Publications by authors named "L Balaci"
Article Synopsis
- The study explores how biological age, rather than just chronological age, affects heart health, focusing on different aging rates and their relation to cardiovascular risks.
- In a sample of 2,614 healthy individuals, researchers identified three heart aging patterns—slow, normal, and accelerated—each associated with varying rates of cardiovascular events.
- Standard echocardiography techniques can effectively measure these aging patterns, helping to predict health outcomes and potentially improve preventive strategies for heart disease.
Background: Few studies have examined the associations between personality facets and dementia risk and rarely included individuals from rural settings or with low education.
Objective: To examine the association between personality and the risk of cognitive impairment.
Methods: Participants (N = 1,668; age 50 to 94 at baseline; 56.
Background: Defective alleles within the gene, encoding the pore-forming protein perforin, in combination with environmental factors, cause familial type 2 hemophagocytic lymphohistiocytosis (FHL2), a rare, severe autosomal recessive childhood disorder characterized by massive release of cytokines-cytokine storm.
Objective: The aim of this study was to determine the function of hypomorph g.72360387 G > A on multiple sclerosis (MS) and type 1 diabetes (T1D).
Background: The relationship of kidney size to ageing, kidney function and kidney disease risk factors is not fully understood.
Methods: Ultrasound length and parenchymal kidney volume were determined from a population-based sample of 3972 Sardinians (age range 18-100 years). We then identified the subset of 2256 'healthy' subjects to define age- and sex-specific reference ranges (2.
Objective: To assess thyroid function, the presence of thyroid antibodies, as well as the presence of goiter and/or nodules in subjects without a prior diagnosis of thyroid disorders, in a region with mild to moderate iodine deficiency.
Design And Methods: This cross-sectional study is based on data obtained from first and third visits of participants in the Sardinian survey. We performed two different analyses.