Emre Demir

Hitit University · Department of Biostatistics

There is currently no bibliometric analysis available regarding pain management (PM). The aim of this study was to monitor the advancement of the PM research field, demonstrate global productivity, identify the most highly cited studies, delineate collaborations between research areas and countries, and uncover new research topics and intriguing tr...

Blepharoplasty is an important eyelid surgical procedure, involving aesthetic and functional changes to the eyelids. The aim of this study is to investigate the effects of upper eyelid blepharoplasty on changes in the visual field, corneal changes, and cosmetic appearance. This study was performed with preoperative and postoperative facial photogra...

This study is the first comprehensive bibliometric analysis about meningioma to date. The aim of this study is to identify the most influential publications in this field through citation and co-citation analysis, to examine international collaborations, to identify the conceptual framework of the subject and emerging trending topics through keywor...

Hematuria is the most common symptom of bladder cancer (BCa). It is well-known that the frequency of hematuria increases with the use of antithrombotic drugs (ATDs). We designed our study with the hypothesis that patients using antithrombotic drugs who present with the complaint of hematuria and are subsequently diagnosed with BCa may receive an ea...

OBJECTIVE: The number of studies in the field of andrology is increasing day by day, but a bibliometric study covering the entire literature on andrology has not yet been conducted. This bibliometric study aims to shed light on the question of where we came from and where we are going in andrology from past to present. It also aimed to summarize th...

Objective: Although the number of global studies on swimming has increased, there are still no bibliometric studies in the literature. This study aimed to present a medical perspective by examining scientific articles published in the field of swimming sports with statistical methods. Material and Method: Articles on swimming published between 1980...

Amaç: Yeni tip Koronavirüs (COVID-19) 2019 yılının Aralık ayında Çin’in Wuhan kentinde ortaya çıkmıştır. 2020 yılında tüm dünyayı etkisi altına alan ve hızla yayılan koronavirüs, milyonlarca kişinin hayatını kaybetmesinin yanı sıra ekonomik ve psiko-sosyal sorunlara neden olmuştur. Ülkeler ve organizasyonlar bir yandan virüsün yayılmasını ve insanl...

Schizophrenia is a choronic, complex and powerfully inherited mental illness that seriously affects quality of life. The illness is one of the most researched psychiatric disorders from past to present. This study aims to provide a holistic summary of the global scientific outputs through bibliometric analyses and reveal the trend topics. The artic...

Objectives The aim of the study was to determine which of the motoric and anthropometric variables dominant on 50 meter four competitive swimming styles. Methods The study consisted of 20 girls (Mage = 16.50 ± 0.51 years) and 20 boys (Mage = 16.50 ± 0.51 years), for a total of 40 swimmers volunteer individuals. Motoric performance tests, anthropom...

Background and Study Aim. The aim of this study was to examine the effects of different training programs on the improvement of motoric and swimming performance prepubescent swimmers. Material and Methods. Forty-five children between the ages of 9 -11 years with at least 2 years of training experiences, participated in the study. Three different [(...

Objective To compare prolidase enzyme activity (PEA) in serum and polyp specimens of patients with nasal polyps obtained before and after the oral steroid therapy. Materials and methods Thirty three patients with nasal polyps (39 ± 13 years) received 1 mg/kg of oral steroids. Serum samples were collected from each patient, but nasal polyp specimen...

Objective: The study aims to compare swimmers’ daily sport life changes caused by the COVID-19 pandemic in the pre-restriction restriction periods. Material and methods: Two hundred fifty-one competitive swimmers participated in this study (117 females), aged 12-33 years, who had at least 3-year sport experience. Data were collected via a Google Fo...

Objectives The number of original scientific researches on intracranial aneurysms has risen over the last 30 years. Despite the rise in the number of articles, there is no up-to-date exhaustive bibliometric research in the literature. This study aimed to contribute to the literature via a bibliometric analysis of the original scientific researches...

Menopause is the permanent cessation of ovarian follicular activity and the menstrual cycle.

