Browsing by Author "Hekimoglu Y."

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    A descriptive study of female suicide deaths from 2005 to 2011 in Van city, Turkey
    (BioMed Central Ltd., 2016) Hekimoglu Y.; Esen Melez I.; Canturk N.; Erkol Z.Z.; Dizdar M.G.; Canturk G.; Melez D.O.; Kir Z.
    Background: Female suicide is an important problem not only for women but for public health in general. Methods: Autopsy reports from the Van Chief Public Prosecutor's Office from 2005 to 2011 were reviewed retrospectively in order to analyse female deaths from suicide. Results: Sixty-six female suicide cases were recorded during 2005-2011. The mean age of the cases was 22.64 (sd = 10.09) years, and nine were below the age of 15. The most common method of suicide was hanging (44 cases, 66.7%). Five (7.6%) of the cases were under treatment for depression, and 12 (18.2%) cases had a previous suicide attempt. Conclusions: Cultural suppression of females and prevention of their socialization in enclave societies are risk factors for female suicides. The number of female suicide attempts, especially recurring attempts, should be reduced via psychiatric scanning, follow-up sessions and therapy for high-risk individuals. © 2016 Hekimoglu et al.
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    The effects of gender and age on forensic personal identification from frontal sinus in a Turkish population
    (Saudi Arabian Armed Forces Hospital, 2017) Tatlisumak E.; Asirdizer M.; Bora A.; Hekimoglu Y.; Etli Y.; Gumus O.; Keskin S.
    Objectives: To define the dimensions of the frontal sinus in groups standardized for age and gender and to discuss the reasons and the effects of the variations. Methods: Frontal sinus measurements were obtained from paranasal CT scans of 180 males and 180 females in the Radiology Department of Dursun Odabas Medical Center of Yuzuncu Yil University, Van, which is located in Eastern Turkey, between February and March 2016. The width and height of sinuses were measured on a coronal plane, and the anteroposterior length was measured on an axial plane. Volumes were calculated using the Hospital Information Management Systems and Image Archiving and Management System program. The Statistical Package of the Social Science version 13 was used for statistical analyses. Results: We determined differences in the frontal sinus measurements of different age groups in a Turkish adult population. Frontal sinus dimensions were usually higher in females and lower in males after 40-49 years of age than their younger counterparts, but the measurements were lower in females and higher in males in 70≤ years of age group than 60-69 years of age. Left frontal sinus was dominant in young age groups but right frontal sinus was dominant in groups 40-49 years of age or older. Conclusion: We observed crossing of the measurements between the different age groups, which we could not find clear explanations. The results of such studies may affect forensic identification from frontal sinus measurements. © 2017, Saudi Arabian Armed Forces Hospital. All rights reserved.
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    The possible effects of altitude and climate on the development of the frontal sinus in adults; [Los Posibles Efectos de la Altitud y el Clima sobre el Desarrollo del Seno Frontal en Adultos]
    (Universidad de la Frontera, 2017) Asirdizer M.; Tatlisumak E.; Bora A.; Tarhan S.; Ovali G.Y.; Hekimoglu Y.; Kartal E.; Keskin S.
    Climatic and altitude features of living region may affect human body. Many changes in several tissues and organs and several health problems due to climatic and altitude effects were defined in the literature. However, there were limited number of studies which evaluated correlation between development of frontal sinus and climatic/altitude effect. In this study, widths, heights, AP lengths and volumes of frontal sinus were compared by Paranasal CT scans in populations living in Van which has colder climate and higher altitude and Manisa which has milder climate and lower altitude. It was found that widths, antero-posterior lengths and volumes of frontal sinus were higher in populations living in colder climate and higher altitude according to populations living in milder climate and lower altitude. Heights of frontal sinuses were on the contrary of this. These results were found appropriate to increasing of cephalic index in cold climate according to Allen’s Rule. We suggest that larger population study should be made with peoples having the same or similar race and genetic structure in different climate and altitude regions and the proportional comparison of frontal sinus measurements with cephalic index should be considered in future studies. © 2017, Universidad de la Frontera. All rights reserved.
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    The effect of altitude and climate on the suicide rates in Turkey
    (Churchill Livingstone, 2018) Asirdizer M.; Kartal E.; Etli Y.; Tatlisumak E.; Gumus O.; Hekimoglu Y.; Keskin S.
    Suicide is one of the most important public health problems. There was an association between suicide and several factors such as psychiatric diseases and psychological characteristics, somatic illness, cultural, socioeconomic, familial, occupational and individual risk factors. Also, high altitude and climatic factors including high temperature, cloudiness, more sunshine and low rainfalls were defined as some of these risk factors in the literature. In this study, we aimed to investigate correlation between suicide rates and altitudes of all cities in Turkey and between suicide rates and climatic factors including Rainfall Activity Index, Winter Mean Temperatures, Summer Mean Temperatures and Temperature Difference between January and July previously defined by several authors in the broad series in Turkey. In Turkey, 29865 suicidal deaths occurred in 10 years period between 2006 and 2015. Of them, 21020 (70.4%) were males and 8845 (29.6%) were females. In this study, we found that high altitude above 1500 m, winter median temperature lower than −10 °C and hard temperature changes above 25 °C between winter and summer of settlements were important factors that affected on female suicide rates appropriate to knowledge which defined in previous studies. In conclusion, we suggested that the associations among suicide rates with altitudes and climate should be studied in wider series obtained from different countries for reaching more reliable results. © 2018 Elsevier Ltd and Faculty of Forensic and Legal Medicine