Impact of spiritual interventions in individuals with cancer: A systematic review and meta-analysis.

Purpose: This meta-analysis aimed to determine how spiritual interventions affect cancer patients' physical, emotional, and spiritual outcomes and quality of life.

Methods: Between 2012 and May 2024, the Cochrane Library, Scopus, PubMed, and Web of Science were searched considering the Preferred Reporting Items for Systematic Reviews and Meta-Analyses checklist. Twenty-six randomized controlled trials were included, and 16 were synthesized in the meta-analysis.

Correlation between symptom status, health perception, and spiritual well-being in heart failure patients: A structural equation modeling approach.

Aim: To explore predictors of spiritual well-being behaviors among heart failure patients based on Wilson and Cleary's conceptual model of health-related quality of life and to clarify the interrelationships among these variables.

Design: A descriptive and correlational study design was used.

Methods: This study included 202 heart failure patients treated between October 2020 and July 2021.

Theory-based nursing interventions in adults with coronary heart disease: A systematic review and meta-analysis of randomized controlled trials.

Purpose: This systematic review and meta-analysis aimed to synthesize the outcomes of theory-based nursing interventions for coronary heart disease management.

Design And Methods: Web of Science, Scopus, Science Direct, and PubMed databases were electronically searched from January 2013 to August 2021. The Preferred Reporting Item for Systematic Reviews and Meta-analyses statement guidelines was followed for this meta-analysis.

Benson Relaxation Technique Combined With Music Therapy for Fatigue, Anxiety, and Depression in Hemodialysis Patients: A Randomized Controlled Trial.

This study aimed to investigate the effects of the Benson relaxation technique combined with music therapy on fatigue, anxiety, and depression levels of patients undergoing hemodialysis. This randomized controlled study was conducted with 61 patients (30 patients in the intervention group, 31 patients in the control group) in a province located in Turkey. This 8-week, randomized, clinical trial was carried out in 2 hemodialysis units.

Aortic flow propagation velocity, epicardial fat thickness, and osteoprotegerin level to predict subclinical atherosclerosis in patients with nonalcoholic fatty liver disease.

Objective: Nonalcoholic fatty liver disease is the most common cause of liver dysfunction in Western countries and an independent risk factor for atherosclerotic heart disease. Appropriate noninvasive parameters are lacking for optimal risk stratification of cardiovascular disease in these patients. We evaluated several recently discovered noninvasive parameters for atherosclerosis in patients with nonalcoholic fatty liver disease: epicardial fat thickness, aortic flow propagation velocity, and osteoprotegerin level.

Conventional markers in determination of activity of sarcoidosis.

Aim And Background: Currently, there are no objective criteria to determine sarcoidosis activity. The present study aimed to discover a sensitive serum marker that would determine the activity of sarcoidosis and can be used during disease follow-up.

Methods: Forty-eight patients with sarcoidosis and twenty healthy volunteers as a control group were included in the study.

Vitamin D deficiency is related to thyroid antibodies in autoimmune thyroiditis.

Introduction: It has been known that vitamin D has some immunomodulatory effects and in autoimmune thyroid diseases, vitamin D deficiency was more prevalent. In this study, our aim was to investigate the relationship between thyroid autoantibodies and vitamin D.

Material And Methods: Group 1 and 2 consisted of 254 and 27 newly diagnosed Hashimoto's thyroiditis (HT) and Graves' disease (GD) cases, respectively; age-matched 124 healthy subjects were enrolled as controls (group 3).

The decreased CD4+CD25+ FoxP3+ T cells in nonstimulated allergic rhinitis patients sensitized to house dust mites.

Objective: Regulatory (CD4(+)CD25(+)) T cells have been shown to play an important role in the development of allergic diseases. This study aims to investigate CD4(+)CD25(+) T cells, Forkhead box P3 (FoxP3(+) cells), and T-helper 1/T-helper 2 (Th1/Th2) cytokines in newly diagnosed allergic rhinitis (AR) patients.

Methods: Altogether, 10 subjects with AR and 12 age-matched nonallergic healthy subjects were included in this study.

Enhanced nerve growth factor expression by mast cells does not differ significantly between idiopathic and allergic rhinitis.

Background: The role of neurotrophins in allergic rhinitis (AR) has been well studied, but it has not been evaluated in idiopathic rhinitis (IR).

Objective: We aimed to evaluate the nasal β-nerve growth factor (β-NGF) expressions of mast cells in patients with AR and IR.

Methods: Seventeen patients with house dust mites-induced persistent moderate/severe allergic rhinitis (mean age: 29.

Tumor necrosis factor alpha, interleukin-6 and interleukin-10 polymorphisms in preeclampsia.

Aim: Preeclampsia (PE) is one of the most serious disorders of pregnancy. The imbalance between pro- and anti-inflammatory cytokines may play a role in its etiology. The aim of the present study was to investigate whether cytokine gene polymorphism is associated with PE, and to evaluate the relationship between genotypes and clinical/laboratory manifestation of PE.

Neurotrophins: are they meaningful in chronic spontaneous urticaria?

Plasma neurotrophin levels are elevated in patients with allergic and autoimmune diseases. The present study was designed to investigate the serum neurotrophin levels in 42 patients displaying chronic spontaneous urticaria, as well as 22 healthy control subjects. Blood samples were obtained from subjects during their first visit to the clinic, and then again after one month of desloratadine therapy.