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L’evoluzione temporale dell’interruzione volontaria di gravidanza nelle regioni italiane
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L'interruzione volontaria di gravidanza in Italia. Un quadro socio-demografico e sanitario dalla legge 194 ad oggi.
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Cystic fibrosis mortality trend in Italy from 1970 to 2011
No full textBackground: Survival in cystic fibrosis (CF) has progressively improved and the female-gender disadvantage first described many years ago remains controversial. Objectives: To describe the mortality trend due to CF in Italy over the last decades; to verify the female-mortality disadvantage; to compare the comorbidities reported in death certificates of CF patients with those of the general population. Methods: Mortality data were extracted from the database of underlying cause of death (1970-2011) and multiple causes of death (2003-2011) of the Italian National Institute of Statistics. Age-standardized mortality ratio (SMR) was calculated to compare the mortality between genders. The association between CF and other contributing causes of death was verified by calculating the age- and gender-adjusted proportional mortality ratio (PMR). Results: During the study period, 1947 death certificates reported CF as the underlying cause of death. Mortality rate due to CF decreased in newborns and children and by the end of the 1990s also in adolescents and young adults. Adult mortality started to increase in the early 1990s. Over the whole period an excess in mortality was observed in young CF females (1-29 years). The multiple causes of death database included 531 certificates with CF listed as cause of death. Pneumonia, chronic lower respiratory diseases, pulmonary heart disease and diseases of pulmonary circulation, aspergillosis, sepsis, renal failure, diabetes, malnutrition and amyloidosis were more frequently reported in CF death certificates compared to those of the general population (PMR > 1). Conclusions: This mortality trend provides evidence of a consistent improvement in survival, although the excess female-mortality persists despite aggressive treatment of CF lung disease. Several extra-pulmonary conditions associated with CF contributed to the morbidity leading to death
Profilo socio-demografico delle donne ed esito del concepimento: il caso delle coniugate in Italia
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Going Beyond Counting First Authors in Author Co-citation Analysis
Full text linkThe present study examines one of the fundamental aspects of author co-citation analysis (ACA) - the way co-citation
counts are defined. Co-citation counting provides the data on which all subsequent statistical analyses and mappings
are based, and we compare ACA results based on two different types of co-citation counting - the traditional type that
only counts the first one among a cited work's authors on the one hand and a non-traditional type that takes into
account the first 5 authors of a cited work on the other hand. Results indicate that the picture produced through this non-traditional author co-citation counting contains more coherent author groups and is therefore considerably clearer. However, this picture represents fewer specialties in the research field being studied than that produced through the traditional first-author co-citation counting when the same number of top-ranked authors is selected and analyzed. Reasons for these effects are discussed
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