- Education Practices and Challenges
- Educational Leadership and Administration
- Air Quality and Health Impacts
- Problem Solving Skills Development
- Recreation, Leisure, Wilderness Management
- Health and Wellbeing Research
- Urinary Tract Infections Management
- Pediatric Urology and Nephrology Studies
- Impact of Technology on Adolescents
- Health and Well-being Studies
- Air Quality Monitoring and Forecasting
- Urinary Bladder and Prostate Research
- Municipal Solid Waste Management
- Child and Adolescent Psychosocial and Emotional Development
- Diverse Approaches in Healthcare and Education Studies
- Kidney Stones and Urolithiasis Treatments
- Noise Effects and Management
- Families in Therapy and Culture
- Customer Service Quality and Loyalty
- Agricultural and Rural Development Research
- School Health and Nursing Education
- Energy and Environment Impacts
- COVID-19 diagnosis using AI
- Climate Change and Health Impacts
- COVID-19 Clinical Research Studies
Istanbul University
2015-2025
Istanbul Yeni Yüzyıl University
2021
Istanbul University-Cerrahpaşa
2006-2020
Public Health Department
2012-2015
Background/Objectives: T. pallidum subsp. is a spirochete that only causes disease in humans as the causative agent of syphilis. HIV and syphilis have common transmission routes. In present study, our aim was to evaluate presence coinfection people living with using conventional reverse algorithms investigate its effects on laboratory parameters. Methods: The traditional algorithm for begins testing non-treponemal test. If test reactive, treponemal then used confirm infection. this...
Carbon-monoxide (CO) poisoning is a substantial cause of preventable mortality. In Turkey, no nationwide data are being collected nowadays. our study, we aimed to assess the trend in deaths related CO exposure all provinces Turkey 10-year period by using records news agency which collects from majority national newspapers, local newspapers and television channels. this 27,881 items that were released between January 2008 December 2017 included keywords "poisoning" "death" or "carbon...
There has been a significant increase in the cases of skin cancer throughout world last few decades. Although mortality rate is relatively low, its impact on other health aspects high and treatment undesired aesthetic damage costly. According to disability-adjusted life year rates (DALY), 1.5 million days are estimated be lost from people's lives every worldwide due ultraviolet (UV) radiation. The purpose this study was raise sun awareness levels among services vocational school students. A...
Previous studies based on clinical samples report that enuresis in children is associated with behavioural problems and reduced self-esteem, but the relationship between remains controversial. This population-based study investigated prevalence correlates of a group preparatory school children.This cross-sectional survey involved 356 parents their aged 5-7 years, all residents Istanbul, Turkey. Parents completed Child Behaviour Checklist socio-demographic data form (response rate: 90%)....
Background Congenital anomalies of the kidney and urinary tract (CAKUT) are defined as structural malformations and/or tract. Heat shock proteins (HSPs) expressed in response to cellular changes, such thermal, hemodynamic, osmotic, inflammatory, mechanical stresses. This study aimed assess uHSP70 levels during acute infections (UTI) non-infection periods patients with CAKUT, evaluate whether is elevated CAKUT subtypes. Methods Among 89 UTI (CAKUT-A), 111 without (CAKUT-B), 74 healthy...
The purpose of this study was to evaluate smoking prevalence and factors associated with among students at the Physical Education Sports School Istanbul University. A cross-sectional performed on total 373 who have been continuing their education school from February March 2011. 166 responders were male (44.5%) 207 female (55.5%) out participants. Of students, 94 (25.2%) current smokers average age for beginning 18.03 ± 2.6 (min: 12-max: 30). In study, we found that some variables such as...
Background: Complementary and Alternative Medicine (CAM) therapies are becoming increasingly acceptable to the general public used around world. The international rise in focus on CAM increased incorporation of into medical curricula make it important gain insight knowledge attitudes students about its integration curriculum.Materials Methods: In this present study, we attempt investigate Cerrahpasa faculty students’ knowledge, attitude practices CAM. study a primary cross-sectional data...
Aim: Noise pollution is one of the important problems among environmental pollution. In this present study we tried to show that problem noise at hospital still exceeding and investigate sources annoyed patients mostly. We measured sound levels randomly selected in wards asked causes annoying mostly. Material Methods:Noise level were during August 2009 by Testo 816 Sound Lever Meter Cerrahpasa Medical Faculty. Total readings taken day time between 09.00 am 15.00 pm with three minutes...
Among sexually transmitted diseases, HIV causes very serious clinical manifestations that can lead to death. As a result, millions of people have live with this problem threatens their health. The virus attacks the immune system host, especially CD4+ T lymphocytes, causing suppression system. CD4, CD8 counts, and RNA viral loads are monitored in HIV-infected patients antiretroviral treatment, CD4 counts play an important role determining effectiveness treatment. Despite advances treatment...
