Raffaella Dell'Oro

TL;DR: Hypertension and CVD, after the adjustment for other clinical and demographic parameters, primarily age, did not remain independent predictors of the lethal outcome in COVID-19 patients.

TL;DR: It was showed that diuretic-related hyperuricemia carry a similar risk of cardiovascular events and all-cause mortality when compared with individuals that present hyperuricaemia in absence of diuretics.

TL;DR: Evidence is provided that metabolic syndrome is characterized by a marked increase in MSNA, and among the variables included in metabolic syndrome definition and related to the sympathetic overdrive blood pressure appears to be the most important one, at variance from what described in obesity in which metabolic and anthropometric factors play a major role.

TL;DR: A review of studies of the effects of kidney transplantation and dialysis on the autonomic nervous system alterations that occur in chronic kidney disease is presented in this paper, where the authors report that both the sympathetic and parasympathetic alterations have a reflex origin, depending on the impairment in baroreflex and cardiopulmonary reflex control of the cardiovascular system.

TL;DR: In this article, the authors investigated whether the risk of cardiovascular mortality associated with elevated uric acid was modulated by the level of resting heart rate (HR) and found that the contribution of UA to determining cardiovascular mortality was modicated by the degree of HR supporting the hypothesis that activation of the sympathetic nervous system facilitates the action of UA as a cardiovascular risk factor.