AIM To explore the distribution and polymorphisms of 23 short tandem repeat (STR) loci on the Y chromosome in the Turkish population recently settled in Sarajevo, Bosnia and Herzegovina and to investigate its genetic relationships with the homeland Turkish population and neighboring populations. METHODS This study included 100 healthy unrelated male individuals from the Turkish population liv...

Electronic Health Record (EHR) systems are core applications in any e-Health environment and represent basic services for healthcare information technology platforms. Many EHR introduction projects ran into trouble because of the inappropriate model and concept of implementation, according to the requirements and standards, as well as the lack of the acceptance of the EHR related services among...

bronchial asthma is a multifactorial disease whereby both environmental and genetic factors contribute to its aetiology and/or clinical severity. the aim of this study was to examine the association of 22 cytokine gene polymorphism in the macedonian population with bronchial asthma (ba). the sample of the population comprised of 301 normal unrelated individuals and 74 patients with ba. cytokine...

Psychological factors have been supposed as an important link in the chain of pathogenesis and the course of many diseases, especially stress-related ones. The field of psychosomatics is concerned with the study of the mind / body relations and, in this context, to the assessment of the influence of psychological factors on bodily changes and, consequently, with the development of illness. Alex...

Results: Pearson’s correlation indicated a significant positive association between changes in NC and changes in body mass index and WC in both men and women. ROC analysis showed that the area under the curve (AUC) for NC and BMI >25 kg/m2 was 0.80 for men, 0.69 for women, respectively, while that for BMI>30 kg/m2 was 0.88 for men, 0.75 for women, respectively. NC ≥ 38 cm for men and ≥ 36 cm fo...

MATERIAL AND METHODS: We performed a cross-sectional study including 37 never-smoking male workers employed in parquet manufacture and an equal number of never-smoking male office workers studied as a control. Evaluation of examined subjects included completion of a questionnaire for respiratory symptoms in the last 12 months and baseline spirometry performed according to the actual recommendat...