Gian Benedetto Melis
University of Cagliari
226 Papers
2.6K Citations
Gian Benedetto Melis is an academic researcher from University of Cagliari. The author has contributed to research in topics: Medicine & Estrogen. The author has an hindex of 46, co-authored 226 publications. Previous affiliations of Gian Benedetto Melis include University of Pisa.
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Papers
The oral contraceptive containing 30 microg of ethinylestradiol plus 3 mg of drospirenone is able to antagonize the increase of extracellular water occurring in healthy young women during the luteal phase of the menstrual cycle: an observational study.
Franca Fruzzetti,Stefano Lello,Lazzarini,Stefania Fratta,Marisa Orrù,Roberto Sorge,Luigi Minerba,C Ricci,Ar Genazzani,Gian Benedetto Melis,Anna Maria Paoletti +10 more
TL;DR: Evaluating body weight and composition during the menstrual cycle and during oral contraception with EE+DRSP maintains the same concentrations in TBW and ECW observed in the FP, likely due to the antimineralocorticoid activity of DRSP, which counteracts the water retention elicited by estrogen.
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Gestational diabetes mellitus in Sardinia: results from an early, universal screening procedure.
C Murgia,Rachele Berria,Luigi Minerba,Barbara Malloci,Claudia Daniele,Pierina Zedda,M. Giovanna Ciccotto,Simonetta Sulis,Michela Murenu,Franco Tiddia,Mario Manai,Gian Benedetto Melis +11 more
TL;DR: The prevalence of gestational diabetes mellitus ranges from 1 to 14% of all pregnancies, depending on the population studied and the diagnostic test and its glycemic cutoff, and it mirrors the prevalence of type 2 diabetes.
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Association between different morphological types and abnormal karyotypes in early pregnancy loss
TL;DR: To identify the abnormal transvaginal ultrasound (TVS) findings typical of aneuploidic pregnancies that end with early pregnancy loss (EPL), a novel approach is proposed to quantify the importance of these findings in diagnosis and prognosis.
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Alexithymia in women with deep endometriosis? A pilot study
I Melis,Mirian Agus,Nicola Pluchino,Attilio Di Spiezio Sardo,Pietro Litta,Gian Benedetto Melis,Stefano Angioni +6 more
TL;DR: How women with endometriosis are significantly more alexithymic compared with controls is underlined.
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Short-term variations in bone remodeling markers of an oral contraception formulation containing 3 mg of drospirenone plus 30 μg of ethinyl estradiol: Observational study in young postadolescent women
Anna Maria Paoletti,Marisa Orrù,Stefano Lello,Stefano Floris,Francesca Ranuzzi,Rossella Etzi,Pierina Zedda,Stefano Guerriero,Stefania Fratta,Roberto Sorge,Giorgio Mallarini,Gian Benedetto Melis +11 more
TL;DR: The results suggest that 6-month DRSP+EE treatment decreases bone turnover.
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