International journal of clinical practice
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Int. J. Clin. Pract. · Nov 2021
Multisystem Inflammatory Syndrome in Children (MISC): a systematic review.
The aim of this systematic review was to analyse current literature and reported cases of multisystem inflammatory syndrome in children (MISC), concerning its clinical spectrum, complications associated, therapeutic strategies and distinguishing features of other clinical syndromes. ⋯ MISC raises concern on its severe cardiac involvement at presentation, with frequent intensive care and immunomodulatory therapy need. Short-term outcomes seem to be favourable, with cardiac dysfunction recovery and low mortality rates.
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Int. J. Clin. Pract. · Nov 2021
Sleep quality and related factors in a sample of Turkish healthcare workers during the COVID-19 pandemic: A cross-sectional study.
Increasing workloads and psychological pressure have led to fatigue among healthcare workers during the COVID-19 pandemic. Increasing stress and social isolation can also lead to sleep problems. The purpose of this study was to evaluate sleep quality and related factors among healthcare workers during the COVID-19 pandemic in Turkey. ⋯ Poor sleep quality was common among healthcare workers during the COVID-19 pandemic. Working in hospitals and high traumatic stress levels were identified as factors associated with poor sleep quality.
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Int. J. Clin. Pract. · Nov 2021
Acute effect of add-on therapy with tofogliflozin, a sodium glucose co-transporter 2 inhibitor, on 24-hour glucose profile and glycemic variability evaluated by continuous glucose monitoring in patients with type 2 diabetes receiving dipeptidyl peptidase-4 inhibitors.
To investigate acute effects of add-on therapy with the sodium glucose co-transporter 2 inhibitor tofogliflozin to dipeptidyl peptidase (DPP)-4 inhibitors on 24-hours glucose profile and glycaemic variability evaluated by continuous glucose monitoring (CGM) in patients with type 2 diabetes. ⋯ Add-on therapy with tofogliflozin to DPP-4 inhibitors acutely reduces 24-hours glucose levels and improves glycaemic variability in patients with type 2 diabetes.
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Int. J. Clin. Pract. · Nov 2021
Serum periostin levels in COVID-19: is it useful as a new biomarker?
Severe disease characterised by interstitial pneumonia may develop in some cases of coronavirus disease (COVID-19). Periostin has been associated with many respiratory diseases. In this study, we aimed to investigate whether periostin could be a useful new biomarker in the follow-up and severity assessment of the disease in patients with COVID-19 pneumonia. ⋯ The current manuscript may be the first one performing periostin ELISA on COVID serum, and we believe that periostin can be used as a new biomarker.
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Int. J. Clin. Pract. · Nov 2021
Levels of anxiety sensitivity, somatosensory amplification and alexithymia in patients with unexplained infertility.
In this study, we aimed to focus on the psychological aspect of unexplained infertility by comparing their psychological features to those of infertile patients with a known causes and fertile patients. ⋯ In our study, it has been found out that; regardless of the knowledge of the aetiology of infertility, the levels of alexithymia, somatosensory amplification and anxiety sensitivity of infertile cases did not differ from those of fertile women. However, it has been shown that as the difficulty in identifying emotions increases in infertile cases, anxiety sensitivity, which may cause psychological infertility, also increases.