Background: Complementary and Alternative Medicine (CAM) therapies are becoming increasingly acceptable to the general public are
 used around world. The international rise in focus on CAM increased incorporation of into medical curricula,
 make it important gain insight knowledge attitudes students about its integration curriculum.
 Materials Methods: In this present study, we attempt investigate Cerrahpasa faculty students’ knowledge, attitude and
 practices CAM. study...
The aim of the present study was to determine prevalence disordered internet use among adolescent university students and its association with various health complaints behaviours, most importantly examine psychometric properties 9-item Internet Disorder Scale-Short Form (IDS9-SF) using factor analyses Rasch analysis.A total 1988 aged 18 25 years were selected via a multi-stage stratified random sampling technique in Istanbul, Turkey (September 2017 February 2018). Data collected included...
Medical waste can consist of infectious, radioactive, and toxic substances from hospitals, laboratories, clinics.In this study, total medical wastes volume were investigated for different organization such as state, university private hospitals in Istanbul during 2002 to 2007.Thus the changing amount analyzed yearly Istanbul, Turkey compared average generation rate (kg/bed-day) other countries order show how successful management system is done.Medical amounts have been increased despite...
Conventional ultrasonography is a method preferred for the investigation of chronic liver diseases in pediatric groups, as it non-invasive, cheap, feasible and available. The purpose this study to present role Share-wave Elastography (SWE) terms diagnostic value children diagnosed with "chronic disease."We studied patients who had been disease between March 2012-September 2015, undergone biopsy their pathology results, compared 26 healthy subjects. Statistical analysis was performed IBM SPSS...
Ponte Academic JournalMar 2020, Volume 76, Issue 3 A COMPREHENSIVE COMPARISON OF MACHINE LEARNING ALGORITHMS ON DIAGNOSING ASTHMA DISEASE AND COPDAuthor(s): Erkut Bolat ,Hasan Yildirim, Sedat Altin, Eray YurtsevenJ. - Mar 2020 76 doi: 10.21506/j.ponte.2020.3.17 Abstract:The diagnosis and classification of asthma COPD, which are the most common respiratory diseases, have been vital importance. Recently, machine learning has great interest for processing health data due to this The focus...
Cytomegalovirus (CMV) can cause serious complications in immunocompromised individuals and fetuses with congenital infections. These include neurodevelopmental impairments abnormalities newborns. This paper emphasizes the importance of concurrently evaluating ultrasonography findings laboratory parameters diagnosing CMV infection. To examine prenatal characteristics DNA-positive patients, we assessed serum amniotic fluid from 141 pregnant women aged 19–45 years, each fetal anomalies. ELISA...
The family medicine system is the basis of primary health care.The aim to establish a closer and better doctor-patient relationship.Everyone registered with doctor in area where they live because diagnose, treat, follow up at care level.Another main function implementation
To compare the quality of 2008 cancer mortality data Istanbul Directorate Cemeteries (IDC) with International Agency for Research on Cancer (IARC) and Turkish Statistical Institute (TUIK), discuss suitability using this databank estimations in future.We used 2010 death records IDC compared it to TUIK IARC data.According WHO statistics, Turkey there were 67255 estimated deaths. As population was 71517100, rate 9.4 per 10000. According 5.97 10000.IDC estimates higher than probably because...
Abstract Background The aim of this study is to evaluate the hypothesis test results after categorizing scale scores with cut-off points and assess whether similar would be obtained in that best represent categories. Methods This cross-sectional was conducted between March 15 20, 2023 via Lime Survey. questionnaire included questions about sociodemographic life characteristics participants Beck Depression Inventory II (BDI-II). Four groups (minimal, mild, moderate, severe depression) were...
We determined the proportion of effects body mass index (BMI) or its categories on cardiometabolic outcomes mediated through systolic blood pressure (SBP), total cholesterol and fasting glucose.Cox regression analyses were performed for incident among Turkish Adult Risk Factor study participants in whom three mediators had been (n = 2158, age 48.5 ± 11 years). Over a mean 10.2-years' follow-up, new coronary heart disease (CHD) developed 406, diabetes 284 individuals, 149 CHD deaths...
We aimed to identify the most suited anthropometric measure for prediction of risk incident coronary heart disease (CHD) among Turkish population.We collected data on body mass index, waist circumference (WC), hip circumference, waist-to-hip ratio (WHR), waist-to-height (WHtR) and a shape index. analysed these using both C-statistics Cox regression models adjusted age, systolic blood pressure, glucose high-density lipoprotein (HDL)-cholesterol assessing CHD 3203 Adult Risk Factor (TARF)...