Search filters

Authors whose works are in public domain in at least one jurisdiction

List of works by Andrea Fontana

A linear mixed model approach to compare the evolution of multiple biological rhythms

scientific article published on 19 December 2012

A tumour score with multidetector spiral CT for venous infiltration in pancreatic cancer: influence on borderline resectable

scientific article published on 12 March 2014

Accuracy of clinical diagnosis of Parkinson disease: A systematic review and meta-analysis

scientific article

Addition of the multidimensional prognostic index to the estimated glomerular filtration rate improves prediction of long-term all-cause mortality in older patients with chronic kidney disease

scientific article published on February 2012

Advances in meta-analysis: examples from internal medicine to neurology

scientific article published on 12 December 2013

Assessment of fracture risk by the FRAX algorithm in men and women with and without type 2 diabetes mellitus: a cross-sectional study.

scientific article published in May 2014

Association between resistin levels and all-cause and cardiovascular mortality: a new study and a systematic review and meta-analysis

scientific article

Association of individual non-steroidal anti-inflammatory drugs and chronic kidney disease: a population-based case control study

scientific article

Botulinum toxin type B for sialorrhoea in children with cerebral palsy: a randomized trial comparing three doses

scientific article published on 17 March 2011

CD117-CD15 in acute myeloid leukemia: no role as LAIP in the study of minimal residual disease.

scientific article

Can information on functional and cognitive status improve short-term mortality risk prediction among community-dwelling older people? A cohort study using a UK primary care database

scientific article published on 19 December 2017

Change in the Multidimensional Prognostic Index Score During Hospitalization in Older Patients.

scientific article published on 23 February 2016

Circulating adiponectin levels are paradoxically associated with mortality rate. A systematic review and meta-analysis

article

Cognitive impairment and structural brain damage in multiple system atrophy-parkinsonian variant

scientific article published on 26 September 2019

Combined analysis of miR-200 family and its significance for breast cancer

scientific article published on 03 February 2021

Combined use of the multidimensional prognostic index (MPI) and procalcitonin serum levels in predicting 1-month mortality risk in older patients hospitalized with community-acquired pneumonia (CAP): a prospective study

scientific article published on 17 April 2017

Comparative Effectiveness of Biosimilar, Reference Product and Other Erythropoiesis-Stimulating Agents (ESAs) Still Covered by Patent in Chronic Kidney Disease and Cancer Patients: An Italian Population-Based Study

scientific article

Comparing the prognostic accuracy for all-cause mortality of frailty instruments: a multicentre 1-year follow-up in hospitalized older patients

scientific article

Competitive allele-specific TaqMan PCR (Cast-PCR) is a sensitive, specific and fast method for BRAF V600 mutation detection in Melanoma patients

scientific article

Development and validation of a Multidimensional Prognostic Index for mortality based on a standardized Multidimensional Assessment Schedule (MPI-SVaMA) in community-dwelling older subjects

scientific article published on 9 February 2013

Development and validation of a predicting model of all-cause mortality in patients with type 2 diabetes

scientific article published on May 2013

Development of an oncological-multidimensional prognostic index (Onco-MPI) for mortality prediction in older cancer patients

scientific article published on 12 January 2016

Effects of hypercapnia on peripheral vascular reactivity in elderly patients with acute exacerbation of chronic obstructive pulmonary disease

scientific article

Effects of strontium ranelate administration on calcium metabolism in female patients with postmenopausal osteoporosis and primary hyperparathyroidism.

scientific article published on 19 October 2012

Epicardial adipose tissue and idiopathic deep venous thrombosis: An association study

scientific article published on 12 June 2012

Evaluation of microRNA-10b prognostic significance in a prospective cohort of breast cancer patients.

scientific article

Evidence of a causal relationship between high serum adiponectin levels and increased cardiovascular mortality rate in patients with type 2 diabetes

scientific article published on 27 January 2016

Examination of level of knowledge in Italian general practitioners attending an education session on diagnosis and management of the early stage of Alzheimer's disease: pass or fail?

scientific article

Expression of the antiapoptotic protein BAG3 is a feature of pancreatic adenocarcinoma and its overexpression is associated with poorer survival.

