Italy

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  Subject Areas on Research

  • A comprehensive assessment of satisfaction with care: preliminary psychometric analysis in an oncology institute in Italy. 
  • A locus for cerebral cavernous malformations maps to chromosome 7q in two families. 
  • A new predictive model for an improved respiratory isolation strategy in HIV-infected patients with PTB. 
  • A novel sampling design to explore gene-longevity associations: the ECHA study. 
  • A second locus for familial high myopia maps to chromosome 12q. 
  • Administering the American Board of Pediatrics in-training examination in a European pediatrics residency. 
  • Adolescents' cognitive capacity reaches adult levels prior to their psychosocial maturity: Evidence for a "maturity gap" in a multinational, cross-sectional sample. 
  • Aetiology, timing and clinical predictors of early vs. late readmission following index hospitalization for acute heart failure: insights from ASCEND-HF. 
  • Age at any birth and breast cancer risk. 
  • Age differences in personality across the adult life span: parallels in five cultures. 
  • Age-related changes of the 3'APOB-VNTR genotype pool in ageing cohorts. 
  • Age-specific mortality trends in France and Italy since 1900: period and cohort effects. 
  • Allosteric interactions in non-alpha chains isolated from normal human hemoglobin, fetal hemoglobin, and hemoglobin Abruzzo (beta143 (H21) His replaced by Arg). 
  • An IL28B polymorphism determines treatment response of hepatitis C virus genotype 2 or 3 patients who do not achieve a rapid virologic response. 
  • An allele of HRAS1 3'variable number of tandem repeats is a frailty allele: implication for an evolutionarily-conserved pathway involved in longevity. 
  • An alternative to the search for single polymorphisms: toward molecular personality scales for the five-factor model. 
  • An interpretation of the hand and arm markings of the shroud of Turin. 
  • Antibody prevalence to torch agents in pregnant women and relative risk of congenital infections in Italy (Liguria). 
  • Assessing adverse events of postprostatectomy radiation therapy for prostate cancer: evaluation of outcomes in the Regione Emilia-Romagna, Italy. 
  • Assessment of quality of care in an oncology institute using information on patients' satisfaction. 
  • Association of gender and lowest hematocrit on cardiopulmonary bypass with acute kidney injury and operative mortality in patients undergoing cardiac surgery. 
  • Autosomal-dominant hemochromatosis is associated with a mutation in the ferroportin (SLC11A3) gene. 
  • Babinski's sign in medieval, Renaissance, and baroque art. 
  • Bayesian methods for searching for optimal rules for timing intercourse to achieve pregnancy. 
  • Bidirectional Relations Between Parenting and Behavior Problems From Age 8 to 13 in Nine Countries. 
  • Bologna transplant center results in double kidney transplantation: update. 
  • Bootstrapping word order in prelexical infants: a Japanese-Italian cross-linguistic study. 
  • Boys’ and Girls’ Relational and Physical Aggression in Nine Countries. 
  • Breast cancer occurred after treatment for Hodgkin's disease: analysis of 133 cases. 
  • Chemoprevention of breast cancer: the Italian experience. 
  • Cholesterol, triglycerides, and the Five-Factor Model of personality. 
  • Clinical reports on recent abuse of an antitussive. 
  • Comment on "Inflammatory exposure and historical changes in human life-spans". 
  • Consensus statement. Lactational amenorrhea method for family planning. 
  • Contribution of three components to individual cancer risk predicting breast cancer risk in Italy. 
  • Coping Power Adapted as Universal Prevention Program: Mid Term Effects on Children's Behavioral Difficulties and Academic Grades. 
  • Corporal punishment, maternal warmth, and child adjustment: a longitudinal study in eight countries. 
  • Daily Associations between Emotions and Aggressive and Depressive Symptoms in Adolescence: The Mediating and Moderating Role of Emotion Dysregulation. 
  • Diagnosis, Treatment and Long-Term Follow Up of Patients with ADA Deficiency: a Single-Center Experience. 
  • Differences in clinical features and in-hospital outcomes of older adults with tako-tsubo cardiomyopathy. 
  • Different spectra of genomic deletions within the CCM genes between Italian and American CCM patient cohorts. 
  • Dyspnoea in patients with acute heart failure: an analysis of its clinical course, determinants, and relationship to 60-day outcomes in the PROTECT pilot study. 
  • Early diagnosis remains the most reliable way to cure children with melanoma. 
  • Edoardo Bassini (1844-1924): father of modern-day hernia surgery. 
  • Effectiveness of thigh-length graduated compression stockings to reduce the risk of deep vein thrombosis after stroke (CLOTS trial 1): a multicentre, randomised controlled trial. 
  • Effects of Polyunsaturated Fatty Acid Treatment on Postdischarge Outcomes After Acute Myocardial Infarction. 
  • Effects of fluoxetine at antidepressant doses on short-term outcome of detoxified alcoholics. 
