Publications by authors named "F Cecoli"
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- The COVID-19 lockdown in Italy led to a significant reduction in outpatient visits, especially among diabetic patients, raising concerns about their health outcomes.
- Diabetic individuals experienced a 28% drop in access to healthcare and a mortality rate of 20.4%, double that of the general population, highlighting the pandemic's severe impact on this group.
- The study estimated a financial burden on the National Health Service of €26.6 million and a significant loss in quality of life, indicating the negative consequences of delayed treatment and reduced access to innovative therapies.
Background: Patients with malignancy suffer impairment of their quality of life (QoL). QoL has been evaluated in thyroid cancer patients. Since 2010, a new inventory, the thyroid-specific patient-reported outcome (ThyPRO) measure for benign thyroid disorders, has been available.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFPurpose: Papillary thyroid microcarcinoma (MPTC) has an excellent prognosis. We aimed to evaluate the evolution of therapeutic strategies over time and the clinical outcome of MPTC.
Methods: In this retrospective multicenter observational study in a northwest Italian region, patients with intrathyroidal, unifocal tumor ≤1 cm in size, incidentally found at histology or preoperative cytology diagnosis, were included.
Differentiated thyroid carcinoma (DTC) generally has a favorable outcome. Thyroid disease, treatments, stress, and comorbidity can compromise health-related quality of life (QoL) and indirectly weigh upon the outcome. From 2004 to 2008, we evaluated QoL longitudinally in 128 DTC subjects.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFBackground: Some extra-thyroid effects of TSH have been described in vitro and in vivo. TSH has recently been suggested to induce interleukin-6 secretion by adipocytes. Leptin is the main protein secreted by adipose tissue.
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