Introduction: The cerebellum has been regarded as a valuable research topic over the years because of its numerous roles in motor and nonmotor functions. The aim of the current study was to provide a comprehensive and holistic evaluation of publications concerning the cerebellum over the last 40 years which can be a potential guide for future resea...

Objective:Urinary system stone disease is a very common health problem that affects 2 to 3% of people and causes serious complications when it is not treated. The prevalence of renal stones has been increasing worldwide and surgical methods have changed over time. However, there is no comprehensive bibliometric analysis of the retrograde intrarenal...

Background/Objective: Although a number of studies report an important effect of smoking on disc degeneration and herniation, others did not identify such a relationship. The purpose of this study was to assess the relationship of lumbar disc degeneration with hemoglobin value and smoking. Methods: The study included 200 adult patients who presente...

Amaç:Dünyada akut karının yaygın nedenlerinden biri olarak kabul edilen apandisitin tanısı özellikle çocukluk çağında zordur ve başka hastalıklarla karışabilmektedir.Çalışmamızdaakut,komplike apandisit tanısı alan ve karın ağrısı nedeniyle klinik izleme alınan hastaların ilk yatışlarında alınan c-reaktif protein (CRP) ve hemogram parametrelerinin a...

Amaç: Çölyak hastalığında kalsiyum ve D vitamini eksikliğine bağlı metabolik kemik hastalığı en sık ekstraintestinal semptomlardan biridir. Bu çalışmada, çölyak hastalığı olan çocuklarda tanı esnasında kemik mineral yoğunluğunun değerlendirilmesi ve kemik mineral metabolizmasıyla ilişkili faktörlerin değerlendirilmesi amaçlandı.Gereç ve Yöntemler:...

Objective: To determine the outcomes of retrograde ıntrarenal surgery (RIRS) and its complications in both young and elderly patients. Study design: An observational study. Place and duration of study: Departments of Urology, University of Health Sciences, Ankara Research and Training Hospital, Ankara, and Çorum Hitit University, Çorum, Turkey...

Objective: Nutrition is of great importance in intensive care patients. Adequate nutritional support increases recovery rates while decreasing mortality/morbidity. The aim of this study was to identify the factors that prevent patients from reaching the targeted calories when they receive nutritional support and to demonstrate the effects of nutrit...

Acute appendicitis is one of the most common emergency diseases in general surgery clinics. It is more common, especially between the ages of 10 and 30 years. Additionally, approximately 7% of the entire population is diagnosed with acute appendicitis at some time in their lives and requires surgery. The study aims to develop an easy, fast, and acc...

This study aims to investigate the relationship between individuals’ attitudes about acceptance of aesthetic surgery (e.g. rhinoplasty, autoplasty, blepharoplasty, and mammaplasty) and some of the worship practices in Islamic religion such as performing prayer, fasting, and going to pilgrimage. Although many people think that aesthetic surgery is i...

Background: Catheter-related bladder discomfort (CRBD) has been observed in many patients undergoing a urethral catheterization. CRBD may be so severe that the patients require additional analgesics. Muscarinic receptors are involved in the mechanism of CRBD. The aim of this study is to determine the effects of the antimuscarinic properties of atr...

Background The global prevalence of allergic diseases has increased dramatically in recent years and are now recognized as significant chronic diseases worldwide. One of the most important allergens that causes allergic diseases is house dust mites. Objective This study aims to present a bibliometric overview of research published on dust mites be...

There is an increasing interest in the effects of preoperative anxiety on the course and outcomes of surgical treatments and also in the studies about the anxiety-decreasing interventions. The present study aims to identify the relationship between the preoperative anxiety level of the individuals prior to aesthetic surgery operations such as nose,...

Objectives:The aim of this study was to determine whether there would be an increase in the need for intra-operative neuromuscular blocker consumption due to better preservation of body temperature in low flow anesthesia. In this study, the effects of minimal, low and medium flow anesthesia on intra-operative neuromuscular blocker consumption were...

Objectives:In this study, it was aimed to adapt the 17-item (37 sub-items) STROCSS (Strengthening the Reporting of Cohort Studies in Surgery) criteria published in 2017 by a group of experts to improve the reporting quality of cohort studies in the surgical field and to establish a standard.Materials and Methods:STROCSS criteria were translated to...

