[Epidemiology in support of intervention priorities: the case of diabetes in Turin (Piedmont Region, Northern Italy)].

Objectives: to describe the epidemiology of diabetes within the city of Turin (Piedmont Region, Northern Italy) and to present the process initiated by the city network of diabetes care for the improvement of prevention and treatment of the disease.

Design: ecological study based on administrative database.

Setting And Participants: residents in Turin from 2016 to 2018.

Promoting health equity through social capital in deprived communities: a natural policy experiment in Trieste, Italy.

The Trieste Habitat Micro-area Programme (HMP), an innovative social-health service policy, has offered a natural experiment to empirically evaluate the social mechanisms through which social capital may have an impact on health inequalities. To date, literature clarifying this causal chain is scanty. This empirical study tested the following hypotheses: H1) innovative social-health practices can activate social mechanisms intentionally and systematically so as to generate social capital; H2) such social mechanisms increase specific properties of social capital, in particular those influencing more vulnerable individuals' relationships; H3) investing in these properties can enhance capabilities and, consequently, control over the health of more vulnerable individuals.

Association between low lean mass and low bone mineral density in 653 women with hip fracture: does the definition of low lean mass matter?

Background And Aims: Loss of both muscle and bone mass results in fragility fractures with increased risk of disability, poor quality of life, and death. Our aim was to assess the association between low appendicular lean mass (aLM) defined according to different criteria and low bone mineral density (BMD) in hip-fracture women.

Methods: Six hundred fifty-three women admitted to our rehabilitation hospital underwent dual energy X-ray absorptiometry 19.

Time trend 2000-2013 of vitamin D status in older people who sustain hip fractures: steps forward or steps back? A retrospective study of 1599 patients.

Background: Substantial proportions of hip-fracture patients have very low serum levels of 25-hydroxyvitamin D, which can negatively affect rehabilitation. However, it is not known whether changes in vitamin D deficiency have occurred over the last years in the patients who sustain hip fractures.

Aim: To assess time trend 2000-2013 of calcifediol serum levels in the hip-fracture patients admitted to our rehabilitation division.

Prevalence and burden of vertebral fractures in older men and women with hip fracture: A cross-sectional study.

Aim: To investigate the prevalence and burden (combination of number and severity) of vertebral fractures in men and women with hip fracture.

Methods: We investigated 458 of 490 hip-fracture patients admitted consecutively to a rehabilitation hospital. Lateral radiographs of the spine were taken 19.

Concomitant upper limb fractures and short-term functional recovery in hip fracture patients: does the site of upper limb injury matter?

Objective: The aim of this study was to evaluate functional recovery in a subgroup of hip fracture patients who sustained a simultaneous fracture at the upper limb, taking into account the site of upper limb injury.

Design: Of 760 patients admitted consecutively to the authors' rehabilitation hospital because of a fall-related hip fracture, 700 were retrospectively investigated. Functional outcome was assessed using Barthel Index scores.

Handgrip strength but not appendicular lean mass is an independent predictor of functional outcome in hip-fracture women: a short-term prospective study.

Objective: To investigate the contribution of muscle mass and handgrip strength in predicting the functional outcome after hip fracture in women.

Design: Observational study.

Setting: Rehabilitation hospital.

Parathyroid-hormone variance is only marginally explained by a panel of determinants: a cross-sectional study of 909 hip-fracture patients.

Several factors affect the levels of parathyroid hormone (PTH) in hip-fracture patients. We hypothesized that a panel of easily assessable determinants could account for both a substantial proportion of PTH variance and the occurrence of secondary hyperparathyroidism. We evaluated 909 of 981 hip-fracture inpatients admitted consecutively to our Rehabilitation division.

Parathyroid hormone is significantly associated with body fat compartment in men but not in women following a hip fracture.

Background And Aims: Parathyroid hormone (PTH) exerts several actions beyond mineral metabolism and may affect body composition. The aim of our study was to assess the association between serum PTH and body fat compartment in hip fracture patients.

Methods: We studied 575 of 630 inpatients with hip fracture consecutively admitted to our Rehabilitation ward.

Sarcopenia is more prevalent in men than in women after hip fracture: a cross-sectional study of 591 inpatients.

Our aim was to compare the prevalence of sarcopenia in men and women with hip fracture. We studied 591 of 630 hip fracture inpatients consecutively admitted to our Rehabilitation ward. All the patients underwent a Dual-Energy X-Ray Absorptiometry (DXA) scan 18.

Men recover ability to function less than women do: an observational study of 1094 subjects after hip fracture.

Objective: The aim of this study was to investigate the association between sex and functional outcome after acute inpatient rehabilitation in hip-fracture patients.

Design: We investigated 1094 of 1186 people admitted consecutively to our rehabilitation hospital because of a hip fracture. Functional outcome was assessed using Barthel Index scores.

Appendicular lean mass does not mediate the significant association between vitamin D status and functional outcome in hip-fracture women.

Objective: To investigate whether muscle mass mediates the significant association between vitamin D status and functional recovery after hip fracture in women.

