Cognitive assessment to optimize prediction of functional outcome in subacute hip fracture: a short-term prospective study.

Background: Cognitive impairment is a long-known negative prognostic factor after hip fracture. Cognition is usually screened by a single easy-to-administer bedside tool, but recent studies have shown that screening tests may be not enough to rule out cognitive impairment with an unfavorable prognostic role. Unfortunately, data on outcome prediction by further cognitive assessments is sparse.

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Definition, Assessment, and Management of Vitamin D Inadequacy: Suggestions, Recommendations, and Warnings from the Italian Society for Osteoporosis, Mineral Metabolism and Bone Diseases (SIOMMMS).

In the recent years, both the prescriptions of serum 25(OH)D levels assay, and vitamin D supplementation are constantly increasing, as well as the costs to be incurred relating to these specific aspects. As in many other countries, the risk of vitamin D deficiency is particularly high in Italy, as recently confirmed by cohort studies in the general population as well as in patients with metabolic bone disorder. Results confirmed the North-South gradient of vitamin D levels described among European countries, despite the wide use of supplements.

A screening test is not enough to define the prognostic role of cognitive impairment after hip fracture: a short-term prospective study.

Background: Cognitive impairment assessed by easy-to-administer tests successfully predicts function after hip fracture, whereas the prognostic role of additional cognitive evaluations is largely unknown.

Aims: To investigate the capability of further assessments to discriminate cognitive impairment with prognostic relevance in hip-fracture women defined cognitively intact or mildly impaired on the Short Portable Mental Status Questionnaire (SPMSQ).

Methods: We prospectively investigated women with subacute hip fracture admitted to our rehabilitation facility.

Reproducibility and Accuracy of the Radiofrequency Echographic Multi-Spectrometry for Femoral Mineral Density Estimation and Discriminative Power of the Femoral Fragility Score in Patients with Primary and Disuse-Related Osteoporosis.

We aimed to investigate the reproducibility and accuracy of Radiofrequency Echographic Multi-Spectrometry (REMS) for femoral BMD estimation and the reproducibility and discriminative power of the REMS-derived femoral fragility score. 175 patients with primary and disuse-related osteoporosis were recruited: one femoral Dual-energy X-ray Absorptiometry (DXA) scan and two femoral REMS scans were acquired. No significant test-retest differences were observed for all REMS-derived variables.

Increased Risk to Develop Hypertension and Carotid Plaques in Patients with Long-Lasting Gastritis.

Unlabelled: infection has been reported to be positively associated with hypertension, although with conflicting results. In this study, the relationship between infection and hypertension, as well as atherosclerotic carotid lesions, was analyzed.

Methods: Clinical records of patients referred to undergo upper endoscopy and gastric biopsy were retrieved.

Sarcopenic obesity and function in women with subacute hip fracture: a short-term prospective study.

Background: The prognostic role exerted by the concurrent presence of sarcopenia and obesity after hip fracture has not been elucidated.

Aim: To assess the effect of sarcopenic obesity on ability to function in women with subacute hip fracture.

Design: Short-term prospective study.

Effectiveness of a home-based telerehabilitation system in patients after total hip arthroplasty: study protocol of a randomized controlled trial.

Background: The demand for total hip arthroplasty (THA) is quickly rising given the escalating global incidence of hip osteoarthritis, and it is widely accepted that the post-surgery rehabilitation is key to optimize outcomes. The overall objective of this study is to evaluate the effectiveness of a new telerehabilitation solution, ReHub, for the physical function and clinical outcome improvement following THA. The specific aims of this manuscript are to describe the study design, protocol, content of interventions, and primary and secondary outcomes and to discuss the clinical rehabilitation impact of the expected experimental results.

Sarcopenia, osteoporosis and the burden of prevalent vertebral fractures: a cross-sectional study of 350 women with hip fracture.

Background: The concurrent presence of sarcopenia and osteoporosis may enhance fracture risk.

Aim: The aim of this study was to evaluate the association between sarcopenia, osteoporosis, or the concurrent presence of both the conditions (osteosarcopenia) and the burden (number and severity) of vertebral fractures in women with hip fracture.

Design: Cross-sectional study.

Simultaneous hip and upper-limb fractures are associated with lower Geriatric Nutritional Index scores than isolated hip fractures: a cross-sectional study of 858 women.

Background And Aims: Factors associated with simultaneous fractures at hip and upper limb have scarcely been investigated. Our aim was to assess the association between Geriatric Nutritional Risk Index (GNRI) scores and concurrent upper-limb fractures in women with a fall-related hip fracture.

