Alloni Dott.ssa Marta
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Prevalence of hypertension mediated organ damage in subjects with high-normal blood pressure without known hypertension as well as cardiovascular and kidney disease.
J Hum Hypertens2022 Jul;36(7):610-616. doi: 10.1038/s41371-021-00604-6.
Maloberti Alessandro, Rebora Paola, Occhino Giuseppe, Alloni Marta, Musca Francesco, Belli Oriana, Spano Francesca, Santambrogio Gloria Maria, Occhi Lucia, De Chiara Benedetta, Casadei Francesca, Moreo Antonella, Valsecchi Maria Grazia, Giannattasio Cristina
Abstract
Purpose of our study was to assess the prevalence of hypertension mediated organ damage (HMOD) in healthy subjects with high-normal Blood Pressure (BP) comparing them with subjects with BP values that are considered normal (
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Renal artery stenosis as the cause of resistant arterial hypertension: an unusual technique for revascularization.
J Clin Hypertens (Greenwich)2014 Jul;16(7):536-7. doi: 10.1111/jch.12331.
De Biase Anna, Varrenti Marisa, Meani Paolo, Cesana Francesca, Pirola Roberto, Giupponi Luca, Alloni Marta, Vallerio Paola, Moreo Antonella, Rampoldi Antonio, Giannattasio Cristina
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Impact of blood glucose variability on carotid artery intima media thickness and distensibility in type 1 diabetes mellitus.
Blood Press2013 Dec;22(6):355-61. doi: 10.3109/08037051.2013.791413.
Cesana Francesca, Giannattasio Cristina, Nava Stefano, Soriano Francesco, Brambilla Gianmaria, Baroni Matteo, Meani Paolo, Varrenti Marisa, Paleari Felice, Gamba Pierluigi, Facchetti Rita, Alloni Marta, Grassi Guido, Mancia Giuseppe
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AIMS:
Diabetes mellitus is characterized by structural and functional alterations of the large- and medium-size arteries. Whether blood glucose variability, i.e. the glycemic oscillations occurring during the 24-h period, represents a risk factor for vascular alterations additional to and independent on HbA1c in type 1 diabetes mellitus is still undefined. The present study was carried out with the aim at investigating the impact of different measures of blood glucose variability on arterial structure and function. We studied 17 non-complicated type 1 diabetic patients (11 males, six females) with an age of 40.8 ± 7.6 years (mean ± SD). In each patient, 24-h glucose profile was obtained by continuous glucose monitoring system and glucose variability was expressed as mean ± SD of 24-h blood glucose levels, mean amplitude of glycemic excursions and postprandial hyperglycemic spikes. Arterial structure and function was measured as carotid IMT and stiffness.
MAJOR FINDINGS:
The different approaches to assessing blood glucose variability well correlated between and with HbA1c. Carotid IMT and stiffness showed significant correlations with age, blood pressure, heart rate and daily insulin intake but a non- significant correlation with blood glucose variability.
PRINCIPAL CONCLUSION:
Thus, in type 1 diabetes mellitus, measures of glycemic variability are useful in predicting both actual and long-lasting glycemic control. In absence of diabetes-related complications and of any intima-media thickness alterations, the major predictors of arterial distensibility are represented by traditional risk factors beside glycemic 24-h control.
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Blood pressure control in Italian essential hypertensives treated by general practitioners.
Am J Hypertens2012 Nov;25(11):1182-7. doi: 10.1038/ajh.2012.108.
Giannattasio Cristina, Cairo Matteo, Cesana Francesca, Alloni Marta, Sormani Paola, Colombo Giulia, Grassi Guido, Mancia Giuseppe
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BACKGROUND:
Adequate control of blood pressure (BP) is limited worldwide. This has serious consequences for public health because in hypertensive patients, uncontrolled BP is associated with a higher incidence of cardiovascular events, particularly stroke. The aim of this study was to investigate BP control in a cohort of treated patients with diagnosed hypertension, who were under general practitioner care in Italy.
