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Maria Letizia Petroni

Associate Professor

Department of Medical and Surgical Sciences

Academic discipline: MEDS-08/C Food and Dietetic Sciences

Research

Keywords: obesity metabolic diseases clinical nutrition non-alcoholic steatohepatitis

Nutritional prevention (primary and secondary; lifestyle changes)
Epidemiology of metabolic diseases
Non-alcoholic steatohepatitis
Obesity (pathophysiology, therapy)
Energy metabolism and body composition (relationship with nutritional and endocrine factors)
Cognitive-behavioral therapy of obesity
Obesity rehabilitation (metabolic-nutritional-psychological and of its complications)
Medical nutritional therapy
Disability and nutritional status