Long-Term Outcomes of Arthroscope-Assisted Bone-Ligament-Bone Reconstruction for Nonstatic Scapholunate Ligament Injury.

Background: Scapholunate ligament injury is the most common cause of carpal instability. This retrospective case series aimed to assess the effectiveness and the maintenance of the results obtained by reconstructing the scapholunate ligament with a bone-ligament-bone autograft through an arthroscope-assisted minimally invasive approach.

Methods: Thirty-six patients were enrolled initially but only 31 constituted the final population study (23 male, eight female; median age, 38 years; age range, 18 to 55 years).

How a faecal immunochemical test screening programme changes annual colorectal cancer incidence rates: an Italian intention-to-screen study.

Background: This study aimed to evaluate the effectiveness of a biennial faecal immunochemical test (FIT) screening programme in reducing annual colorectal cancer (CRC) incidence in its dynamic target population.

Methods: The target population included over 1,000,000 persons aged 50-69 living in a region of northern Italy. The average annual response rate to invitation was 51.

Five-year annual incidence and clinico-molecular features of breast cancer after the last negative screening mammography at age 68-69.

Objective: The European Commission Initiative on Breast Cancer recommendation for triennial screening of women aged 70-74 is based on very weak evidence. A cohort of Italian women who had their last biennial screening mammography at age 68-69 was followed up for 5 years, assumed to represent the interval to another hypothetical screening mammography, in order to determine the annual proportional incidence of interval breast cancer.

Methods: The cohort included 118,370 women.

The two behavioural risk factor surveillances on the adult and elderly populations as information systems for leveraging data on health-related sustainable development goals in Italy.

Introduction: Current lengthening of average life and constant increase of population ageing associated to forces that include rapid unplanned urbanisation and globalisation of unhealthy behaviours have determined the huge relevance of noncommunicable diseases (NCDs). Monitoring key modifiable behavioural risk factors has resulted to be crucial both in spatial terms and as per temporal trends in order to allow comparisons between different geographic areas or levels and over time.

Materials And Methods: In Italy, PASSI (Progressi delle Aziende Sanitarie per la Salute in Italia) and Passi d'Argento are the ongoing Behavioural Risk Factor Surveillance Systems (BRFSSs), respectively, on adults (people aged 18-69) and elderly (65 and older).