Vol. S12 — Supplemento S12 2007

• The impact of meta-analyses on clinical practice: the benefits
  

  A. Morganti¹

  (1) Chair of Internal Medicine and Hypertension Center, Ospedale San Giuseppe Fatebenefratelli - Milano

• Therapeutic implications of recent megatrials: in favor of old drugs
  

  A. Salvetti¹, G. Salvetti¹, A. Cipriano¹, A. Virdis¹, L. Ghiadoni¹

  (1) Department of Internal Medicine, University of Pisa, Pisa - Italy

• Therapeutic implications of recent megatrials in hypertension: in favor of new drugs
  

  M. Volpe¹, G. Tocci¹

  (1) Division of Cardiology, II Faculty of Medicine, University of Rome La Sapienza, Sant'Andrea Hospital

• Early renal dysfunctions in type 1 diabetes and pathogenesis of diabetic nephropathy
  

  G. Zerbini¹, D. Gabellini¹, S. Maestroni¹, A. Maestroni¹

  (1) Renal Pathophysiology Unit, Section for Nutrition-Metabolism, Department of Medicine, San Raffaele S

• Emerging therapeutic strategies in diabetic nephropathy
  

  M. Ravera¹, M. Re¹, U. Weiss¹, L. Deferrari¹, G. Deferrari¹

  (1) Division of Nephrology, Dialysis and Transplantation, Department of Internal Medicine, University of

• Treating anemia at different stages of renal disease
  

  Francesco Locatelli¹, L. Del Vecchio², P. Pozzoni¹

  (1) Department of Nephrology and Dialysis, A. Manzoni Hospital, Lecco - Italy
  (2) Department of Hypertension and Preventive Nephrology, IRCCS Multimedica, Sesto San Giovanni, Milan -

• The endothelium as a target in renal diseases
  

  Carmine Zoccali¹

  (1) CNR IBIM, National Research Council - Institute of Biomedicine, Clinical Epidemiology and Physiopath

• Arterial stiffness: a new surrogate end point for cardiovascular disease?
  

  S. Laurent¹, P. Boutouyrie¹

  (1) Department of Pharmacology and INSERM U652, Georges Pompidou European Hospital, Paris - France

• Improving cardiovascular risk stratification: the case for redefining microalbuminuria
  

  G. Leoncini¹, E. Ratto¹, F. Viazzi¹, A. Parodi¹, V. Falqui¹, N. Conti¹, C. Tomolillo¹, G. Deferrari², R. Pontremoli¹

  (1) Department of Internal Medicine and Cardionephrology, Azienda Universitaria Ospedale San Martino, Un
  (2) Division of Nephrology, Dialysis and Transplantation, Department of Internal Medicine, University of

• Microalbuminuria, endothelial dysfunction and inflammation in primary hypertension
  

  F. Perticone¹, R. Maio¹, Giovanni Tripepi², A. Sciacqua¹, F. Mallamaci², Carmine Zoccali²

  (1) Internal Medicine and Cardiovascular Diseases Unit, Department of Experimental and Clinical Medicine
  (2) CNR IBIM, National Research Council - Institute of Biomedicine, Clinical Epidemiology and Physiopath

• Blood pressure load, vascular permeability and target organ damage in primary hypertension
  

  V. Falqui¹, F. Viazzi¹, G. Leoncini¹, E. Ratto¹, A. Parodi¹, N. Conti¹, C. Tomolillo¹, G. Deferrari², R. Pontremoli¹

  (1) Department of Internal Medicine and Cardionephrology, Azienda Universitaria Ospedale San Martino, Un
  (2) Division of Nephrology, Dialysis and Transplantation, Department of Internal Medicine, University of