著者

Shodai Katsukawa Y-H.Taguchi

雑誌

研究報告バイオ情報学(BIO)

巻号頁・発行日

vol.2013-BIO-34, no.27, pp.1-2, 2013-06-20

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Type II diabetes (T2D) was a critical symptom also related to other diseases including cancers. Thus, suppression of T2D is important. In this paper, we investigated microRNAs as candidates of drug targets and biomarkers. A recently proposed principal component analysis based linear discriminant analysis allows us to specify numerous miRNAs differently expressed between type II diabetes patients and healthy control. Type II diabetes, Impaired Fasting Glucose patients, and normal control are successfully discriminated by blood miRNAs.

著者

Yuuichi Nakano Mitsuo Iwadate Hideaki Umeyama Y-H.Taguchi

雑誌

研究報告バイオ情報学(BIO)

巻号頁・発行日

vol.2013-BIO-34, no.10, pp.1-8, 2013-06-20

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Type III secretion system (T3SS) effector protein is a part of bacterial secretion systems. T3SS exists in the pathogenic and symbiotic bacteria. How the T3SS effector proteins in these two classes differ from each other should be interesting. In this paper, we proposed the usage of principal component analysis based linear discriminant analysis that discriminates T3SS effector proteins between plant pathogenic, animal pathogenic and plant symbiotic bacteria by the accuracy of 0.77. We also hypothesized that the feature vector proposed by Yahara et al represents protein structure, possibly protein folds defined in Structural Classification of Proteins (SCOP) database.

著者

Nemoto Yuya Hino Ken-ichi Maeshima Nobuya

出版者

American Physical Society

雑誌

Physical review B (ISSN:10980121)

巻号頁・発行日

vol.87, no.20, pp.205305, 2013-05

被引用文献数

5

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We examine a continuum effect of a dynamic Wannier-Stark ladder (DWSL) driven by a cw laser—with Fac and ω as amplitude and frequency, respectively—by means of an excess density of states (DOS), ρ(ex)(E), closely related to the more familiar DOS and proportional to the lifetime of a resonance state. It is mathematically shown that ρ(ex)(E) is governed by three different physical mechanisms: the single-channel resonance mechanism, the multichannel nonresonance mechanism, and the multichannel resonance mechanism. The last mechanism becomes more important with the increase in Fac. The effect of the interchannel interaction is maximized when the ratio of a Bloch frequency to ω, represented as η, equals unity. In the actual calculations based on the R-matrix Floquet theory, it is revealed that, in a large-Fac region, ρ(ex)(E) for η=1 shows a complicated spectral structure composed of a couple of newly growing peaks, in contrast to ρ(ex)(E) for η=3 which just shows a monotonic change of a single spectral peak. It is speculated that the pronounced feature of the former spectra is attributed to the Fano-like multichannel resonance mechanism, whereas the feature of the latter case is attributed to the multichannel nonresonance mechanism.

著者

Yudai Suzuki Kazunari Yokoyama Naomi Sakuramoto Y-H.Taguchi

雑誌

研究報告バイオ情報学(BIO)

巻号頁・発行日

vol.2013-BIO-34, no.5, pp.1-2, 2013-06-20

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Soil microbiological biodiversity has recently been shown to be causally related to soil diseases. In this study, we attempted to elucidate soil microbiological interactions by numerically analyzing the carbon-resource consumption rates in soils provided by a number of domestic companies and research institutes.

著者

HE Wen-Rong TAKAGI Koichiro YOSHIMOTO Takanobu NARUSE Mitsuhide NARUSE Kiyoko DEMURA Hiroshi NAKABAYASHI Masao TAKEDA Yoshihiko 赫 文栄 高木 耕一郎 吉本 貴宣 成瀬 光栄 成瀬 清子 出村 博 中林 正雄 武田 佳彦

出版者

東京女子医科大学学会

雑誌

東京女子医科大学雑誌 (ISSN:00409022)

