Dipartimenti e Centri di ricerca UniSA. Pubblicazioni scientifiche: Recent submissions
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Smart healthy age-friendly environments – policy recommendations of the thematic network shafe
(2019)The European Commission (DG SANTE) launched a call for proposals in November 2017 on strategic initiatives for a Joint Statement in 2018. Ten proposals were voted until December 7th in the European Union Health Policy ... -
Health tourism: an opportunity for sustainable development
(2019)In February 2017, the “Programma Mattone Internazionale Salute” (ProMis), that is the Italian Program for Internationalization of Regional Health Systems of the Ministry of Health (MoH), presented the first version of its ... -
Cognitive stimulation in older adults: an innovative good practice supporting successful aging and self-care
(2019)The project Cognitive Stimulation in Older Adults: Intervention on Cognitive Frailty and Promotion of Self-Care (in brief the ECOG project) arises in a context of worldwide demographic aging, and is fostered by the need ... -
Public prevention plans to manage climate change and respiratory allergic diseases. Innovative models used in Campania Region (Italy): the twinning Aria implementation and the allergy safe tree: decalogue
(2019)In recent years, climate change has been influenced by air pollution, and this destructive combination has justifiably sounded an alarm for nations and many institutional bodies worldwide. Official reports state that the ... -
Innovative approaches to active and healthy ageing: Campania experience to improve the adoption of innovative good practices
(2019)The demographic projections on the European population predict that people aged over 60 will increase by about two million/year in the next decades. Since 2012, the Campania Reference Site of the European Innovation ... -
Digital services landscape in primary care setting in city of Zagreb; an EIP-AHA reference site case study
(2019)European Innovation Partnership on Active and Healthy Ageing (EIP on AHA) brings together partners to create innovative solutions to the challenges of aging. Reference Sites (RS) of the Partnership act as hubs of innovation ... -
Treatment of de novo femoro-popliteal lesions with a new Drug Coated Balloon: early experience of a single Center in the first 50 patients
(2018)Angioplasty with drug-coated balloon (DCB) is an emerging and reliable method for the treatment of femoro-popliteal lesions. We report our experience with the Stellarex™ DCB in the first 50 patients. Methods - From July ... -
Leg fracture associated with synostosis of interosseous membrane during running in a soccer player
(2017)ntroduction - Leg fractures may occur frequently in sport injuries but it is very rare to find this kind of injury associated with interosseous membrane synostosis. This case report describes a unique case of 42 B1.2 ... -
Elective orthopaedic and trauma patients in southern italy are vitamin d deficient. A pilot study.
(2017)Many patients present with Vitamin D (Vit d; 25 (OH) D) deficiency on admission to hospital. The present study evaluated the levels of serum concentration of 25 (OH) D in patients undergoing elective arthroplasty of the ... -
MicroRNs and cardiovascular diseas es: from bench to beside
(2017)MicroRNAs (microRNAs or miRs) are small, noncoding RNAs that control gene expression by binding to and repressing specific mRNA target and have emered as powerful regulators of many biological processes. Understanding ... -
Transcatheter implantable devices to monitoring of elevated left atrial pressures in patients with chronic heart failure
(2017)Elevated left atrial (LA) pressures are associated with poor prognosis in heart failure (HF). Invasive monitoring of LA-pressures and direct mechanical LAdecompression are associated with functional improvement in patients ... -
SiRNA delivery for control of cyclin d1 and e2f1 expression in crohn’s disease
(2017)Evidence in inflammatory bowel diseases (IBD) supports a connection between inflammation and cancer due to the alteration of the cell cycle with loss of control at the G1/S checkpoint. In this study, we analyze the expression ... -
Mean reticolocyte hemoglobin content index plays a key role to identify children who are carriers of β –thalassemia
(2017)Reticulocyte (r) and red blood cell (RBC) indices provide reliable parameters for screening and monitoring iron deficiency anemia (IDA) patients and β-thalassemia trait (BTT) carriers. The aim of this study is to identify ... -
Pilot study on epigenetic response to a mind-body treatment
(2017)In the last years, epigenetics and functional genomics methods to evaluate the genomic effects and mechanisms of mind-body therapies have increasingly grown. DNA microarray technology has been used to show the involvement ... -
Dexmedetomidine: current role in burn ICU
(2017)Dexmedetomidine (DEX) is a relatively recent a2-adrenergic agonist which provides sedation, anxiolysis and analgesia with much less respiratory depression than other sedatives. These characteristics have implemented the ... -
Obesity and obesity related diseases, sugar consumption and bad oral health: a fatal epidemic mixture. The pediatric and odontologist point of view
(2017)Obesity and dental caries are increasingly widespread pathologies. The former is growing so rapidly that the WHO classified its trend as an “epidemic”. Both are triggered by a number of well known common etiologic factors ... -
Larger blood pressure reduction by fixed-dose compared to free dose combination therapy of ace inhibitor and calcium antagonist in hypertensive patients
(2017)The introduction of fixed combination of ACEi+CCB (Fixed) has significantly increased patients compliance and adherence to therapy. At the moment, however, there are no data suggesting the better control of once-daily fixed ... -
Implementing an ict-based polypharmacy management program in Italy
(2017)Although there is evidence of a growing awareness of the problem, no official policy statements or regulatory guidelines on polypharmacy have been released up to date by Italian Health Authorities. Medication review, ... -
Egfr inhibition in a pretreated sacral chordoma: a rolefor erlotinib? Case report and a brief review of literature
(2017)We describe the case of a 69-year old male with an EGFR- positive Imatinib refractory sacral chordoma with synchronous lung metastases, treated with erlotinib, a first- generation EGFR inhibitor. After disease progression ...
