Publications by authors named "I Nistor"
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- - The study examined erectile dysfunction (ED) among male kidney transplant recipients, finding that 33.5% had mild, 20.6% moderate, and 10.6% severe ED, with prevalence increasing with age.
- - A total of 179 patients were assessed using the International Index of Erectile Function (IIEF) questionnaire, which revealed a mean erectile function score of 19.22 and highlighted the impact of various factors like age, alcohol consumption, and pre-transplant dialysis on ED.
- - The research concluded that self-reported ED is significantly influenced by age, alcohol intake, dialysis history, donor type, and specific medications, while comorbidities such as hypertension and diabetes did not show a
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- Long-term outcomes of cardiovascular diseases in Eastern Europe, specifically in a Romanian PCI registry, were assessed, focusing on ethnic minorities like Hungarians and Roma.
- The study analyzed data from 6,867 patients over a median follow-up of 3.60 years, revealing a total of 1,064 cardiovascular-related deaths and 1,374 all-cause deaths, with ethnic minorities experiencing higher mortality rates.
- Findings indicated significantly worse long-term survival rates for Hungarian and Roma patients compared to the Romanian population, highlighting disparities in health outcomes among these groups.
Out-of-hospital mortality in coronary artery disease (CAD) is particularly high and established adverse event prediction tools are yet to be available. Our study aimed to investigate whether precision phenotyping can be performed using routine laboratory parameters for the prediction of out-of-hospital survival in a CAD population treated by percutaneous coronary intervention (PCI). All patients treated by PCI and discharged alive in a tertiary center between January 2016 - December 2022 that have been included prospectively in the local registry were analyzed.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFBackground and objectives Frailty and cognitive impairment significantly impact survival time and time to initiate dialysis in older adults with advanced chronic kidney disease (CKD). This study aims to evaluate the effects of frailty and cognitive impairment on these outcomes and determine the most effective assessment tool for predicting early dialysis initiation and short survival time. Materials and methods This prospective observational cohort study involved 240 patients aged ≥65 years with stage 4 or 5 CKD, recruited from a nephrology outpatient department (ambulatory care) between March 2020 and March 2021.
View Article and Find Full Text PDF: The literature suggests that physiological menopause (MP) seems linked with increased adiposity with a preference for intra-abdominal fat accumulation, greater than what can be attributed only by aging, which could magnify this period's increased cardiovascular risk. : We retrospectively analyzed two age and body mass index (BMI) propensity-matched subgroups each formed of 90 clinically healthy, 40-60-year-old postmenopausal women, within the first 5 and 5-10 years of MP. The 10-year ASCVD risk was assessed using medical history, anthropometric data, and lipid profile blood tests.
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