巻号頁・発行日

vol.66, no.5, pp.330-337, 1996-05-25

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エンドセリン-1(ET)は培養血管内皮細胞より発見された強力な血管収縮性ペプチドであり,低酸素環境下でその産生が増加することが知られている.ETはその受容体とともに胎盤で発現することから,慢性胎児低酸素症の胎盤血流調節因子としてのETの関与を明らかとするために,ラット胎盤でのET遺伝子発現を検討した.今回我々は,妊娠18日齢のSprague-Dawleyラットの片側の子宮動脈を結紮し,非結紮側を対照として結紮の6,12,24,48,72時間後に胎盤を摘出後,RNAを抽出した.RT-PCR法によるサザンプロット解析によりET遺伝子発現を検討した,また,比較として母体低栄養による胎児発育遅延を妊娠18日から21日までの72時間,水分のみを与えることによる飢餓により作製し,胎盤のET遺伝子発現を同様に検討した.その結果,子宮動脈結紮後,胎仔体重,ならびに胎盤重量は24時間以降で減少を示し,72時間ではそれぞれ対照の62%(n=31, p<0.01),75%(n=31, p<0.01)となった.一方,母体低栄養では胎仔体重,ならびに胎盤重量はそれぞれ対照の79%(n=20, p<0.01), 83%(n=20, p<0.05)と減少した.ラット胎盤のETmRNA relative abundance (preproET-1/GAPDH; mean±SEM)は慢性胎児低酸素症モデルでは対照群と結紮群でそれぞれ0.128±0.011 vs 0.237±0.022 (p<0.01)と結紮群で約2倍の有意の増加を示した.一方,母体低栄養モデルでは胎盤のET mRNA relative abundanceは対照群と低栄養群とでそれぞれ0.135±0.010, 0.145±0・006と差を認めなかった. 以上より,子宮動脈結紮によって惹起された慢性胎児低酸素症モデルにおいて,胎盤のET遺伝子発現の増加を確認した.子宮動脈結紮により母体からの胎児への栄養の物質輸送の障害が胎盤のET遺伝子発現に関与している可能性は,母体低栄養によるIUGRにおいて胎盤のET遺伝子発現に差が認められなかったことから否定的と考えられた.以上より,ETは低酸素負荷に反応して胎盤局所で産生,放出されるautocrmeあるいはparacrme因子として胎盤血管の収縮にあずかっていると考えられた.A vasoactive peptide, endothelin-1 (ET-1) has been identified in the mammalian placenta. Its increase in the fetal circulation was demonstrated not only in acute but also in chronic fetal hypoxia in human. The aim of this study was to examine the effect of chronic fetoplacental hypoxia induced by uterine artery ligation on ET-1 gene expression in the rat placenta. Unilateral uterine artery ligation was performed to the pregnant Sprague-Dawley rats on Day 18 of gestation and the pregnancy was terminated on Day 21 of gestation. The effect of maternal starvation on the placental ET-1 messenger ribonucleic acid (mRNA) levels was also examined for comparison with the same time period. Relative abundance of the placental ET-1 mRNA was determined by quantitative reversed transcriptase polymerase chain reaction coupled with Southern blotting. Both maternal starvation and uterine artery ligation significantly reduced fetal and placental weight. In contrast, the placental ET-1 mRNA levels increased 2-fold by the uterine artery ligation whereas those in the maternal starvation group did not. Thus, it is unlikely that the reduced meterno-fetal transfer of nutrients by the uterine artery ligation could enhance the placental ET-1 gene expression. These results suggest that the enhanced placental ET-1 gene expression upon chronic fetoplacental hypoxia may contribute to the pathophysiology of the placental circulation in the fetal growth retardation.

著者

Abe Junichiro Ganaha-Kikumura Tomoko Yukawa Junichi

出版者

Japanese Society of Applied Entomology and Zoology

雑誌

Applied entomology and zoology (ISSN:00036862)

巻号頁・発行日

vol.46, no.2, pp.271-279, 2011-05

著者

Sandhu A.S. Tong Xiao-Min

出版者

IEEE

雑誌

IEEE journal of selected topics in quantum electronics (ISSN:1077260X)

巻号頁・発行日

vol.18, no.1, pp.351-362, 2012

被引用文献数

1 2

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Attosecond-duration, fully coherent, extreme-ultraviolet (XUV) photon bursts obtained through laser high-harmonic generation have opened up new possibilities in the study of atomic and molecular dynamics. We discuss experiments elucidating some of the interesting energy redistribution mechanisms that follow the interaction of a high-energy photon with a molecule. The crucial role of synchronized, strong-field, near-IR laser pulses in XUV pump-probe spectroscopy is highlighted. We demonstrate that near-IR pulses can in fact be used to modify the atomic structure and control the electronic dynamics on attosecond timescales. Our measurements show that the Gouy phase slip in the interaction region plays a significant role in these attosecond experiments. We perform precision measurement of interferences between strong field-induced Floquet channels to extract the intensity and phase dependence of photoionization dynamics. Applications of emerging table-top ultrafast XUV sources in the study of core electron dynamics are also discussed.

