Publications by authors named "A Foppiani"
Background/objectives: Anxiety and depression are common mental disorders worldwide, in particular in people with obesity. Adherence to the Mediterranean diet has been found beneficial for the prevention of anxiety and depression in the general population. We aimed to evaluate this association in a large cohort of people with obesity.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFBackground: The clinical care process for people with prediabetes starts with lifestyle intervention, often escalating to more intense treatment due to the low success rate of the first-line intervention. Clinicians lack clear guidelines on which patients would benefit from early treatment with more intensive therapeutic options, so we aimed to develop an algorithm to early identify non-responders to lifestyle intervention for prediabetes.
Method: Several statistical and machine learning algorithms were screened with internal cross-validation on the basis of accuracy and discrimination ability to correctly classify patients that would fail to normalize fasting glycemia within one year of being prescribed a lifestyle intervention, solely based on the first examination measurements.
Background: The diverse manifestations of Long-COVID have become increasingly important due to their significant impact on patients' lives. Telemedicine has emerged as an important tool for post COVID-19 follow-up. This study is part of a large cohort study involving COVID-positive patients monitored by the COD19 telemedicine platform operations center.
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- * Understanding the onset, risk factors, and impact of long COVID symptoms is vital for timely detection and management, as these symptoms can severely affect quality of life and survival rates, especially in compromised patients.
- * Treatment and recovery from long COVID require a comprehensive approach, considering both physical and psychological factors, with ongoing research aimed at clarifying the relationship between chronic conditions and long-term COVID effects, which could ultimately inform better healthcare strategies.
Background: Osteogenesis Imperfecta (OI) is a heterogeneous group of connective tissue disorders, characterized by varying degrees of skeletal fragility. Patients experience a range of comorbidities, such as obesity, cardiovascular, and gastrointestinal complications, especially in adulthood. All aspects that could benefit from dietary intervention.
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