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R Parisi

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PubMed1992

[Heart failure in the population: prevalence data].

We report on the prevalence of chronic heart failure (CHF) in a random sample of a population (aged 20-64 years) from the Veneto region in northern Italy. The relationship between CHF and hypertension and obesity was also investigated. These data were collected during an international research project coordinated by the World Health Organization. The overall prevalence of CHF was 2.0% both in the male and female population. The prevalence of CHF increased significantly with age and was positively correlated with body mass index in both sexes. Patients with borderline hypertension showed a 3.5-fold increased prevalence of CHF. The prevalence of CHF was 4.9-fold higher in hypertensive than in the normotensive subjects. Patients treated with hypotensive drugs had a significantly higher prevalence of CHF than untreated patients.

Adult↗
PubMed1989

[Usefulness and limitations of hormonal monitoring of pregnancy with HPL and estriol in improving fetal prognosis and preventing neonatal neurologic deficiency].

This multidisciplinary research has been subdivided into two parts. The first examines prognosis of the foetus and its weight development in relation to changes in the hormonal curves of HPL and E3 carried out in a batch of 339 3rd term pregnancies. A very high incidence of small-for-date newborns (30-64%) was noted in mothers with low hormonal values and generally a more frequent onset of hypoxia in pregnancy and in labour. The second part assesses the neurological profile of children born to the same mothers examined in the first part up to the 4th year of life. A neurological deficiency of a different extent was evidenced in 33.3% of the children born to mothers with low hormonal values in pregnancy, especially among those born underweight. The neurological deficiency in the control sample was 7.84%.

Adolescent↗
PubMed1985

Interhemispheric transfer of visual information in schizophrenics.

Groups of 12 male schizophrenic inpatients and 12 normal controls of the same age, sex, and schooling underwent a tachistoscopic test. Each subject was shown an alphabetical letter which he subsequently had to recognize among various other alphabetical letters also shown tachistoscopically. The visual hemifields of the two displays were ipsilateral and crossed. Relative to the normal group the schizophrenics showed higher perceptual thresholds, lower over-all mean performance, and greater lateralization. The results are discussed in terms of rigidly and poorly integrated systems of analysis of information between one hemisphere and the other for schizophrenic patients.

Adolescent↗