Challenging Childhood Obesity: The Influence of Education and Close Monitoring on Obesity-Related Behaviors.

Background: We aimed to evaluate the role of nutrition and behavior education intervention in the prevention and treatment of childhood obesity by comparing changes in obesity-related characteristics among obese children during a follow-up period of 12 months.

Methods: This study was designed as a prospective cohort study in children aged between 6 and 18 years, with exogenous obesity who applied to Istanbul Research and Training Hospital, Pediatrics Department, between January 2018 and July 2019. Beginning at the sixth month, a program for nutrition and behavior education for obesity prevention and treatment was initiated and continued during the second half of the study period.

Current practices of craniospinal irradiation techniques in Turkey: a comprehensive dosimetric analysis.

Objective: This study evaluates various craniospinal irradiation (CSI) techniques used in Turkish centers to understand their advantages, disadvantages and overall effectiveness, with a focus on enhancing dose distribution.

Methods: Anonymized CT scans of adult and pediatric patients, alongside target volumes and organ-at-risk (OAR) structures, were shared with 25 local radiotherapy centers. They were tasked to develop optimal treatment plans delivering 36 Gy in 20 fractions with 95% PTV coverage, while minimizing OAR exposure.

The relationship between self-efficacy, malicious or benign envy in nurses: A cross-sectional study.

Aim: To determine whether nurses' self-efficacy affected envy levels and to develop the necessary strategies.

Background: Envy is a widespread global phenomenon. Envy can harm the individual, the work environment, and nursing care.

Evaluation of the risk factors for noncommunicable diseases in patients with inborn errors of amino acid metabolism receiving nutrition therapy.

Objectives: There is growing concern about the low-protein and high-energy diet therapies used in the treatment of inherited amino acid metabolism disorders. We aimed to identify the risk factors for noncommunicable diseases that may arise from nutritional therapies and suggests approaches that may prevent the development of the noncommunicable diseases.

Methods: The present study evaluates 112 patients, on long-term nutritional therapy for at least the last 2 years with a diagnosis of an inborn error of the amino acid metabolism, and their 28 healthy siblings.

DOCK8 deficiency with hypereosinophilia and the syndrome of inappropriate antidiuretic hormone secretion during herpes infection.

Background: Hyperimmunoglobulin E syndrome (HIES) due to dedicator of cytokinesis8 (DOCK8) deficiency may present in infancy and childhood with different clinical features involving recurrent infections, allergic dysregulation, and autoimmunity.

Case: In this report, we describe a patient who first presented with severe hypereosinophilia and went on to develop the syndrome of inappropriate antidiuretic hormone secretion (SIADH) in the context of a severe herpes infection. Investigation revealed the presence of underlying DOCK8 deficiency presenting with atypical clinical features.

Challenges During the Coronavirus Disease 2019 Pandemic: Diabetes Control and Psychosocial Issues in Children with Type 1 Diabetes Mellitus and Their Mothers.

Objective: Governments have enforced restrictions to prevent the spread of coronavirus dis- ease 2019, which has affected lifestyle and psychosocial well-being. The aim of this study is to examine the psychosocial dimensions of children with type 1 diabetes mellitus and lifestyle changes in the face of the pandemic.

Materials And Methods: Sixty school-aged children with type 1 diabetes mellitus were included to evaluate socioeconomic status, lifestyle changes, and psychological state after a 3-month school closure, using a questionnaire as well as scales in children and mothers [Depression-Anx iety-Stress Scale (short-form), Revised Child Anxiety-Depression Scale (parent-version), The Perceived Stress Scale in Children] via a Google® Form.

Prevalence of metabolic dysfunction-associated fatty liver disease in kidney transplant recipients: A cross-sectional study using FibroScan.

Background And Aim: Metabolic dysfunction-associated fatty liver disease (MAFLD) is expected to be prevalent among kidney transplant recipients (KTRs). In this study, we evaluated the prevalence of MAFLD among KTRs, data that have not been investigated by any clinical study to date.

Materials And Methods: We included a total of 52 KTRs and 53 age-, sex-, and BMI-matched individuals as the control group through prospective consecutive recruitment.

Investigation of psychological factors related to compassion fatigue, burnout, and compassion satisfaction among nurses.

Background: While compassion fatigue is evaluated positively in nurses, compassion fatigue and burnout are undesirable from the viewpoint of professionals, service providers, institutions and ultimately society. It is necessary to identify the factors that lead to undesirable results and to reduce their effects. This study aimed to investigate nurses' levels of compassion fatigue, compassion satisfaction, burnout, various psychopathological symptom levels, coping skills, and the relationship between them.

The relationship between cognitive flexibility and happiness among nurses.

Purpose: To determine the relationship between nurses' cognitive flexibility and happiness and the factors affecting them.

Design And Methods: A Nurse Information Form prepared by the researchers, a Cognitive Flexibility Inventory, and the Oxford Happiness Questionnaire Short Form were administered to 722 nurses working at the Istanbul Medical Faculty Hospital. This was a descriptive and cross-sectional study.

Clinical Characteristics, Comorbid Medical Diagnoses, and Causes of Death of Individuals with Severe Mental Illness Who Died During Follow-up in Community Mental Health Centers: A Multicenter, Retrospective Study.

