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Today health services aim to provide a higher level of life quality to individuals as much as possible and not being limited only to providing a good treatment. In this context it was aimed to evaluate the life quality and the factors affecting this in chronic renal failure (CRF) patients undergoing hemodialysis. Materials and method A total of 144 adult patients with CRF from two dialysis centers in Adana, one private and one in a University, were included in the study. A questionnaire investigating demographic characteristics and short form health survey "SF-36" were filled by face-to-face interview technique. Findings Male to female ratio of the participants was 91(63.2%) to 53(36.8%). The mean dialysis history was calculated as 44.4±34.3 months. One to six other diseases were recorded with a mean number of 2.9±1.1 to be concurrent to CRF. SF-36 revealed a health status score mean (TS=total score) of 48.1±21.8, with physical status scale (PSS) score mean of 46.0±21.1 and mental status scale (MSS) score mean of 50.3±22.0. The same scores were calculated to be significantly lower in females (with 40.4, 39.8 and 38.0, respectively) in comparison to males (with 52.5, 50.3 and 50.6, respectively) (p

Aim: The research is performed in Havutlu public health center in Yuregir county of Adana province. The purpose of this research is to determine the density, types and epidemiological properties of defectiveness in Havutlu public health center region. Method: It is a cross-sectional study. 708 people are selected randomly for the research from ETF. The density of defectiveness is detected as %23,3 for this research. The density of defectiveness in our research is detected higher than the most of the studies in the world. The mostly stated defect is visseral anomaly which is %51,6. The relative marriage density is found as %20,6. The results in our research are similar with the other studies. The defectiveness density is found as %44.5 from the childs of relative marriages and found as %17.8 from non-relative marriages. After statistical analysis it is determined that the defectiveness is significantly high in relatives (p

PubMedID: 15575344 Aim: The aim of the present study was to determine the prevalence of the metabolic syndrome using Adult Treatment Panel III (ATP III) criteria in Adana, a southern province of Turkey. Methods: The randomly selected study population included 1637 adults who were 20-79 yr of age. The presence of ?3 of components like hypertension (defined as blood pressure ?130/?85 mmHg on two separate examinations, or usage of antihypertensive agents), visceral obesity (waist circumference >88 cm in females and >102 cm in men), low HDL cholesterol level (0.05), but were markedly higher among women in rural than urban areas (44.5 vs 31.2%; p