Luana Penna

ORCID: 0000-0001-5426-4237
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Research Areas
  • Health disparities and outcomes
  • Birth, Development, and Health
  • Health, Environment, Cognitive Aging
  • Cardiovascular Health and Disease Prevention
  • Blood Pressure and Hypertension Studies
  • COVID-19 diagnosis using AI
  • Respiratory viral infections research
  • Biomedical Text Mining and Ontologies
  • Nutritional Studies and Diet
  • Global Health Care Issues
  • Health Promotion and Cardiovascular Prevention
  • Influenza Virus Research Studies
  • Early Childhood Education and Development
  • Management, Economics, and Public Policy
  • Anxiety, Depression, Psychometrics, Treatment, Cognitive Processes
  • Child and Adolescent Psychosocial and Emotional Development
  • Aging and Gerontology Research
  • Child and Adolescent Health
  • Cerebrovascular and Carotid Artery Diseases
  • Vaccine Coverage and Hesitancy
  • Zoonotic diseases and public health
  • Genetic Associations and Epidemiology
  • Heart Rate Variability and Autonomic Control
  • Physical Activity and Health

Istituto Superiore di Sanità
2010-2016

The Italian Twin Register has been in place for more than 10 years. Since its establishment, it focusing, on the one hand, a continuous update of existing information, and other new phenotypes sample collection. Demographic data about 140,000 twins have updated using municipality registries. carrying out several studies during last few A birth cohort twins, Multiple Births Cohort Study, started enrolment is ongoing. For this cohort, pregnancy are collected, periodical follow-ups made. DNA...

10.1017/thg.2012.85 article EN Twin Research and Human Genetics 2012-10-22

The fetal and infant life are periods of rapid development, characterized by high susceptibility to exposures. Birth cohorts provide unique opportunities study early-life exposures in association with child development health, as well as, longer follow-up, the early origin adult diseases. Piccolipiù is an Italian birth cohort recently set up investigate effects environmental exposures, parental conditions social factors acting during pre-natal post-natal on health development. We describe...

10.1186/1471-2431-14-36 article EN cc-by BMC Pediatrics 2014-02-07

Italy is particularly concerned by population ageing. The costs for society are substantial. In this context a national, representative surveillance system, Passi D'Argento (PDA), was implemented in 2009 to monitor "active aging" and health status people aged over 64 develop preventive programs reduce frailty.PDA recruited sample of 24 129 individuals (March 2012-January 2013) who were interviewed trained staff using standardized questionnaire. PDA collects information about participation...

10.4415/ann_16_04_13 article EN PubMed 2016-12-22

Nitric oxide has an important role in the development of structure and function airways vessel walls. Fractional exhaled nitric (FE(NO)) is inversely related to markers risk factors atherosclerosis. We aimed estimate relative contribution genes shared non-shared environmental influences variations covariation FE(NO) levels marker elasticity arteries. Adult Caucasian twin pairs (n = 117) were recruited Hungary, Italy United States (83 monozygotic 34 dizygotic pairs; age: 48 ± 16 SD years)....

10.1088/1752-7155/7/2/026008 article EN Journal of Breath Research 2013-05-10

Background Social health determinants, such as level of education, working conditions, income & access to healthcare, can affect people’s behaviour increase their risk for chronic non-communicable diseases (NCD). Due progressivity over life course, NCD concentrate in over64, thus contributing developing frailty the elders. If not properly addressed, those underlying drivers may hinder promotion strategies. According WHO, surveillance is a strategic tool fight NCD. prevalence …

10.1093/eurpub/cku165.087 article EN European Journal of Public Health 2014-10-01

Population Medicine considers the following types of articles:• Research Papers -reports data from original research or secondary dataset analyses.• Review -comprehensive, authoritative, reviews within journal's scope.These include both systematic and narrative reviews.• Short Reports -brief reports research.• Policy Case Studies articles on policy development at a regional national level.• Study Protocols -articles describing protocol study.• Methodology -papers that present different...

10.18332/popmed/163794 article EN cc-by-nd Population Medicine 2023-04-26
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