, respectively. These results suggest that IZO can potentially be applied as an anode in full color displays based on OLEDs.
Published: 2011

32. RETRACTED ARTICLE: Gut microbiota and related diseases: clinical features

Author: Roberto Corinaldesi, Cesare Cremon, Alexandra Antonucci, Giovanni Barbara, Valentina Grasso, Vincenzo Stanghellini, Rosanna Cogliandro, Roberto De Giorgio, Veronica Gabusi, Mauro Serra, and Chiara Frisoni
Subjects: Gastrointestinal tract, biology, Colorectal cancer, business.industry, digestive, oral, and skin physiology, Gut–brain axis, Gut flora, biology.organism_classification, medicine.disease, digestive system, Inflammatory bowel disease, Lymphatic system, Immune system, Immunology, Emergency Medicine, Internal Medicine, medicine, business, Irritable bowel syndrome
Abstract: Intestinal microbiota is essential for gut homeostasis. Specifically, the microorganisms inhabiting the gut lumen interact with the intestinal immune system, supply key nutrients for the major components of the gut wall, and modulate energy metabolism. Host-microbiome interactions can be either beneficial or deleterious, driving gastrointestinal lymphoid tissue activities and shaping gut wall structures. This overview briefly focuses on the potential role played by abnormalities in gut microbiota and relative responses of the gastrointestinal tract in the determination of important pathological conditions such as the irritable bowel syndrome, inflammatory bowel diseases and colorectal cancer.
Published: 2010

33. Development of Automated Assays for Anticardiolipin Antibodies Determination: Addressing Antigen and Standardization Issues

Author: Fabrizio Bonelli, Francesco Capuano, Luca Pallavicini, Laura Andreoli, Angela Tincani, Luca Belforte, and Valentina Grasso
Subjects: medicine.diagnostic_test, Liaison, biology, business.industry, General Neuroscience, Molecular biology, General Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology, law.invention, History and Philosophy of Science, Antigen, law, Antibodies, Anticardiolipin, Immunoassay, Microscopy, Electron, Scanning, biology.protein, Humans, Medicine, Anticardiolipin antibodies, Assay standardization, Antigens, Antibody, business, Glycoprotein i, Chemiluminescence
Abstract: The lack of reliable standardization tools as well as the poorly defined nature of the "Cardiolipin antigen" makes the development of the anticardiolipin antibody (ACA) assays (for anti-IgG and IgM detec- tion) highly challenging. This article describes how several issues have been solved during the development of an automated ACA immunoas- says, based on a technology that includes paramagnetic microbeads as solid-phase reagents and chemiluminescence as a signal. The technology is adapted to an automatic immunoanalyzer, called LIAISON, which performs, in an automatic manner, the whole assay, starting from the primary tube of the bleeding to the display of the assay result. Briefly, the magnetic microbeads were coated with an ethanolic solution of car- diolipin (CL) followed by an affinity-purified, cross-linked human � 2- glycoprotein I. CL-coated paramagnetic microbeads, after incubation with an ACA-positive sera plus addition of immunogold-protein A, were visualized by SEM, showing the presence of well-defined protein clusters on the microbeads surface as an indication of the successful occurrence of the "antigen" coating. The assay standardization was achieved on the basis of human samples containing various amount of ACA, which were previously classified according to consensus doses. The evaluation of the optimized LIAISON Cardiolipin assays (IgG and IgM) was conducted by using clinically characterized APS sera. The results of the evaluation showed that the LIAISON assays perform at least similar to certain well- established ACA enzyme-linked immunosorbent assay (ELISA) prod- ucts.
Published: 2007

34. Nanostructuring of a porous alumina matrix for a biomolecular microarray

Author: Claudio Nicolini, Enrico Stura, Vito Lambertini, Pietro Perlo, Paola Ghisellini, Federica Valerio, and Valentina Grasso
Subjects: chemistry.chemical_classification, Materials science, Fabrication, Nanoporous, Mechanical Engineering, Biomolecule, Bioengineering, Nanotechnology, General Chemistry, Substrate (printing), Photoresist, Anode, Nanopore, chemistry, Mechanics of Materials, General Materials Science, Electrical and Electronic Engineering, Porosity
Abstract: This paper describes a nanoporous substrate for applications in biomedical diagnostics. A photolithographic microstructuring technique for an ordered nanopore array fabrication is reported. The process uses a negative resist with hydrophobic properties increasing specificity to biomolecule linking. Nanoporous alumina is formed by an anodic process and yields straight holes with high aspect ratio: its use as substrates for DNA-microarray or protein-chip application offers several advantages over conventional supports, making them very attractive to use as supports for biological sample microarray application.
Published: 2006

