Background: Reproductive health issues remain a serious concern, especially for university students. The problem occurs due to a lack of knowledge about three primary threats to adolescent reproductive health, namely, sexuality, HIV / AIDS, and drug abuse, which will affect the attitudes and practices that university students will adopt related to reproductive health. This study aims to analyze the effect of reproductive health education through videos and e-leaflets on improving students' reproductive health knowledge, attitudes, and practices.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFMetabolic syndrome (MetS) is associated with osteogenic transdifferentiation of vascular smooth muscle cells (VSMCs) and accumulation of arterial calcifications (ACs). Metformin (MET) inhibits this transdifferentiation in vitro. Here, we evaluate the in vivo efficacy of oral MET to reduce AC in a model of MetS.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFBackground: This retrospective observational study described the epidemiology and the burden on the Italian healthcare service (SSN) of patients with polyneuropathy (PN) associated with hereditary transthyretin amyloidosis (ATTRv).
Research Design And Methods: From the Fondazione ReS (Ricerca e Salute) administrative healthcare database (~5.5 million inhabitants in 2021), patients were identified as having ATTRv-PN in 2021 if they had received treatments for ATTRv-PN under SSN reimbursement (i.
The role of Real-World Evidence (RWE) concerns the entire drug lifecycle; despite widely recognised in the post-marketing, it is still debated in the pre-marketing, mainly as per the identification and analysis of target populations (TPs) for new drugs or indications. Through administrative healthcare databases, Research and Health Foundation (ReS), in collaboration with experts, develops algorithms to select and analyse TPs. As of March 2024, 85 TPs in 15 clinical areas have been analysed, of which oncology is the most represented.
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