Publications by authors named "Laura Vero"
Article Synopsis
- - This study examined how blood viscosity (WBV) relates to heart efficiency (myocardial mechano-energetic efficiency or MEE) in nondiabetic adults, using data from over 1,100 participants in the CATAMERI study.
- - Participants underwent tests to measure blood sugar tolerance and echocardiograms to assess heart efficiency, revealing that various factors like age, body composition, and cholesterol levels significantly influenced MEE.
- - The research concluded that higher blood viscosity is linked to lower heart efficiency, even when considering other cardiovascular risk factors, highlighting its potential impact on heart health.
Introduction: Liver fibrosis is a risk factor for liver-related adverse outcomes and cardiovascular disease (CVD). Recently, the non-invasive Hepamet fibrosis score (HFS) has been validated as a tool capable to identify with good diagnostic accuracy subjects with advanced liver fibrosis. It is unsettled whether HFS is capable to identify individuals at higher risk of CVD.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFAim: Decreased myocardial mechano-energetic efficiency (MEEi) is associated with NAFLD and poorer prognosis in liver cirrhosis. We aim to investigate the association between liver fibrosis severity and MEEi in individuals participating in the CATAnzaro MEtabolic RIsk factors (CATAMERI) study.
Methods: Myocardial MEEi, assessed by an echocardiography-derived measure, and fibrosis severity, estimated by the fibrosis-4 index (FIB-4), were evaluated in 2383 subjects with different degree of glucose tolerance.