scientific article published on 31 August 2012

FOXO1 locus and acetylcholinesterase inhibitors in elderly patients with Alzheimer's disease

scientific article

Frequent epigenetics inactivation of KEAP1 gene in non-small cell lung cancer

scientific article published in June 2011

Frontal assessment battery for detecting executive dysfunction in amyotrophic lateral sclerosis without dementia: a retrospective observational study

scientific article

Functional outcome of critical illness polyneuropathy in patients affected by severe brain injury

scientific article published on 14 April 2017

Gender differences in COPD management in a Sicilian general practice setting: a cohort study evaluating the impact of educational interventions

scientific article published on 01 July 2020

Gut Microbiota Profiles Differ among Individuals Depending on Their Region of Origin: An Italian Pilot Study

scientific article published on 23 October 2019

How Much Are Biosimilars Used in Clinical Practice? A Retrospective Italian Population-Based Study of Erythropoiesis-Stimulating Agents in the Years 2009-2013.

scientific article

Hsa-miR-210-3p expression in breast cancer and its putative association with worse outcome in patients treated with Docetaxel

scientific article published on 17 October 2019

Identification of a metabolic signature for multidimensional impairment and mortality risk in hospitalized older patients

Idiopathic deep venous thrombosis and arterial endothelial dysfunction in the elderly

scientific article

Idiopathic deep venous thrombosis and epicardial fat thickness: The age, gender and obesity connection

Improvement in the management of chronic obstructive pulmonary disease following a clinical educational program: results from a prospective cohort study in the Sicilian general practice setting.

scientific article

Incidence and all-cause mortality for hip fracture in comparison to stroke, and myocardial infarction: a fifteen years population-based longitudinal study.

scientific article published on 20 September 2017

Influence of gemcitabine chemotherapy on the microbiota of pancreatic cancer xenografted mice

scientific article published on 22 February 2018

Influence of the Gly1057Asp variant of the insulin receptor substrate 2 (IRS2) on insulin resistance and relationship with epicardial fat thickness in the elderly.

scientific article published on 25 September 2012

Infrequent TRIB3 coding variants and coronary artery disease in type 2 diabetes

scientific article published on 17 July 2015

Italian multicenter experience with flow-diverter devices for intracranial unruptured aneurysm treatment with periprocedural complications--a retrospective data analysis

scientific article

Joint effect of insulin signaling genes on all-cause mortality

scientific article

Keap1/Nrf2 pathway in kidney cancer: frequent methylation of KEAP1 gene promoter in clear renal cell carcinoma.

scientific article published on 04 January 2017

Klotho Gene and Selective Serotonin Reuptake Inhibitors: Response to Treatment in Late-Life Major Depressive Disorder

scientific article published on 3 February 2016

Longitudinal brain connectivity changes and clinical evolution in Parkinson's disease

scientific article published on 14 May 2020

Medication is an additional source of phosphate intake in chronic kidney disease patients.

scientific article published on 11 June 2015

Minimal residual disease after allogeneic stem cell transplant: a comparison among multiparametric flow cytometry, Wilms tumor 1 expression and chimerism status (Complete chimerism versus Low Level Mixed Chimerism) in acute leukemia

scientific article published on 15 May 2013

Mobilization in early rehabilitation in intensive care unit patients with severe acquired brain injury: An observational study

scientific article published on 5 October 2017

Modeling and Prediction in Neurological Disorders: The Biostatistical Perspective.

scientific article published on 26 July 2016

Modeling interactions between Human Equilibrative Nucleoside Transporter-1 and other factors involved in the response to gemcitabine treatment to predict clinical outcomes in pancreatic ductal adenocarcinoma patients.

scientific article

Normoalbuminuric renal impairment and all-cause mortality in type 2 diabetes mellitus

scientific article published on 13 March 2014

On the non-linear association between serum uric acid levels and all-cause mortality rate in patients with type 2 diabetes mellitus

scientific article published on 9 March 2017

Population-Based Evidence that Survival in Amyotrophic Lateral Sclerosis is Related to Weight Loss at Diagnosis.