35. Fabrication of Self Assembled Micro Reservoirs for Controlled Drug Release

Author: Marco Pizzi, Valentina Grasso, and Omar De Martiis
Subjects: Drug, Materials science, Fabrication, media_common.quotation_subject, Microfluidics, Biomedical Engineering, Planning target volume, Nanotechnology, Equipment Design, Infusion Pumps, Implantable, Self assembled, Equipment Failure Analysis, Targeted drug delivery, Drug delivery, Self assembling, Drug release, Molecular Biology, Biomedical engineering, media_common
Abstract: Conventional dosage means, such as oral delivery or injection, are the predominant routes for drug delivery. The main drawbacks of these types of dosages consist essentially in a limited control of the drug delivery rate and of the target area. The conventional delivery is often associated with an immediate or rapid drug release. Accordingly, the initial concentration of the drug in the body peaks above the level of toxicity and then gradually diminishes over time to an ineffective level. Besides, the drug can have undesired side-effects if distributed in all the body by the circulatory system. Our activity is aimed at the development of alternative drug delivery methods enabling a more precise control of the delivery rate and target area. A technique for microreservoirs fabrication combining conventional photolithography and self assembling is presented. The drug contained in the microreservoirs can be released by externally applied electromagnetic waves focused on the target volume.
Published: 2004

36. Liver stiffness fibrosis thresholds of Fibroscan cannot be adopted by all new elastography machines: A comparative study

Author: Giovanni Marasco, Antonio Colecchia, Cosima Schiavone, Elena Mazzotta, N. Gamal, Cristina Felicani, Ilaria Serio, Carla Serra, Davide Festi, Vito Cantisani, Alessia Ferrarini, Fabio Piscaglia, J.F. Sitouok Nkamgho, R. Di Donato, Giacomo Ruggieri, Valentina Grasso, L. Mulazzani, Veronica Salvatore, Federico Ravaioli, and Luigi Bolondi
Subjects: medicine.medical_specialty, Hepatology, medicine.diagnostic_test, business.industry, Fibrosis, Liver stiffness, Gastroenterology, medicine, Elastography, Radiology, business, medicine.disease
Published: 2017

37. An unrecognized disease in routine clinical practice: the Heyde’s syndrome

Author: Giulio Cariani, Valentina Grasso, Bahjat Barakat, Beatrice Casadei, and Raffaele Pezzilli
Subjects: lcsh:R5-920, medicine.medical_specialty, Gastrointestinal bleeding, biology, business.industry, Heyde's syndrome, medicine.disease, Surgery, Stenosis, Von Willebrand factor, Melena, Aortic valve stenosis, Von Willebrand disease, medicine, biology.protein, aortic stenosis, angiodysplasia, gastrointestinal bleeding, Heyde’s syndrome, von Willebrand factor, Angiodysplasia, medicine.symptom, lcsh:Medicine (General), business
Abstract: Heyde’s syndrome (HS) is a triade constituted by aortic stenosis, gastrointestinal angiodysplasia and deficiency of high-molecular-weight von Willebrand factor multimers. Until now few cases of HS has been reported and we believe of interest to add a new patient having this disorder. We report a case of HS in an 86-year-old female patient admitted for the second episode of melena in the last 4 months. A colonoscopy revealed a bleeding due to angiodysplasia in the ascending colon and an endoscopic argon laser photocoagulation of the colonic angiodysplasia was successfully carried out. Physicians should be aware of the possibilities of acquired von Willebrand disease and gastrointestinal bleeding from angiodysplasia in patients with aortic valve stenosis because a right diagnosis affects the management of these patients, especially in emergency situations.
Published: 2014

38. Who want to be a weather forecaster? Engaging students in meteorology

Author: Valentina Grasso
Subjects: scientific education, public outreach, meteorology
Published: 2014

