A digital movement in the world of inactive children: favourable outcomes of playing active video games in a pilot randomized trial.

This parallel randomized controlled trial was aimed to evaluate whether parameters as physical fitness, reaction times, self-perception and enjoyment levels, as well as parental and children perspectives, were affected by active video games in inactive and technologically preoccupied children. Data were collected in a laboratory setting from four randomly selected urban public schools. All 1300 children in grades 3-6 were surveyed for the study.

The analysis of 8-year data (2002-2010) of the tumor cases based on the pathology records of Abant Izzet Baysal University medical faculty department.

Aim: Cancer is one of the most significant health problems throughout the world. An important aspect of measures against cancer is to determinate the extension and prevalence of the cancer. Understanding characteristics and behavior of cancer is the key issue in providing preventive steps and developing proper strategies in the concept of early diagnosis and treatment.

The association between thyroid malignancy and chronic lymphocytic thyroiditis: should it alter the surgical approach?

Background: The relation between thyroid neoplasms and chronic lymphocytic thyroiditis (CLT) is controversial. While it is accepted that focal lymphocytic thyroiditis develops secondarily to malignancy, it is not clear whether diffuse lymphocytic thyroiditis has a tendency to develop into thyroid cancer. The aim of this study was to investigate the relation between CLT and malignant tumours of the thyroid and evaluate the surgical approach to CLT cases.

Salivary alpha amylase activity in migraine patients.

Objective: Salivary alpha amylase levels were measured to investigate sympathetic nervous system activity in migraine patients during attack, post-attack and interval periods of headache since salivary alpha amylase levels have been suggested as a potential indirect marker of sympatho-adrenal medullary activity in recent studies.

Methods: 50 patients with migraine headache (13 patients in attack, 26 patients in post-attack and 11 patients in interval period) and 60 healthy volunteers were taken into the study. In all participants, the presence of anxiety was measured by using Hamilton Anxiety Rating scale.

Use of GIS in epidemiology: a case study in Istanbul.

In this study, the procedure of using GIS for tracking the distribution of measles in a district of Istanbul was performed. The aim of the study is to present the available questionnaire data, which were collected during the measles epidemic, by means of maps. The designed maps show the relation and the distribution of individual cases on time and spatiality.