Methods: We investigated 858 of 907 women admitted to our Physical and Rehabilitation Medicine ward following a fall-related hip fracture.

Influence of controlled encoding and retrieval facilitation on memory performance of patients with subcortical ischemic vascular dementia and Alzheimer's disease.

Patients with subcortical ischemic vascular dementia (SIVD) perform better than Alzheimer's disease patients (AD) on the Free and Cued Recall Selective Reminding test (FCSRT). In this test, SIVD are able to overcome their strategic retrieval deficit, whereas AD patients, whose memory impairment is due to a hippocampal storage deficit, are not. However, the FCSRT does not assess the advantage passing from free to assisted learning, which is expected to be different in frontal and hippocampal damage.

A New Threshold for Appendicular Lean Mass Discriminates Muscle Weakness in Women With Hip Fracture: A Cross-Sectional Study.

Objective: The aim of the study was to investigate the relationship between measures of muscle mass and grip strength in women with subacute hip fracture. Firstly, we aimed to assess the capability of the current thresholds for appendicular lean mass, appendicular lean mass/body mass index ratio and appendicular lean mass/height to separate weak and nonweak women. Secondly, we aimed to explore alternative thresholds for the three measures of muscle mass to discriminate weakness.

Is there a definition of low lean mass that captures the associated low bone mineral density? A cross-sectional study of 80 men with hip fracture.

Background And Aims: Subjects with osteosarcopenia, the concurrent presence of sarcopenia and osteoporosis, have prognostic disadvantages and can benefit from treatments targeted at both the conditions. Our aim was to elucidate whether the available definitions of low appendicular lean mass (aLM) capture or not the men with associated low bone mineral density (BMD) following a hip fracture.

Methods: 80 men admitted to our rehabilitation hospital underwent a dual-energy X-ray absorptiometry scan 19.

The attribute priming effect in patients with Alzheimer's disease.

Experiments with semantic priming (SP) paradigms have documented early hypopriming in patients with AD when concepts are used as primes and attribute concept features as targets, suggesting that concept attributes are vulnerable to damage very early in the disease course. The aims of this study were to confirm early priming reduction in the attribute condition in patients with AD and to determine which of several semantic indexes (such as the level of distinctiveness, correlation or feature dominance of concept features) best predicts the priming effect size in AD. We administered an SP attribute condition paradigm to 20 mildly demented patients with AD and to 10 NCs.

Classes of vitamin D status and functional outcome after hip fracture: a prospective, short-term study of 1350 inpatients.

Background: Vitamin D depletion is associated with unfavourable outcomes after hip fracture. However, the classes of vitamin D status currently in use, which are defined according to serum calcifediol levels, have not been validated for their predictive capability of the functional recovery.

Aim: To investigate the association between serum calcifediol categorized into 4 classes and the functional recovery after hip fracture.

Association between low lean mass and low bone mineral density in 653 women with hip fracture: does the definition of low lean mass matter?

Background And Aims: Loss of both muscle and bone mass results in fragility fractures with increased risk of disability, poor quality of life, and death. Our aim was to assess the association between low appendicular lean mass (aLM) defined according to different criteria and low bone mineral density (BMD) in hip-fracture women.

Methods: Six hundred fifty-three women admitted to our rehabilitation hospital underwent dual energy X-ray absorptiometry 19.

Neuropsychological Correlates of Behavioral Symptoms in Alzheimer's Disease, Frontal Variant of Frontotemporal, Subcortical Vascular, and Lewy Body Dementias: A Comparative Study.

(Reprinted with permission from 2014; 39:669-677).

Time trend 2000-2013 of vitamin D status in older people who sustain hip fractures: steps forward or steps back? A retrospective study of 1599 patients.

Background: Substantial proportions of hip-fracture patients have very low serum levels of 25-hydroxyvitamin D, which can negatively affect rehabilitation. However, it is not known whether changes in vitamin D deficiency have occurred over the last years in the patients who sustain hip fractures.

Aim: To assess time trend 2000-2013 of calcifediol serum levels in the hip-fracture patients admitted to our rehabilitation division.

Prevalence and burden of vertebral fractures in older men and women with hip fracture: A cross-sectional study.

Aim: To investigate the prevalence and burden (combination of number and severity) of vertebral fractures in men and women with hip fracture.

Methods: We investigated 458 of 490 hip-fracture patients admitted consecutively to a rehabilitation hospital. Lateral radiographs of the spine were taken 19.