Publications by authors named "Seyid Ahmet Ay"
Objectives: To describe biochemical and clinical features, and therapeutic outcomes of acromegaly patients in Turkey.
Methods: Retrospective multicenter epidemiological study of 547 patients followed in 10 centers of the Turkish Acromegaly registry.
Results: A total of 547 acromegaly patients (55% female) with a median age of 41 was included in this study.
Introduction: Idiopathic hypogonadotrophic hypogonadism with an olfactory deficit is defined as Kallmann syndrome and is distinct from normosmic idiopathic hypogonadotrophic hypogonadism.
Objective: Because olfactory perception not only consists of orthonasally gained impressions but also involves retronasal olfactory function, in this study we decided to comprehensively evaluate both retronasal and orthonasal olfaction in patients with idiopathic hypogonadotrophic hypogonadism.
Methods: This case-control study included 31 controls and 45 idiopathic hypogonadotrophic hypogonadism patients.
Olfactory and gustatory functions in patients with non-complicated type 1 diabetes mellitus.
Eur Arch Otorhinolaryngol
June 2017
The aim of this study was to evaluate any possible relationship between diabetic state and olfactory and gustatory functions in patients with non-complicated diabetes mellitus type 1 (T1D), and also to present evidence of the association between olfactory and gustatory scores and HbA1c values and disease durations. The study included 39 patients with non-complicated T1D and 31 healthy controls. Clinical characteristics such as age, gender, duration of disease, education levels and biochemical analyses (fasting blood glucose, urea, creatinine, total cholesterol, low-density lipoprotein-cholesterol (LDL-C), high-density lipoprotein (HDL-C), triglyceride, HbA1c, C-peptide, postprandial blood glucose) were measured.
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- Subclinical hypothyroidism is linked to various health issues, but its effects on smell and taste functions are not well understood.
- A study involving 28 subclinical hypothyroid patients and 31 controls in Istanbul assessed their olfactory and gustatory functions before and after 3 months of L-thyroxine treatment.
- Results showed that patients had significantly lower scores in olfactory tests compared to controls, while the taste test indicated only a decreased sensitivity to bitter; however, there were improvements in smell functions after treatment, while taste improved specifically for bitter.
Hypertensive patients have strong evidence of endothelial dysfunction. Some novel endothelial dysfunction parameters such as pulse wave velocity (PWV), augmentation index (AIx), and central aortic pressure (CAP) have been investigated as predictive markers of atherosclerosis. It is well known that obesity has relationships with endothelial dysfunction and atherosclerosis.
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