The Effect of Tocilizumab on the outcome of patients with severe COVID-19 with cytokine storm syndrome in a sample of Iraqi patients.

Objective: To determine whether tocilizumab improved outcomes of patients hospitalised with severe coronavirus disease-2019 cytokine storm syndrome.

Methods: The case-control study was conducted at Al-Yarmouk Teaching Hospital, Baghdad, and Al Shatra General Hospital, Thi Qar, Iraq, from September 2020 to March 2021, and comprised patients with severe acquired respiratory syndrome-corona virus-2 pneumonia who were not candidates for mechanical ventilation and received a single-dose intravenous infusion of tocilizumab 8mg/kg in group A. The outcomes were compared with patients in group B who received only standard care.

The correlation of pro- and anti-inflammatory markers with glycaemic indices in healthy participants and in patients with type 2 diabetes mellitus.

Objective: To investigate the association of high-sensitivity C-reactive protein and adiponectin with glycaemic indices in healthy, prediabetes and diabetes patients.

Methods: The prospective cross-sectional study was conducted from June 2018 to February 2019 at the National Diabetes Centre and the Al-Kindi Specialised Centre for Endocrinology and Diabetes, Baghdad, Iraq, and comprised adult subjects of either gender who were normoglycaemic, those with impaired fasting blood glucose and glycated haemoglobin levels and newly-diagnosed patients of type 2 diabetes. Anthropometric measurements biochemical investigations were done for each subject.

Relationship between urinary nitrate concentrations and cognitive function in older adults: findings from the NHANES survey.

This study evaluated the association of urinary nitrate concentrations with cognition in older subjects enrolled in the NHANES study. We also explored whether associations between urinary nitrate and cognition were modified by cardiovascular risk, vitamin D status and vitamin C intake. Two NHANES cycles were merged (2011-2012 and 2013-2014) and a total of 1,015 adults aged 60-80 (69.

Vitamin B12 status and peripheral neuropathy in patients with type 2 diabetes mellitus.

Objective: To assess the status of vitamin B12 in patients with type 2 diabetes, and to explore any association between its deficiency and diabetic peripheral neuropathy.

Methods: This cross-sectional observational study was conducted from August, 2017, to April, 2018, at the Specialized Centre for Endocrinology and Diabetes in Baghdad, Iraq. Type 2 diabetics using metformin were subjected to clinical examination for retinopathy using fundoscopy, and peripheral neuropathy using the Michigan Neuropathy Screening Instrument.

Bone mineral density in adult patients with type I diabetes mellitus attending specialized center for endocrinology and diabetes in Baghdad.

Objectives: To assess bone mineral density in adult patients with type 1 diabetes mellitus, and to identify the factors that may be associated with bone status in such patients.

Methods: The cross-sectional, case-control study was conducted at the Centre for Endocrinology and Diabetes in Al Rasafa, Baghdad, Iraq, from October 2017 to March 2018 and comprised patients with type 1 diabetes mellitus and healthy controls. Dual energy X-ray absorptiometry was done to assess bone mineral density and other characteristics of the subjects and the two groups were compared using SPSS 25.

Effect of a single dose of dextromethorphan on psychomotor performance and working memory capacity.

Background: Previous studies show that the prolonged use of dextromethorphan produces cognitive deterioration in humans.

Aim: The aim of this study was to investigate the effect of a single dose of dextroemthrophan on psychomotor performance and working memory capacity.

Materials And Methods: This is a randomized, double-blind, controlled, and prospective study.