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Social Determinants of Health in Peripheral Vascular Disease
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Social Determinants of Health in Peripheral Vascular Disease

A special issue of Journal of Vascular Diseases (ISSN 2813-2475). This special issue belongs to the section "Peripheral Vascular Diseases".

Deadline for manuscript submissions: closed (29 February 2024) | Viewed by 8685

Special Issue Editors

Prof. Dr. Raffaele Serra

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Department of Medical and Surgical Sciences, University Magna Graecia of Catanzaro, 88100 Catanzaro, Italy
Interests: cardiovascular disease; vascular surgery; biomarkers
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Davide Costa

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Department of Law, Economics and Sociology, University Magna Graecia of Catanzaro, 88100 Catanzaro, Italy
Interests: sociology; sociology of health and illness; mental health; social aspects medical problems

Special Issue Information

Dear Colleagues,

Peripheral vascular disease (PVD) is mainly represented by problems that involve peripheral arterial and venous circulation, such as carotid artery stenosis (CAS), chronic venous disease (CVD), venous thromboembolism (VTE), peripheral aneurysms, and some related complications, such as diabetic foot ulcer (DFU), venous leg ulcer (VLU), and arterial leg ulcer (ALU).

As the modern sociology of medicine, and the complex approach to illness, considers medicine to be connected to social determinants of health (SDHs), it is pivotal to also consider PVD as a system capable of responding both internally and externally to random events and integrating them into a flexible structure. In this view, SDHs may be strictly related to disease onset, progression, and complication of PVD. PVD is also responsible for a decreased quality of life (QoL) in affected patients.

In fact, it is also important to assess the correlation between disease-specific measures of quality of life (QOL) to identify demographic, clinical, functional, and social functioning measures independently associated with QOL in people with PVD.

For this Special Issue, we invite investigators to contribute with original research and review papers that provide new insights into the underlying SDH and QoL issues in PVD.

Prof. Dr. Raffaele Serra
Guest Editor

Davide Costa
Guest Editor Assistant

Manuscript Submission Information

Manuscripts should be submitted online at www.mdpi.com by registering and logging in to this website. Once you are registered, click here to go to the submission form. Manuscripts can be submitted until the deadline. All submissions that pass pre-check are peer-reviewed. Accepted papers will be published continuously in the journal (as soon as accepted) and will be listed together on the special issue website. Research articles, review articles as well as short communications are invited. For planned papers, a title and short abstract (about 100 words) can be sent to the Editorial Office for announcement on this website.

Submitted manuscripts should not have been published previously, nor be under consideration for publication elsewhere (except conference proceedings papers). All manuscripts are thoroughly refereed through a single-blind peer-review process. A guide for authors and other relevant information for submission of manuscripts is available on the Instructions for Authors page. Journal of Vascular Diseases is an international peer-reviewed open access quarterly journal published by MDPI.

Please visit the Instructions for Authors page before submitting a manuscript. The Article Processing Charge (APC) for publication in this open access journal is 1000 CHF (Swiss Francs). Submitted papers should be well formatted and use good English. Authors may use MDPI's English editing service prior to publication or during author revisions.

Keywords

  • vascular disease
  • vascular surgery
  • angiology
  • wound care
  • diabetic foot ulcers
  • peripheral artery disease
  • chronic venous disease
  • peripheral aneurysm
  • sociology of medicine
  • sociology of health and illness
  • social determinants of health
  • social capital
  • complexity
  • quality of life

