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Paolo Castiglia

Researcher at University of Sassari

Publications -  155
Citations -  2908

Paolo Castiglia is an academic researcher from University of Sassari. The author has contributed to research in topics: Population & Medicine. The author has an hindex of 27, co-authored 136 publications receiving 2263 citations.

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Multiple sclerosis epidemiology in Sardinia: evidence for a true increasing risk.

TL;DR: A comparison between the data collected in the present work and those recently reported from a more industrialized province in Northern Italy seems to prove an at least partially real increase in MS risk among Sardinians and favours the hypothesis of a MS “Sardinian focus” as related to its latitude.
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Why Italy first? Health, geographical and planning aspects of the COVID-19 outbreak

TL;DR: In this article, the authors analyzed the spatial distribution and pattern of COVID-19-related mortality in Italy with several geographical, environmental and socio-economic variables at a Provincial level, analyzing them by means of spatial analytical techniques such as LISA.
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National pathfinder survey on children's oral health in Italy: pattern and severity of caries disease in 4-year-olds.

TL;DR: A need to plan preventive programs to reduce oral health disparities among Italian preschool children, based on educational intervention with parents and children concerning oral health and caries prevention, is suggested.
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Italian multicenter study on infection hazards during dental practice: Control of environmental microbial contamination in public dental surgeries

TL;DR: The findings confirm that some Italian dental surgeries show high biocontamination, as in other European Countries, which highlights the risk of occupational exposure and the need to apply effective measures to reduce microbial loads.