Publications by authors named "V A Degennaro"
Article Synopsis
- Breast cancer is a common illness among women in the Caribbean, but not much is known about how their reproductive patterns affect when they get diagnosed.
- A study was done to look at changes in these reproductive patterns and the age at which Caribbean women are diagnosed with breast cancer.
- The study included over 1,000 women from various Caribbean countries, finding that younger women are more likely to start their periods earlier compared to older women.
Objective: In Haiti, cervical cancer continues to cause high levels of mortality and morbidity due to lack of resources and political unrest. Haitian women employed in factories are especially vulnerable because they are unable to take time away from work to access health resources. We aimed to describe a low-cost intervention which successfully addressed this need.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFBackground: Throughout the pregnancy, there is a substantial transfer of calcium from the maternal skeleton to the fetus, which leads to a transient net reduction of the maternal bone mineral density.
Aims: To assess longitudinally the changes in the bone mineral density at the femoral neck between the first and third trimester of pregnancy in a cohort of healthy participants using Radiofrequency Echographic Multi Spectrometry (REMS) technology.
Methods: Prospective, cohort study conducted at the University hospital of Parma, Italy between July 2022 and February 2023.
Purpose: The aim of this study is to investigate the placental expression of VEGF and CD31 in pregnancies complicated by gestational diabetes (GDM) and the influence of pregestational BMI and gestational weight gain (GWG) on this expression.
Methods: We prospectively enrolled pregnant women with diagnosis of GDM and healthy controls who delivered in our Center between December 2016 and May 2017. Patients were grouped according to the presence of GDM and we compared pregnancy characteristics, placental VEGF and CD31 expression between the cases and controls.