Faculty of Medicine

Academic Members

Assoc. Prof. Merve Güner

Assoc. Prof.
Merve Güner

  • Frailty as a predictor of vertebral fractures in osteoporosis: A clinical perspective, 2025
  • The Impact of Orthopedic Trauma on Survival in the Oldest Old: A 10-Year Retrospective Study, 2025
  • Muscle matters: The relationship between skeletal muscle and cardiac muscle in older people—A Cross‐Sectional Prospective Observational Study, 2025
  • Can handgrip strength alone detect individuals living with frailty according to the Clinical Frailty Scale?, 2025
  • Sarcopenic obesity is independently associated with frailty in geriatric outpatients: A cross‐sectional study from university hospital, 2025
  • Risk factors influencing fall risk in geriatric patients with type 2 diabetes: a comprehensive analysis, 2025
  • Prevalence and general characteristics of dementia: a nationwide population-based study of electronic health records in Türkiye, 2024
  • Evaluation of oxidative stress parameters in older patients with urinary incontinence, 2024
  • Frailty as a Significant Predictor of COVID-19 Among Vaccinated Older Adults, 2024
  • The Older Population’s Antibody Response to SARS-CoV-2 Inactivated Vaccine (CoronaVac) is Independent to Vitamin D Levels, 2024
  • Correlation between muscle masses measured by chest computed tomography and bioelectrical impedance analysis in older adults, 2024
  • Impact of Sleep Quality on Disease Activity and Clinical Outcomes in Older Patients with Inflammatory Bowel Disease, 2024
  • Clinical Frailty Scale and Body Mass Index as an Independent Predictor of 2-year Mortality at Hospitalized Patients, 2024
  • Polypharmacy-related Orthostatic Intolerance Syndrome in Community-dwelling Older Adults, 2024
  • The Role of Muscle Ultrasonography to Diagnose Malnutrition and Sarcopenia in Maintenance Hemodialysis, 2024
  • Evaluation of waist-to-calf ratio as a diagnostic tool for sarcopenic obesity: a cross-sectional study from a geriatric outpatient clinic, 2024
  • Decreased abdominal wall muscle mass defined by muscle ultrasound is associated with malnutrition according to Global Leadership Initiative on Malnutrition criteria in renal transplant recipients: A cross‐sectional study, 2024
  • Validation And Reliability Of Edmonton Frail Scale In Turkish Community-Dwelling Older Adults, 2024
  • An Atherosclerosis Indicator Hyaluronic Acid: Can Plasma Hyaluronic Acid Be Useful in Diagnosing Alzheimers Disease?, 2024
  • A hand-in-hand phenomenon in older adults: Increased risk of frailty in geriatric outpatients associated with handgrip strength asymmetry and weakness, 2024
  • Calf circumference predicts sarcopenia in maintenance hemodialysis, 2024
  • Sarcopenia Susceptibility in Kidney Transplant Recipients: A Cross-Sectional Study Investigating the Impact of the Mammalian Target of Rapamycin Inhibitors, 2024
  • A Novel Machine-Learning Algorithm to Predict the Early Termination of Nutrition Support Team Follow-Up in Hospitalized Adults: A Retrospective Cohort Study, 2024
  • Letter to editor: Phase angle is associated with sarcopenic obesity in post-stroke patients, 2024
  • Using the Study of Osteoporotic Fracture Frailty Index for Frailty Assessment in An Aging and Devoloping Country, 2023
  • Benefits vs risks: SGLT-2 inhibitors in older adults living with frailty: a retrospective study from a university hospital, 2023
  • Changes in muscle quality identified by shear‐wave elastography and association with sarcopenia, 2023
  • Mini Nutritional Assessment-Short Form and Frailty Screening According to 2 Different Frailty Scales, 2023
  • The role of ultrasonographically measured rectus femoris muscle on falls in community-dwelling older adults: a single-center study, 2023
  • Letter to Editor: Longitudinal trajectories of dietary quality and cognitive performance in older adults: Results from a 6-year cohort study, 2023
  • Closure of pressure injury and mortality in internal medicine wards, 2023
  • Competences and Attitudes of Internal Medicine Research Assistants Working in COVID-19 Inpatient Services About Nutrition: A Survey Study, 2023
  • Turkish translation, cross-cultural adaptation and reliability of the Groningen Frailty Indicator, 2023
  • Pan-immune inflammation value; a novel biomarker reflecting inflammation associated with frailty, 2023
  • Lower gastrocnemius muscle stiffness, derived from elastography, is an independent factor for falls in older adults, 2023
