Pietro Minuz is Full Professor of Internal Medicine at the University of Verona since 2012. Graduated with honours in Medicine at the University of Padova and specialist in Internal Medicine, he became Associate Professor of Internal Medicine at the University of Verona in 2002. His scholarships were in Clincal Medicine and Pharmacology in Verona, Pharmacology with Carlo Patrono at the Catholic University in Rome, Clinical Pharmacology with Sir Colin Dollery and James M Ritter at the Hammersmith Hospital in London. He is professor of Clinical Medicine and Therapy and Clinical Pathophysiology, degree course of Medicine and director of the Doctoral School “Life and Health Sciences” of the University of Verona (2012-2018). Director of the School of Specialisation in Internal Medicine of the University of Verona from November 2017 to date. He heads a division of General Medicine dedicated to hypertensive disorders, a Hypertension Excellence Centre of the European Society of Hypertension and a Reference Centre of the Veneto Region for the study of platelet disorders. Director of the International School of Pharmacology at the E.Majorana Centre for Scientific Culture, Erice, Italy. Executive editor of the British Journal of Clinical Pharmacology (2003-2019) and Fellow of the British Pharmacological Society. Fields of his research activity have been the mechanisms of platelet activation and vascular dysfunction in hypertension and metabolic disorders. Topics of major interest have been the pharmacodynamics of antiplatelet agents and the pathophysiology of hypertensive disorders. Pietro Minuz is the author of more than 320 scientific publications (Scopus H-index: 42), editor of 5 special issues of international scientific journals and more than 160 scientific communications at international and national meetings. For comprehensive information see: http://www.dm.univr.it/?ent=persona&id=1145
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Hypertension | o Experimental and clinical aspects of arterial hypertension and cardiovascular risk factors o Experimental and clinical aspects of endothelial function and oxidative stress. o Experimental and clinical aspects of arterial stiffness o Oxidative stress, isoprostanes and platelet activation in cardiovascular disease o Eicosanoids in the development of renovascular hypertension, essential hypertension and pre-eclampsia o Heritability of blood pressure and blood pressure variability. o Heritability of metabolic syndrome and its individual components. o Genes implicated in blood pressure regulation and metabolic syndrome development o Monogenic forms of hypo-/hypertension and in particular Gitelman syndrome o Pharmacogenetics of antihypertensive and other types of cardiovascular drugs o Nutritional aspect in the development of obesity and hypertension in children and adults o Nutritional aspect in the development of early vascular damage o Experimental and clinical aspects of non-alcoholic fatty liver disease o Pathophysiology of hypertension induced by anti-angiogenic drugs. o Vascular changes during physiologic and pre-eclamptic pregnancy. | Cardiac & Cardiovascular Systems |
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