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Pietro Amedeo Modesti

Researcher at University of Florence

Publications -  275
Citations -  12592

Pietro Amedeo Modesti is an academic researcher from University of Florence. The author has contributed to research in topics: Population & Blood pressure. The author has an hindex of 41, co-authored 254 publications receiving 8927 citations. Previous affiliations of Pietro Amedeo Modesti include University of Milano-Bicocca & Cayetano Heredia University.

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Worldwide trends in body-mass index, underweight, overweight, and obesity from 1975 to 2016: a pooled analysis of 2416 population-based measurement studies in 128·9 million children, adolescents, and adults

Leandra Abarca-Gómez, +1024 more
- 16 Dec 2017 - 
TL;DR: Trends in mean BMI have recently flattened in northwestern Europe and the high-income English-speaking and Asia-Pacific regions for both sexes, southwestern Europe for boys, and central and Andean Latin America for girls, and by contrast, the rise in BMI has accelerated in east and south Asia forboth sexes, and southeast Asia for boys.
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Worldwide trends in hypertension prevalence and progress in treatment and control from 1990 to 2019: a pooled analysis of 1201 population-representative studies with 104 million participants

Bin Zhou, +1144 more
- 11 Sep 2021 - 
TL;DR: In this article, a Bayesian hierarchical model was used to estimate the prevalence of hypertension and the proportion of people with hypertension who had a previous diagnosis (detection), who were taking medication for hypertension (treatment), and whose hypertension was controlled to below 140/90 mm Hg (control).
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Panethnic Differences in Blood Pressure in Europe: A Systematic Review and Meta-Analysis

Pietro Amedeo Modesti, +7 more
- 25 Jan 2016 - 
TL;DR: The higher BP in SSA is maintained over decades, suggesting limited efficacy of prevention strategies in such group in Europe, and the lower BP in Muslim populations suggests that yet untapped lifestyle and behavioral habits may reveal advantages towards the development of hypertension.
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Nutraceuticals and dyslipidaemia: Beyond the common therapeutics

Pietro Scicchitano, +9 more
- 01 Jan 2014 - 
TL;DR: This contribution provides an overview of the mechanism of action of nutraceuticals and functional food ingredients on lipids and their role in the management of lipid disorders.
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Weather-Related Changes in 24-Hour Blood Pressure Profile: Effects of Age and Implications for Hypertension Management

Pietro Amedeo Modesti, +14 more
- 01 Feb 2006 - 
TL;DR: The results show for the first time that hot weather is associated with an increase in systolic pressure at night in treated elderly hypertensive subjects, which may be because of a nocturnal BP escape from the effects of a lighter summertime drug regimen.