  • Use of Absorbent Products in Older Men and Women Are Associated with Depressive Symptoms: A Retrospective Study from a University Hospital, 2023
  • Dysphagia is closely related to frailty in mild-to-moderate Alzheimer’s disease, 2023
  • A pilot study for a practical screening tool for dementia: validation of 5‐minute cognitive test in a geriatric population, 2023
  • The relationship between urinary incontinence and abdominal muscle thickness in community-dwelling older women undergoing comprehensive geriatric assessment, 2023
  • Changes in Place of Death of Older Adults during the COVID-19 Pandemic: A Retrospective Study from an Aging Country, 2023
  • THE ASSESSMENT OF NEW ESPEN/EASO CRITERIA FOR SARCOPENIC OBESITY IN GERIATRIC OUTPATIENTS, 2023
  • Phase angle is associated with frailty in community-dwelling older adults, 2023
  • Prevalence of nutrition disorders and nutrition‐related conditions in older patients with Alzheimers disease, 2023
  • How does hospitalization affect the frailty status of geriatric patients? Prospective study from internal medicine wards of a university hospital, 2023
  • The Assessment of Vascular Calcification, Arterial Stiffness, and Nutritional Status in Patients on Hemodialysis, A 5-Year Follow-up Study, 2023
  • The Validation of the Turkish Version of the PRISMA-7 Questionnaire; A Case-finding Instrument for Detecting Older Adults Living with Frailty, 2023
  • Significance of Screening Frailty, Sarcopenia, and Malnutrition in Hospitalized Patients with COVID-19: A One-Year Follow-Up Study, 2023
  • Relationships of Fall Risk With Frailty, Sarcopenia, and Balance Disturbances in Mild-to-Moderate Alzheimer’s Disease, 2023
  • Best Practice Recommendations for Geriatric Dysphagia Management with 5 Ws and 1H, 2022
  • The role of muscle ultrasound to predict sarcopenia, 2022
  • Ultrasonografically assessed osteosarcopenic obesity is associated with frailty in community-dwelling older adults, 2022
  • Evaluation of Sarcopenia in COVID-19 Survivors: A Common But Overlooked Problem, 2022
  • The Prevalence and the Effect of COVID-19 Infection in Older Patients with Dementia: A Single-center Experience in the Light of Comprehensive Geriatric Assessment, 2022
  • Orthostatic intolerance: a frailty marker for older adults, 2022
  • Memory T cell responses in seronegative older adults following SARS-CoV-2 vaccination, 2022
  • Malnutrition Prevalence Increased During the COVID-19 Pandemic in Patients with Dementia: A Retrospective Study from the Geriatric Outpatient Clinic, 2022
  • Letter to the Editor: Nutritional state assessed by ultrasonography, but not by bioelectric impedance, predicts 28-day mortality in critically ill patients. Prospective cohort study, 2022
  • Gender distribution among geriatricians: perspective from an ageing and developing country, 2022
  • Frailty in community-dwelling older adults: reliability and validity of the Turkish version of the Gérontopôle frailty screening tool, 2022
  • Comparison of Mini Nutritional Assessment‐Short and Long Form to predict all‐cause mortality up to 7 years in geriatric outpatients, 2022
  • Cognitive assessment in the time of pandemics: mandatory surgical face mask usage affects cognitive test performance of older adults, 2022
  • Cognitive Status is Better in Older Adults under Colchicine Treatment: A Case-Control Study, 2022
  • Antibody response with SARS-CoV-2 inactivated vaccine (CoronaVac) in Turkish geriatric population, 2022
  • Correction: Gender distribution among geriatricians: perspective from an ageing and developing country, 2022
  • Can PNI and CONUT Scores Predict One-year Survival Both in Older and Younger Hospitalized Patients with COVID-19?, 2022
  • The association of 25(OH)D levels and hippocampal morphology in a clinically mixed sample, 2022
  • Place of Death of Geriatric Population in Turkey: A 7-Year Observational Study, 2021
  • Older adults with colon cancer are not different from younger ones, but treated differently: Retrospective analysis from single centre, 2021
  • Letter to editor: is laboratory index really a practical and valid tool to predict mortality?, 2021
  • Contribution of “complete response to treatment” to survival in patients with unresectable metastatic colorectal cancer: A retrospective analysis, 2021
  • Breast cancer in women aged 75 years and older, 2021
  • Is the effect of tumor localization on prognosis compatible with real‑life data in metastatic colon cancer? Single‑center experience: A retrospective analysis, 2021