Background/objective: Spinal Cord Injury (SCI) could cause motor, sensory loss, severe functional insufficiency, and social problems. This study aims to provide a holistic summary of the global scientific outputs about Spinal Cord Injury through bibliometric analyses and reveal the trend topics. Methods: All publications about Spinal Cord Injury...

Aim: The aim of this study was to develop a new web-based R Shiny package that calculates propensity score using many algorithms such as logistic regression, machine learning, and performs matching analysis with balance evaluation. In addition, it was aimed to explain the process of matching analysis on a real data set by comparing the number of li...

Amaç: Karaciğer fibrozis tanı ve skorunun belirlenmesi için birçok noninvaziv test çalışılmıştır. Bu çalışmada, kronik hepatit B (KHB) olan hastalarda platelet parametrelerinin ve karaciğer fibrozisin evresi arasındaki ilişkiyi araştırmayı amaçladık. Gereç ve Yöntem: Çalışmaya toplam 140 biyopsi ile kanıtlanmış naiv KHB olgusu dahiledildi. HBV-DNA...

The purpose of this study is to identify the effect of religious beliefs on the attitudes of pregnant women toward the health of the fetus. Pregnancy, one of the important periods of life, is a special period in terms of affecting both the mother’s and the baby’s health. Health beliefs and attitudes are the factors that have effects on mother–baby...

The purpose of this study is to make a holistic summary of the articles published in the field of Legal Medicine/ Forensic Science through bibliometric methods, determine the top cited publications in the field, and to determine the most active journals and especially trend topics. The articles published in the field of Legal Medicine between the y...

The purpose of this study is to make a holistic summary of the articles published in the field of Legal Medicine/Forensic Science through bibliometric methods, determine the top cited publications in the field, and to determine the most active journals and especially trend topics. The articles published in the field of Legal Medicine between the ye...

Notalgia paresthetica (NP) is a common clinical disorder characterized by hyperpigmentation, pruritus, paresthesia, and/or pain, located on the back. There is no effective treatment for patients with NP. We investigated the efficacy of a product containing bee venom (0.04%) and capsaicin (0.025%) for treating NP. Twenty patients (10 men and 10 wome...

Environmental pollution and exposure of people to heavy metals cause many bad obstetric outcomes. Our aim is to demonstrate the role of cadmium (Cd), lead (Pb), mercury (Hg), and selenium (Se) in preterm labor etiology with a case-control study. In this study, between November 2017 and April 2018, preterm delivery mothers and term delivery mothers...

Background Despite the increasing number of publications on celiac disease, there is a lack of studies that made a holistic bibliometric evaluation of the studies on this topic. Aims The purpose of this study is to analyze the publications about celiac disease by using bibliometric methods and this way to demonstrate the celiac disease–related tre...

Introduction: Although grayscale and Doppler ultrasound (US) findings of testicular torsion (TT) have previously been described in the literature, other US findings may provide more prognostic information to families. Objective: The authors hypothesized that a comprehensive analysis of US findings of TT that focused on time-dependent changes wou...

Background: Recurrent aphthous stomatitis is a common disease characterized by single or multiple, self-healing, well-circumscribed, periodic ulcers occurring in the oral cavity. Although the relationship between recurrent aphthous stomatitis and oxidative stress has been extensively reviewed in the past, its relationship with prolidase enzyme lev...

Amaç: Bu çalışmada, Deri ve Zührevi Hastalıklar Anabilim Dalı Kliniğinde teledermatolog dermatoloji uzmanı tarafından konulan deri tümörü tanıları histopatolojik tanılarla karşılaştırılarak teletıp tekniğinin plastik cerrahi alanındaki başarısının test edilmesi amaçlanmıştır. Yöntemler: Araştırmada, Hitit Üniversitesi Tıp Fakültesi, Plastik Rekonst...

The purpose of this study was to compare patients who were diagnosed with hyperemesis gravidarum (HG) with the control group by identifying anxiety, depression, sleep disorder levels and the relationship between them. This study involved 98 first-trimester pregnant women (46 HG patients and 52 control group patients) who applied to the Hitit Univer...

