Publications by authors named "Emma L"

Background: The Piedmont Region, the Food Hygiene and Nutrition Services of the Local Healthcare Authorities of the Piedmont Region (coordinated by ASL TO 3), and the Italian Coeliac Association Piedmont Onlus, have created a theoretical-practical training pathway for Food Business Operators to ensure a safe gluten-free meal.

Study Design: The aim of the study is to perform a retrospective analysis of the data collected in order to assess whether the Food Business Operators will be able to manage in the short, medium and long term audits (3-month audits, 6-month audits and 1-year audits) all the production stages of a gluten-free meal (storage, production.

Methods: We have analysed the check-list used for assessing the gluten free meal, recorded from 2010 to 2016 by the staff of the Food Hygiene and Nutrition Services.

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Introduction: The Law 123/2005 recognizes celiac disease as a social disease and so Ministry of Public Health annually allocates specific resources to Regions for managing gluten-free meals in school canteens. Therefore in 2009 Piedmont Region approved a specific project, in collaboration with Food Hygiene and Nutrition Department (SIAN) of several ASL (Local Health Authority), including ASL TO3 as regional leader, and the "Italian Celiac Association - Piedmont and Valle d'Aosta". This project was intended to facilitate the natural integration of celiac people in social life.

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In the Italian language, the term cachexia is a rather picturesque synonym of "marasma senile", "senile marasmus", an old definition involving not only old-age, but specifically senility, the end of the ageing process and marasmus, a stagnant and hopeless situation in which all superior organised functions have disappeared. The problem of cachexia during dialysis is complex and several discordant opinions exist at this regard, partly accounted by different definitions of this sluggish entity (or non entity). Actually, the basic question is very simple: is cachexia the cause or the effect of failure of dialysis treatment? The aim of this study was an evaluation of epidemiological data from the Dialysis and Transplantation Registry of Piedmont, a northern Italian Region with about 4,350,000 inhabitants, 22 public dialysis Centers, open acceptance to dialysis since the mid seventies, a multiple choice dialysis system developed in the eighties.

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Chronic arterial occlusive disease.

J Cardiovasc Nurs

October 1992

Cardiovascular disease continues to be a major cause of death in the United States. Although the number of deaths has decreased in the past several years, disability from the disease remains significant because of its systemic nature. As the population continues to age, peripheral vascular disease (PVD) will become increasingly prevalent in society as a result of the process of atherosclerosis.

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