39. Heart failure and chronic kidney disease in a registry of internal medicine wards

Author: Rosa Di Costanzo, Roberto Corinaldesi, Federica Quaglia, Umberto Vespasiani Gentilucci, Giancarlo Agnelli, M. Vanoli, Roberta Forlano, Valeria Savojardo, Luca Bertone, Elisa Fabbri, Antonino Di Pino, Claudia Amolini, Giampiera Bertolino, Paolo Cavallo Perin, Paola Bonara, Tommaso Barnini, Fabrizio Fabris, Paola Di Corato, Maria Rosaria Barbella, Francesco Franceschi, Elisabetta Bergami, Roberto Manfredini, Sonia Seghezzi, Enrico Strocchi, Maria Domenica Cappellini, Antonio Manucra, Alberto Tedeschi, Maurizio Corsi, Gabriella Gruden, Giuseppe Licata, Marianna Zardo, Emanuela Marchesini, Luca Pasina, Maria Ester Modeo, Mosè Bartone, Barbara Nardo, Umberto Gualtieri, Sabbatini Marta, Caterina Cenci, Alessia Coralli, Giorgio Annoni, Lucrezia De Feudis, V. Monti, Pietro Serra, Anna Maria Stanzial, Antonio Bonelli, Gianpaolo Reboldi, Francesco Paciullo, Ferdinando Massari, Graziana Lupattelli, Giorgio Sesti, Silvia Fargion, Angela Sciacqua, Giovanna Fabio, Silvia Di Carlo, Maria Grazia Serra, Emanuele Durante Mangoni, Salvatore Corrao, Maria Angela Becchi, Margherita Migone De Amicis, Francesco Gullo, Silvia Cappelli, Flora Peyvandi, Paolo Gallo, Chiara Mazzarelli, Daniela Calipari, Ferdinando Carlo Sasso, Carlo Cagnoni, Laura Carassale, Donatella Renna, Paola Loria, Davide Ghelfi, Alessandra Quercioli, Maria Teresa Guagnano, Luana Castoldi, Massimo Delfino, Cosimo Morabito, Giuseppe Musca, Francesca Turatto, Silvia Prolo, Lina Falanga, Michela Zanetti, Antonio Perciccante, Francesco Purrello, Marco Cicardi, Maria Beatrice Secchi, Mauro Tettamanti, Maria Rosaria Rizzo, Luigi Anastasio, C. Masala, Andrea Maria Maresca, Elena Silvestri, Domenico Prisco, Filippo Pedrazzoli, Marco Bertolotti, Guido De Marco, Giancarlo Traisci, Maria Carmela Carbone, Filippo Rossi Fanelli, Maria Valenti, Ilenia Pepe, Deborah Melis, Christian Bracco, Giorgio Maniscalco, Antonella Gallo, Daniela D'Angelo, Alfonso Iorio, Gianfranco Martucci, Tatiana Tonella, Ilaria Serio, Wu Sheng Chin, Michela Quagliolo, Cordischi Chiara, Andrea Sacco, Pietro Tizzani, Antonio Mammarella, Donatella Setti, Damiano Rizzoni, Lucia Gottardo, Olga Cuccurullo, Gino Roberto Corazza, Rinaldo Striuli, Elmo Mannarino, Guido Moreo, Luana Castiglioni, G. Vaudo, Teresa Salvatore, Maurizio Bicchi, Raffaella Rossio, Francesco Violi, Donatella Magalotti, Giuseppe Zuccalà, Luca Puccetti, Luigi Fenoglio, Daniela Tirotta, Alessandra Fiorentini, Oliviero Olivieri, Christian Folli, Alberto Buratti, Francesco Saverio Vella, Vincenzo Fontana, Giulia Grignani, Laura Gasbarrone, Sara Zazzetta, Antonio Brucato, Marco Zoli, Michele Cortellaro, Stella Provini, Claudio Borghi, Mario Barbagallo, Rodolfo Tassara, Sara Contini, Elisa Rebecca Rinaldi, Lidia Plances, Stefano Volpato, Alessandra Barreca, Ludovica Perri, Stefania Alborghetti, Chiara Valentina Luglio, Donatella Padula, Codjo Djignefa Djade, Maria Rachele Meroni, Mara Bulgheroni, Giuseppe Riccardo Centenaro, Chiara Bagnato, Salvatore Piro, Nicola Lucio Liberato, Luigi Bolondi, Franco Ricci, Annalisa Spalluti, Luciano Ottonello, Giordano Bernasconi, Antonio Picardi, Michela Carlon, Riccardo Utili, Maria Alice Ferri, Roberto Valenti, Francesca Veltri, Giorgio Menardo, Giuliana Micale, Maria Cristina Baroni, Piergiorgio Gaudenzi, Pallante Raffaele, Simona Sestili, Giuseppe Romanelli, Roberto De Giorgio, L. Rasciti, Franco Arturi, Marta Bovio, Alessandro Squizzato, Leonella Pasqualini, Pier Leopoldo Capecchi, Alfredo Postiglione, Maura Marcucci, Antonio Amoroso, Sarah Damanti, Lucia Sofia, E Mannarino, Francesca Perego, Silvia Caporotundo, Giuseppe Delitala, Gaetano Serviddio, Barbara Ferrari, Lorenzo Mauro Carozza, Raffaella Salmi, Giacomo Fera, Pier Mannuccio Mannucci, Daniela Mari, Pasquale Mansueto, Carlotta Franchi, Silvia Li Bassi, Luca Santi, Michele Quero, Graziella Bruno, Elsa Sferrazzo, Martino Bellusci, Sebastiana Atzori, Mauro Maurantonio, Mauro