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    PERCORSI DI BIOETICA

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    I grandi progressi della medicina e della tecnologia dischiudono scenari nuovi che coinvolgono, a diverso titolo, sia coloro che operano nelle professioni mediche e sociali sia chi ricorre alla loro assistenza. Il volume, promosso dal Centro di Formazione Permanente Luigi Moneta dell’Istituto Sacra Famiglia e dalla Sezione di Milano del Centro di Bioetica dell’Università Cattolica intende proporre un percorso formativo che tracciando i fondamenti etico-antropologici del ragionamento morale in bioetica e contestualizzandolo nell’attuale sviluppo del dibattito in Italia, indichi dei criteri e delle ricadute operative rispetto ad alcuni temi particolarmente problematici, che rendono obiettivamente incerta la pratica assistenziale. Segnatamente il testo si rivolge a tutti gli operatori socio-sanitari che prestano la loro cura a persone con deficit fisici e psichici, ai pazienti e alle loro famiglie, agli amministratori degli Istituti di cura affinché ciascuno, nel rispetto dei propri ruoli e delle propria responsabilità, concorra a rendere omaggio all’intrinseca dignità di ogni persona umana

    Going Beyond Counting First Authors in Author Co-citation Analysis

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    The 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

    Hypertension in the elderly and the very old.

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    High systolic blood pressure represents a challenge for the modern world. Epidemiologists are in the best position to appreciate the importance of systolic hypertension and its cardiovascular consequences. Although the label of hypertension seems to have lower importance in the elderly, and above all in the very old, than in younger people, high systolic and high pulse pressure are risk factors for cardiovascular events and necessitates treatment. Unfortunately, due to indolence and lack of aggressiveness, only a limited fraction of elderly hypertensive patients receives adequate therapy
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