Gestational diabetes mellitus yesterday, today and tomorrow: A 13 year italian cohort study.

Aims: To describe all cases of gestational diabetes mellitus (GDM) managed at the Italian Hospital of San Daniele del Friuli from 2006 to 2018, after the establishment of a dedicated multidisciplinary team.

Methods: Data on mothers, pregnancies, and newborns have been recorded since the team establishment. The associations of maternal, pregnancy, and delivery characteristics with complications of pregnancy and delivery and adverse birth outcomes were assessed.

Serum lipoprotein(a) concentrations and alcohol consumption in hypertension: possible relevance for cardiovascular damage.

Objectives: To evaluate the relationships between alcohol intake and serum lipoprotein(a) [Lp(a)], a powerful predictor of organ damage, in patients with essential hypertension with a wide range of alcohol intake, and to investigate whether the association between alcohol intake and serum Lp(a) concentrations occurs over the entire spectrum of apo(a) phenotypes.

Design: Cross-sectional study of a case series.

Setting: University medical centre.

The emerging risk factors for cardiovascular disease: a review of the epidemiologic evidence for lipoprotein(a), homocysteine, and fibrinogen.

Appropriate correction of cardiovascular risk factors is a mainstay of the treatment of patients that have developed or might develop cardiovascular disease. In addition to classical risk factors, such as hypertension, smoking, dyslipidemia, diabetes, obesity, and sedentary life, epidemiological research has identified a number of additional conditions that are associated with a greater risk of cardiovascular disease. In fact, a substantial percentage of patients who develop cardiovascular events do not have any of the classical risk factors.