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Stefano Volpato

Stefano Volpato

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Overview

Stefano Volpato is affiliated with the University of Ferrara in Italy and has contributed extensively to research in the field of medicine with a particular focus on geriatrics and gerontology. Their body of work spans several interconnected subfields including critical care and intensive care medicine, physiology, infectious diseases, and cardiology and cardiovascular medicine.

The primary themes explored in their research cover frailty in older adults, intensive care unit cognitive disorders, nutrition and health in aging, the long-term effects of COVID-19, COVID-19 clinical research studies, geriatric care and nursing homes, and hip and femur fractures.

Some of the notable recent papers authored by Stefano Volpato include:

  • "Perioperative Management of Elderly patients (PriME): recommendations from an Italian intersociety consensus" (2020) in Aging Clinical and Experimental Research
  • "Prevalence and impact of polypharmacy in older patients with type 2 diabetes" (2022) in Aging Clinical and Experimental Research
  • "Exercise intervention improves quality of life in older adults after myocardial infarction: randomised clinical trial" (2020) in Heart
  • "A Frail Health Care System for an Old Population: Lesson form the COVID-19 Outbreak in Italy" (2020) in The Journals of Gerontology Series A
  • "Acetyl-cholinesterase-inhibitors slow cognitive decline and decrease overall mortality in older patients with dementia" (2022) in Scientific Reports

Stefano Volpato has collaborated frequently with several researchers, including:

  • Caterina Trevisan
  • Raffaele Antonelli Incalzi
  • Giuseppe Bellelli
  • Stefano Fumagalli
  • Fabio Monzani

The most frequent venues for publication include:

  • Aging Clinical and Experimental Research
  • BMC Geriatrics
  • Journal of Gerontology and Geriatrics
  • European Geriatric Medicine
  • Journal of Clinical Medicine

Stefano Volpato's research contributes to understanding complex issues related to aging populations, particularly addressing clinical care challenges such as perioperative management, polypharmacy, cognitive decline, and the healthcare impact of infectious diseases like COVID-19. Their work integrates clinical trials and observational studies reflective of current priorities in geriatric health and healthcare system readiness for older populations.

Best Publications

  • Short Physical Performance Battery and all-cause mortality: systematic review and meta-analysis

    Rita Pavasini;Jack M. Guralnik;Justin C. Brown;Mauro Di Bari

  • Handgrip strength and cause-specific and total mortality in older disabled women: exploring the mechanism.

    Taina Rantanen;Taina Rantanen;Stefano Volpato;Luigi Ferrucci;Eino Heikkinen

  • Change in muscle strength explains accelerated decline of physical function in older women with high interleukin-6 serum levels

    Luigi Ferrucci;Brenda W. J. H. Penninx;Stefano Volpato;Tamara B. Harris

  • Cardiovascular disease, chronic kidney disease, and diabetes mortality burden of cardiometabolic risk factors from 1980 to 2010: a comparative risk assessment.

    Goodarz Danaei;Yuan Lu;Gitanjali M. Singh;Emily Carnahan

  • Cardiovascular disease, interleukin-6, and risk of mortality in older women: the women's health and aging study.

    Stefano Volpato;Jack M. Guralnik;Luigi Ferrucci;Jennifer Balfour

  • Executive Function Correlates with Walking Speed in Older Persons: The InCHIANTI Study

    Alesandro Ble;Stefano Volpato;Giovanni Zuliani;Jack M. Guralnik

  • Predictive Value of the Short Physical Performance Battery Following Hospitalization in Older Patients

    Stefano Volpato;Margherita Cavalieri;Fotini Sioulis;Gianluca Guerra

  • Reliability and sensitivity to change assessed for a summary measure of lower body function: results from the Women's Health and Aging Study.

    Glenn V Ostir;Stefano Volpato;Linda P Fried;Paulo Chaves

  • Insulin-Like Growth Factor I and Interleukin-6 Contribute Synergistically to Disability and Mortality in Older Women

    Anne R. Cappola;Qian Li Xue;Luigi Ferrucci;Jack M. Guralnik

  • Just get out the door! Importance of walking outside the home for maintaining mobility: Findings from the Women's Health and Aging Study

    Eleanor M. Simonsick;Jack M. Guralnik;Stefano Volpato;Jennifer L. Balfour

  • Self-rated health showed a graded association with frequently used biomarkers in a large population sample

    Marja Jylhä;Stefano Volpato;Jack M. Guralnik

  • Late-Life Body Mass Index and Dementia Incidence: Nine-Year Follow-Up Data from the Kungsholmen Project

    Anna Rita Atti;Katie Palmer;Stefano Volpato;Bengt Winblad

  • Prevalence and Clinical Correlates of Sarcopenia in Community-Dwelling Older People: Application of the EWGSOP Definition and Diagnostic Algorithm

    Stefano Volpato;Lara Bianchi;Antonio Cherubini;Francesco Landi

  • Comorbidities and impairments explaining the association between diabetes and lower extremity disability: The Women's Health and Aging Study.

    Stefano Volpato;Stefano Volpato;Caroline Blaum;Helaine Resnick;Luigi Ferrucci

  • Role of Muscle Mass and Muscle Quality in the Association Between Diabetes and Gait Speed

    Stefano Volpato;Lara Bianchi;Fulvio Lauretani;Fabrizio Lauretani

  • Association of IGF-I Levels with Muscle Strength and Mobility in Older Women

    Anne R. Cappola;Karen Bandeen-Roche;Gary S. Wand;Stefano Volpato

  • Plasma cytokines profile in older subjects with late onset Alzheimer's disease or vascular dementia.

    G. Zuliani;M. Ranzini;G. Guerra;L. Rossi

  • Vitamin D Deficiency and Sarcopenia in Older Persons.

    Francesca Remelli;Aurora Vitali;Amedeo Zurlo;Stefano Volpato

  • Risk Factors for Falls in Older Disabled Women With Diabetes: The Women's Health and Aging Study

    Stefano Volpato;Suzanne G. Leveille;Caroline Blaum;Linda P. Fried

  • What Constitutes Normal Hemoglobin Concentration in Community-Dwelling Disabled Older Women?

    Paulo H.M. Chaves;Qian Li Xue;Jack M. Guralnik;Luigi Ferrucci

Frequent Co-Authors

Antonio Cherubini
Antonio Cherubini University of Perugia
Jack M. Guralnik
Jack M. Guralnik University of Maryland, Baltimore
Luigi Ferrucci
Luigi Ferrucci National Institutes of Health
Francesco Landi
Francesco Landi Agostino Gemelli University Polyclinic
Stefania Bandinelli
Stefania Bandinelli University of Michigan–Ann Arbor
Graziano Onder
Graziano Onder Istituto Superiore di Sanità
Jonathan Myers
Jonathan Myers VA Palo Alto Health Care System
Linda P. Fried
Linda P. Fried Columbia University
Roberto Bernabei
Roberto Bernabei Catholic University of the Sacred Heart
Matteo Cesari
Matteo Cesari University of Milan

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