Publications by authors named "Ismet Tamer"
Objective: To assess the frequency of sarcopenia in type 2 diabetes mellitus (DM) patients using different formulas of bioimpedance analysis (BIA).
Study Design: Cross-sectional study.
Place And Duration Of Study: Obesity Clinic, Kartal Dr.
Article Synopsis
- - The study aimed to explore the link between vitamin D deficiency and obesity in healthy premenopausal women, excluding those with diabetes or metabolic syndrome.
- - Researchers found that women with vitamin D deficiency had significantly higher body mass index (BMI), waist circumference (WC), and waist-to-hip ratio (WHR) compared to those without deficiency.
- - Results indicated a negative correlation between vitamin D levels and obesity measures, suggesting that low vitamin D might contribute to obesity and abdominal fat accumulation, even in individuals without other related health issues.
Background: Thyroid autoimmunity has been suggested as a risk factor for atherosclerosis independent of thyroid function in several studies. The aim of this study was to investigate whether thyroid autoimmunity had any effect on hyperlipidaemia, obesity and abdominal obesity independent of thyroid function.
Material And Methods: 184 premenopausal female patients with Hashimoto's thyroiditis (HT) and 150 healthy premenopausal female volunteers as control group (CG) were included in the study.
Background: Vitamin D insufficiency, defined as serum levels of 25-hydroxyvitamin D [25(OH)D3] lower than 30 ng/mL, has been reported to be prevalent in several autoimmune diseases such as multiple sclerosis and type 1 diabetes mellitus. The goal of the present study was to assess whether vitamin D insufficiency is also a feature of Hashimoto's thyroiditis (HT).
Methods: We performed a prevalence case-control study that included 161 cases with HT and 162 healthy controls.
Most of the previous studies have shown a significant inverse relationship between smoking during pregnancy and weight, height and head circumference of infants at birth, but there is limited literature that assesses the head circumference measures of infants of smoker mothers in postnatal follow-up. The aim of this study was to assess the effects of maternal smoking and passive smoking during pregnancy on postnatal anthropometric measures of infants. Infants were divided into 3 groups: infants of smokers (n = 48), passive smokers (n = 57) and nonsmokers (n = 54), and were evaluated for their weight, height and head circumference at birth, 3 months and 6 months of age.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFObjective: The value of genetic sonogram is controversial in low-risk population. The aim of our study was to compare the anxiety levels among women with high risk and low risk for fetal chromosomal/structural defects.
Materials And Methods: A total of 115 consecutive pregnant women were included.
The aim of this prospective cross-sectional study was to investigate the hypertrophic effects of endogenous subclinical hyperthyroidism on myocardium and early development of left ventricular hypertrophy (LVH) in essential hypertensive patients accompanied by endogenous subclinical hyperthyroidism. A total of 31 consecutive patients with stage I hypertension were included in the study. Sixteen of them also had endogenous subclinical hyperthyroidism that they were unaware before.
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