Validation of a Food Frequency Questionnaire: VioScreen-Allergy.

Background/objectives: An adapted version of an online pictorial food frequency questionnaire (FFQ), VioScreen-Allergy, assesses total dietary intake and intake of allergens and foods in the maternal diet index (MDI), linked to offspring allergy. This study assessed intermethod reliability, test-retest reliability, and external validity of the VioScreen-Allergy.

Methods: Females of childbearing age were recruited at Denver Health and Children's Hospital, Colorado, USA, and were asked to complete four 24 h recalls and two VioScreen-Allergy FFQs over the course of a month.

Secondary prevention and extreme cardiovascular risk evaluation (SEVERE-0): Prevalence of extreme cardiovascular risk in cardiological rehabilitation patients and its impact on functional improvement.

Background And Aims: Patients with recent Acute Coronary Syndrome (ACS) or Chronic Coronary Syndrome (CCS) are all at very high CardioVascular (CV) risk. However, some of them are more likely to experience recurrent cardiovascular events (i.e extreme CV risk).

Cardiac amyloidosis red flags: What all the cardiologist have to know.

Cardiac amyloidosis is becoming increasingly important among cardiologist and an early diagnosis is very important. Amyloidosis is a systemic disease and many cardiac and extracardiac elements (red flags) should raise the suspicion of the disease. Electrocardiographic and imaging techniques (such as echocardiography, cardiac magnetic resonance and scintigraphy) are useful tools to make a diagnosis together with the presence of orthopedic issues, peripheral neuropathy or plasma cell dyscrasia.

Hyperuricemia in Cardiac Rehabilitation Patients: Prevalence and Association with Functional Improvement and Left Ventricular Ejection Fraction.

Introduction: The role of uric acid (UA) and Hyper Uricemia (HU) in cardiac rehabilitation (CR) patients have been very little studied.

Aim: To evaluate the prevalence of HU and if it is associated to the functional improvement obtained or the left ventricular Ejection Fraction (EF) in CR patients after Acute or Chronic Coronary Syndrome (ACS and CCS respectively).

Methods: We enrol 411 patients (62.

Doppler-Derived Renal Functional Reserve in the Prediction of Postoperative Acute Kidney Injury in Patients Undergoing Robotic Surgery.

Background: Postoperative acute kidney injury (PO-AKI) is a frequent complication after surgery. Various tools have been proposed to identify patients at high risk for AKI, including preoperative serum creatinine or estimated glomerular filtration rate (eGFR), urinary cell cycle arrest, and tubular damage biomarkers; however, none of these can appropriately assess AKI risk before surgery. Renal functional reserve (RFR) screened by the Doppler-derived intraparenchymal renal resistive index variation (IRRIV) test has been proposed to identify patients at risk for AKI before a kidney insult.