Metabolic syndrome and glucose tolerance status.

Aim: To determine justifiability of oral glucose tolerance test (OGTT) in non diabetic patients with metabolic syndrome (MetS).

Methods: It was included 398 patients attended to Outpatient Clinics of Sisli Etfal Training and Research Hospital. Eligible patients were assigned as patients with MetS according to International Diabetes Federation (IDF) criteria.

Use of knee height for the estimation of stature in elderly Turkish people and their relationship with cardiometabolic risk factors.

The determination of the approximately truest value in height measurement is important in many fields, but it is difficult to perform true measurements, especially in the elderly individuals. We planned to investigate the following items in geriatric Turkish population: to calculate the decrease in height with advancing age by using the standing height measurement and estimated height derived from the knee height; to evaluate the significance of difference between the two measurement methods in the calculation of body mass index (BMI) and waist/height ratio (WHtR); to determine the cut-off value of WHtR according to estimated height in elderly individuals. We studied 551 cases aged between 19 and 97 years.

A geriatric patient with diffuse idiopathic skeletal hyperostosis.

The most frequent health problems seen in senility are chronic and degenerative diseases. A 75-year-old male patient with the complaints of weight loss and difficulty in swallowing was admitted to our hospital from a nursing home. Upper system fiber-optic gastrointestinal endoscopy was performed and a mass at the junction of the hypopharynx and esophagus just below recessus piriformis obstructing almost the whole of the lumen and blocking the distal passage was detected.

Penicillin sensitivity among hospital nurses without a history of penicillin allergy.

Aim: This paper reports a study to document the prevalence of penicillin sensitivity among nurses who had no previous history of sensitivity and worked in an inner city hospital in Turkey.

Background: Frequent and prolonged exposure to any drug including penicillin may increase the risk of hypersensitivity to these drugs. Local administration of drugs increases the likelihood of sensitization.