Publications by authors named "Emine Tireli"
Objective: In this prospective study, we aimed to investigate acute effect of nasal continuous positive airway pressure (CPAP) therapy on the endothelial function of patients with obstructive sleep apnea syndrome (OSA) by using brachial artery flow mediated dilatation (FMD) method.
Methods: Newly diagnosed thirty OSA patients with ages between 29 and 72 years were included in this study. FMD and high sensitivity C-reactive protein (hsCRP) values of patients obtained before and after CPAP dose titration test were compared with paired samples t test or Wilcoxon signed ranks test.
Objective: We aimed to investigate the effects of autonomic and left ventricular functional and structural changes on QT interval and dispersion differences between normal and prehypertensive patients.
Methods: A total of 291 normotensive patients (<140/90 mmHg) (135 males, age range: 16-75 years, mean age: 45+/- 11 years; 156 females, age range: 17-71 years, mean age 38+/- 10 years) were enrolled into this cross-sectional case-controlled study. Patients were categorized into two groups according to their blood pressure (BP) levels as Group 1 - patients with normal BP (<120/80 mmHg) or Group 2 - patients with prehypertensive BP (120-139/80-89 mmHg).
Objective: We aimed in this study to investigate the differences in left ventricular (LV) structure, function and elastance parameters in the patients with normotensive blood pressure (BP) levels.
Methods: A total of 294 normotensive patients (<140/90 mmHg) (135 males, mean age: 45+/-11 years; 159 females, mean age 38+/-10 years) were enrolled into the present cross-sectional study. Patients were categorized into three groups according to their BP levels as optimal BP (<120/80 mmHg), normal BP (120-129 / 80-84 mmHg) and high normal BP (129-139 / 84-89 mmHg) groups.