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Open AccessCorrection to: Ultra‑processed food consumption and nutritional frailty in older age
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Open AccessCorrection to: Dietary profiling of physical frailty in older age phenotypes using a machine learning approach: the Salus in Apulia Study
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Open AccessUltra-processed food consumption and nutritional frailty in older age
Frailty is a multidisciplinary public health issue and nutrition is key concern. Given the scientific consistency about inflammation as shared pathway to poor nutrition and frailty, food processing seems a sui...
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Open AccessDietary profiling of physical frailty in older age phenotypes using a machine learning approach: the Salus in Apulia Study
Growing awareness of the biological and clinical value of nutrition in frailty settings calls for further efforts to investigate dietary gaps to act sooner to achieve focused management of aging populations. W...
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Liver frailty and all-cause mortality in the older participants of the Salus in Apulia Study
The liver contribution to the biological network underlying physical frailty in aging is underestimated. How best to measure this contribution magnitude and impact on health risk trajectories in frail individu...
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The Cost-Benefit Analysis for the Validation of Next Generation EU Investments: An Application to the Healthcare Sector
During the last decades, the public investments have very often determined “white elephants” whose initial costs have increased during construction phase and, at the end of project realization, the necessary f...
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Healthy aging: the INTECMAN project
Aging is associated not only with the reduction of psychophysical and sensory capacities but also with different types of neurodegenerative disorders up to dementia manifestations. Aging in health and self-suf...
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Late-onset depression is associated to age-related central auditory processing disorder in an older population in Southern Italy
The association between late-life depression (LLD) and age-related hearing loss (ARHL) was suggested by preliminary studies, but reliance on LLD subtypes may introduce significant bias. We examined the associa...
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Open AccessImmersive Virtual Environments and Wearable Haptic Devices in rehabilitation of children with neuromotor impairments: a single-blind randomized controlled crossover pilot study
The past decade has seen the emergence of rehabilitation treatments using virtual reality. One of the advantages in using this technology is the potential to create positive motivation, by means of engaging en...
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A Multi-modal Tool Suite for Parkinson’s Disease Evaluation and Grading
The traditional diagnosis of Parkinson’ disease (PD) aims to assess several clinical manifestations, and it is commonly based on medical observations. However, overall evaluation is extremely difficult due ...
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Open AccessA low-cost vision system based on the analysis of motor features for recognition and severity rating of Parkinson’s Disease
Assessment and rating of Parkinson’s Disease (PD) are commonly based on the medical observation of several clinical manifestations, including the analysis of motor activities. In particular, medical specialist...
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Gait Analysis and Parkinson’s Disease: Recent Trends on Main Applications in Healthcare
There is an increasing interest in the use of Gait Analysis (GA) in Parkinson’s Disease (PD), however no one has previously investigated what are the principal trends on the main applications of quantitative G...
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Recognition and Severity Rating of Parkinson’s Disease from Postural and Kinematic Features During Gait Analysis with Microsoft Kinect
When diagnosing Parkinson’s disease (PD), medical specialists normally assess several clinical manifestations of the patient and rate a severity level according to established criteria. They refer to the Move...
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Assessment and Rating of Movement Impairment in Parkinson’s Disease Using a Low-Cost Vision-Based System
Assessment and rating of Parkinson’s Disease (PD) are commonly based on the medical observation of several clinical manifestations, including the analysis of motor activities. In particular, medical specialist...
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A Novel Approach in Combination of 3D Gait Analysis Data for Aiding Clinical Decision-Making in Patients with Parkinson’s Disease
The most common methods used by neurologist to evaluate Parkinson’s Disease (PD) patients are rating scales, that are affected by subjective and non-repeatable observations. Since several research studies have...
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Serious Game and Wearable Haptic Devices for Neuro Motor Rehabilitation of Children with Cerebral Palsy
Cerebral palsy (CP) is a group of disorders that affect the development of movement and posture, resulting in limited activities. To optimize pediatric neuro-rehabilitation and to complement conventional occup...
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The PoSE Project: An Innovative Approach to Promote Healthy Postures in Schoolchildren
Back pain in children and adolescents is quite common, so develo** preventive strategies for back pain is highly desirable. This article describes a planned school-based postural education project (PoSE) to ...
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Social Robots in Postural Education: A New Approach to Address Body Consciousness in ASD Children
Autism Spectrum Disorders (ASD) represent one of the most prevalent developmental disorders among children with different level of impairments in social relationships, communication and imagination. In additio...
