Introduction: Depression is a significant public health concern, with severe adolescent morbidity and mortality. Promoting adolescents' mental health is increasingly recognized, and schools are proposed as screening and preventive intervention sites. This cross-sectional study aimed to screen self-reported elevated depressive symptom prevalence among secondary school students in Istanbul, Turkey.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFUnlabelled: Evaluation of emergency department (ED) presentation by Syrian refugee children might provide important information about their health care needs. For this purpose, we compared ED presentation of refugee and resident children in a tertiary university hospital in Istanbul, Turkey.Electronic medical records of Syrian refugee children ≤ 18 years old presenting to the ED between January 2013 and July 2019 were retrospectively reviewed and compared with resident children.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFIntroduction Autism spectrum disorder (ASD) is a set of neurodevelopmental disorders characterized by deficits in social behaviors and nonverbal interactions. The disorder is believed to be multifactorial regarding etiopathology. This study aimed to investigate the possible risk factors associated with the development of autism in the prenatal and postnatal periods.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFIn this study, we aimed to examine and compare the perinatal outcomes between refugee and resident mother-infant dyads. Data of refugee women who had given birth in a university hospital ( = 924) and matched resident mother-infant dyads ( = 957) were included. Analysis revealed higher adolescent pregnancy rates and lower rates of antenatal care attendance among refugee mothers compared to residents.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFBackground/aim: Simple noninvasive fibrosis scores based on routine blood tests have been increasingly investigated as screening tools in different clinical settings. Here, we sought to examine whether the Fibrosis-4 Index (FIB-4) and the non-alcoholic fatty liver disease (NAFLD) fibrosis score (NFS) could perform differently in diabetic versus non-diabetic patients with biopsy-proven NAFLD.
Methods: We examined 349 patients with biopsy-proven NAFLD (166 with type 2 diabetes and 183 without).
Background/aims: Nonalcoholic fatty liver disease (NAFLD), which consists of nonalcoholic fatty liver (NAFL) and nonalcoholic steatohepatitis (NASH), is a growing epidemic in Turkey, considering the recent alarming prevalence of 48.3%. Patients with NASH and/or liver fibrosis are more likely to progress to advanced liver disease.
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