Design: Observational study.

Setting: Rehabilitation hospital in Italy.

The burden of prevalent vertebral fractures is negatively associated with functional outcome in women with hip fracture.

Objective: The aim of this study was to investigate the association between the burden of prevalent vertebral fractures and functional outcome in women with hip fracture.

Design: We investigated 164 of 180 women with hip fracture admitted consecutively to a rehabilitation hospital. Lateral radiographs of the spine were taken 20.

Low levels of 25-hydroxyvitamin D are associated with the occurrence of concomitant upper limb fractures in older women who sustain a fall-related fracture of the hip.

Objective: To investigate the association between serum levels of 25-hydroxyvitamin D and the occurrence of simultaneous fractures of the upper limb in older women who sustain a fall-related fracture of the hip.

Study Design: Cross-sectional study.

Main Outcome Measures: We investigated 472 of 480 white women consecutively admitted to a rehabilitation hospital because of a fall-related hip fracture.

The relationship between initial trunk control or postural balance and inpatient rehabilitation outcome after stroke: a prospective comparative study.

Objective: To compare the predictive validity of trunk control in sitting position assessed by Trunk Impairment Scale and balance in lying, sitting and standing posture assessed by Postural Assessment Scale for Stroke patients on functional outcome in stroke survivors.

Design: Prospective observational study.

Setting: A single rehabilitation hospital in Italy.

Prevalence of sarcopenia and its association with osteoporosis in 313 older women following a hip fracture.

Changes in body composition, including a decrease in muscle and bone mass, accompany aging. Our aim was to assess the prevalence of sarcopenia and its association with osteoporosis in hip-fracture women. We performed a Dual-Energy X-Ray Absorptiometry (DXA) scan in 313 of 340 women, 20.

Type of hip fracture in patients with Parkinson disease is associated with femoral bone mineral density.

Objective: To investigate the association between bone mineral density (BMD) and hip fracture type (cervical or trochanteric) in a sample of fallers with Parkinson disease (PD).

Design: Observational study.

Setting: Rehabilitation hospital in Italy.

Serum levels of insulin-like growth factor-I are positively associated with functional outcome after hip fracture in elderly women.

Objective: To investigate the association between serum levels of insulin-like growth factor-I (IGF-I) and functional outcome in hip-fracture women.

Design: We investigated 171 of 188 women admitted consecutively to a rehabilitation hospital after hip fracture. IGF-I serum levels were assessed by using an automated chemiluminescence immunoassay 21.

Muscle mass and functional recovery in men with hip fracture.

Objective: To investigate the association between muscle mass and functional recovery in men after hip fracture.

Design: We investigated 27 of 33 men admitted consecutively to a rehabilitation hospital after hip fracture. For each patient, we also studied two control women, matched for age and fracture type.

Skeletal muscle mass, fat mass, and hip bone mineral density in elderly women with hip fracture.

Soft tissue body composition strongly affects bone health. Our aim was to investigate the relationship between both skeletal muscle mass (SMM) and fat mass (FM) and femoral bone mineral density (BMD) in a sample of elderly women with hip fracture. We assessed 293 of 325 hip fracture women admitted consecutively to a rehabilitation hospital.

Fat mass and skeletal muscle mass in hip-fracture women: a cross-sectional study.

Objectives: To investigate the association between appendicular lean mass (aLM) and age, fat mass (FM), serum levels of Vitamin D, parathyroid hormone, three parameters of the protein nutritional status (total lymphocyte count, serum albumin, and insulin-like growth factor I), levels of independence in activities of daily living (assessed by using Barthel index scores), type both of hip fracture and surgical operation, number of medications in use, and number of concomitant diseases in hip-fracture women.

Methods: We investigated 299 of 327 hip-fracture women admitted consecutively to a rehabilitation hospital. Soft tissue body composition was assessed by dual-energy X-ray absorptiometry, 22.

Bone mineral density in hip-fracture patients with Parkinson's disease: a case-control study.

Objective: To investigate bone mineral density (BMD) levels in patients with Parkinson's disease (PD) who sustained a hip fracture.

Design: Case-control study.

Setting: Rehabilitation hospital in Italy.

Body mass index and functional recovery after hip fracture: a survey study of 510 women.

Background And Aims: Low body mass index (BMI) is associated with high risk of osteoporosis and fractures, but its impact on functional recovery after fractures is unknown. Our aim was to investigate the association between BMI and both functional recovery and period of rehabilitation in hip-fractured women.

Methods: 510 out of 580 Caucasian women with hip fracture, admitted consecutively to a rehabilitation hospital, were investigated in this retrospective study.

Muscle mass and functional recovery in women with hip fracture.

Objective: To investigate the association between muscle mass and functional recovery in women with hip fracture.

Design: A total of 200 of 230 women with hip fracture admitted consecutively to a rehabilitation hospital were investigated in this survey study. Lean mass (LM) was assessed by dual-energy x-ray absorptiometry, 23.