Publications by authors named "Anna Marro"
Background: Prediabetes has garnered increasing attention due to its association with cardiovascular conditions, especially hypertension, which heightens the risk of prefrailty and frailty among older individuals.
Methods: We screened elders with prefrail hypertension from March 2021 to January 2023. We assessed the correlation linking cognitive dysfunction (Montreal Cognitive Assessment score), insulin resistance (triglyceride-to-glucose index), and physical impairment (5-meter gait speed).
Aims: Pre-diabetes is a condition that confers an increased cardiovascular risk. Frailty is very common in hypertensive patients, and insulin resistance has been linked to frailty in older adults with diabetes. On these grounds, our aim was to evaluate the association between insulin resistance and cognitive impairment in hypertensive and pre-diabetic and frail older adults.
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- Women are at a high risk of frailty, and factors like diabetes and hypertension increase this risk, with metformin potentially helping to reduce frailty symptoms in post-menopausal women.
- A study was conducted involving frail older women and men with diabetes and hypertension to evaluate the cognitive effects of an extended-release formulation of metformin over 6 months.
- Results showed significant improvements in cognitive performance for women taking extended-release metformin compared to those not treated, as well as differences between treatment responses in men and women, indicating the drug's positive impact on cognitive health in this demographic.
Hyperglycemia and Physical Impairment in Frail Hypertensive Older Adults.
Front Endocrinol (Lausanne)
May 2022
Background: Frailty is a multidimensional condition typical of elders. Frail older adults have a high risk of functional decline, hospitalization, and mortality. Hypertension is one of the most common comorbidities in elders.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFBackground: Hypertension is common in older adults and its incidence increases with age. We investigated the correlation between physical and cognitive impairment in older adults with frailty and hypertension.
Methods: We recruited frail hypertensive older adults during the COVID-19 pandemic, between March 2021 and December 2021.
Background: Diabetes and hypertension are common in older adults and represent established risk factors for frailty. Frailty is a multidimensional condition due to reserve loss and susceptibility to stressors with a high risk of death, hospitalizations, functional and cognitive impairment. Comorbidities such as diabetes and hypertension play a key role in increasing the risk of mortality, hospitalization, and disability.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFThis article describes how innovations are exploited in Campania (Italy) to improve health outcomes, quality of life, and sustainability of social and healthcare services. Campania's strategy for digitalization of health and care and for healthy aging is based on a person-centered, life-course, "One Health" approach, where demographic change is considered capable of stimulating a growth dynamic linked to the opportunities of combining the "Silver Economy" with local assets and the specific health needs of the population. The end-users (citizens, patients, and professionals) contribute to the co-creation of products and services, being involved in the identification of unmet needs and test-bed activity.
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