著者

Hisao Ogawa Shinya Goto Masunori Matsuzaki Shintaro Hiro Daisuke Shima on behalf of the APPRAISE-J investigators

出版者

日本循環器学会

雑誌

Circulation Journal (ISSN:13469843)

巻号頁・発行日

pp.CJ-13-0209, (Released:2013-06-07)

参考文献数

30

被引用文献数

11 27

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Background: Concomitant anticoagulant therapy may further reduce the risk of thrombotic events in patients with acute coronary syndrome (ACS) when given in addition to current standard antiplatelet therapies. This Phase II, randomized, double-blind, placebo-controlled study in Japanese patients with ACS assessed the bleeding risk of apixaban compared with placebo when given in combination with standard antiplatelet therapy, and followed a similar design to APPRAISE-1, the larger global Phase II study. Methods and Results: Patients with recently diagnosed ACS were randomized to receive apixaban 2.5mg twice daily (BID; n=49), apixaban 5mg BID (n=50), or placebo (n=52) in addition to standard antiplatelet therapy for 24 weeks. The composite primary endpoint of major or clinically relevant nonmajor bleeding occurred in 2 patients (4.1%) in each apixaban treatment group and 1 patient (2.0%) in the placebo group, and a dose-dependent increase was seen in all bleeding events. No hemorrhagic strokes occurred in either apixaban treatment group. This study was terminated before completion because the APPRAISE-2 global Phase III trial was stopped based on the recommendation of the Data Monitoring Committee, following an increase in bleeding events without a counterbalancing reduction in ischemic events. Conclusions: The bleeding profile of apixaban in Japanese patients with ACS was similar to that found in the global APPRAISE-1 study, supporting the safety of apixaban in Japanese patients.

著者

Jeong-Oh YANG Naoya NAKAYAMA Kyohei TODA Shinichi TEBAYASHI Chul-Sa KIM

出版者

(社)日本農芸化学会

雑誌

Bioscience, Biotechnology, and Biochemistry (ISSN:09168451)

巻号頁・発行日

pp.130055, (Released:2013-06-07)

被引用文献数

17

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We elucidate the mechanism for inducing the production of ovicidal benzyl benzoate by Japonica rice varieties to kill eggs of the whitebacked planthopper, Sogatella furcifera (Horváth), lying in the rice plant. Even when subjected to physical damage by a needle or damage with water, the rice plant produced no benzyl benzoate. However, significant benzyl benzoate was produced when the plant was damaged with a methanol extract or homogenate of S. furcifera. The extract of the male did not induce the production of benzyl benzoate, but that of the female did. We concluded from these results that benzyl benzoate was induced by some elicitor(s) in the female of S. furcifera.

著者

Hsin-Fu Lee Yen-Chen Lin Chia-Pin Lin Chun-Li Wang Chi-Jen Chang Lung-An Hsu

出版者

一般社団法人 日本内科学会

雑誌

Internal Medicine (ISSN:09182918)

巻号頁・発行日

vol.51, no.14, pp.1815-1820, 2012 (Released:2012-07-15)