This research aims to present a bibliometric analysis of the published documents on spirituality, religion and health. Despite the increasing number of publications spirituality, religion and health research in recent years, there is still little information about the effects of these publications in the literature. “Religion,” “spirituality,” “spi...

Background and Aim: There is little histologic data concerning effects of nasal decongestants on respiratory tract. We aimed to put forth the effects of mostly used ingredients of nasal decongestants on trachea and lower airways of rats. Materials and Method: Four-six months old 60 male rats were randomly categorized into 6 groups. Experimental dru...

OBJECTIVE: We aimed to determine the preoperative parameters that may predict postoperative pulmonary complications (POPCs) and the value of some current practical indexes in predicting POPCs. MATERIALS and METHODS: Our study is a retrospective cohort study carried out in 9 different centers. Patients admitted to the chest diseases outpatient clini...

Aim: Fertility preservation (FP) has become an important issue for both women and men, due to oncological therapies, gonadotoxic treatments, surgeries, and infertility. The aim of this study is to investigate the publications related to FP, identify the top effective countries and journals, top productive researchers, and trend topics. Material and...

Objective We aimed to determine nutritional status and related factors among schoolchildren in Çorum, Central Anatolia, Turkey. Design Schoolchildren’s height and weight were measured to calculate BMI and BMI Z -scores. Height, weight and BMI Z -scores were analysed and nutritional status classified according to the WHO. Setting Central Anatolia,...

Bu çalışmada 1975-2017 yılları arasında “Antropoloji” araştırma alanında yayınlanan ve Web of Science (WoS; Thomson Reuters, New York, NY, USA) veri tabanında indekslenen tüm yayınlar bibliyometrik olarak analiz edilmiştir. Bibliyometrik analizler ile Ülkemizin Antropoloji literatüründeki etkinliği de değerlendirilmiştir. Ayrıca araştırmamızda Antr...

Background/aims: Celiac disease (CD) is an autoimmune enteropathy that develops in individuals with genetic susceptibility as a result of a permanent sensitivity to gluten found in grains. The prevalence of CD in Turkey is between 0.3% and 1%. However, the prevalence of CD in Çorum, a city in middle Anatolia in Turkey, is unknown. The purpose of t...

Bibliometrics and scientometrics are novel closely related scientific fields measuring and analyzing scientific publications in a certain area. Although spirituality, religion and health (S/R&H) field has been a growing study area in recent years, only a few bibliometric studies have been conducted on published literature in S/R&H. In this study, w...

Objective: This study aims to make a bibliometric analysis of the most commonly performed bariatric procedures between the years 2006 and 2016 and identify the most popular procedure in the field of bariatric surgery (BS). Background: Despite the fact that BS popularity has been increasing considerably in recent years, the literature indicates i...

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Background: The time and conditions may not be suitable for performing polysomnography (PSG) before urgent or emergent surgeries, for example, a coronary artery bypass graft. Unavailability in many centers, critical clinical situation, and inability to arrange a timely scheduled appointment are other limitations for PSG. In this study, we aimed to...

We aimed to investigate the relationship of religious beliefs and forgiveness in diabetic patients with various sociodemographic characteristics, emotional problems and glycaemic control. The study comprises 100 patients diagnosed with type 2 DM. We used a data collection form, the Scale of Forgiveness and Religiosity (SFR), Problem Areas in Diabet...

Objective: This study aims to report on scientific production in bariatric surgery (BS). Background: BS has gained popularity particularly in the last two decades and its indications have extended with the laparoscopic development and the metabolic activity of the surgical treatment. However, there is still little information on scientific produ...

Objective: To assess the relationship between erectile dysfunction and platelet count and other platelet indices. Methods: The case-control study was done at Hitit University Erol Olcok Training and Research Hospital, Turkey, and comprised patient data between January 2014 and September 2016 that was compared with age-matched controls with no hi...

