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Walter De Alfieri
Researcher at University of Florence
Publications - 17
Citations - 628
Walter De Alfieri is an academic researcher from University of Florence. The author has contributed to research in topics: Resilience (network) & Comorbidity. The author has an hindex of 13, co-authored 17 publications receiving 587 citations.
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The diagnosis of heart failure in the community. Comparative validation of four sets of criteria in unselected older adults: the ICARe Dicomano Study.
Mauro Di Bari,Claudia Pozzi,Maria Chiara Cavallini,Francesca Innocenti,Giorgio Baldereschi,Walter De Alfieri,Enrico Antonini,Riccardo Pini,Giulio Masotti,Niccolò Marchionni +9 more
TL;DR: The Boston criteria are preferable to Framingham, Gothenburg, and ESC criteria for the diagnosis of HF in older community dwellers because they have good construct validity and more accurately predict cardiovascular death, incident disability, and hospitalizations.
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Prognostic Stratification of Older Persons Based on Simple Administrative Data: Development and Validation of the “Silver Code,” To Be Used in Emergency Department Triage
Mauro Di Bari,Daniela Balzi,Anna T. Roberts,Alessandro Barchielli,Stefano Fumagalli,Andrea Ungar,Stefania Bandinelli,Walter De Alfieri,Luciano Gabbani,Niccolò Marchionni +9 more
TL;DR: Patients with worse prognostic index scores appear to benefit from admission in a geriatrics compared with an internal medicine ward, although mortality was not significantly affected by the type of ward of admission in all other risk strata.
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Disease severity and health-related quality of life across different chronic conditions
Luigi Ferrucci,Samuele Baldasseroni,Stefania Bandinelli,Walter De Alfieri,Alessandro Cartei,Donatella Calvani,Alessio Baldini,Giulio Masotti,Niccolò Marchionni +8 more
TL;DR: This study was carried out to explore the relationship between a measure of HRQL and measures of severity of ischemic stroke, Parkinson's diseases (PD), or chronic coronary heart disease (CHD).
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Functional Recovery of Elderly Patients Hospitalized in Geriatric and General Medicine Units. The PROgetto DImissioni in GEriatria Study
Lorenzo Palleschi,Walter De Alfieri,Bernardo Salani,Filippo Luca Fimognari,Alberto Marsilii,Andrea Pierantozzi,Luigi Di Cioccio,Stefano Maria Zuccaro +7 more
TL;DR: The characteristics of patients who regain function during hospitalization and the differences in terms of functional outcomes between patients admitted to geriatric and general medicine units are investigated.
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Cardiovascular remodeling is greater in isolated systolic hypertension than in diastolic hypertension in older adults: the Insufficienza Cardiaca negli Anziani Residenti (ICARE) a Dicomano Study ☆
Riccardo Pini,M. Chiara Cavallini,Francesca Bencini,Gabriella Silvestrini,Elisabetta Tonon,Walter De Alfieri,Niccolò Marchionni,Mauro Di Bari,Richard B. Devereux,Giulio Masotti,Mary J. Roman +10 more
TL;DR: In this article, the authors investigated cardiac and vascular remodeling in an unselected older population with either diastolic hypertension (HTN) or isolated systolic hypertension, in comparison with HTN, have not been extensively investigated.