  • Enhancement pattern of small hepatocellular carcinoma (HCC) at contrast-enhanced US (CEUS), MDCT, and MRI: intermodality agreement and comparison of diagnostic sensitivity between 2005 and 2010 American Association for the Study of Liver Diseases (AASLD) guidelines. 
  • Exogenous reinfection of tuberculosis in a low-burden area. 
  • Facets of personality linked to underweight and overweight. 
  • Family clustering in Sardinian longevity: a genealogical approach. 
  • Following the dogma: molecular evolutionists move from genes to messages and proteins. 
  • Forest response to elevated CO2 is conserved across a broad range of productivity. 
  • Genes and longevity: lessons from studies of centenarians. 
  • Genes, demography, and life span: the contribution of demographic data in genetic studies on aging and longevity. 
  • Genetic Variants Within Key Nodes of the Cascade of Antipsychotic Mechanisms: Effects on Antipsychotic Response and Schizophrenia Psychopathology in a Naturalistic Treatment Setting in Two Independent Korean and Italian Samples. 
  • Genetic diversity of feline immunodeficiency virus: dual infection, recombination, and distinct evolutionary rates among envelope sequence clades. 
  • Genome-wide association scan for five major dimensions of personality. 
  • Genome-wide association scan of trait depression. 
  • Harmony Outcomes: A randomized, double-blind, placebo-controlled trial of the effect of albiglutide on major cardiovascular events in patients with type 2 diabetes mellitus-Rationale, design, and baseline characteristics. 
  • Hemoglobin Abruzzo (beta143 (H21) His replaced by Arg). Consequences of altering the 2,3-diphosphoglycerate binding site. 
  • Heritability of cardiovascular and personality traits in 6,148 Sardinians. 
  • High neuroticism and low conscientiousness are associated with interleukin-6. 
  • Highly variable penetrance in subjects affected with cavernous cerebral angiomas (CCM) carrying novel CCM1 and CCM2 mutations. 
  • Hospital bill in open and laparoscopic appendectomy. 
  • Hot Genes in Schizophrenia: How Clinical Datasets Could Help to Refine their Role. 
  • IGF-1 predicts survival in chronic heart failure. Insights from the T.O.S.CA. (Trattamento Ormonale Nello Scompenso CArdiaco) registry. 
  • Impact of demography and population dynamics on the genetic architecture of human longevity. 
  • Implementing Coping Power Adapted as a Universal Prevention Program in Italian Primary Schools: a Randomized Control Trial. 
  • Individual variability in tree allometry determines light resource allocation in forest ecosystems: a hierarchical Bayesian approach. 
  • Individual, family, and culture level contributions to child physical abuse and neglect: A longitudinal study in nine countries. 
  • Inosine triphosphatase genetic variants are protective against anemia during antiviral therapy for HCV2/3 but do not decrease dose reductions of RBV or increase SVR. 
  • Iridogoniodysgenesis with cataract. 
  • Italian randomized trial among women with hysterectomy: tamoxifen and hormone-dependent breast cancer in high-risk women. 
  • Kidney transplantation combined with other organs in Bologna: an update. 
  • Left Ventricular Noncompaction: Meglio solo che mal accompagnati: Italian proverb: "Better Alone Than in Bad Company". 
  • Left ventricular ejection fraction for risk stratification in chronic systolic heart failure. 
  • Long-term outcomes and causes of death after acute coronary syndrome in patients in the Bologna, Italy, area. 
  • Longevity studies in GenomEUtwin. 
  • Longitudinal relation between state-trait maternal irritability and harsh parenting. 
  • Male/female ratio in centenarians: a possible role played by population genetic structure. 
  • Measurement Invariance and Convergent Validity of Anger and Sadness Self-Regulation Among Youth From Six Cultural Groups. 
  • Meta-analysis of genome-wide association studies identifies common variants in CTNNA2 associated with excitement-seeking. 
  • Moral disengagement and callous-unemotional traits: A longitudinal study of Italian adolescents with a disruptive behaviour disorder. 
  • Mortality in Italy: contours of a century of evolution. 
  • Mother and father socially desirable responding in nine countries: Two kinds of agreement and relations to parenting self-reports. 
  • Mothers', fathers' and children's perceptions of parents' expectations about children's family obligations in nine countries. 
  • Multicentre Acute Stroke Trial--Italy. 
  • Mutational processes of simple-sequence repeat loci in human populations. 
  • Mutations affecting the cytoplasmic functions of the co-chaperone DNAJB6 cause limb-girdle muscular dystrophy. 
  • Mycobacterial interspersed repetitive-unit-variable-number tandem-repeat analysis and Beijing/W family of Mycobacterium tuberculosis. 
  • Mycobacterium tuberculosis Beijing family: analysis of the epidemiological and clinical factors associated with an emerging lineage in the urban area of Milan. 
  • Nivolumab for Metastatic Renal Cell Carcinoma: Results of a Randomized Phase II Trial. 
  • Non-neutral vegetation dynamics. 
  • One-leg standing balance and functional status in an elderly community-dwelling population in northeast Italy. 
  • Organ donation during the financial crisis in Greece. 