scientific article

Quarterly repeat cycles of onabotulinumtoxinA in chronic migraine patients: the benefits of the prolonged treatment on the continuous responders and quality-of-life conversion rate in a real-life setting

scientific article published on 19 July 2017

Readmission to the acute care unit and functional outcomes in patients with severe brain injury during rehabilitation

scientific article published in September 2016

Role of CYP2D6 Polymorphisms in the Outcome of Postoperative Pain Treatment

scientific article published on 19 May 2015

Role of obesity on all-cause mortality in whites with type 2 diabetes from Italy

article

Role of the serotonin transporter gene locus in the response to SSRI treatment of major depressive disorder in late life

scientific article published on 31 March 2015

SIRT1 and circadian gene expression in pancreatic ductal adenocarcinoma: Effect of starvation.

scientific article

Serum Resistin, Cardiovascular Disease and All-Cause Mortality in Patients with Type 2 Diabetes

scientific article published on June 3, 2013

Serum resistin is causally related to mortality risk in patients with type 2 diabetes: preliminary evidences from genetic data

scientific article

Sniff nasal inspiratory pressure as a prognostic factor of tracheostomy or death in amyotrophic lateral sclerosis

scientific article published on 19 December 2014

Stage dependent destructuration of neuro-endocrine-immune system components in lung cancer patients

scientific article published on 29 December 2010

Stepwise analysis of MIR9 loci identifies miR-9-5p to be involved in Oestrogen regulated pathways in breast cancer patients

scientific article published on 27 March 2017

Stratification of ALS patients' survival: a population-based study.

scientific article

Support Vector Machine Based on microRNA Expression Profiles to Predict Histological Origin of Ampullary Carcinoma: Case Report of a Patient Affected From Adenocarcinoma of the Papilla of Vater With Lynch Syndrome

scientific article published on May 2016

TRIM8 downregulation in glioma affects cell proliferation and it is associated with patients survival

scientific article published on 16 June 2015

Target values of cardiovascular risk factors are not associated with all-cause mortality in patients with type 2 diabetes mellitus

scientific article published on 30 April 2015

The APOE polymorphism in Alzheimer's disease patients with neuropsychiatric symptoms and syndromes

scientific article published on 29 October 2010

The E3-ubiquitin ligase TRIM50 interacts with HDAC6 and p62, and promotes the sequestration and clearance of ubiquitinated proteins into the aggresome

scientific article

The Effect of Safety Warnings on Antipsychotic Drug Prescribing in Elderly Persons with Dementia in the United Kingdom and Italy: A Population-Based Study.

scientific article published on 16 July 2016

The PPARγ2 P12A polymorphism is not associated with all-cause mortality in patients with type 2 diabetes mellitus

scientific article published on 8 March 2016

The burden of nephrotoxic drug prescriptions in patients with chronic kidney disease: a retrospective population-based study in Southern Italy

scientific article (publication date: 2014)

The combined effect of adiponectin and resistin on all-cause mortality in patients with type 2 diabetes: Evidence of synergism with abdominal adiposity

scientific article published on 27 April 2016

The serotonin transporter gene locus in late-life major depressive disorder

scientific article published on 2 January 2013

Time related variations in stem cell harvesting of umbilical cord blood

scientific article published on 24 February 2016

Time to generalisation as a predictor of prognosis in amyotrophic lateral sclerosis

scientific article published on 20 May 2015

Time to generalization and prediction of survival in patients with amyotrophic lateral sclerosis: a retrospective observational study

scientific article published on 25 March 2016

Time-Qualified Patterns of Variation of PPARγ, DNMT1, and DNMT3B Expression in Pancreatic Cancer Cell Lines.

scientific article published on 26 August 2012

Treatment pattern and frequency of serum TSH measurement in users of different levothyroxine formulations: a population-based study during the years 2009-2015.

scientific article

Use of ivabradine in catecholamine-induced tachycardia after high-risk cardiac surgery

scientific article published on 7 September 2010

Vitamin D and parameters of calcium homeostasis in inpatients with and without Type 2 diabetes mellitus.

scientific article published on 30 January 2012

Vitamin D status in primary hyperparathyroidism: effect of genetic background

scientific article published on 6 May 2016