Evaluation of vitamin D and serum lipid profile levels in obstructive meibomian gland dysfunction.

Purpose: To compare the serum lipid profile and 25-hydroxyvitamin D3 (25-OH D3) levels of patients diagnosed with obstructive meibomian gland dysfunction (OMGD) and healthy controls.

Methods: This prospective study included OMGD patients who were seen at our clinic between April 2023 and October 2023 and age- and gender-matched controls. All participants underwent a detailed ophthalmological examination, including Ocular Surface Disease Index (OSDI) testing, tear-film breakup time (TBUT), and shrinkage testing.

Association of Leptin with Glucose Intolerance and Gestational Diabetes Mellitus in Pregnant Women: Prospective Analytical Case-Control Study.

This study aimed to investigate the use of leptin as a marker for gestational diabetes by analyzing any correlation between serum leptin levels versus oral glucose tolerance tests (at 24 to 28 weeks of pregnancy) and increased body weight (during pregnancy). A total of 110 female cases (81 pregnant and 29 non-pregnant) were included in the study. The 81 pregnant cases were divided into 3 groups according to their oral glucose tolerance test results.

Are hypertension and diabetes mellitus risk factors for pelvic organ prolapse?

Objectives: Pelvic organ prolapse (POP) is an important problem for women with multifactorial etiology. This study aims to determine the role of hypertension (HT) and diabetes mellitus (DM) in POP.

Study Design: The study included 586 women admitted to Bulent Ecevit University Hospital between September 2013 and April 2015 for hysterectomy, comprising 186 patients with POP and 400 patients without.

On the expansion of "dangerous" gene repertoires by whole-genome duplications in early vertebrates.

The emergence and evolutionary expansion of gene families implicated in cancers and other severe genetic diseases is an evolutionary oddity from a natural selection perspective. Here, we show that gene families prone to deleterious mutations in the human genome have been preferentially expanded by the retention of "ohnolog" genes from two rounds of whole-genome duplication (WGD) dating back from the onset of jawed vertebrates. We further demonstrate that the retention of many ohnologs suspected to be dosage balanced is in fact indirectly mediated by their susceptibility to deleterious mutations.