In older hypertensive adults, frailty may increase the risk of adverse events associated with blood pressure lowering, including syncope and falls. However, the degree of frailty at which these risks become clinically significant remains uncertain. The study aimed to compare clinical characteristics and the incidence of falls and syncope across different frailty levels among older hypertensive adults. We analyzed data from the...

Purpose of Review Wildfires, wind storms, and pest outbreaks are the main large-scale disturbances of temperate and boreal forests, which often generate large amounts of deadwood in the landscape. Salvage and sanitation loggings (hereafter salvage logging) are usually practiced following such disturbance events and the generated deadwood is then extracted from the forest. Those practices affect a broad array of species, includ...

The Ionian sea is prone to tsunamis due to its proximity to the Calabrian subduction zone, which is one of the major tsunamigenic areas of the Mediterranean. The tsunami disaster risk is, nowadays, significantly higher due to the increased exposure of buildings as a result of the economic and touristic growth of the Mediterranean coastal areas. This study focuses on Marzamemi, a small village in the western coast of Sicily, si...