Prevalence of Metabolic Syndrome in Middle School Children and Evaluation of Components of Metabolic Syndrome.

Objectives: This study was designed to determine the prevalence of metabolic syndrome (MS) in Turkish children and to examine the relationship between MS components in this age group.

Methods: A total of 395 students in Istanbul aged 10 to 14 years in the 2004-2005 school year were enrolled in the study. Body weight, height, waist circumference, hip circumference, and systolic-diastolic blood pressure were measured.

Relationship Between Metabolic Syndrome and Postmenopausal Breast Cancer.

Introduction: Metabolic syndrome is associated with an increased risk of diabetes mellitus (DM) and coronary heart disease. It may also be associated with a higher risk of some common cancers. The objective of this study was to determine the relationship between metabolic syndrome and breast cancer in postmenopausal women.

The Relation of Cytotoxin-Associated Gene-A Seropositivity with Vitamin B12 Deficiency in -Positive Patients.

Background And Aim: As a worldwide infectious bacterium, leads to stomach pathologies such as gastritis, peptic ulcer, gastric cancer, MALToma, and various extragastric manifestations. In our study, we aimed to investigate the association between serum vitamin B12 level and cytotoxin-associated gene-A (CagA) seropositivity, which is one of the virulence factors of ().

Method: This study has been conducted on 289 patients who have met the inclusion criteria.

Assessment of the factors influencing primary care physicians' approach to vaccination of adult risk groups in Istanbul, Turkey.

Background: We aimed to assess the factors influencing primary care physicians' (PCPs) approach to adult vaccination in specific risk groups and evaluate the compliance to adult immunization guidelines.

Methods: This cross-sectional study performed between January 2016 and April 2016 in İstanbul, Turkey. A questionnaire designed to obtain physicians' demographical data, experience, immunization status, and attitude on prescribing or recommending vaccines for adults in the risk group.

Systemic juvenile idiopathic arthritis as a fever of unknown origin.

Juvenile idiopathic arthritis (JIA) is a rare inflammation with still unidentified cause. It can also be cause of fever of unknown origin. Diagnosis is made by eliminating infection, malignancy, and rheumatological diseases.

Lack of association between MAOA-uVNTR variants and excessive daytime sleepiness.

Sleep disorders are highly prevalent in the population and have dramatic health, social, and economic impacts. However, their treatments may remain symptomatic due to ignorance of molecular factors which may provide fundamental insights into the neurological bases of sleep. Excessive daytime sleepiness (EDS) is a common complaint encountered in neurological practice with significant effects both on individuals and on society.

Blood viscosity as a forgotten factor and its effect on pulmonary flow.

Background: The effect of smoking on blood viscosity is widely known. There are, however, few studies on the effect of blood viscosity on pulmonary circulation.

Methods: We aimed to observe the relationship between blood viscosity and pulmonary circulation among smokers and non-smokers.

The evaluation of plasma viscosity and endothelial dysfunction in smoking individuals.

Background: Smoking is considered to be one the of risk factors effecting atherosclerosis which is associated the physical forces, biological and chemical stimuli occuring in vessel wall. The aim of this study is analysis of the biomechanical (plasma viscosity) and biochemical effect (nitric oxide, NOx; asymmetric dimethylarginine, ADMA) of smoking on endothelial function.

Methods: One hundred-twenty two individuals were divided into three groups according to their smoking status.

Socio-economic status of smokers presenting to the outpatient service: does chronic obstructive pulmonary disease make a difference?

Background: Sparse published data are available on the impact of social and personal factors leading to tobacco smoking. Identification of social and economic motives underlying smoking can facilitate the efforts towards control of tobacco smoking.

Methods: A questionnaire was administered to 966 smokers attending the Chest Diseases Out-patient clinic at the Haseki Training and Research Hospital, Istanbul to collect demographic data from the participants.

Pulmonary functions in patients with subclinical hypothyroidism.

Objective: To determine whether alterations in pulmonary function takes place in subclinical hypothyroidism by examining the diffusion lung capacity and muscle strength of such patients.

Methods: This is a descriptive study conducted in 2009 at Haseki Training and Research Hospital, Istanbul, Turkey. Hundred and twenty-six patients with subclinical hypothyroidism and 58 age and sex matched individuals were recruited.

The assessment of pulmonary diffusing capacity in diabetes mellitus with regard to microalbuminuria.

Objective: The current study was conducted to determine whether or not the lung is one of the target organs in the development of vascular complications in diabetic patients. We also investigated the relationship between pulmonary diffusing capacity and microalbuminuria.

Materials And Methods: A total of 68 patients with type 2 diabetes and 44 with type 1 diabetes (male/female [M/F] n=19/49 and 15/29; age: 52.

Spirometry in patients with clinical and subclinical hypothyroidism.

It is well known that respiratory functions are affected at clinical hypothyroidism. Simple spirometry which is a cheap and simple method is performed to the patients with subclinical hypothyroidism in order to determine if respiratory functions are affected or not. Recently diagnosed 87 patients with clinical hypothyroidism, 120 patients with subclinical hypothyroidism and 60 healthy subjects were enrolled in the study.