Our aim was to evaluate incidence and riskfactors of liver involvement in obese Italian
childrenas assessed by both ultrasonographic and biochemicalparameters. In seventy-five …

Objective: To determine whether ursodeoxycholic acid (UDCA) is effective for treatment of
obesity-related liver abnormalities in children. Study design: Thirty-one children (21 boys; …

Background The Operating Room (OR) is a key resource of all major hospitals, but it also
accounts for up 40 % of resource costs. Improving cost effectiveness, while maintaining a …

Background In cardiovascular prevention and rehabilitation, care activities are carried out by
different professionals in coordination, each with their own specific competence. This GICR–…

Cardiac rehabilitation (CR) is the subspecialty of clinical cardiology dedicated to the treatment
of cardiac patients, early and in the long term after an acute event. The aim of CR is to …

Asymptomatic liver involvement is more and more recognized in otherwise healthy, obese
children (1–3). Loss of weight in these patients is an important target to achieve because it is …

… terms of capital raised per startups, averaging $1.15M dollars per venture. London also had
the … where the average capital raised per startup is $3M and 56% of entrepreneurs are serial …

… Potted experimental plants were then transferred from the greenhouse and placed in six
fibreglass aquatic mesocosms (9500 L volume; 0.9 m depth × 3.7 m diameter). Pots with …

Autoimmune polyendocrinopathy-can-didiasis-ectodermal dystrophy (APECED) is an
inherited disease which may comprise many endocrine and non-endocrine components. GH …

Obesity is a multifactorial disease due to the influence of both genetic and environmental
factors. Parents of 886 obese patients (427 boys and 459 girls, aged 1-18 years) were …