Bioimpedance Phase Angle as a Prognostic Tool in Late-Onset Pompe Disease: A Single-Centre Prospective Study With a 15-year Follow-Up.

Late-onset Pompe disease (LOPD) is an autosomal-recessive metabolic myopathy caused by deficiency of the lysosomal enzyme Acid Alpha-Glucosidase (GAA), leading to glycogen accumulation in proximal and axial muscles, and in the diaphragm. Enzyme Replacement Therapy (ERT) with recombinant GAA became available in 2006. Since then, several outcome measures have been investigated for the adequate follow-up of disease progression and treatment response, usually focusing on respiratory and motor function.

Smoke exposure and cardio-metabolic profile in youth with type 1 diabetes.

Background: To evaluate the relationship between smoking and metabolic parameters in patients affected by type 1 diabetes (T1D).

Patients And Methods: We enrolled 104 children and young adults (50 females and 54 males) with T1D (aged 16.4 ± 8.

Helping consumers make a more conscious nutritional choice: acceptability of nutrition information at a cafeteria.

Objective: A few studies link out-of-home eating to higher energy consumption, overweight and obesity in both adults and children. The present study was undertaken to investigate the nutritional value of meals available in a university cafeteria, in order to develop a target nutritional tool to help consumers make a more conscious nutritional choice.

Design: A cross-sectional study.

Reliability and relative validity of a quantitative food-frequency questionnaire for use among adults in Italian population.

Our objective was to assess the reliability and relative validity of a food frequency questionnaire (FFQ) among adult people. In a cross-sectional study carried out in northern Italy, 112 adults were recruited. A total of 189 food and drink items were selected according to those typically consumed by Italians.

Eating habits and behaviors, physical activity, nutritional and food safety knowledge and beliefs in an adolescent Italian population.

Objective: The present study evaluates eating habits and behaviors, and nutritional and food safety knowledge of a group of Italian adolescents.

Design: A dietary questionnaire previously constructed and tested was self-administered during school time. Each section was evaluated using a separate score.

Overweight and blood pressure: results from the examination of a selected group of adolescents in northern Italy.

Objective: The aim of the present study was to investigate blood pressure (BP) levels and their relationship with different indices of body fat in a group of adolescents, in order to evaluate the prevalence of hypertension and plan preventive and corrective strategies.

Design: Cross-sectional study in primary care.

Setting: All high schools in the Aosta Valley region, northern Italy.

BMI values and other anthropometric and functional measurements as predictors of obesity in a selected group of adolescents.

Background: Obesity is well known to be a problem all over the world: WHO data report that one billion subjects are overweight and 300 million are obese. Epidemiological data (IOTF) show that prevalence rates are increasing not only in industrialized countries, but also in developing countries, especially as far as the adolescent population is concerned.

Aim Of The Study: To select adolescents at risk of obesity by BMI calculation and by other anthropometric and functional measurements in the Aosta Valley Mountain Region (Northern Italy).

An evaluation of a colour food photography atlas as a tool for quantifying food portion size in epidemiological dietary surveys.

Objective: To test the validity of a colour food photography atlas for quantifying portion size eaten compared with weighed foods.

Design: The colour food photography atlas was prepared by cooking, weighing and taking digital photographs of three portion sizes of 434 foods and beverages typical of the Italian diet.

Subjects And Interventions: In all, 448 male and female volunteers aged 6-60 y from a wide variety of social backgrounds completed 9075 assessments of food portions eaten at lunch and dinner in relation to a set of colour food photographs during 8 weeks of investigation.

[Adolescent Body Mass Index data: what differences result using different reference standard curves?].

Childhood and adolescent obesity prevalence rates have steadily increased both in industrialised and developing countries in the last years. Data from literature show that BMI is an acceptable indicator to assess overweight and obesity also in children and adolescents. Different reference standard curves for BMI exist: the percentiles of Rolland-Chacherà, Luciano, the National Center for Health Statistics, Cole and Cacciari.