I am a former Director of Internal Medicine Unit of the S.Maria delle Grazie Hospital in Pozzuoli (Naples) and a specialist in diabetes and metabolic diseases. My interest in diabetic cardiomyopathy and cardiovascular risk linked to diabetic disease and its management began more than 30 years ago. I collaborated with Federico II University researchers on the topic of glucose metabolism in muscle. For more than 30 years, I have been a member of the Italian Society of Diabetology (SID), and for more than 10 years, I also have been a member of the Italian Society of Diabetology and Pediatric Endocrinology (SIEDP). For more than 10 years, I have been an active member of the Pediatric Obesity Study Group of SIEDP, and I have coordinated numerous multicenter studies on metabolic risk factors related to pediatric obesity. I have published many papers on the association between hypertension, NAFLD, and glucose dysmetabolism among youths with overweight/obesity. I have presented the results of these studies in several national meetings of SID, SIEDP, Italian Society of Cardiology (SIC), and the Italian Society of Cardiovascular Prevention (SIPREC). I have published around 40 papers in international journals.