Scientific Interests

The interests of Prof. Rizzoni have focused on the following topics: (1) Neural and hormonal influences on renal sodium excretion in arterial hypertension and other cardiovascular diseases. In particular: renal noradrenergic and dopaminergic systems, natriuretic hormones; (2) Clinical pharmacology and therapy of antihypertensive agents; (3) Non invasive ambulatory blood pressure monitoring; (4) Cardiopulmonary receptors control of heart rate, blood pressure and incretion of several hormones (ANP, ADH, PRA, aldosterone); (5) Cardiovascular vascular structural and functional changes in hypertension, diabetes mellitus, acromegaly, etc; (6) Determinants and clinical significance of structural alterations in the microcirculation. More than 900 publications (abstracts, papers), 152 of them in PubMed/Medline. Impact factor: > 700 (JCR 2007)