参考文献数

40

被引用文献数

6 19

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Objective We aimed to investigate the association between the ABO blood groups and the risk of coronary artery disease (CAD) and myocardial infartion (MI) in a young Taiwanese population. Methods We retrospectively recruited 277 consecutive subjects (men younger than 45 years and women younger than 55 years) who underwent coronary angiography (136 with documented CAD and 129 without CAD) at our center, between 2005 and 2008. Their ABO blood groups were determined using standard agglutination techniques. Results Patients with CAD showed a significantly different blood group distribution (O, 30.1%; A, 39.7%; B, 26.5%; AB, 3.7%) than that shown by the controls (O, 42.6%; A, 24.0%; B, 27.1%; AB, 6.2%; p=0.032). Patients with blood group A had a greater risk of CAD and MI than those with non-A blood groups (OR=2.08, 95% CI=1.23-3.54; OR=2.21, 95% CI=1.19-4.09, respectively). After adjustment for common cardiovascular risk factors such as age, gender, hypertension, cigarette smoking, diabetes mellitus, body mass index, family history of CAD, and lipid profiles; blood group A remained significantly associated with an increased risk of CAD and MI (OR=2.61, 95% CI 1.11-6.14, p=0.028; OR=3.53, 95% CI=1.21-10.29, p=0.021, respectively). Conclusion Our findings suggest that blood group A is an independent risk factor for CAD and MI in young people in Taiwan.

著者

Marion Jean-Luc 大西 雅一郎

出版者

青土社

雑誌

現代思想

巻号頁・発行日

vol.18, no.5, pp.p192-205, 1990-05

著者

Yuki Ohmoto-Sekine Makiko Ishihara Shiun Dong Hsieh Kazuhisa Amakawa Shigeko Hara Hiroshi Tsuji Rieko Ishimura Sugao Ishiwata Tetsu Yamaguchi Minoru Ohno Yasuji Arase

出版者

一般社団法人 日本内科学会

雑誌

Internal Medicine (ISSN:09182918)

巻号頁・発行日

vol.52, no.9, pp.977-980, 2013 (Released:2013-05-01)

参考文献数

16

被引用文献数

4 6

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Kawasaki disease (KD) is one of the most important causes of coronary artery aneurysms in children and young adults. However, the natural course of the disease and the patient prognosis remain obscure. A 72-year-old asymptomatic man with undiagnosed KD underwent whole-heart magnetic resonance coronary angiography during a health checkup. The imaging disclosed giant aneurysms in the proximal portion of the right coronary artery and the left anterior descending artery. The patient was successfully treated with coronary artery bypass grafting. The present case suggests that there may be a substantial number of patients who have attained middle to old age with undiagnosed KD.

著者

Manatomo Toyono Daichi Takagi Jun Oyamada Shunsuke Shimada Mieko Aoki-Okazaki Tsutomu Takahashi

出版者

日本循環器学会

雑誌

Circulation Journal (ISSN:13469843)

巻号頁・発行日

pp.CJ-13-0128, (Released:2013-05-18)

参考文献数

8

被引用文献数

4

著者

Shih-Yi Lin Cheng-Li Lin Wu-Huei Hsu I-Kuan Wang Chiz-Chung Chang Chiu-Chin Huang Chia-Hung Kao Shu-Hui Liu

出版者

(公社)日本産業衛生学会

雑誌

Journal of Occupational Health (ISSN:13419145)

巻号頁・発行日

pp.12-0263-OA, (Released:2013-04-09)

被引用文献数

1 8

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Background: Physicians are frequently studied as a population that experiences extremely high stress, burnout, and prolonged working hours that might harm one’s health. However, they have sound medical knowledge and have easy access to medical resources. We studied the incidence of cancer among Taiwanese physicians using a nationwide cohort study design. Methods: Data were obtained from the National Health Insurance (NHI) system in Taiwan. The physician cohort contained 22,309 physicians, and each physician was randomly frequency-matched according to age and sex with 4 people from the general population. Results: The overall incidence ratio of cancer was 27% lower in the physician cohort than in the nonphysician comparison cohort (33.9 vs. 46.5 people per 10,000 person-years, crude hazard ratio (HR) = 0.73, 95% CI = 0.70, 0.76). The adjusted HR was 0.78 (95% CI = 0.72, 0.84). Female physicians experienced a higher incidence rate ratio of overall cancer, compared to male physicians (crude HR = 1.17, 95% CI = 1.03, 1.33 vs crude HR = 0.70, 95% CI = 0.67, 0.74, respectively). Physicians were at a significantly higher risk of thyroid cancer (HR 1.75, 95% CI = 1.14, 2.68), prostate cancer (HR = 1.54, 95% CI = 1.21, 1.97), breast cancer (HR = 1.45, 95% CI = 1.00, 2.09), and non-cervical gynecological cancer (HR = 4.03, 95% CI = 1.77, 9.17), compared with the general population. Conclusion: Physicians are at lower overall risk of cancer than the general population, apart from cancer of the thyroid, prostate, breast, and non-cervical gynecological cancer.

