Publications by authors named "R Sarzani"
Article Synopsis
- The study investigated how the COVID-19 pandemic affected blood pressure control in patients with hypertension using ambulatory blood pressure monitoring (ABPM).
- Data were compared between two groups: patients measured before the pandemic and those measured during it, with a total of 704 pandemic patients and 916 prepandemic patients included in the analysis.
- Results showed that during the pandemic, patients had higher blood pressure readings and a greater prevalence of uncontrolled hypertension, highlighting the need for strategies to manage blood pressure during such crises.
Background: We evaluated the prevalence of "heart stress" (HS) based on NT-proBNP cut-points proposed by the 2023 Consensus of the Heart Failure Association (HFA) of the European Society of Cardiology (ESC) in asymptomatic patients with T2DM and hypertension or high-normal blood pressure (BP) eligible for SGLT2 inhibitors (SGLT2i) and/or GLP-1 receptor agonists (GLP1-RA), drugs with proven benefits on reducing the incidence of HF, hospitalizations, cardiovascular events and mortality.
Methods: A cross-sectional multicentric study was conducted on 192 consecutive outpatients, aged ≥ 55 years, with hypertension or high-normal BP, referred to three diabetology units. NT-proBNP was collected before starting new anti-diabetic therapy.
Article Synopsis
- This study investigates how chest CT scans can assess lung damage in older COVID-19 patients and explore the link between imaging results and certain circulating markers in the blood, specifically microRNAs.
- A retrospective analysis of 73 patients aged 75 and above identified CT parameters like lung consolidation percentage and CT-score as significant predictors of mortality in these patients.
- The findings suggest that higher levels of serum microRNA miR-483-5p relate to greater lung involvement, helping to predict outcomes in older adults with COVID-19 pneumonia.