• Multiple retinal arterial macroaneurysms associated with submacular hemorrhage 

      Papageorgiou, E.; Vasiliki, D.; Koufakis, D. (2012)
      PURPOSE. To present the unusual case of multiple retinal arterial macroaneurysms (RAMs) associated with an extensive submacular hemorrhage. METHODS. A 64-year-old hypertensive woman is presented including the clinical ...
    • Non-genetic risk and protective factors and biomarkers for neurological disorders: a meta-umbrella systematic review of umbrella reviews 

      Mentis A.-F.A., Dardiotis E., Efthymiou V., Chrousos G.P. (2021)
      Background: The etiologies of chronic neurological diseases, which heavily contribute to global disease burden, remain far from elucidated. Despite available umbrella reviews on single contributing factors or diseases, no ...
    • Opportunistic screening for hypertension: what does it say about the true epidemiology? 

      Menti A., Kalpourtzi N., Gavana M., Vantarakis A., Voulgari P.V., Hadjichristodoulou C., Gkaliagkousi E., Doumas M., Kalaitzidis R.G., Kallistratos M.S., Karakosta A., Katsi V., Krokidis X., Manios E., Marketou M., Ntineri A., Papadakis J.A., Papadopoulos D., Sarafidis P., Trypsianis G., Chatzopoulos M., Chlouverakis G., Alamanos Y., Zebekakis P., Touloumi G., Stergiou G.S. (2022)
      This study aimed to assess the reliability of opportunistic screening programs in estimating the prevalence, treatment, and control rate of hypertension in the general population. Two recent epidemiological surveys obtained ...
    • Phenotypes of comorbidity in OSAS patients: Combining categorical principal component analysis with cluster analysis 

      Vavougios G.D., Natsios G., Pastaka C., Zarogiannis S.G., Gourgoulianis K.I. (2016)
      Phenotyping obstructive sleep apnea syndrome's comorbidity has been attempted for the first time only recently. The aim of our study was to determine phenotypes of comorbidity in obstructive sleep apnea syndrome patients ...
    • Polyclonal hypergammaglobulinemia and high smooth-muscle autoantibody titers with specificity against filamentous actin: consider visceral leishmaniasis, not just autoimmune hepatitis 

      Makaritsis, K. P.; Gatselis, N. K.; Ioannou, M.; Petinaki, E.; Dalekos, G. N. (2009)
      Visceral leishmaniasis (VL) remains a public health problem in most countries bordering the Mediterranean basin. Its diagnosis is challenging and often delayed, as the main clinical picture is often indistinguishable from ...
    • Prevalence, awareness, treatment and control of hypertension in Greece: EMENO national epidemiological study 

      Stergiou G.S., Menti A., Kalpourtzi N., Gavana M., Vantarakis A., Chlouverakis G., Hajichristodoulou C., Trypsianis G., Voulgari P.V., Alamanos Y., Karakosta A., Touloumi G. (2021)
      Objective:The evidence on the epidemiology of hypertension in Greece is limited. The prevalence and control of hypertension was assessed in randomly selected adults of the general population in Greece within the nationwide ...
    • Progression of conventional cardiovascular risk factors and vascular disease risk in individuals: insights from the PROG-IMT consortium 

      Bahls M., Lorenz M.W., Dörr M., Gao L., Kitagawa K., Tuomainen T.-P., Agewall S., Berenson G., Catapano A.L., Norata G.D., Bots M.L., van Gilst W., Asselbergs F.W., Brouwers F.P., Uthoff H., Sander D., Poppert H., Hecht Olsen M., Empana J.P., Schminke U., Baldassarre D., Veglia F., Franco O.H., Kavousi M., de Groot E., Mathiesen E.B., Grigore L., Polak J.F., Rundek T., Stehouwer C.D.A., Skilton M.R., Hatzitolios A.I., Savopoulos C., Ntaios G., Plichart M., McLachlan S., Lind L., Willeit P., Steinmetz H., Desvarieux M., Ikram M.A., Johnsen S.H., Schmidt C., Willeit J., Ducimetiere P., Price J.F., Bergström G., Kauhanen J., Kiechl S., Sitzer M., Bickel H., Sacco R.L., Hofman A., Völzke H., Thompson S.G., on behalf of the PROG-IMT Study Group (2020)
      Aims: Averaged measurements, but not the progression based on multiple assessments of carotid intima-media thickness, (cIMT) are predictive of cardiovascular disease (CVD) events in individuals. Whether this is true for ...
    • Reemergence of west nile virus infections in Southern Greece, 2017 

      Mavrouli M., Vrioni G., Kapsimali V., Tsiamis C., Mavroulis S., Pervanidou D., Billinis C., Hadjichristodoulou C., Tsakris A. (2019)
      Greece experienced the largest European West Nile virus (WNV) outbreak in 2010 since the 1996 Romania epidemic. West Nile virus reemerged in southern Greece during 2017, after a 2-year hiatus of recorded human cases, and ...
    • Risk Stratification for Recurrence and Mortality in Embolic Stroke of Undetermined Source 

      Ntaios G., Vemmos K., Lip G.Y.H., Koroboki E., Manios E., Vemmou A., Rodríguez-Campello A., Cuadrado-Godia E., Giralt-Steinhauer E., Arnao V., Caso V., Paciaroni M., Diez-Tejedor E., Fuentes B., Pérez Lucas J., Arauz A., Ameriso S.F., Hawkes M.A., Pertierra L., Gómez-Schneider M., Bandini F., Chavarria Cano B., Iglesias Mohedano A.M., García Pastor A., Gil-Núñez A., Putaala J., Tatlisumak T., Barboza M.A., Athanasakis G., Makaritsis K., Papavasileiou V. (2016)
      Background and Purpose - The risk of stroke recurrence in patients with Embolic Stroke of Undetermined Source (ESUS) is high, and the optimal antithrombotic strategy for secondary prevention is unclear. We investigated ...