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Does treating obesity also reduce the risk factors associated with the diseases resulting from it, such as myocardial infarction, stroke and atherosclerosis? Studies directed to answer this question confirmed the cause and effect relationship between severe obesity and cardiovascular risk, and thus the potential benefit that comes from the treatment of this condition. However, the relationship... read

Hypertension is a major public health problem: in Italy there are 15 million people suffering from hypertension, and the need to treat is of increasingly greater importance. Treatment of hypertension is based on two approaches: pharmacological and non pharmacological. The latter, which is of great importance for avoiding lifelong use of drugs, is based on smoke avoidance, weight loss and... read

In the past 14 years we have seen a gradual and steady decrease in the mortality rate from AIDS in industrialized countries. This new reality is obviously in close correlation with the improvement of therapeutic strategies that, since then, have included the use of highly active triple therapy (HAART), which today provide a number of new drug classes (integrase inhibitors, CCR5 inhibitors etc.)... read

Before beginning a discussion on the technical aspects of the various interventions for the treatment of the ulcers secondary to venous stasis, it is necessary to clarify their role, their objectives, and their indications. The diagnosis of venous ulcer is certainly not by itself sufficient to guide the therapeutic choice. Moreover, the patient usually requires our intervention after a long... read

The Metabolic Syndrome is a clinical condition characterized by the presence of multiple cardiovascular risk factors in the same subject, and particularly, hypertension and insulin resistance. Telmisartan is an antihypertensive agent with partial activity on peroxisome proliferator-activated gamma receptor (PPAR-y) and is able to improve insulin sensitivity and lipid profile in patients with... read

Most people think that Glaucoma is almost exclusively a single disease. To the contrary, glaucoma is not considered a single disease, but a diverse group of pathologies that share a chronic and progressive damage to the optic nerve and to the retinal nerve fiber layer. These diseases are important because the damage they cause is irreversible and set in silently, until they manifest their... read

COPD is no longer a standalone condition, rather is a disease that is too often linked with other diseases, including various non-respiratory disorders, such as cardiovascular disease, cancers and even osteoporosis, which, in turn, are all diseases associated to other chronic conditions, such as hypertension and arterial disease. The statistics, moreover, are clear: over half of the people... read

We can safely say that snoring is a completely spontaneous and democratic behavior that affects a large part of the world population regardless of sex. This disorder, which can be considered trivial, is present in childhood, youth and in senescence. In Italy, a recent EURISKO survey showed that 44% of 19 million and 600,000 snorers (equal to 40% of the national population) are female. Snoring -... read

The metabolic syndrome, i.e. the presence of several risk factors (hyperglycemia, hypertension, dyslipidemia and excess weight) in the same individual, and insulin resistance, which is at the base of it, are two conditions extremely common in the general population. They are closely associated with improper lifestyle and possibly carry an increased risk of vascular events in subjects in which... read