Factors effecting influenza vaccination uptake among health care workers: a multi-center cross-sectional study.

Background: The present study aimed to identify factors affecting vaccination against influenza among health professionals.

Methods: We used a multi-centre cross-sectional design to conduct an online self-administered questionnaire with physicians and nurses at state and foundation university hospitals in the south-east of Turkey, between 1 January 2015 and 1 February 2015. The five participating hospitals provided staff email address lists filtered for physicians and nurses.

Correction of hypothyroidism seems to have no effect on body fat.

Aim. We aimed to observe the effects of L-thyroxine replacement therapy on body fat content determined with various anthropometric methods and a bioelectrical impedance analysis method in patients with hypothyroidism. Methods.

Risk Factors That can Predict Antenatal Insulin Need in Gestational Diabetes.

Background: This study was undertaken to assess the association between insulin need in gestational diabetes mellitus (GDM) and clinical features and laboratory parameters. Factors that can predict insulin need are also identified.

Methods: Cases with GDM were included retrospectively from records.

An unusual case of ruptured distal anterior cerebral artery aneurysm associated with brucellosis.

Reports have noted aneurysmal dilatation of arteries in association with brucellosis, but involvement of intracranial vessels has not been documented to date. Sixty-one year old female patient who had been diagnosed with brucellosis 14 months earlier presented with symptoms of subarachnoid hemorrhage (SAH). Due to deterioration of the patient's clinical condition in spite of a two-drug antibiotic regimen, she was treated surgically and made a full recovery.

Low eradication rate of Helicobacter pylori with triple 7-14 days and quadriple therapy in Turkey.

Aim: The eradication rate of Helicobacter pylori (H pylori) shows variation among countries and regimens of treatment. We aimed to study the eradication rates of different regimens in our region and some factors affecting the rate of eradication.

Methods: One hundred and sixty-four H pylori positive patients (68 males, 96 females; mean age: 48+/-12 years) with duodenal or gastric ulcer without a smoking history were included in the study.