  • Outcome of urgent and elective percutaneous coronary interventions after pharmacologic reperfusion with tenecteplase combined with unfractionated heparin, enoxaparin, or abciximab. 
  • Pace mapping the fast pathway in patients with atrioventricular nodal reentrant tachycardia: Koch's triangle or the Bermuda Triangle? 
  • Parent discipline practices in an international sample: associations with child behaviors and moderation by perceived normativeness. 
  • Parenting, culture, and the development of externalizing behaviors from age 7 to 14 in nine countries. 
  • Parents' and early adolescents' self-efficacy about anger regulation and early adolescents' internalizing and externalizing problems: A longitudinal study in three countries. 
  • Patients' satisfaction ratings and their desire for care improvement across oncology settings from France, Italy, Poland and Sweden. 
  • Perceived mother and father acceptance-rejection predict four unique aspects of child adjustment across nine countries. 
  • Personal Values and Moral Disengagement Promote Aggressive and Rule-Breaking Behaviours in Adolescents With Disruptive Behaviour Disorders: A Pilot Study. 
  • Personality and metabolic syndrome. 
  • Personality traits in Sardinia: testing founder population effects on trait means and variances. 
  • Poor oral health is associated with coronary heart disease and elevated systemic inflammatory and haemostatic factors. 
  • Positive parenting and children's prosocial behavior in eight countries. 
  • Predictive value of digital rectal examination for prostate cancer detection is modified by obesity. 
  • Prevalence and prognostic impact of non-cardiac co-morbidities in heart failure outpatients with preserved and reduced ejection fraction: a community-based study. 
  • Prevention of breast cancer with tamoxifen: preliminary findings from the Italian randomised trial among hysterectomised women. Italian Tamoxifen Prevention Study. 
  • Proinflammatory state, hepcidin, and anemia in older persons. 
  • Psychological discomfort and mental illness in patients with AIDS: implications for home care. 
  • Psychological distress in cancer patients attending the European Institute of Oncology in Milan. 
  • Quality in echocardiography: choosing to succeed. 
  • Quantification and Potential Functions of Endogenous Agonists of Transient Receptor Potential Channels in Patients With Irritable Bowel Syndrome. 
  • Rationale and design of the EXenatide Study of Cardiovascular Event Lowering (EXSCEL) trial. 
  • Replication studies in longevity: puzzling findings in Danish centenarians at the 3'APOB-VNTR locus. 
  • Reward sensitivity, impulse control, and social cognition as mediators of the link between childhood family adversity and externalizing behavior in eight countries. 
  • Risk assessment and economic impact analysis of the implementation of new European legislation on radiopharmaceuticals in Italy: the case of the new monograph chapter Compounding of Radiopharmaceuticals (PHARMEUROPA, Vol. 23, No. 4, October 2011). 
  • Role of Densitometric Criteria in Evaluation of Effectiveness of Antiangiogenic Therapies in Metastatic Colorectal Cancer: An Italian Clinical Experience. 
  • Safety, ethical considerations, and application guidelines for the use of transcranial magnetic stimulation in clinical practice and research. 
  • Stage IA non-small cell lung cancer: a small proportion of cases in the general population. 
  • The association between parental warmth and control in thirteen cultural groups. 
  • The fine specificity of human T cell lines towards myelin basic protein peptides in southern Italian multiple sclerosis patients. 
  • The uncertain relationship between obesity and prostate cancer: an Italian biopsy cohort analysis. 
  • To "do the right thing" or to "just do it": locomotion and assessment as distinct self-regulatory imperatives. 
  • Trait antagonism and the progression of arterial thickening: women with antagonistic traits have similar carotid arterial thickness as men. 
  • Troponin T levels in patients with acute heart failure: clinical and prognostic significance of their detection and release during hospitalisation. 
  • Update on tamoxifen to prevent breast cancer. The Italian Tamoxifen Prevention Study. 
  • Valve surgery in octogenarians: in-hospital and long-term outcomes. 
  • Variants of the serotonin transporter gene and NEO-PI-R Neuroticism: No association in the BLSA and SardiNIA samples. 
  • When similarity breeds content: need for closure and the allure of homogeneous and self-resembling groups. 
  • Who decides? Living donor liver transplantation for advanced hepatocellular carcinoma. 
  • [Benzodiazepines consumption and risk of dependence in institutionalized geriatric patients]. 
  • [Role of omega-3 polyunsaturated fatty acids after acute coronary syndrome]. 
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  Keywords of People

  • Dodge, Kenneth A., William McDougall Distinguished Professor of Public Policy Studies, Duke Science & Society
  • Hyslop, Terry, Professor of Biostatistics & Bioinformatics, Biostatistics & Bioinformatics
  • Martin, John Jeffries, Professor of History, History
  • Muir, Kelly Walton, Associate Professor of Ophthalmology, Ophthalmology, Glaucoma
  • O'Connor, Christopher Michael, Richard Sean Stack, M.D. Distinguished Professor, Medicine, Clinical Pharmacology