Bernardi, Maria Sole Lilleri, Maria Loreta Di Luca, Carlo Sabbà, Luigi Cricco, Mancuso G, Alessia Valentina Giraudo, Giovanni Battista Bianchi, Valentina Grasso, Chiara Mussi, Giovanni Murialdo, Chiara Brignone, Marco Pala, Marina Magenta, Franco Dallegri, Giuseppe Montrucchio, Pamela Rondelli, Carlo L. Balduini, P. M. Mannucci, Giampiero Benetti, Fabio Fabbian, Massimo Gunelli, Fabio Pignatti, Emanuela Miceli, Tiziana Tognin, Stefania Pugliese, Franco Laghi Pasini, Francesco Salerno, Alessandra Marengoni, Rosa Scipioni, A. Nobili, Maria Antonietta Bleve, Gianluca Casella, Francesca Meda, Elisabetta Greco, Antonio Gidaro Marina Magenta, Fabio Magrini, Elena Succurro, Emanuela Rizzioli, Valeria Raparelli, Susanna Gamberini, Caterina Pirali, Ligia J. Dominguez, Stefania Basili, Matteo Pirro, Luigi Calvo, Bartolomeo Lorenzati, Ranuccio Nuti, Francesco Perticone, Claudio Ferri, Giovanbattista Rini, Christian Molino, Stefano Carta, Marta Molaro, Francesco De Stefano, Maria Teresa Laieta, Annamaria Aquilino, Sabrina Giaquinto Ospedale, Gaetano Dentamaro, Martina Ruvio, Raffaele Landolfi, Renzo Rozzini, Mauro Serra, Giovanni Davì, Carlo Selmi, Renato Fellin, G. Lupattelli, Silvia Ghidoni, Marco Vincenzo Lenti, Alberto Auteri, Alessandro Giordano, Eleonora Sparacio, Marco Falcone, Roberto Fava, Anna Laura Pasqui, Giuseppe Palasciano, Daniela Di Pinto, Gianfranco Guarnieri, Rosa Lombardi, F. Paciullo, Luigina Guasti, Sioulis Fotini, Maria Magnini, Mauro Podda, Alessandro Marseglia, Silvia Accordino, Enrico Agabiti Rosei, Caterina Capobianco, Alessio Conca, Giuseppe Paolisso, Lara Rebella, Alessandra Fantuzzi, Paolo Rossi, Andrea Semplicini, Gianluigi Vendemiale, Luisa Roncari, Antonio Grieco, Roberto Scotto, Alessandro Nobili, Valter Monzani, Eugenio Ruggeri, Stefania Bottone, Mannucci, P, Nobili, A, Tettamanti, M, Pasina, L, Franchi, C, Salerno, F, Corrao, S, Marengoni, A, Iorio, A, Marcucci, M, Sparacio, E, Alborghetti, S, Di Costanzo, R, Djade, C, Prisco, D, Silvestri, E, Cenci, C, Barnini, T, Delitala, G, Carta, S, Atzori, S, Guarnieri, G, Zanetti, M, Spalluti, A, Serra, M, Bleve, M, Vanoli, M, Grignani, G, Casella, G, Gasbarrone, L, Maniscalco, G, Gunelli, M, Tirotta, D, Brucato, A, Ghidoni, S, Di Corato, P, Bernardi, M, Li Bassi, S, Santi, L, Agnelli, G, Marchesini, E, Mannarino, E, Lupattelli, G, Rondelli, P, Paciullo, F, Fabris, F, Carlon, M, Turatto, F, Baroni, M, Zardo, M, Manfredini, R, Molino, C, Pala, M, Fabbian, F, Nuti, R, Valenti, R, Ruvio, M, Cappelli, S, Paolisso, G, Rizzo, M, Laieta, M, Salvatore, T, Sasso, F, Utili, R, Mangoni, E, Pinto, D, Olivieri, O, Stanzial, A, Fellin, R, Volpato, S, Fotini, S, Barbagallo, M, Dominguez, L, Plances, L, D'Angelo, D, Rini, G, Mansueto, P, Pepe, I, Licata, G, Calvo, L, Valenti, M, Borghi, C, Strocchi, E, Rinaldi, E, Zoli, M, Fabbri, E, Magalotti, D, Auteri, A, Pasqui, A, Puccetti, L, Pasini, F, Capecchi, P, Bicchi, M, Sabbà, C, Vella, F, Marseglia, A, Luglio, C, Palasciano, G, Modeo, M, Aquilino, A, Raffaele, P, Pugliese, S, Capobianco, C, Postiglione, A, Barbella, M, De Stefano, F, Fenoglio, L, Brignone, C, Bracco, C, Giraudo, A, Musca, G, Cuccurullo, O, Cricco, L, Fiorentini, A, Cappellini, M, Fabio, G, Seghezzi, S, De Amicis, M, Fargion, S, Bonara, P, Bulgheroni, M, Lombardi, R, Magrini, F, Massari, F, Tonella, T, Peyvandi, F, Tedeschi, A, Rossio, R, Moreo, G, Ferrari, B, Roncari, L, Monzani, V, Savojardo, V, Folli, C, Magnini, M, Mari, D, Rossi, P, Damanti, S, Prolo, S, Lilleri, M, Micale, G, Podda, M, Selmi, C, Meda, F, Accordino, S, Conca, A, Monti, V, Corazza, G, Miceli, E, Lenti, M, Padula, D, Balduini, C, Bertolino, G, Provini, S, Quaglia, F, Murialdo, G, Bovio, M, Dallegri, F, Ottonello, L, Quercioli, A, Barreca, A, Secchi, M, Ghelfi, D, Chin, W, Carassale, L, Caporotundo, S, Anastasio, L, Sofia, L, Carbone, M, Traisci, G, De Feudis, L, Di Carlo, S, Davì, G, Guagnano, M, Sestili, S, Bergami, E, Rizzioli, E, Cagnoni, C, Bertone, L, Manucra, A, Buratti, A, Tognin, T, Liberato, N, Bernasconi, G, Nardo, B, Bianchi, G, Ospedale, S, Benetti, G, Quagliolo, M, Centenaro, G, Purrello, F, Di