Behavioural interventions to increase adherence to palivizumab prophylaxis in children with CHD.

Objectives: Adherence to palivizumab prophylaxis programmes is crucial to protect infants with CHD against respiratory syncytial virus infections. We analysed the effectiveness of two nudge interventions in increasing adherence.

Methods: Our study included 229 infants, and their caregivers, from five centers in Turkey in the 2020-2021 respiratory syncytial virus season.

Usefulness of ischemia-modified albumin for assessment of the effects of small ventricular septal defects on the pulmonary vascular bed.

Background: Pulmonary vascular damage may be associated with oxidative stress in congenital heart diseases. We investigated whether small ventricular septal defects have an effect on the pulmonary bed.

Methods: This prospective cohort study included 100 patients with small ventricular septal defects and 75 healthy controls.

Pentraxin 3 as a Marker for Cardiovascular Disease Risk in Overweight and Obese Children.

Background: Pentraxin 3 is an inflammatory mediator that may be associated with subclinical inflammation in atherosclerosis and cardiovascular diseases. This study investigated the predictive value of pentraxin 3 as an inflammatory biomarker in overweight and obese children.

Methods: Participants were categorized into three groups: overweight (n = 35), obese (n = 35), and healthy controls (n = 70).

Salusin-α levels are negatively correlated with diastolic blood pressure in children with obesity.

Salusins have emerged as a new biomarker that reflects an increased inflammatory state, which is associated with cardiovascular risk. We investigated the predictive value and usefulness of salusins as an inflammatory biomarker in obese children. This prospective cohort study included 75 obese children and 101 healthy children (as a control group).

Effects of gestational and pregestational diabetes mellitus on the foetal heart: a cross-sectional study.

We examined the foetal cardiac structural and functional characteristics in diabetic pregnancies versus non-diabetic, healthy pregnancies. Between August 2015 and April 2016, 32 pregnant women with pregestational diabetes, 36 pregnant women with gestational diabetes, and 42 healthy pregnant women were scheduled to have foetal echocardiograms to assess cardiac structure and function. In the diabetic groups, the foetal interventricular septum (IVS) thickness was significantly greater than in non-diabetics (p < .

Dynamic thiol/disulphide homeostasis as a novel indicator of oxidative stress in obese children and its relationship with inflammatory-cardiovascular markers.

Objective: Childhood obesity is an important cause of cardiovascular risk with chronic inflammation. Oxidative stress may contribute to the pathogenesis of obesity-related cardiovascular pathologies. We aimed to evaluate thiol/disulphide homeostasis as a novel and sensitive marker of oxidative stress and to evaluate its relationship with some inflammatory and cardiovascular markers in obese children.

Usefulness of soluble urokinase plasminogen activator receptor (suPAR) as an inflammatory biomarker in obese children.

Objective: Soluble urokinase plasminogen activator receptor (suPAR) has emerged as a relatively new biomarker that reflects increased inflammatory status and been associated with cardiovascular risk. We wanted to investigate the predictive value and usefulness of suPAR as an inflammatory biomarker in obese children.

Methods And Results: Of the total 136 participants, 76 (36 male, 40 female) were in obese group and 60 (24 male, 36 female) were in control group.

The Cost Analysis of Preterm Infants from a NICU of a State Hospital in Istanbul.

Objective: The objective of this study was assessment of hospital costs of 211 preterm babies admitted to NICU in a 12-month period.

Methods: Preterm babies with gestational age 28-37 GW hospitalized in Dr. L.