Healthy Promotion for Fighting Metabolic Syndrome: Insights from Multi-Center HeRO-FiT Cohort.

We know that metabolic syndrome (MS) is a modern cardiovascular (CV) "epidemic", especially in western populations. MS is indeed strictly related to the risk of developing CV diseases (CVD) and/or diabetes. Therefore, the aim of our multi-center study was to promote a "healthy style" for fighting MS.

Individualized Breakfast Programs or Glycogen Super-Compensation: Which Is the Better Performing Strategy? Insights from an Italian Soccer Referees Cohort.

The role of soccer referees has grown in importance in the last decades, as has attention to their performance, which may be influenced and improved with specific and evolved training programs. Today, multiple specialists are working as a team in order to develop effective training programs. Moreover, for athletes, it is becoming more and more important to be attentive to nutrition.

A technical report reviewing the use of the 11-mm Gamma nail: interoperative femur fracture incidence.

Two years after the first large series on the Gamma nail, the authors analyze 119 surgical procedures for proximal femur fractures performed using the 11 mm Gamma nail. The study was performed by 24 surgeons (from six orthopedics departments) at different levels of learning, as in the previous study. The small-sized nail allows an easier surgical procedure and a manual introduction of the nail even in small femurs, as suggested by the previous experience.

The results of a multicenter Italian study on the use of the Gamma nail for the treatment of pertrochanteric and subtrochanteric fractures: a review of 1181 cases.

A total of 1147 pertrochanteric and subtrochanteric fractures, 10 delays in consolidation and non-union, 24 pathologic fractures and osteolysis with the risk of fracture, treated with a gamma nail in 17 Italian departments of traumatology, were collected. In 70% of the patients weight-bearing was allowed during the first week postsurgery; 77% of the patients followed-up recovered the same ability to walk that had preceded trauma. Complications included intraoperative (1.

A case of traumatic plastic deformation of the forearm in the adult.

Traumatic plastic deformation is a rare occurrence in childhood and is exceptional during adult age. The authors report one case of the lesion occurring in a patient aged 20 years; they emphasize the need for adequate treatment, and formulate a pathogenetic hypothesis with a biomechanical basis.

Results of the multicentric Italian experience on the Gamma nail: a report on 648 cases.

In a multicentric study, the data of 628 trochanteric fractures, two non-unions, and 18 pathologic or impending fractures treated by Gamma nail in 13 Italian traumatology services were collected and analyzed. In 70% of the patients weight bearing was allowed in the first postoperative week and 78% of the controlled patients returned to their pretrauma walking ability. Complications included intraoperative (1.