Amaç: Akciğer kanseri kötü prognozlu ve tedavi yanıtı sınırlı olan bir kanser türüdür. Galektin akciğer kanseri patogenezinde rol alabildiği düşünülen fakat akciğer kanseri ile ilişkisinin yeterli düzeyde gösterilemediği potansiyel bir belirteçtir. Amacımız serumda basit bir yöntem olan ga-lektin 1 ve 3 ölçümünün, akciğer kanseri tanısal ya da prog...

Apitherapy is the medical use and the application of honey bee products and in recent years there has been a growing interest in studies of this field. We aimed to perform a bibliometric study in the apitherapy literature. We used Web of Science database in this study and our search retrieved a total of 6917 documents of which great majority (82.4%...

Introduction: Influenza subtypes vary by clinical, radiological, and prognostic courses and may go along with viral pneumonia. We aimed to identify clinical, radiological, and prognostic aspects of influenza epidemic during years 2016-2017. Materials and Methods: Influenza cases reported to the Public Health Directorate in our city was assessed ret...

Background Mean platelet volume (MPV) is an indicator of platelet activation and aggregation. MPV has been found to be related with the inflammation of certain disorders in recent studies. Aims We sought to investigate whether MPV could be an indicator of inflammation in patients with Behçet disease (BD) and recurrent apthous stomatitis (RAS). Ma...

Objective: Comparison of the total oxidant status (TOS), total antioxidant status (TAS) and paraoxonase (PON1) serum levels in patients with nasal septum deviation (NSD) and healthy subjects. Methods: The TAS, TOS, and PON1 serum levels of 47 patients with NSD (mean age 35.3) and 50 healthy subjects (mean age 37.8) were compared in this study....

Background and aim: The morphology and extensity of the stenotic lesion is crucial as well as the obstruction ratio. It is well known that the complexity of lesion has direct impact on endovascular treatment (PTCA/stent), however; different arrangement of the lesions is underestimated and not well studied. We sought to evaluate the hemodynamic eff...

The goal of our study is to evaluate the decision making and reasoning of the paranoid type schizophrenic patients, and their confidence in reasoning and perseverance in keeping to their decisions via using Reasoning with Inductive Argument Test (RIAT). Thirty-two delusional patients and 30 healthy volunteers were included in the study. After the d...

The aim of this study is to compare the total antioxidant status (TAS), total oxidant status (TOS), and paraoxonase (PON1) serum levels in patients who have undergone septoplasty (NSD). Forty-six patients (mean age 33.7) aged between 18 and 50 years who were diagnosed with nasal septal deviation (NSD) were included in the study. The TAS, TOS, and P...

To investigate the accuracy of the measurements of Nidek AL-Scan by comparing with Sirius (CSO, Florence, Italy), a corneal tomography which also employs the Scheimpflug principle, and a commonly used device, ultrasound biometry (UB) (Aviso A/B, Quantel Medical, MT, USA). Right eyes of 85 healthy volunteers (58 women 27 men) with a mean age of 39.2...

Introduction Although grayscale ultrasound and color Doppler ultrasound characteristics of the torsed testis are well established in the literature, less is known about its anatomic partner: the epididymis. Objective The purpose of this study was to describe the ultrasound characteristics of the epididymis in pediatric patients with testicular tor...

Introduction The aim of this study was to examine the effect of intraperitoneally administered bevacizumab on colitis induced by acetic acid (AA). Methods An experimental model of AA-induced colitis was introduced in rats. The induction of colitis bevacizumab was administered intraperitoneally, at two different daily doses of low (2.5 mg/kg) or hi...

AMAÇ: Astım oluşumunda genetik ve çevresel faktörlerin birlikte rol aldığı bilinmesine karşın etyopatogenezi henüz tam açıklığa kavuşmamıştır. Mikro RNA (miRNA)’lar mesajcı RNA’ların fonksiyonlarını ve sentezledikleri ürünleri azaltarak veya arttırarak hastalık patogenezinde rol alabilen epigenetik ajanlardır. Çalışmada amacımız astım patogenezinde...

Recently the numbers of distance education programs and students enrolling in them have increased significantly. This increase also carries the question of what factors may have an effect on academic success. The demographic features, motivation levels, personal development status and basic computer literacy of students have been taken into account...