Publications by authors named "G Micheletto"

Article Synopsis
  • Bariatric surgery is recognized as the most effective treatment for severe obesity, yet there are gaps in awareness and referral practices among general practitioners and specialty physicians in Italy.
  • An exploratory study in three regions of Italy evaluated the pathways patients take to access bariatric surgery, focusing on a sample of 2,686 patients with chronic obesity.
  • Results showed that most patients (75.8%) were self-presenting or referred by bariatric surgeons, with self-presenting patients generally being younger, better educated, and more mobile than those referred by general practitioners.
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In this data article, we present the dataset from the RNA-Seq analysis of subcutaneous adipose tissue collected from 5 healthy normal weight women (NW, age 37 ± 6.7 years, BMI 24.3 ± 0.

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Obesity is a complex disease with multifactorial causes, and its prevalence is becoming a serious health crisis. For this reason, there is a crucial need to identify novel targets and players. With this aim in mind, we analyzed via RNA-sequencing the subcutaneous adipose tissue of normal weight and obesity-affected women, highlighting the differential expression in the two tissues.

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