Publications by authors named "Hakan Kardes"
The relationship between metabolic syndrome criteria and pentraxin-3 levels in children.
J Pediatr Endocrinol Metab
September 2023
Objectives: While the positive correlation was shown in a few studies which investigated the relationship between obesity and pentraxin-3 (PTX-3) levels, different findings were obtained in other studies. We aimed to determine PTX-3 levels in obese and healthy children, and their relationship with Metabolic Syndrome (MetS) criteria.
Methods: 105 children and adolescents were considered as the study population.
Background: The aim was to evaluate the epidemiological, clinical, laboratory, and radiologic data of children with SARS-CoV-2 positivity by polymerase chain reaction (PCR) together with treatment strategies and clinical outcomes and to evaluate cases of multisystem inflammatory syndrome in children (MIS-C) in this population.
Methods: This was a multicenter retrospective observational cohort study performed in the pediatric emergency departments of 19 tertiary hospitals. From March 11, 2020, to May 31, 2021, children who were diagnosed with confirmed nasopharyngeal/tracheal specimen SARS-CoV-2 PCR positivity or positivity for serum-specific antibodies against SARS-CoV-2 were included.
Objectives: TNF-alpha inhibitors have been effective in randomized controlled studies for the treatment of RA. The purpose of this study was to evaluate the clinical, laboratory, and radiological responses in a cohort of unselected patients with RA treated with TNF-alpha inhibitors in the community.
Methods: Using the Swiss Clinical Quality Management in Rheumatoid Arthritis, a centralized system of data gathering for RA patients, we obtained the following information regarding patients treated with a TNF-alpha inhibitor in the Geneva Canton before 02/2003: demographics; clinical data (disease activity, functional status, treatments received and type of TNF-alpha inhibitor used); laboratory and radiographic data.