Pino, A, Piro, S, Mancuso, G, Calipari, D, Bartone, M, Gullo, F, Cortellaro, M, Magenta, M, Perego, F, Meroni, M, Cicardi, M, Magenta, A, Sacco, A, Bonelli, A, Dentamaro, G, Rozzini, R, Falanga, L, Giordano, A, Perin, P, Lorenzati, B, Gruden, G, Bruno, G, Montrucchio, G, Greco, E, Tizzani, P, Fera, G, Di Luca, M, Renna, D, Perciccante, A, Coralli, A, Tassara, R, Melis, D, Rebella, L, Menardo, G, Bottone, S, Sferrazzo, E, Ferri, C, Striuli, R, Scipioni, R, Salmi, R, Gaudenzi, P, Gamberini, S, Ricci, F, Morabito, C, Fava, R, Semplicini, A, Gottardo, L, Vendemiale, G, Serviddio, G, Forlano, R, Bolondi, L, Rasciti, L, Serio, I, Masala, C, Mammarella, A, Raparelli, V, Fanelli, F, Delfino, M, Amoroso, A, Violi, F, Basili, S, Perri, L, Serra, P, Fontana, V, Falcone, M, Landolfi, R, Grieco, A, Gallo, A, Zuccalà, G, Franceschi, F, De Marco, G, Chiara, C, Marta, S, Bellusci, M, Setti, D, Pedrazzoli, F, Romanelli, G, Pirali, C, Amolini, C, Rosei, E, Rizzoni, D, Castoldi, L, Picardi, A, Gentilucci, U, Mazzarelli, C, Gallo, P, Guasti, L, Castiglioni, L, Maresca, A, Squizzato, A, Contini, S, Molaro, M, Annoni, G, Corsi, M, Zazzetta, S, Bertolotti, M, Mussi, C, Scotto, R, Ferri, M, Veltri, F, Arturi, F, Succurro, E, Sesti, G, Gualtieri, U, Perticone, F, Sciacqua, A, Quero, M, Bagnato, C, Loria, P, Becchi, M, Martucci, G, Fantuzzi, A, Maurantonio, M, Corinaldesi, R, De Giorgio, R, Grasso, V, Ruggeri, E, Carozza, L, Pignatti, F, Reboldi, G, Vaudo, G, Pirro, M, Pasqualini, L, Mannucci, Pier Mannuccio, Nobili, Alessandro, Tettamanti, Mauro, Pasina, Luca, Franchi, Carlotta, Salerno, Francesco, Corrao, Salvatore, Marengoni, Alessandra, Iorio, Alfonso, Marcucci, Maura, Sparacio, Eleonora, Alborghetti, Stefania, Di Costanzo, Rosa, Djade, Codjo Djignefa, Prisco, Domenico, Silvestri, Elena, Cenci, Caterina, Barnini, Tommaso, Delitala, Giuseppe, Carta, Stefano, Atzori, Sebastiana, Guarnieri, Gianfranco, Zanetti, Michela, Spalluti, Annalisa, Serra, Maria Grazia, Bleve, Maria Antonietta, Vanoli, Massimo, Grignani, Giulia, Casella, Gianluca, Gasbarrone, Laura, Maniscalco, Giorgio, Gunelli, Massimo, Tirotta, Daniela, Brucato, Antonio, Ghidoni, Silvia, Di Corato, Paola, Bernardi, Mauro, Li Bassi, Silvia, Santi, Luca, Agnelli, Giancarlo, Marchesini, Emanuela, Mannarino, Elmo, Lupattelli, Graziana, Rondelli, Pamela, Paciullo, Francesco, Fabris, Fabrizio, Carlon, Michela, Turatto, Francesca, Baroni, Maria Cristina, Zardo, Marianna, Manfredini, Roberto, Molino, Christian, Pala, Marco, Fabbian, Fabio, Nuti, Ranuccio, Valenti, Roberto, Ruvio, Martina, Cappelli, Silvia, Paolisso, Giuseppe, Rizzo, Maria Rosaria, Laieta, Maria Teresa, Salvatore, Teresa, Sasso, Ferdinando Carlo, Utili, Riccardo, Mangoni, Emanuele Durante, Pinto, Daniela, Olivieri, Oliviero, Stanzial, Anna Maria, Fellin, Renato, Volpato, Stefano, Fotini, Siouli, Barbagallo, Mario, Dominguez, Ligia, Plances, Lidia, D'Angelo, Daniela, Rini, Giovanbattista, Mansueto, Pasquale, Pepe, Ilenia, Licata, Giuseppe, Calvo, Luigi, Valenti, Maria, Borghi, Claudio, Strocchi, Enrico, Rinaldi, Elisa Rebecca, Zoli, Marco, Fabbri, Elisa, Magalotti, Donatella, Auteri, Alberto, Pasqui, Anna Laura, Puccetti, Luca, Pasini, Franco Laghi, Capecchi, Pier Leopoldo, Bicchi, Maurizio, Sabbà, Carlo, Vella, Francesco Saverio, Marseglia, Alessandro, Luglio, Chiara Valentina, Palasciano, Giuseppe, Modeo, Maria Ester, Aquilino, Annamaria, Raffaele, Pallante, Pugliese, Stefania, Capobianco, Caterina, Postiglione, Alfredo, Barbella, Maria Rosaria, De Stefano, Francesco, Fenoglio, Luigi, Brignone, Chiara, Bracco, Christian, Giraudo, Alessia, Musca, Giuseppe, Cuccurullo, Olga, Cricco, Luigi, Fiorentini, Alessandra, Cappellini, Maria Domenica, Fabio, Giovanna, Seghezzi, Sonia, De Amicis, Margherita