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| Francesca InnocentiSummaryAffiliation: University of Florence Country: Italy Publications
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Prognostic value of dobutamine stress echocardiography in diabetic patientsFrancesca Innocenti
Department of Critical Care Medicine and Surgery, University of Florence and Azienda Ospedaliero Universitaria Careggi, Via delle Oblate 1, 50141, Florence, Italy
Int J Cardiovasc Imaging 26:499-507. 2010..245, CI: 1.503-7.005, P = 0.003). In diabetic patients with known or suspected CAD, presence of viability and severe ischemia during DSE are independently associated with higher occurrence of hard cardiac events...- Features of excessive alcohol drinking in older adults distinctively captured by behavioral and biological screening instruments. An epidemiological studyM Di Bari
Department of Critical Care Medicine and Surgery, Section of Gerontology and Geriatric Medicine, University of Florence, Florence, Italy
J Clin Epidemiol 55:41-7. 2002..Screening tests based on behavioral and biological markers identify two different sets of subjects with possible alcohol problems. This might indicate the opportunity to use these instruments in conjunction... - Care available to severely disabled older persons living at home in Florence, ItalyMauro Di Bari
Unit of Gerontology and Geriatrics, Department of Critical Care Medicine and Surgery, University of Florence and Azienda Ospedaliero Universitaria Careggi, Florence, Italy
Aging Clin Exp Res 20:31-9. 2008..To characterize the epidemiology of disability in, and the level of care available to, older community-dwellers in an Italian urban sample... - Research partnership with underserved African-American communities to improve the health of older persons with disability: a pilot qualitative studyMauro Di Bari
Unit of Gerontology and Geriatrics, Department of Critical Care Medicine and Surgery, Azienda Ospedaliero Universitaria Careggi, Florence, Italy
Aging Clin Exp Res 19:110-8. 2007..The aim of this study was to investigate an African-American community's perceptions about the barriers that hinder participation in research studies and, more broadly, on the status of institution/community relationships... - Predictive validity of measures of comorbidity in older community dwellers: the Insufficienza Cardiaca negli Anziani Residenti a Dicomano StudyMauro Di Bari
Department of Critical Care Medicine and Surgery, Unit of Gerontology and Geriatrics, University of Florence, Florence, Italy
J Am Geriatr Soc 54:210-6. 2006..To compare the ability of five measures of comorbidity to predict mortality and incident disability in basic activities of daily living (BADLs) in unselected older persons... - Limited utility of the subcostal view for the echocardiographic evaluation of left ventricular mass in epidemiological studies of older personsMauro Di Bari
Unit of Gerontology and Geriatrics, Department of Critical Care Medicine and Surgery, University of Florence and Azienda Ospedaliera Careggi, Via delle Oblate, 4, 50141 Florence, Italy
Int J Cardiol 97:521-7. 2004..This study was undertaken to assess whether the subcostal view is a valid alternative to estimate left ventricular mass in an unselected older population... - The diagnosis of heart failure in the community. Comparative validation of four sets of criteria in unselected older adults: the ICARe Dicomano StudyMauro Di Bari
Department of Critical Care Medicine and Surgery, Unit of Gerontology and Geriatrics, University of Florence, Via delle Oblate 4, 50141 Florence, Italy
J Am Coll Cardiol 44:1601-8. 2004..We sought to compare construct and predictive validity of four sets of heart failure (HF) diagnostic criteria in an epidemiologic setting... - Antihypertensive medications and differences in muscle mass in older persons: the Health, Aging and Body Composition StudyMauro Di Bari
Department of Internal Medicine, Sticht Center on Aging, Wake Forest University Baptist Medical Center, Winston Salem, North Carolina, USA
J Am Geriatr Soc 52:961-6. 2004..To evaluate whether older persons using angiotensin-converting enzyme (ACE) inhibitors have a larger lower extremity muscle mass (LEMM) than users of other antihypertensive drugs... - Thoracic kyphosis and ventilatory dysfunction in unselected older persons: an epidemiological study in Dicomano, ItalyMauro Di Bari
Department of Critical Care Medicine and Surgery, Unit of Gerontology and Geriatric Medicine, University of Florence and Azienda Ospedaliera Careggi, Florence, Italy
J Am Geriatr Soc 52:909-15. 2004..To assess whether kyphosis is associated with ventilatory dysfunction in older community dwellers... - Beta-blockers after acute myocardial infarction in elderly patients with diabetes mellitus: time to reassessMauro Di Bari
Department of Internal Medicine, Sticht Center on Aging, Wake Forest University Baptist Medical Center, Winston Salem, North Carolina, USA
Drugs Aging 20:13-22. 2003..The use of these agents in clinical practice should therefore be encouraged, in order to reduce the burden of cardiovascular mortality and morbidity in older diabetic patients post-infarction... - Prognostic value of dobutamine stress echocardiography in octogenariansFrancesca Innocenti
Department of Critical Care Medicine and Surgery, University of Florence and Azienda Ospedaliero Universitaria Careggi, Florence, Italy
Int J Cardiovasc Imaging 27:65-74. 2011..No parameter derived from EST showed an independent prognostic role. DSE showed a significant prognostic value in octogenarians, both for all-cause mortality and major cardiac events... - Left ventricular remodeling in the elderly with acute anterior myocardial infarction treated with primary coronary interventionFrancesca Innocenti
Department of Critical Care Medicine and Surgery, University of Florence and Azienda Ospedaliero Universitaria Careggi, Via delle Oblate 1, 50141, Florence, Italy
Intern Emerg Med 5:311-9. 2010..This study demonstrates that PCI in the geriatric population with aSTEMI is as equally effective as in younger subjects, in terms of LV remodeling and function... - Prognostic value of exercise stress test and dobutamine stress echo in patients with known coronary artery diseaseFrancesca Innocenti
Department of Critical Care Medicine and Surgery, Unit of Geriatric Cardiology, University of Florence and Azienda Ospedaliero Universitaria Careggi, Florence, Italy
Echocardiography 26:1-9. 2009.... - Reproducibility of Doppler echocardiographic assessment of left ventricular diastolic function in multicenter settingVittorio Palmieri
Department of Clinical and Experimental Medicine, Federico II University School of Medicine, Via Pansini 5, 80131 Naples, Italy
J Am Soc Echocardiogr 18:99-106. 2005..Whether Doppler echocardiography allows reliable assessment of left ventricular (LV) diastolic parameters in multicenter studies is disputed...