Are Oral Health Conditions Associated with Schoolchildren's Performance and School Attendance?

Aim: To examine the relationship between children's oral health-related quality of life and their academic achievement and school attendance.Materials and Methods: Data was gathered from the answers to a structured questionnaire from 150 children aged 7-12 years. Their demographic data, the children's/parents' oral health conditions, their academic performance/school absenteeism, and their intraoral examination outcomes were recorded via a structured questionnaire. The Silness ; toe plaque index was used to assess their dental plaque scores and DMFT/DMFS, dmft/dmfs indices according to the WHO criteria were used to determine their dental caries scores. Results: The mean age of the 150 pediatric patients [72 girls (48%) and 78 boys (52%)] was 9.23 +/- 1.44 years. Due to dental care-related issues, 82% of schoolchildren missed less than two weeks, and 18% missed more than two weeks of school. Furthermore, 21% of these missed days were related to toothache or infections, and 34% were due to going to dental treatment appointments. The association between nail biting and hard object biting and the school achievement of the children was shown to be statistically significant (p=0.02 and p=0.03, respectively). According to the results of the present study, it was determined that school absenteeism was higher in those children who needed dental treatment. It was also observed that there was a negative correlation between school absenteeism and academic success (p=0.01).Conclusion: Dental problems can cause school-aged children to be absent from school and affect their school performance negatively

Syncope as a subject of the risk assessment of pulmonary thromboembolism to be used for: A cross-sectional study

WOS: 000437844500017PubMed: 29498800IntroductionSyncope is infrequent in pulmonary thromboembolism (PTE) yet might be indicative of haemodynamic instability. the prognostic role of syncope in PTE has not been well documented. ObjectivesIn this study, the association between risk classification of the European Society of Cardiology and syncope was investigated in the normotensive PTE patients. MethodsWe retrospectively screened electronic medical records of patients who were admitted in 2 tertiary care hospital and diagnosis of PTE with computed tomography pulmonary angiography. Patients with hypotension (high risk) at the time of admission were excluded from the study. ResultsOf 5% patients (16/322) had syncope with the proportion of 81.3% (13/16) in the intermediate high risky group, 18.7% (3/16) in intermediate low risk group and 0% in low risk group. Mortality rate was higher in subjects with syncope (25% vs 11.1%) although it was not it was not statistically significant (P=NS). in those with syncope, the central venous thrombus was more frequent than those without it (78.6% vs 30.1%, P=.008). Only heart rate and intermediate high-risk group were retained as independent predictors of syncope selection in the multivariate logistic regression. ConclusionAlthough syncope is positively correlated with the severity of PTE, it does not predict the prognosis alone. Nonetheless, syncope in patients with PTE can be considered as an important alarming stimulus for clinical course

Picturing asthma in Turkey: results from the Turkish adult asthma registry

Introduction: National data on asthma characteristics and the factors associated with uncontrolled asthma seem to be necessary for every country. For this purpose, we developed the Turkish Adult Asthma Registry for patients with asthma aiming to take a snapshot of our patients, thereby assigning the unmet needs and niche areas of intervention. Methods: Case entries were performed between March 2018 and March 2022. A web-based application was used to record data. Study outcomes were demographic features, disease characteristics, asthma control levels, and phenotypes. Results: The registry included 2053 patients from 36 study centers in Turkey. Female subjects dominated the group (n = 1535, 74.8%). The majority of the patients had allergic (n = 1158, 65.3%) and eosinophilic (n = 1174, 57.2%) asthma. Six hundred nineteen (32.2%) of the patients had obese asthma. Severe asthma existed in 670 (32.6%) patients. Majority of cases were on step 3–5 treatment (n: 1525; 88.1%). Uncontrolled asthma was associated with low educational level, severe asthma attacks in the last year, low FEV1, existence of chronic rhinosinusitis and living in particular regions. Conclusion: The picture of this registry showed a dominancy of middle-aged obese women with moderate-to-severe asthma. We also determined particular strategic targets such as low educational level, severe asthma attacks, low FEV1, and chronic rhinosinusitis to decrease uncontrolled asthma in our country. Moreover, some regional strategies may also be needed as uncontrolled asthma is higher in certain regions. We believe that these data will guide authorities to reestablish national asthma programs to improve asthma service delivery