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This study aimed to evaluate serum selenium levels and mean platelet volume in children who experience simple febrile convulsion. The study comprised 42 patients diagnosed with simple febrile convulsions and a control group of 30 healthy children. Blood samples were taken following a febrile convulsion. Selenium levels in the serum of both the patients and control subjects were measured with the hydride formation method on an atomic absorption spectrometry device and mean platelet volume was evaluated. When the mean values of the febrile convulsion patients were compared with those of the control group, the mean selenium levels and thrombocyte count were found to be statistically significantly low [P=0.002, P=0.01] respectively] and the mean platelet volume values were statistically significantly high [P=0.002]. While low serum selenium levels cause the onset of a febrile seizure in patients with simple febrile convulsion, it is thought that the increased mean platelet volume shows infection activity causing febrile convulsion
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Obesity increases cardiac diseases by increasing tendency to atherosclerosis. Our aim was to define epicardial adipose tissue thickness, and its related factors in obese children. Total of 94 patients were divided into obesity with metabolic syndrome [MS] [n=30], obesity without MS [n=33], and control [n=31] groups. Auxological values with fasting glucose, fasting insulin, alanine transaminase, serum lipid levels, and high sensitive C-reactive protein levels were evaluated. Epicardial adipose tissue thickness, interventricular septum thickness and left ventricular mass were measured by echocardiography. Weight, body mass index, waist circumference, insulin, alanine transaminase, and high sensitive C-reactive protein values were markedly higher in obesity group when compared with controls [P<0.001]. Epicardial adipose tissue thickness was 0.64 +/- 0.23 cm in obesity with MS; 0.60 +/- 0.20 cm in obesity without MS, and 0.27 +/- 0.12 cm in control group [P<0.001]. Interventricular septum thickness and left ventricular mass values were markedly high in obesity without MS group [P<0.001 and P=0.002]. Our study has indicated that obesity has unfavorable effects on heart starting in the adolescence