Use of quantitative ultrasound as bone mineral density evaluation in an Italian female population living with HIV: A real-life experience.

This is a multicenter cross-sectional study where we aimed to detect the rate of osteopenia/osteoporosis in an HIV female population (WLWHIV) by means of "heel quantitative ultrasound" (QUS) measurement. We enrolled 273 patients, mean age 48.1 years, 36% menopausal, 96% on combination antiretroviral therapy (cART).

The role of biofilm forming on mortality in patients with candidemia: a study derived from real world data.

Background: Evaluation of the role on patient mortality exerted by biofilm forming (BF) Candida strains, by using predictive clinical data.

Methods: Eighty-nine strains isolated from Candida bloodstream infection, occurring in two Italian University Hospitals, were employed in this study. A random forest (RF) model was built with a procedure of iterative selection of the risk factors potentially able to predict the probability of death.