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The effect of osteoporosis on quality of life in men
Full text linkYÖK Tez No: 247191Giriş ve Amaç: Osteoporoz kemik kütlesinde azalma ve kemik mikromimarisinde bozulma sonucu kırıklara neden olabilen ve yaşam kalitesini olumsuz yönde etkileyen bir hastalıktır. Çalışmanın amacı morbidite ve mortalitesi yüksek bir hastalık olan osteoporozda yaşam kalitesini ve yaşam kalitesi üzerine etkili faktörleri değerlendirmektir.Gereç ve Yöntem: Çalışmaya lomber ve femur boynu kemik mineral yoğunlukları dual enerji X-ray absorbsiyometre ile ölçülen ve sonucunda osteoporoz saptanan 113 erkekten oluşan olgu grubu ile her iki bölge kemik mineral yoğunlukları normal bulunan katılımcılardan oluşturulan 67 kişilik kontrol grubuna dahil edildi. Her iki gruba sosyodemografik özellikler ve osteoporoz risk faktörlerini sorgulayan soru formu ve yaşam kalitesi ölçekleri uygulandı. İstatistiksel analizde ikili karsılastırmalar t testi, çoklu karşılastırmalar tek yönlü varyans analizi ve lineer regresyon analizi, sürekli değiskenler arasındaki ilişki Pearson korelasyon analizi ile degerlendirildi. p<0,05 değerleri anlamlı kabul edildi.Bulgular: Osteoporozlu erkeklerde hem lomber hem de femur boynu kemik mineral yoğunluklarının sigara, alkol kullananlarda daha düşük saptandı (p<0,001). Osteoporozun hem SF-36, hem de QUALEFFO-41 ile ölçülen yaşam kalitesini düşürdüğü saptanmıştır. Yaşam kalitesinin; sigara, alkol kullanımı, kırık öyküsü ve günlük yetersiz kalsiyum alımının ilişkili olduğu bulunmuştur (p<0,05).Sonuç: Osteoporozlu olgular taranarak düşük yaşam kalitesi açısından risk altındaki kişilerin tanımlanması, osteoporoz risk faktörleri ve korunma yöntemleri konusunda kişilerin bilgilendirilmesi ve yaşam tarzı değişikliklerinin desteklenmesi gereklidir.Introduction: Osteoporosis is a bone disease which may cause fractures as a result of reduced bone mineral density and disrupted bone micro architecture also decreasing the quality of life.Methods: Bone mineral density of lomber spine and femoral neck were measured by dual enerrgy X-ray absorptiometry and the results with osteoporosis in 113 men identified from the group consisting of the patients with both bone mineral density in normal participants formed the control group 67 persons were included in this study. A questionnaire, which was prepared for assessment of sociodemographic features and risk factors for osteoporosis, and quality of life scales were administered to the 113 osteoporotic cases and control group, consisted of 67 normal. Face to face interview method was used. Student?s t test, ANOVA, Linear regression analysis and Pearson?s correlation analysis were used in statistical assessments. P < 0.05 value was accepted as significant.Results: It has been concluded that osteoporosis decreases the quality of life as measured by both SF-36 and QUALEFFO-41 scales. The factors related to quality of life are fracture, alcohol consuption and smoking. Femoral neck and lumbar spine bone mineral density in men with osteoporosis were lower than those of cigarette and alcohol use (p<0,001).Conclusion: As a result, screening studies to identify osteoporotic cases under high risk for decreased quality of life, educating individuals about the risk factors of osteoporosis and how to prevent them and encouraging for life style modifications is essential
Is there a relationship between kinesiophobia, pain, depression, disease activity, functional status and quality of life in patients with ankylosing spondylitis?
Full text linkTo evaluate the presence of kinesiophobia and its potential effects on pain, depres sion, disease activity and quality of life in patients with ankylosing spondylitis (AS). Materials and Methods: The study included 58 AS patients and 55 healthy controls. Tampa Kinesiophobia Scale (TKS) was used to evaluate the presence of kinesiophobia, Visual Analogue Scale (VAS) for severity of pain, Beck Depression Index (BDI) for de pression level, Bath Ankylosing Spondylitis Disease Activity Index (BASDAI) for disease activity, Bath Ankylosing Spondylitis Functional Index (BAS-FI) for functional status, and Ankylosing Spondylitis Functional Index (ASQoL) for Quality of life. Results: In patient group, kinesiophobia rate was statistically significantly higher (68%) compared tothe healthy control subjects (27%) (p0.05). Conclusion: Kinesiophobia is more common in patients who had AS than in healthy control subjects, and presence of kinesophobia is related toimpaired quality of life and increased pain. Therefore, we propose that strategies to increase awareness of movement fear, cognitive behavioral therapy and physical activity should be involved in the treatment programs
May neutrophil lymphocyte ratio and platelet lymphocyte ratio be used as inflammatory markers in patients with epicondylitis? Inflammatory markers in patients with epicondylitis
Full text link*Karakoyun, Ahmet ( Aksaray, Yazar )Aim: The aim of this study was to determine whether there is any correlation between neutrophil to lymphocyte ratio (NLR), platelet to lymphocyte ratio (PLR) and acute phase reactants such as C-reaktive protein (CRP), erythrocyte sedimentation rate (ESR) in patients with epicondylitis.Material and Methods: Our study included 274 patients. 154 patients with epicondylitis constituted the epicondylitis group and 120 healthy individuals constituted the control group. Demographic data such as age, gender, and laboratory values such as NLR and PLR were analyzed retrospectively. Both groups were compared in terms of dermographic data, leukocyte, neutrophil, lymphocyte, platelet count, CRP, ESR, NLR and PLR.Results: There was no significant differences between patient and control groups in term of demographic data such as height and weight, and laboratory values such as nuetrophil, lymphocyte, platelet, ESR and CRP (p>0,05 for all). Besides, no significant difference was found between the two groups in terms of NLR and PLR values (p>0,05 for both). There was a significant positive correlations between NLR or PLR and ESR or CRP values in the patient group (p<0,001 for all).Conclusions: In our study, no significant difference was found between NLR, PLR and other blood paramaters in patients with epicondylitis compared to those of controls. As a result, we determined that it is not meaningful to use these rates to show the presence of inflammation in epicondylitis pathogenesis, and there is no correlation between the severity of epicondylitis and these rates. There is a need for further studies with more patient numbers and clinical evaluation parameters
