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Rossella Gaetani

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Relationship of a Body Shape Index and Body Roundness Index with carotid atherosclerosis in arterial hypertension.

2018

Background and aims: A Body Shape Index (ABSI) and Body Roundness Index (BRI) are two new anthropometric adiposity indices that have shown to be associated better than BMI with adipose abdominal tissue, with the onset of diabetes and the risk of premature death. Little is known about the influence of ABSI and BRI on subclinical vascular damage. The study was aimed to assess the relationship between ABSI and BRI with carotid atherosclerosis damage in subjects with arterial hypertension. Methods and results: A total of 468 patients with arterial hypertension (30–80 years old) were enrolled; adiposity indices were calculated (BMI, WC, ABSI, BRI) and carotid ultrasonographic examination was per…

Carotid atherosclerosisAdultCarotid Artery DiseasesMalemedicine.medical_specialtyEndocrinology Diabetes and MetabolismMedicine (miscellaneous)Adipose tissue030209 endocrinology & metabolism030204 cardiovascular system & hematologyUltrasonographic examinationCarotid Intima-Media ThicknessBody Mass Index03 medical and health sciences0302 clinical medicinePredictive Value of TestsRisk FactorsDiabetes mellitusInternal medicineMedicineBody SizeHumansArterial PressureObesityBody roundness indexSubclinical infectionAdiposityAgedAged 80 and overNutrition and DieteticsAnthropometrybusiness.industryCarotid atherosclerosiBody Shape IndexAnthropometryMiddle Agedmedicine.diseasePrognosisA body shape indexRoundness (object)Cross-Sectional StudiesAdiposity indiceHypertensionCardiologyFemaleWaist CircumferenceCardiology and Cardiovascular MedicinebusinessNutrition, metabolism, and cardiovascular diseases : NMCD
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Association between early-stage chronic kidney disease and reduced choroidal thickness in essential hypertensive patients.

2018

The introduction in the past few years of advanced optical coherence tomography (OCT) techniques has greatly increased our understanding of the choroid, which is the most important vascular layer of the eye. Our study aimed to assess choroidal thickness by using swept-source OCT (SS-OCT) in essential hypertensive patients (EHs) with and without early-stage chronic kidney disease (CKD). We enrolled 100 EHs, of whom 65 were without kidney damage, and 35 had stage 1-3 CKD. In all of the participants, SS-OCT and a routine biochemical workup were performed. Glomerular filtration rate (GFR) was estimated by the CKD Epidemiology Collaboration equation (eGFR). CKD was defined in agreement with the …

AdultMalemedicine.medical_specialtyPhysiologyUrologyRenal function030204 cardiovascular system & hematology03 medical and health sciences0302 clinical medicineRenal damageInternal MedicinemedicineHumans030212 general & internal medicineProspective StudiesRenal Insufficiency ChronicAgedKidneyHypertensive eye diseasebusiness.industryChoroidMicrocirculationConfoundingDiabetic retinopathyOdds ratioMiddle Agedmedicine.diseaseeye diseasesConfidence intervalmedicine.anatomical_structureRenal dysfunctionFemalesense organsChoroidEssential HypertensionCardiology and Cardiovascular MedicinebusinessTomography Optical CoherenceKidney diseaseHypertension research : official journal of the Japanese Society of Hypertension
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SUBCLINICAL RENAL DAMAGE IS ASSOCIATED WITH A REDUCED CHOROIDAL THICKNESS IN PATIENTS WITH PRIMARY HYPERTENSION

2018

Objective: The retina is considered the easiest accessible window to study the state of the systemic microcirculation, even if the choroid is the most important vascular layer of the eye. Our understanding of the choroid has been greatly increased in last years since the introduction of advanced techniques of optical coherence tomography (OCT). Our study was aimed to assess choroidal thickness by using Swept-Source OCT (SS-OCT) in essential hypertensive patients (EHs) with and without subclinical renal damage (SRD). Design and method: We enrolled 100 EHs of which 65 without kidney damage and 35 with SRD. In all the participants SS-OCT and a routine biochemical work-up were performed. Glomer…

Settore MED/14 - NefrologiaRetinamedicine.medical_specialtySettore MED/09 - Medicina Internagenetic structuresChoroidSettore MED/30 - Malattie Apparato VisivoPhysiologyRenal damagebusiness.industryeye diseasesMicrocirculationEssential hypertension.medicine.anatomical_structureOphthalmologyRenal damageInternal MedicinemedicineIn patientsense organsChoroidCardiology and Cardiovascular MedicinebusinessSubclinical infectionJournal of Hypertension
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