Ricerc@Sapienza

Background and purpose: The role of lifestyle and dietary habits and antecedent events has not been clearly identified in chronic inflammatory demyelinating polyradiculoneuropathy (CIDP). Methods: Information was collected about modifiable environmental factors and antecedent infections and vaccinations in patients with CIDP included in an Italian CIDP Database. Only patients who reported not having changed their diet or the lifestyle habits investigated in the study after the appearance of CIDP were included. The partners of patients with CIDP were chosen as controls.

Cardiovascular prevention represents a cornerstone of modern strategies to reduce the burden of cardiovascular disease.

A partire dall’introduzione di nuove tecnologie come Information and Communication Technologies (ICT), Genetics, Robotics, Artificial Intelligence, e Nanotechnology (GRAIN) e dagli sviluppi delle scienze cognitive, si sta assistendo ad una ridefinizione del ruolo dell’individuo all’interno della società. Ciò sta causando al contempo una profonda trasformazione dei sistemi culturali, fisiologici e biologici su cui poggia la società stessa. I principali attori e i principali destinatari di questi cambiamenti sono gli Smart People. Ma cosa indica questo termine? Chi sono gli Smart People?

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The aim of the study was to explore lifestyle of undergraduate students in southern Italy and to investigate their determinants.
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Background: Health literacy (HL) is a fundamental ability to successfully deal with health and illness issues. This study aimed to assess HL among undergraduates from healthcare and non-healthcare degree courses of two Italian universities and the association between their HL, lifestyles, and BMI assumed as health outcome. Methods: The Health Literacy Assessment Tool (HLAT-8) and the Newest Vital Sign (NVS) were used to assess health literacy dimensions.

1. Levels of endemism are usually expressed as percentage of endemics among all species recorded in a given area. Endemism levels also vary among taxa, yet inter-taxon variation in endemism levels has received much less attention. 2. We used the Italian tenebrionids to investigate how endemism levels vary among different but related lineages.

Il contributo affronta lo sviluppo del campo del giornalismo culturale, che, nel contesto di un crescente interesse dei newsmedia per il comparto delle “soft news”, comprendendo in esse arte, cultura, lifestyle e “life politics", va a ad evolversi in forme di "lifestyle journalism". Particolare attenzione è dedicata alle forme di narrazione e rappresentazione del cibo nella televisione italiana, a partire dalle rubriche di gusto e fino al ruolo dei diversi "esperti" nei programmi di cucina.

An appealing city, if we assume that the concept of beauty goes beyond purely aesthetic limits, it’s first and above all a city where people live well. It is an “adequate city”, capable of communicating adequacy (the concept of "adequacy" is used in the general-holistic sense that the philosopher Lucacks attributed to it in the treatise on Aesthetics). It’s a healthy city, that can promote virtuous lifestyles, allowing as many people as possible to spend their lives in fullness and satisfaction over time and in good health.

Neuroendocrine tumors (NETs) are a heterogeneous group of neoplasms with worldwide increasing incidence, high prevalence and survival. Both the tumor itself and the systemic therapy may have an impact on patients’ nutrition. Malnutrition negatively impacts on outcome in NETs patients. Moreover, it has been demonstrated that body mass index was a risk factor for NET development and that metabolic syndrome was associated with worse prognosis in these patients.

Pancreatic neuroendocrine tumours (PanNETs) represent an uncommon type of pancreatic neoplasm, whose incidence is increasing worldwide. As per exocrine pancreatic cancer, a relationship seems to exist between PanNETs and glycaemic alterations. Diabetes mellitus (DM) or impaired glucose tolerance often occurs in PanNET patients as a consequence of hormonal hypersecretion by the tumour, specifically affecting glucose metabolism, or due to tumour mass effects.