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Association between Anthropometric Measurements and Vascular Disease: A Cross Sectional Study
by Davide Costa, Michele Andreucci, Francesco Isabella, Nicola Ielapi, Antonio Peluso, Umberto Marcello Bracale and Raffaele Serra
J. Vasc. Dis. 2023, 2(1), 13-22; https://doi.org/10.3390/jvd2010002 - 02 Jan 2023
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The aim of this article is to assess the most studied anthropometric measurements in a population of patients with vascular disease (VD) such as chronic venous disease (CVD), carotid stenosis (CS), abdominal aortic aneurysm (AAA), and peripheral artery disease (PAD). This is a [...] Read more.
The aim of this article is to assess the most studied anthropometric measurements in a population of patients with vascular disease (VD) such as chronic venous disease (CVD), carotid stenosis (CS), abdominal aortic aneurysm (AAA), and peripheral artery disease (PAD). This is a cross sectional study that recruited consecutive patients with VD (CVD, CS, AAA, PAD) referred to Vascular Surgery Units of two hospitals in the period July 2019–March 2022. Several anthropometric measurements such as height, weight, body mass index (BMI), waist circumference, waist-to-BMI, waist-to-hip ratio (WHR), A Body Shape Index (ABSI), waist-to-stature ratio (WSR) were recorded. In a one-way ANOVA test, no statistical significance for all anthropometric variables were found, but the post hoc analysis performed with Tuckey test, show significant difference for height (p-value: 0.017) and WHR (p-value: 0.005) when compared AAA and CS groups with CVD, respectively. Height seems positively associated with AAA, and negatively associated with CVD. WHR seems positively associated with CS and negatively associated with CVD. Further studies are needed to clarify the role of anthropometric measures as independent predictors for vascular disease onset, progression, and response to treatments. Full article
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Metalloproteinases between History, Health, Disease, and the Complex Dimension of Social Determinants of Health
by Davide Costa, Nicola Ielapi, Roberto Minici, Egidio Bevacqua, Salvatore Ciranni, Lucia Cristodoro, Giuseppina Torcia, Maria Donata Di Taranto, Umberto Marcello Bracale, Michele Andreucci and Raffaele Serra
J. Vasc. Dis. 2023, 2(3), 282-298; https://doi.org/10.3390/jvd2030021 - 04 Jul 2023
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Metalloproteinases (MPs) belong to the superfamily of zinc endopeptidases, which are called metzincins. Three families of MPs have been studied in healthy and diseased conditions in humans. The first study on MPs was published in 1962, and following that, several studies characterized their [...] Read more.
Metalloproteinases (MPs) belong to the superfamily of zinc endopeptidases, which are called metzincins. Three families of MPs have been studied in healthy and diseased conditions in humans. The first study on MPs was published in 1962, and following that, several studies characterized their activity and their effect on health and disease. Several diseases have been related to MPs, such as cardiovascular disease, cancer, inflammatory diseases, gynecological disorders, and others. Moreover, tissue inhibitors of metalloproteinases (TIMPs) have been widely studied, and drugs and artificial molecules that could target MP activity have been evaluated. MPs are relevant to public health because of their role in several diseases and, most of all, their role as biomarkers that also impact the quality of life and the psychosocial dimension of affected patients. In this context, new pathways to precision health and precision medicine have been opened in the area of MPs. This review describes, from the initial studies, the complex dimensions of MPs and related issues centered on health and disease dimensions. Full article
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The Framingham Study on Cardiovascular Disease Risk and Stress-Defenses: A Historical Review
by Mostafa Abohelwa, Jonathan Kopel, Scott Shurmur, Mohammad M. Ansari, Yogesh Awasthi and Sanjay Awasthi
J. Vasc. Dis. 2023, 2(1), 122-164; https://doi.org/10.3390/jvd2010010 - 16 Feb 2023
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The Framingham Heart Study (FHS) began in 1949 with the goal of defining the epidemiology of hypertensive or arteriosclerotic heart disease in the population of Framingham, Massachusetts, a primarily Caucasian suburb west of Boston with a population of approximately 28,000. The participants were [...] Read more.
The Framingham Heart Study (FHS) began in 1949 with the goal of defining the epidemiology of hypertensive or arteriosclerotic heart disease in the population of Framingham, Massachusetts, a primarily Caucasian suburb west of Boston with a population of approximately 28,000. The participants were without previous symptoms of heart disease and were followed for the occurrence of Cardiovascular Disease (CVD). The study documented a comprehensive medical history that included current symptoms, family history, past cardiac history, social history, and medications. The medical exam included diagnostic studies of chest X-ray, electrocardiogram (EKG), complete blood count (CBC), uric acid level, blood glucose, urinalysis, and venereal disease research laboratory test; Syphilis (VDRL). Serum lipids, recognized at the time to be associated with cardiovascular disease, were also measured. These included cholesterol, total phospholipids, and the Gofman’s Sf 10–20 fraction. Study participants underwent four examinations at 6-month intervals to document any clinical manifestation of CVD. The present understanding of the epidemiologic factors that influence cardiovascular disease risk (CVD-R) is based on the first report of study results at a 6-year median follow-up and numerous subsequent analyses of long-term follow-up data from the original Framingham cohort as well as their offspring. In this paper, we review the Framingham cohort study with regards to the risk factors of peripheral vascular disease. Full article
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