Consumption of Ultra-Processed Foods and Semen Quality in Healthy Young Men Living in Italy.

Background/objectives: The study aim was to evaluate the association between UPF consumption and semen quality in a sample of healthy young men in Italy.

Methods: A cross-sectional analysis was carried out using data from 126 participants (mean age ± SD 20.0 ± 1.

Independent effects of long and short-term exposures to non-optimal increased temperature on mortality.

Although the short-term heat effects are well-established, longer-term effects, beyond those, have recently received attention, in the context of climate change. Our study aims to investigate the potential effects of long-term exposure to non-optimal warm period temperatures on all-cause mortality in four large regions in the UK, Norway, Italy, and Greece. Daily all-cause mortality counts from 1996 to 2018 for four European NUTS-2 regions including 52-662 small areas were collected and associated with spatiotemporal temperature estimates.

Passive temporary arterial shunt for visceral and distal aortic perfusion during complex aortic surgery.

On-pump techniques are the methods of choice for organ protection and heart support during thoracoabdominal aortic aneurysm surgical repair. We present a case of a patient with a symptomatic saccular aneurysm of the visceral segment of a severe atheromatous aorta requiring a surgical type IV aortic repair during which we adopted a temporary passive arterial shunt from the left axillary artery to ensure visceral and distal aortic perfusion. The old-fashioned technique of passive shunting to ensure visceral and distal aortic perfusion seems to offer an appealing alternative to on-pump techniques in selected patients.

Effect modification of air pollution on the association between heat and mortality in five European countries.

Background: Evidence suggests that air pollution modifies the association between heat and mortality. However, most studies have been conducted in cities without rural data. This time-series study examined potential effect modification of particulate matter (PM) and ozone (O) on heat-related mortality using small-area data from five European countries, and explored the influence of area characteristics.