Are premenstrual syndrome and aggression related to body mass index in adolescents?

Objective: This cross-sectional study aimed to examine the relationship between premenstrual syndrome (PMS) and aggression during adolescence with body mass index (BMI), which is a topic not yet investigated in the literature.

Patients And Methods: This cross-sectional study was conducted with 1,450 adolescents aged 12-18 years, who applied to the Pediatric Adolescent Outpatient Clinic and voluntarily agreed to participate in the study. Anthropometric measurements of the adolescents were taken and the Premenstrual Syndrome Scale and Buss-Perry Aggression Questionnaire were administered to the adolescents.

A DIFFERENT PERSPECTIVE OF ELEVATED LACTATE IN PEDIATRIC PATIENTS WITH DIABETIC KETOACIDOSIS.

Objective: This study aims to determine the frequency and prognostic significance of lactic acidosis in children with diabetic ketoacidosis (DKA) admitted to the pediatric intensive care unit.

Methods: The study was carried out retrospectively by examining the patients admitted to the pediatric intensive care unit for the treatment of DKA. The ages of the patients ranged from 2 to 18 years.

Evaluation of oxidative stress in children with congenital heart defects.

Background: A significant cause of death and chronic illness in childhood is caused by cardiovascular diseases, including congenital heart disease (CHD). This study aims to investigate the oxidative stress status and to establish its association with CHD in children.

Methods: The study involves measurements of malondialdehyde (MDA), protein carbonyl (PCO), total anti-oxidant capacity, high-sensitive C-reactive protein (hs-CRP), fibrinogen and cytokine (interleukin [IL-6] and tumor necrosis factor-α) levels in 43 children with CHD and 30 healthy age-matched children.

Cranial magnetic resonance imaging findings of nutritional vitamin B12 deficiency in 15 hypotonic infants.

Background: Nutritional vitamin B(12) deficieny is common among infants in the developing and underdeveloped countries. There is limited information concerning neuroimaging findings in infants with vitamin B(12) deficiency in the literature.

Aims: The aim of this study is to evaluate the cranial magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) changes and clinical characteristics of hypotonic infants due to vitamin B(12) deficiency.

Bone mineral density in children with beta-thalassemia major in Diyarbakir.

Bone mineral status has extensively been investigated in adult thalassemics but less in thalassemic children. This study involves measurements of the bone mineral density (BMD), various demographic and biochemical parameters in 47 thalassemic children and 50 healthy controls with comparable age, sex, socioeconomic and regional distribution. Patients have significantly higher aspartate aminotransferase, alanine aminotransferase, phosphorous, osteocalcin, serum carboxy terminal teleopeptide fragment of type I collagen, intact parathyroid hormone (iPTH) and ferritin levels while they have significantly lower 25-hydroxy vitamin D (25OH-D), alkaline phosphatase and z-scores both at lumbar and femur compared to controls.