[Wind days in Taranto (Southern Italy): a public health intervention between technical and social contradictions. Lessons learned].

Public health interventions in the context of environmental crisis are necessary and desirable for the protection of public health. This manuscript highlights the critical aspects and potentials of a public health intervention by reconstructing the most relevant stages of the case study called 'Precautionary measures during wind days in Taranto'. Under particular weather conditions, the 'wind days' intervention includes prescriptions to companies and recommendations to the public.

[Participation and facilitation in environment and health contexts. The case study of San Donaci (Apu-lia Region, Southern Italy)].

On behalf of the municipal administration of San Donaci (Brindisi Province, Apulia Region, Southern Italy), the Italian National Research Council counducted a participatory epidemiology experience. The activity of participation and discussion between the research group, the public administration, and citizens involved an association with expertise in facilitation. The participation methodology, adapted to the context, was articulated in focus groups and circle time.

Incidence of childhood leukemia before and after shut down of nuclear power plants in Germany in 2011: A population-based register study during 2004 to 2019.

The association between leukemia and proximity to nuclear-power-plants (NPPs) has been assessed in several countries with inconsistent results. A case-control study from Germany had shown an increased risk for childhood leukemia (diagnoses 1980-2003) near NPPs. Germany began shutting down nuclear reactors in 2011, following the Fukushima disaster.

Patterns of coronary heart disease mortality in Italy from 1931 to 2015 and a focus on a region with highly industrialized areas.

Background: Coronary Heart Disease (CHD) is associated with various risk factors, including environmental stressors. The aim of our paper is to study the mortality patterns in Italy with a focus on provinces of the Apulia Region from 1931 to 2015 to analyze the burden of the disease over time.

Methods: We conducted an ecological analysis of mortality from all causes and from CHD in main Italian geographical areas and in the Apulian provinces, from 1931 to 2015.

Nitrogen dioxide component of air pollution increases pulmonary congestion assessed by lung ultrasound in patients with chronic coronary syndromes.

Pulmonary congestion is an intermediate biomarker and long-term predictor of acute decompensated heart failure.To evaluate the effects of air pollution on pulmonary congestion assessed by lung ultrasound.In a single-center, prospective, observational study design, we enrolled 1292 consecutive patients with chronic coronary syndromes referred for clinically indicated ABCDE-SE, with dipyridamole (n = 1207), dobutamine (n = 84), or treadmill exercise (n = 1).

Stress Echo 2030: The Novel ABCDE-(FGLPR) Protocol to Define the Future of Imaging.

With stress echo (SE) 2020 study, a new standard of practice in stress imaging was developed and disseminated: the ABCDE protocol for functional testing within and beyond CAD. ABCDE protocol was the fruit of SE 2020, and is the seed of SE 2030, which is articulated in 12 projects: 1-SE in coronary artery disease (SECAD); 2-SE in diastolic heart failure (SEDIA); 3-SE in hypertrophic cardiomyopathy (SEHCA); 4-SE post-chest radiotherapy and chemotherapy (SERA); 5-Artificial intelligence SE evaluation (AI-SEE); 6-Environmental stress echocardiography and air pollution (ESTER); 7-SE in repaired Tetralogy of Fallot (SETOF); 8-SE in post-COVID-19 (SECOV); 9: Recovery by stress echo of conventionally unfit donor good hearts (RESURGE); 10-SE for mitral ischemic regurgitation (SEMIR); 11-SE in valvular heart disease (SEVA); 12-SE for coronary vasospasm (SESPASM). The study aims to recruit in the next 5 years (2021-2025) ≥10,000 patients followed for ≥5 years (up to 2030) from ≥20 quality-controlled laboratories from ≥10 countries.

The effects of lockdown-induced air quality changes on the results of cardiac functional stress testing in coronary artery disease and heart failure patients.

In vulnerable subjects, the increase in air pollution worsens the signs of myocardial ischemia. Lockdown during COVID-19 pandemics substantially cleaned the air. The objective of this is to assess the effects of air cleaning due to lockdown on stress echocardiography (SE) results.

Gender specific excess mortality in Italy during the COVID-19 pandemic accounting for age.

Since the beginning of the COVID-19 pandemic, data have been accumulated to examine excess mortality in the first half of 2020. Mortality in the preceding year or years is used to calculate the expected number of deaths, which is then compared with the actual number of deaths in 2020. We calculated weekly age- and sex-specific mortality rates for 93.

[Sex/gender differences in COVID-19 lethality: what the data say, and do not say].

Background: scientific literature indicates that there are sex, and gender differences in the development, symptomatology and evolution of different diseases, in the response to drugs and in the therapeutic pathways. Even in the COVID-19 epidemic some sex/gender differences emerged.

Objectives: to analyze COVID-19 epidemic data by gender and age in Italy, Germany, Spain, and Sweden, characterized by having implemented different pandemic containment policies, with the aim of observing any characteristics that can be interpreted with the lens of sex/gender differences.

Antimicrobial activity of a new intact skin antisepsis formulation.

Unlabelled: Different antiseptic formulations have shown limitations when applied to disinfecting intact skin, notably short-term tolerability and/or efficacy. The purpose of this study was optimizing a new antiseptic formulation specifically targeted at intact skin disinfection and evaluating its in vitro microbicidal activity and in vivo efficacy.

Methods: The biocidal properties of the antiseptic solution containing 0.