The impact of extracorporeal shock wave therapy on pain, grip strength and functionality in patients with medial epicondylitis and lateral epicondylitis
Full text linkThe aim of this study was to evaluate the effectiveness of extracorporeal shock wave therapy (ESWT) and conventional physical therapy applications on pain, grip strength and functionality in medial and lateral epicondylitis treatment and to compare the results. Materials and Methods: A total of 116 patients diagnosed with medial and lateral epicondylitis were included in the study. The patients were divided into ESWT group and control group. The patients in the control group received a total of 15 sessions of conventional physical therapy (Hotpack, Transcutaneous electrical nerve stimulation (TENS)) once a day for 30 minutes.Whereas, ESWT was applied to the patients in the ESWT group as 2 sessions per week, for a total of 6 sessions. Pain severity of the patients was measured with Visual Pain Scale (VAS), grip strength with a hand dynamometer and functional level with the Patient Based Forearm Assessment Questionnaire (PFEQ).Measurements were made in all groups before treatment, after treatment and 1 month after treatment. Results: In comparisons between groups, there was a significant decrease in VAS and PFEQ values after treatment compared to the control group in the ESWT group (p <0.05). In the evaluation of the hand tightening force, it was observed that the hand tightening force in the ESWT group after treatment (p: 0.043) and 1st month controls increased significantly compared to the control group (p: 0.038). Conclusions: Based on these results, our study demonstrated that the combination of conventional physical therapy and ESWT produced clinically positive effects in patients with epicondylitis
Going Beyond Counting First Authors in Author Co-citation Analysis
Full text linkThe present study examines one of the fundamental aspects of author co-citation analysis (ACA) - the way co-citation
counts are defined. Co-citation counting provides the data on which all subsequent statistical analyses and mappings
are based, and we compare ACA results based on two different types of co-citation counting - the traditional type that
only counts the first one among a cited work's authors on the one hand and a non-traditional type that takes into
account the first 5 authors of a cited work on the other hand. Results indicate that the picture produced through this non-traditional author co-citation counting contains more coherent author groups and is therefore considerably clearer. However, this picture represents fewer specialties in the research field being studied than that produced through the traditional first-author co-citation counting when the same number of top-ranked authors is selected and analyzed. Reasons for these effects are discussed
Variations on the Author
Full text link“Variations on the Author” discusses two of Eduardo Coutinho’s recent films (Um Dia na Vida, from 2010, and Últimas Conversas, posthumously released in 2015) and their contribution to the general question of documentary authorship. The director’s filmography is characterized by a consistent yet self-effacing form of authorial self-inscription: Coutinho often features as an interviewer that rather than express opinions propels discourses; an interviewer that is good at listening. This mode of self-inscription characterizes him as an author who is not expressive but who is nonetheless markedly present on the screen. In Um Dia na Vida, however, Coutinho is completely absent form the image, while Últimas Conversas, on the contrary, includes a confessional prologue that moves the director from the margins to the center of his films. This article examines the ways in which these works stand out in the filmography of a director who offers new insights into the notion of cinematic authorship
Appropriate Similarity Measures for Author Cocitation Analysis
Full text linkWe provide a number of new insights into the methodological discussion about author cocitation analysis. We first argue that the use of the Pearson correlation for measuring the similarity between authors’ cocitation profiles is not very satisfactory. We then discuss what kind of similarity measures may be used as an alternative to the Pearson correlation. We consider three similarity measures in particular. One is the well-known cosine. The other two similarity measures have not been used before in the bibliometric literature. Finally, we show by means of an example that our findings have a high practical relevance.information science;Pearson correlation;cosine;similarity measure;author cocitation analysis
Dispelling the Myths Behind First-author Citation Counts
Full text linkWe conducted a full-scale evaluative citation analysis study of scholars in the XML research field to explore just how different from each other author rankings resulting from different citation counting methods actually are, and to demonstrate the capability of emerging data and tools on the Web in supporting more realistic citation counting methods. Our results contest some common arguments for the continued
use of first-author citation counts in the evaluation of scholars, such as high correlations between author rankings by first-author citation counts and other citation
counting methods, and high costs of using more realistic citation counting methods that are not well-supported by the ISI databases. It is argued that increasingly available digital full text research papers make it possible for citation analysis studies to go beyond what the ISI databases have directly supported and to employ more
sophisticated methods
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