Migone, Fargion, Silvia, Bonara, Paola, Bulgheroni, Mara, Lombardi, Rosa, Magrini, Fabio, Massari, Ferdinando, Tonella, Tatiana, Peyvandi, Flora, Tedeschi, Alberto, Rossio, Raffaella, Moreo, Guido, Ferrari, Barbara, Roncari, Luisa, Monzani, Valter, Savojardo, Valeria, Folli, Christian, Magnini, Maria, Mari, Daniela, Rossi, Paolo Dionigi, Damanti, Sarah, Prolo, Silvia, Lilleri, Maria Sole, Micale, Giuliana, Podda, Mauro, Selmi, Carlo, Meda, Francesca, Accordino, Silvia, Conca, Alessio, Monti, Valentina, Corazza, Gino 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Perego, Francesca, Meroni, Maria Rachele, Cicardi, Marco, Magenta, Antonio Gidaro Marina, Sacco, Andrea, Bonelli, Antonio, Dentamaro, Gaetano, Rozzini, Renzo, Falanga, Lina, Giordano, Alessandro, Perin, Paolo Cavallo, Lorenzati, Bartolomeo, Gruden, Gabriella, Bruno, Graziella, Montrucchio, Giuseppe, Greco, Elisabetta, Tizzani, Pietro, Fera, Giacomo, Di Luca, Maria Loreta, Renna, Donatella, Perciccante, Antonio, Coralli, Alessia, Tassara, Rodolfo, Melis, Deborah, Rebella, Lara, Menardo, Giorgio, Bottone, Stefania, Sferrazzo, Elsa, Ferri, Claudio, Striuli, Rinaldo, Scipioni, Rosa, Salmi, Raffaella, Gaudenzi, Piergiorgio, Gamberini, Susanna, Ricci, Franco, Morabito, Cosimo, Fava, Roberto, Semplicini, Andrea, Gottardo, Lucia, Vendemiale, Gianluigi, Serviddio, Gaetano, Forlano, Roberta, Bolondi, Luigi, Rasciti, Leonardo, Serio, Ilaria, Masala, Cesare, Mammarella, Antonio, Raparelli, Valeria, Fanelli, Filippo Rossi, Delfino, Massimo, Amoroso, Antonio, Violi, Francesco, Basili, Stefania, Perri, Ludovica, Serra, Pietro, Fontana, Vincenzo, Falcone, Marco, Landolfi, Raffaele, Grieco, Antonio, Gallo, Antonella, Zuccalà, Giuseppe, Franceschi, Francesco, De Marco, Guido, Chiara, Cordischi, Marta, Sabbatini, Bellusci, Martino, Setti, Donatella, Pedrazzoli, Filippo, Romanelli, Giuseppe, Pirali, Caterina, Amolini, Claudia, Rosei, Enrico Agabiti, Rizzoni, Damiano, Castoldi, Luana, Picardi, Antonio, Gentilucci, Umberto Vespasiani, Mazzarelli, Chiara, Gallo, Paolo, Guasti, Luigina, Castiglioni, Luana, Maresca, Andrea, Squizzato, Alessandro, Contini, Sara, Molaro, Marta, Annoni, Giorgio, Corsi, Maurizio, Zazzetta, Sara, Bertolotti, Marco, Mussi, Chiara, Scotto, Roberto, Ferri, Maria Alice, Veltri, Francesca, Arturi, Franco, Succurro, Elena, Sesti, Giorgio, Gualtieri, Umberto, Perticone, Francesco, Sciacqua, Angela, Quero, Michele, Bagnato, Chiara, Loria, Paola, Becchi, Maria Angela, Martucci, Gianfranco, Fantuzzi, Alessandra, Maurantonio, Mauro, Corinaldesi, Roberto, De Giorgio, Roberto, Serra, Mauro, Grasso, Valentina, Ruggeri, Eugenio, Carozza, Lorenzo Mauro, Pignatti, Fabio, Lupattelli, G., Reboldi, G., Paciullo, F., Vaudo, G., Pirro, M., Pasqualini, L., Nobili, A., Mannucci, P. M., Mannarino, E., Mannucci, PM, REPOSI, Investigators, Barbagallo, M, and Dominguez Rodríguez, LJ
Subjects: medicine.medical_specialty, Chronic kidney disease, Elderly, Heart failure, REPOSI, Gerontology, Geriatrics and Gerontology, Humans, Sleep Apnea Syndromes, Noninvasive Ventilation, Renal function, chronic kidney disease, elderly, registry, Tertiary care, Sleep Apnea Syndrome, Internal medicine, Epidemiology, medicine, business.industry, medicine.disease, Heart failure, Elderly, Chronic kidney disease, REPOSI, Icd codes, business, Clinical record, Body mass index, Kidney disease, Human
Abstract: Background: The aim of the present study was to evaluate the association between heart failure (HF) and chronic kidney disease (CKD) in tertiary care centers using the clinical records of patients enrolled in internal medicine departments.Patients and methods: We used the clinical records of 1380 elderly patients to identify patients with a history of HF and CKD using admission ICD codes and glomerular filtration rate (GFR) formulas. Magnitude and strength of such associations were investigated by univariable and multivariable analysis.Results: Of the 1380 patients enrolled, 27.9% had HF (age 80 ± 7, BMI 27 ± 6 kg/m2) and 17.4% CKD (age 81 ± 7, BMI 26.8 ± 6 kg/m2). Both groups were significantly older (P
Published: 2014

