Our aim was to differentiate the screening potential of waist-to-height ratio (WHtR) and waist circumference (WC) for adult cardiometabolic risk in people of different nationalities and to compare both with body mass index (BMI). We undertook a systematic review and meta-analysis of studies that used receiver operating characteristics (ROC) curves for assessing the discriminatory power of anthr...

Aim: This descriptive study which was conducted in the surgical clinics of a university hospital in Gaziantep/Turkey aims to compare care perceptions of patients who had surgical operation and those of nurses. Method: The participants were 379 patients and 70 nurses who provided care to those patients. The data were collected using Identification Form and CBI-24 (Caring Behaviours Inventory-24)...

BACKGROUND New-onset diabetes mellitus after transplantation (NODAT) is a well-known complication of transplantation. OBJECTIVE To determine the correlation between CMV infection and NODAT. METHODS Retrospectively, we detected CMV replication (PCR) in every month after renal transplantation in the first 12 months of the procedure in a homogenous group of patients from the immunosuppression ...

OBJECTIVE We aimed to evaluate whether preoperative chemotherapy provides benefits in the survival and prognosis of patients with non-small cell lung cancer (NSCLC) in resectable stages I to IIIA, except T1N0. METHODS In this randomized, controlled trial, 356 patients with stage I (except for T1N0), II and IIIA NSCLC were assigned to either the preoperative chemotherapy plus surgery arm (179 ...

PURPOSE Many pediatric urologists still favor using prophylactic antibiotics to treat children with vesicoureteral reflux (VUR). However, breakthrough infection sometimes occurs, leading to significant increases in morbidity as a result of renal scarring. Therefore, we tested whether abnormal renal scan and other factors are predictive of breakthrough infection using univariate analyses. MATE...

BACKGROUND Several reports indicate that aprotinin treatment before and during cardiopulmonary bypass (CPB) might have a protective effect on the myocardium. We evaluated the hemodynamic effects of perioperative aprotinin treatment. METHODS We conducted a randomized, double-blind, placebo-controlled trial in 34 infants (mean age, 2.5 years) who had cardiac operations. Half of the patients rec...

Current clinical application of platelet-rich plasma is showing a trend toward multiple treatments. The goal of this study was to show the benefit of interval platelet-rich plasma application in the healing and recovery of human tenocytes using an in vitro cell model. Eight volunteers (6 men and 2 women) were included in this study (mean±SD age, 31.6±10.9 years). Venous blood was collected from...

 Background: Anterior interbody fusion of the cervical spine have become the gold standard for treating spinal diseases, hence the aim of this study was to compare long term follow up results in patients with cervical disk disease treated with anterior PEEK cage implantation and without it in anterior approach. Methods: Retrospectively 63 patients with known cervical discogenic disorders who we...

OBJECTIVES To measure the prevalence of positive substance use screen results among adolescent primary care patients and to estimate the prevalence of substance-related problems and disorders. DESIGN Cross-sectional survey. SETTING A network of primary care practices in New England. PARTICIPANTS A consecutive sample of 12- to 18-year-old patients (N = 2133), with a study participation rat...

aims: anemia occurs for different reasons. however the iron deficiency anemia (ida) is one of the most prevalent causes of anemia in all human communities. the goal of the present study was to assess the effect of serum ferritin deficiency on anemia in medical students. materials & methods: this cross-sectional study was conducted on students of kashan university of medical sciences in all educ...