Effects of DK With Periodontal Therapy in Diabetes Mellitus and Stage I-II Periodontitis Patients.

Background: The aim of this study is to look into the clinical and biochemical outcomes of DK supplementation in addition to nonsurgical periodontal treatment (NSPT) for patients suffering from diabetes mellitus (DM) and periodontitis.

Methods: Thirty-eight participants with DM and periodontitis were randomized into two different groups. The test group provided NSPT with DK whereas the control group received NSPT with placebo.

The Diagnostic Value of Soluble Triggering Receptor Expressed on Myeloid Cells for Patients with Acute Stone Pyelonephritis.

Soluble triggering receptor expressed on myeloid cells (sTREM-1) is a new biomarker that can be used for the diagnosis and monitoring of urinary system infections. This study aimed to evaluate the diagnostic performance of serum sTREM-1 in patients with a diagnosis of acute stone pyelonephritis (ASP). This prospective study included 46 patients with a diagnosis of ASP and a control group of 23 individuals without urinary system infection.

Non-functioning adrenal incidentalomas may increase toxic metabolites.

Background: Non-functioning adrenal incidentaloma (NFAI) is a frequent diagnosis with increasing radiological tests. The emerging shreds of evidence showed that they might have negative cardiometabolic effects. The study aimed to investigate whether the toxic metabolites, asymmetric dimethylarginine (ADMA) levels, were altered in NFAI patients.

Is Thiol-Disulphide Homeostasis an Indicative Marker in Prediction of Metastasis in Lung Cancer Patients.

Background: Thiol/disulfide (SH/SS) homeostasis plays an essential and dynamic role in our body and in various cellular activities and pathways such as cell death, regulation of enzyme activities, mechanisms of transcription and cellular signal transduction. Lung cancer is the most commonly seen cancer type in the adult population. Therefore, prediction of metastases gains importance in this population.

Who Tweets About Diabetic Foot on Twitter and Which Tweets Are More Attractive?

Diabetic foot is a serious problem for health care systems. Twitter can provide communication between people and it might be an informative tool for health care management. The purpose of this study is detecting the people or organizations that tweet about diabetic foot and analyze the interactions of these tweets on Twitter.

Tumour budding in preoperative biopsy specimens is a useful prognostic index for identifying high-risk patients in early-stage (pN0) colon cancer.

Background/aim: Tumour budding (BD) is considered a valuable prognostic factor in colon cancer (CC), but its use in daily practice is uncertain. We investigated the prognostic effect of BD using preoperativebiopsy specimens in a fairly homogeneous population.

Materials And Methods: Eighty-two (pN0) CC patients who underwent surgery after preoperativebiopsy between 1997 and 2013 were included in the study.

Choroidal thickness in obese women.

Background: Excessive weight is a well-known risk factor for microvascular diseases. Changes in thickness in a vascular tissue, such as the choroid, can be useful to evaluate the effect of obesity on the microvascular system. The aim of this study was to evaluate the choroidal thickness (CT) changes in obese women, using optical coherence tomography (OCT).

The comparison of pandemic HIN1 IgG levels between HIN1 influenza-vaccinated healthcare workers and unvaccinated healthcare workers.

Background/aim: To compare pandemic H1N1 (pH1N1) IgG antibody levels between healthcare workers who were vaccinated with the pH1N1 influenza vaccine and the unvaccinated healthcare workers who were selected as the control group.

Materials And Methods: A total of 68 healthcare workers were included in this study. Of those, 53 were adults vaccinated with the H1N1 influenza vaccine and 15 were unvaccinated.

Asymmetric dimethyl arginine levels in chronic hemodialysis patients.

Background/aim: To investigate serum asymmetric dimethyl arginine (ADMA) levels in maintenance hemodialysis (HD) patients and to assess their potential correlations with C-reactive protein (CRP), albumin, and cholesterol levels as the established cardiovascular and nutritional parameters.

Materials And Methods: Forty-nine patients on maintenance HD treatment and 22 healthy volunteers with similar age and sex characteristics were recruited into the study. Serum albumin, CRP, creatinine, calcium, phosphate, total cholesterol, low-density lipoprotein (LDL) cholesterol, high-density lipoprotein (HDL) cholesterol, hemoglobin, white blood cell counts, and serum ADMA levels were measured.

Clinical importance of serum neopterin level in patients with pulmonary tuberculosis.

Objective: Neopterin is a sensitive marker for cell-mediated immune response. Because of this, the neopterin levels of body fluids show cell-mediated immune response in different infectious diseases which involve T cells and macrophages. The aim of this study was to determine the clinical importance of neopterin levels in patients with tuberculosis and compare with those levels of healthy subjects.