40. Evaluating communication efforts and urban climate constraints for energy savings. The Races project

Author: Valentina Grasso, Alfonso Crisci, and Francesco Vaccari
Published: 2014

41. Ardomino. Un sensore parlante

Author: Valentina Grasso, Alfonso Crisci, and Mirko Mancin
Published: 2014

42. Relazione sullo stato dell'ambiente in Toscana

Author: Valentina Grasso, Federica Zabini, Giorgio Bartolini, Daniele Grifoni, Bernardo Gozzini, Lorenzo Bottai, and Lorenzo Gardin et al.
Published: 2014

43. Mappare la partecipazione. L'impronta geografica degli utenti digitali del LaMMA, servizio meteo della Toscana

Author: Valentina Grasso, Federica Zabini, Alfonso Crisci, and Massimo Perna
Published: 2014

44. Who want to be a weather forecast? Education and public outreach at LaMMA Consortium, home of Tuscany weather service

Author: Valentina Grasso, Valerio Capecchi, Giorgio Bartolini, Riccardo Benedetti, Giulio Betti, Ramona Magno, Andrea Orlandi, Francesco Piani, Claudio Tei, Tommaso Torrigiani, and Federica Zabini
Subjects: science education? education in meteorology? outreach? evaluation
Abstract: Research institutions can play an important role in the overall educations system. This paper aims at presenting educational and public outreach activities in the field of meteorology carried out by LaMMA, a public consortium set up by Italian National Research Council and Tuscany Region (Italy), in charge of the official weather service for Tuscany. Here a description of the activities and different learning opportunities is provided. The paper also presents the results of the evaluation survey carried out to assess the quality of the learning activities offered to schools. Moreover the survey had the goal to collect feedbacks from pupils about interest, efficacy and satisfaction about the education proposal. The high numbers of pupils reached, about 1500 in 201112 visiting LaMMA Consortium, and the evaluation results, confirm the great interest and importance of educational activities provided by science centres at local level. Keywords: science education; education in meteorology; outreach; evaluation
Published: 2013

