Publications by authors named "Maristella Belfiori"
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- The study investigates the link between sleep quality and daytime sleepiness with fall risk in older adults aged 75 and above.
- Conducted in Italy, the research assessed 206 participants using sleep quality metrics and fall risk evaluations, revealing that a significant number had poor sleep quality and excessive daytime sleepiness.
- Findings indicate that poor sleep quality and excessive daytime sleepiness significantly increase the risk of falls, suggesting these factors should be managed in elderly care.
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- The study investigates how sex differences affect sleep quality and daytime sleepiness in older adults (aged 65+), as current understanding is primarily based on younger populations.
- Involving 226 participants (69.5% women), it found that many elderly individuals (64.2%) reported poor sleep quality, with an initial finding that men were half as likely as women to have poor sleep.
- However, when adjustments for cognitive status and mood were made, the differences in sleep quality between men and women were no longer significant, indicating that cognitive and emotional factors play a role in sleep issues among the elderly.
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- Recent heart failure (HF) guidelines emphasize early initiation and rapid adjustment of medical therapies for patients with reduced ejection fraction to lower the chances of rehospitalization and death.
- * For elderly patients, this intensive approach may not be practical due to frailty, multiple health issues, and risks of negative side effects, along with a lack of effective monitoring during treatment adjustments.
- * In patients with preserved ejection fraction, sodium-glucose cotransporter 2 inhibitors have shown benefits for reducing hospitalizations and cardiovascular deaths, but their effectiveness in certain heart conditions remains untested due to the absence of relevant clinical trials.
: Human Immunodeficiency Virus (HIV) infection represents a significant public health concern and, consequently, the incidence of HIV-Associated Neurocognitive Disorder (HAND) has grown over the years. The present study aims to assess HAND with the Montreal Cognitive Assessment (MoCA) in People Living With HIV/AIDS (PLWHA) to find significant associations with cognitive impairment. : The study included 210 PLWHA, aged from 30 to 81 years, of whom, 137 (65.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFBackground: Currently, the global demographic landscape is undergoing a transformative shift towards an increasingly aging population. This leads to an increase in chronic pathologies, including depression and cognitive impairment. This study aimed to evaluate the association between depressive mood, whether in treatment or not, and cognitive capacities, assessed using the Repeatable Battery for the Assessment of Neuropsychological Status (RBANS).
View Article and Find Full Text PDFNowadays, more studies deal with "OrthoGeriatrics", for the co-management of elderly patients suffering fractures, from the admission to the discharge and beyond. For the first time at Cagliari University Hospital, we introduced an orthogeriatric service, in which trained geriatricians stay in orthopedic unit alongside trained orthopedics. The primary aim of the study was to analyze the rate of death and rehospitalization in elderly femur-fractured people of 65 or more years of age, identifying possible predictive factors.
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