  • Life-Threatening Hypokalemia Presenting with Paralysis after Percutaneous Nephrolithotomy in a Patient with Nephrolithiasis: A Case Report, 2020
  • Increase in interventricular septum thickness may be the first sign of cardiovascular change in kidney donors, 2020
  • Acoustic Radiation Force Impulse Elastography May Predict Acute Rejection in Kidney Transplantation, 2020
  • Graft-Versus-Host-Disease after Living-Donor Liver Transplantation, 2018
  • Cancer immunotherapy, 2017
  • The use of therapeutic plasmapheresis in renal transplantation, 2017
  • Böbrek nakillerinde sağkalımı etkileyen faktörler, 2017
  • Bilateral Sixth Nerve Palsies Possibly Associated with Arsenic Trioxide in Acute Promyelocytic Leukaemia., 2016
  • ASSESSMENT OF ANTIBODY RESPONSE WITH SINOVAC’S SARS-COV-2 INACTIVATED VACCINE IN THE TURKISH GERIATRIC POPULATION, 2021
  • Relationship Between Vitamin D Levels and Antibody Response İn Vaccinated Geriatric Population with Coronavac, 2022
  • PAN-İMMÜN İNFLAMASYON DEĞERİ; KIRILGANLIK İLİŞKİLİ İNFLAMASYON GÖSTERGESİ YENİ BİR BİYOMARKER, 2022
  • FRAILTY AND COMPREHENSIVE GERIATRIC EVALUATION IN OLDER PATIENTS WITH PSORIASIS: A CASE-CONTROL STUDY, 2023
  • Diabetes Mellitus ile Takipli Yaşli Erişkinlerde Sarkopenik Obezitenin Kronik Komplikasyonlarla İlişkisi, 2023
  • EVALUATION OF THE LONG-TERM EFFECTS OF PNEUMOCOCCAL VACCINE IN OLDER ADULTS : A SINGLE-CENTER STUDY, 2023
  • Pan-immune inflammation value is associated with sarcopenia-malnutrition in community-dwelling older adults, 2023
  • Comprehensive Geriatric Assessment in Older Adults with and without HIV: A Case-Control Study, 2024
  • Frailty Score Outperforms Other Risk Indexes in Predicting 6-Month Mortality for Hip-Fracture Patients: Preliminary Findings, 2024
  • NUTRITIONAL ASSESSMENT OF PATIENTS HOSPITALIZED FOR COVID-19 AND THE IMPORTANCE OF USING CLINICAL FRAILTY SCALE, 2021
  • TÜRKİYE’DE DEMANS TANILI HASTALAR NEREDE ÖLÜYOR? 2013’TEN 2022’YE GÖZLEMSEL BİR ÇALIŞMA, 2022
  • How was the COVID-19 pandemic affected of death in ageing country?, 2022
  • The relationship between malnutrition, frailty, and delirium defined by 4A’s Test in hospitalized older patients, 2024
  • PERSONALITY MATTERS FOR LIVING WITH FRAILTY: EVIDENCE FROM DATABASE OF SURVEY OF HEALTH, AGEING, AND RETIREMENT IN EUROPE, 2024
  • Loneliness is not only a social challenge but also an independent factor related to probable sarcopenia: Evidence from survey of health, ageing, and retirement in Europe, 2024
  • İnflamatuvar Barsak Hastalarında Kırılganlık ve Kognitif Bozukluk Gözden Kaçıyor mu?, 2020
  • ASSOCIATIONS BETWEEN FRAILTY AND ULTRASONOGRAPHIC THICKNESS OF ABDOMINAL WALL LAYERS IN OLDER ADULTS, 2022
  • Ultrasonografi ile Ölçülen Subkutan Yağ Doku Kalınlığı Sarkopeni ilişkili Parametreler için Radyolojik bir belirteç olabilir mi? , 2023
  • How has the COVID-19 pandemic affected places of death in an ageing country?, 2022
  • Is Pulmonary Hypertension Associated with Cognitive Function?, 2020
  • The relationship of ultrasonography-measured subcutaneous fat thickness with sarcopenia parameters,
  • The role of muscle us in diagnosis of malnutrition in maintenance hemodialysis, 2023
  • Low muscle strength and mass are associated with cardiac muscle mass in community-dwelling older men and women, 2023
  • Correlation between chest Ct-measured muscle mass and bioelectrical impedance analysis, 2023
  • Higher anticholinergic burden is associated with poor nutritional outcome, 2023
  • The effect of denosumab treatment on muscle strength and muscle mass in patients followed up with osteoporosis, 2023
  • Is Normal Weight Obesity A Correlate For Cognitive Dysfunction In Older Adults?, 2024
  • Increased Anticholinergic Burden Increases Short and Long-term Mortality in Older Adults, 2024
  • Geriatride Akılcı İlaç Kullanımı, ISBN: 978-605-4488-88-9, 2023
  • Türkiye Klinikleri COVID - 19 SARS-CoV-2 Pandemisi ve Yaşlılık, ISBN: 978-625-401-092-7 .: ÖN SÖZ, 2020
  • Geriatri, Yaşlı Sağlığı ve Hastalıkları, ISBN: 978-625-7399-03-6, 2021
  • Türkiye Klinikleri-Bilimsel Veriler Eşliğinde Yaşlı Bireylerde Vitaminler, Destek Ürünleri ve Gıda Takviyeleri, ISBN: 978-625-401-753-7, 2022
  • ATRIYAL FIBRILASYON TANI VE TEDAVISINE GÜNCEL YAKLAŞIM, ISBN: 978-625-399-090-9, 2023
  • Goldman-Cecil Medicine, ISBN: ISBN: 978-0-323-53266-2, 2023
  • Türkiye Klinikleri COVID - 19 SARS-CoV-2 Pandemisi ve Yaşlılık, ISBN: 978-625-401-092-7, 2020