Objective: In this study, it was aimed to define the clinical characteristics, causes of death, disease and treatment of patients who died while being followed for severe mental illness.

Method: The study was carried out in ten community mental health centers from six provinces. The clinical characteristics, causes of death, course of the illness and treatment characteristics of the patients who had a death report from the date the community mental health centers were opened until the start date of the study were analyzed by retrospective file scanning method.

Relationship between disease severity and serum IL-6 levels in COVID-19 anosmia.

Background: An association between IL-6 levels and cytokine storm syndrome in COVID-19 patients has been suggested. Cases with higher IL-6 levels have more rapid progression and a higher complication rate. On the other hand, COVID-19 cases with anosmia have a milder course of the disease.

Struggle Against Pandemic in A Private Hospital: What We Have Learnt from Pandemic?

Corona Virus disease 2019 (COVID-19), which is one of the biggest outbreaks in the last century and is caused by a kind of coronavirus, spread to many countries in a short time after being first seen in the Wuhan region of China in December 2019. The COVID-19 outbreak, which spread rapidly and caused many deaths, was declared as a pandemic by the World Health Organization on March 11, 2020. The first COVID-19 case in Turkey, coincidentally, was seen on the same day.

The relation among steroid hormone levels, lipid profile and menopausal symptom severity.

Introduction: Many postmenopausal women experience hot flashes, night sweats, non-specific emotional and psychological distresses. Our aim was to investigate the relation among steroid hormone levels, lipid profile and menopausal symptom severity using the menopause rating scale (MRS).

Methods: A cross-sectional study was performed at our outpatient clinic with natural postmenopausal women.

Identification of patients at risk for preeclampsia with the use of uterine artery Doppler velocimetry and copeptin.

Purpose: To investigate the relationship between maternal copeptin levels and uterine artery Doppler examination and progress of preeclampsia.

Materials And Methods: A cross-sectional study was designed with women those were screened at 20 + 0 - 24+  6 weeks' gestation between May 2014 and August 2014. The obstetric records of all normotensive women were examined.

Dynamical phase transitions in totally asymmetric simple exclusion processes with two types of particles under periodically driven boundary conditions.

Driven diffusive systems have provided simple models for nonequilibrium systems with nontrivial structures. Steady-state behavior of these systems with constant boundary conditions have been studied extensively. Comparatively less work has been carried out on the responses of these systems to time-dependent parameters.

Ischemia-modified albumin as an oxidative stress biomarker in early pregnancy loss.

Background/aims: This study aimed to determine the association between early pregnancy loss and serum ischemia-modified albumin (IMA) concentrations.

Methods: Serum samples of 180 women that included healthy pregnant women, women admitted for termination of pregnancy due to the absence of fetal cardiac activity or absence of fetal pole on ultrasonographic examination, and healthy non-pregnant women attending for gynecological examination. Each group included 60 patients.

Fecal tag CT colonography with a limited 2-day bowel preparation following incomplete colonoscopy.

Purpose: This study aimed to assess the feasibility and patient tolerance of a 2-day limited fecal tag bowel preparation in computed tomographic colonography (CTC) performed for incomplete conventional colonoscopy (CC) patients.

Materials And Methods: Seventy-five patients who underwent a CTC examination fbecause of incomplete CC were included. A low-residue diet was given for 2 days before CTC.

Clinical staging in chronic heart failure associated with low vitamin D and elevated parathormone levels.

Objective: Growing evidence in the literature suggests a relationship between heart failure and vitamin D-parathormone cascade. The aim of the present study was to investigate the association of the clinical stage of the heart failure with vitamin D-parathormone levels.

Methods And Results: Ninety consecutive patients, who were admitted to our clinic from December 2012 to May 2013, were included in the present study.

Characterization of lean patients with nonalcoholic fatty liver disease: potential role of high hemoglobin levels.

Objective: Overweight and obesity are major risk factors for the development of nonalcoholic fatty liver disease (NAFLD). However, a minority of NAFLD patients have a body mass index (BMI) <25 kg/m(2) (lean NAFLD). We sought to investigate whether significant differences exist between lean NAFLD and more common forms of NAFLD associated with overweight/obesity.

A child death as a result of physical violence during toilet training.

Enuresis and delayed bladder control are a common source of psychosocial concern for both parents and children. Different cultures have different norms with regard to parenting attitudes. The fact that in Turkey, parents consider enuresis or encopresis as a sign of laziness, misbehavior, or disobedience rather than a medical disorder may cause children to be exposed to physical and emotional violence and maltreatment by the family as a corrective strategy.

Role of human neutrophil gelatinase associated lipocalin (NGAL) and Matrix Metalloproteinase-9 (MMP-9) overexpression in neoplastic colon polyps.

To explore the role of Human neutrophil gelatinase associated lipocalin (NGAL) and Matrix Metalloproteinase-9 (MMP-9) overexpression in neoplastic polyps and might used as a marker to separate those from non-noeplastic polyps. The study was performed on total 65 cases, 40% (n = 26) of them females and 60% (n = 39) of them males, in Haydarpasa Numune Education and Research Hospital between March 2012 and June 2012. The assessment of immunostained sections was performed by a random principle by one experinced pathologists to the clinico-pathological data.