METHODS:
Data were collected by 2,643 physicians on 8,572 individual Italian patients. Office BP was measured 5 min after seating each patient and then 3-5 min later. For each patient, data such as medical history of patients, physical examination data, antihypertensive drug usage, and self-BP measurement frequency were obtained.
RESULTS:
Male prevalence was 48.4%, and mean age was 64.3 ± 10.5 years. Based on the second measurement, BP control (
CONCLUSIONS:
In treated Italian hypertensives effective BP control remains uncommon largely due to the failure to appropriately reduce the systolic BP. The stricter values recommended by the ESH/ESC guidelines for diabetic patients are achieved only by a small fraction of hypertensive diabetic population.
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Early alterations in left ventricular diastolic function in normotensive diabetic patients.
Blood Press2012 Apr;21(2):110-5. doi: 10.3109/08037051.2012.625670.
Capra Anna, Galderisi Maurizio, Giannattasio Cristina, Innelli Pasquale, Facchetti Rita, Cesana Francesca, Alloni Marta, Carugo Stefano, Grassi Guido, de Divitiis Oreste, Mancia Giuseppe
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In diabetes mellitus, structural and functional alterations of the heart can be already present at the time of first diagnosis. However, how early these alterations may occur has never been fully clarified. The present study aimed at investigating cardiac functional abnormalities in uncomplicated hypertensive or normotensive patients with a recent diagnosis of diabetes mellitus. We studied 40 diabetics (24 normotensives and 16 hypertensives) by means of routine echocardiography plus pulse tissue Doppler analysis. Data were compared with those obtained in healthy age- and sex-matched controls. Left ventricular remodelling was more evident in hypertensive diabetics than in normotensive diabetics vs controls. Diastolic function was altered in diabetic patients only when detected by pulse tissue Doppler analysis and not by conventional transmitral Doppler evaluation. Normotensive patients with type 2 diabetes with little or no evidence at standard echocardiography of alterations in cardiac structure and function, already displayed an alteration in diastolic function when the evaluation was based on the tissue Doppler approach. Patients with type 2 diabetes combined to hypertension showed more evident functional cardiac alterations at echocardiography. These findings support the conclusion that cardiac abnormalities are very early phenomena in type 2 diabetes.
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Persistence of arterial functional abnormalities after successful coronary revascularization.
J Hypertens2011 Jul;29(7):1374-9. doi: 10.1097/HJH.0b013e328347a0e3.
Giannattasio Cristina, Capra Anna C M, Calchera Ivan, Colombo Virgilio, Cesana Francesca, Nava Stefano, Maloberti Alessandro, Alloni Marta, Facchetti Rita, Trocino Giuseppe, Grassi Guido, Paolini Giovanni, Mancia Giuseppe
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BACKGROUND:
In patients with myocardial ischemia and coronary atherosclerosis, arterial stiffness and endothelial function are impaired. Whether these alterations can be favorably affected by successful coronary revascularization is debated.
METHODS:
We studied 39 hospitalized patients 59.3 ± 3.2 years old (mean ± SEM). In 21 patients with angiographic evidence of significant coronary artery stenosis, revascularization procedures were performed (stenting n = 11 and bypass surgery n = 10). The remaining patients had no significant stenosis and thus served as controls. Prerevascularization measurements included carotido-femoral pulse wave velocity (PWV), radial artery flow-mediated vasodilatation and a complete echocardiographic examination. The same measurements were performed 6 months later. Pharmacological treatment consisted of different cardiovascular drugs and remained substantially unchanged over the 6-month follow-up period.
RESULTS:
With the exception of an increased left ventricular mass index (LVMI; 130 ± 5.3 versus 105.8 ± 7.2 g/m(2), P
CONCLUSION:
Cardiac revascularization has no effect on arterial function, assessed either as arterial stiffness or as flow-mediated vasodilatation. On the contrary, the improvement in coronary blood flow triggers local cardiac changes, namely, a reduction in LVMI and an improvement in diastolic function.
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