45. Ardomino. A talking sensor for the social sharing of local data

Author: Francesca De Chiara, Maurizio Napolitano, Alfonso Crisci, Valentina Grasso, and Alessandro Matese
Published: 2013

46. ArdOmino: let the sensors speak! Sharing local data on social media

Author: Valentina Grasso, Alfonso Crisci, Francesca De Chiara, Maurizio Napolitano, and Alessandro Matese
Published: 2013

47. Social media and severe weather events: mapping the impact footprint

Author: Alfonso Crisci and Valentina Grasso
Published: 2013

48. Enhanced light extraction in ITO-free OLEDs using double-sided printed electrodes

Author: Ali Z. Khokhar, Tim Kehoe, Borja Sepúlveda, Clivia M. Sotomayor Torres, Valentina Grasso, N. Kehagias, Monica Lira-Cantu, Nikolaj Gadegaard, J. Cuffe, Vincent Reboud, D. Dudek, Vito Lambertini, Ministerio de Ciencia e Innovación (España), European Commission, and Generalitat de Catalunya
Subjects: Materials science, business.industry, Nanotechnology, 02 engineering and technology, Electroluminescence, 021001 nanoscience & nanotechnology, 01 natural sciences, 7. Clean energy, Nanoimprint lithography, law.invention, Anode, 010309 optics, law, 0103 physical sciences, Electrode, OLED, Optoelectronics, General Materials Science, 0210 nano-technology, business, Lithography, Plasmon, Photonic crystal
Abstract: We show how nanoimprint lithographic techniques are particularly suited for the realization of OLED device structures. We tested them to realize nanopatterned metallic electrodes containing photonic crystals to couple the light out and plasmonic crystals showing extraordinary transmission. At similar current densities, a two-fold electroluminescence is achieved with devices having double-sided structured metallic electrodes as compared to a control OLED with an ITO anode. The use of combined nanoimprint lithography processes has the potential to expand the performance range of various organic optoelectronic devices. © 2012 The Royal Society of Chemistry., This work was supported by the EC project NaPaNIL (contract nº 214249), the MICINN project ACPHIN (contract nº FIS2009-150) and the Catalan project 2009-SGR-150.
Published: 2012

49. Cambia il clima in città! Le buone prassi del progetto RACES per una cittadinanza sostenibile

Author: Valentina Grasso
Published: 2012

50. NOS Immunoreactivity in the Reticular Groove of Lamb

Author: F. Piccinno, G. Petrosino, Valentina Grasso, Maurizio Mazzoni, Paolo Clavenzani, Giovanna Lalatta-Costerbosa, Mauro Serra, F. Rambaldi, ANTONIO PUGLIESE ALBERTO GAITI CRISTIANO BOITI, Mazzoni M., Petrosino G., Clavenzani P., Piccinno F., Grasso V., Serra M., Rambaldi F., Lalatta Costerbosa G., Sinergia s.r.l., M. Mazzoni, G. Petrosino, P. Clavenzani, F. Piccinno, V. Grasso, M. Serra, F. Rambaldi, and G. Lalatta Costerbosa
Subjects: Neurofilament, NITRIC OXIDE SYNTHASE, Tyrosine hydroxylase, LAMB, Neuropeptide, Substance P, RETICULAR GROOVE, Calbindin, Molecular biology, chemistry.chemical_compound, chemistry, nervous system, Calcitonin, Dopamine, medicine, IMMUNOHISTOCHEMISTRY, Galanin, medicine.drug
Abstract: Evidence suggests that the reticular groove (RG) may have an important role as the coordination center of reticulo-ruminal motility. The aim of this study was to investigate the presence and distribution of nitric oxide synthase (NOS) neurons and their phenotype in the RG of suckling lamb. Using double immunohistochemistry, many NOS neurons were found along the entire length of the RG and were more abundant in the floor than in the lips. They showed irregular profiles and often colocalized with galanin and dopamine b-hydroxylase but rarely with substance P and tyrosine hydroxylase. We never observed NOS neurons expressing neuropeptides normally found in intrinsic primary sensory neurons, such as calcitonin gene-related peptide, calbindin, IB4, and neurofilament 200 kDa. When compared to other districts, the enteric plexuses of the RG showed some peculiar aspects, such as the lack of both neurons in the submucosal plexus and typical sensory neurons.
Published: 2012

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