著者

Niizato Takayuki Gunji Yukio-Pegio

出版者

Elsevier Science Ireland

雑誌

Biosystems (ISSN:03032647)

巻号頁・発行日

vol.111, no.3, pp.145-155, 2013-03

被引用文献数

4

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There are two contradictory aspects of the adaptive process in evolution. The first is that species must optimally increase their own fitness in a given environment. The second is that species must maintain their variation to be ready to respond to changing environments. In a strict sense, these two aspects might consider to be mutually exclusive. If species are optimally adapted, then the variation in the species that is suboptimal decreases and vice versa. To resolve this dilemma, species must find a balance between optimal adaptation and robust adaptation. Finding the balance between these processes requires both the local and global complete, static information. However, the balance between the processes must be dynamic. In this study, we propose a model that illustrates dynamic negotiation between the global and local information using lattice theory. The dynamic negotiation between these two levels results in an overestimate of fitness for each species. The overestimation of fitness in our model represents the multiplicity of fitness which is sometimes discussed as the exaptation. We show that species in our model demonstrate the power law of the lifespan distribution and 1/f fluctuation for the adaptive process. Our model allows for a balance between optimal adaptation and robust adaptation without any arbitrary parameters.

著者

Ángel López-Cuenca Sergio Manzano-Fernández Francisco Marín Soledad Parra-Pallares Marina Navarro-Peñalver Salvador Montalban-Larrea Jose M. Andreu-Cayuelas Ana I. Romero-Aniorte Francisco Avilés-Plaza Mariano Valdés-Chavarri James L. Januzzi Jr

出版者

日本循環器学会

雑誌

Circulation Journal (ISSN:13469843)

巻号頁・発行日

pp.CJ-13-0106, (Released:2013-05-23)

参考文献数

24

被引用文献数

4 5

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Background: Beta-trace protein (BTP) and cystatin C (CysC) are novel biomarkers of renal function. We assessed the ability of both to predict major bleeding (MB) in patients with non-ST-segment elevation acute coronary syndromes (NSTE-ACS), compared to other renal function parameters and clinical risk scores. Methods and Results: We included 273 patients. Blood samples were obtained within 24h of admission. The endpoint was MB. During a follow-up of 760 days (411–1,098 days), 25 patients (9.2%) had MB. Patients with MB had higher concentrations of BTP (0.98mg/L; 0.71–1.16mg/L vs. 0.72mg/L, 0.60–0.91mg/L, P=0.002), CysC (1.05mg/L; 0.91–1.30mg/L vs. 0.90mg/L, 0.75–1.08mg/L, P=0.003), higher CRUSADE score (39±16 points vs. 29±15 points, P=0.002) and lower estimated glomerular filtration rate (eGFR; 66±27 vs. 80±30ml·min–1·1.73m–2, P=0.02) than patients without MB; there was no difference in creatinine level between the groups (P=0.14). After multivariable adjustment, both were predictors of MB, while eGFR and creatinine did not achieve statistical significance. Among subjects with eGFR >60ml·min–1·1.73m–2, those with elevated concentrations of both biomarkers had a significantly higher risk for MB. Net reclassification indexes from the addition of BTP and CysC to CRUSADE risk score were 38% and 21% respectively, while the relative integrated discrimination indexes were 12.5% and 3.8%. Conclusions: Among NSTE-ACS patients, BTP and CysC were superior to conventional renal parameters for predicting MB, and improved clinical stratification for hemorrhagic risk.

著者

Morimoto Hiroko Iwata Kazumi Ogonuki Narumi Inoue Kimiko Ogura Atsuo Kanatsu-Shinohara Mito Morimoto Takeshi Yabe-Nishimura Chihiro Shinohara Takashi

出版者

Elsevier

雑誌

Cell Stem Cell (ISSN:19345909)

巻号頁・発行日

vol.12, no.6, pp.774-786, 2013-06

被引用文献数

182

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活性酸素の精子幹細胞に対する増殖促進作用を解明. 京都大学プレスリリース. 2013-06-07.

著者

Matsuda Yoshi-Taka Okanoya Kazuo Myowa-Yamakoshi Masako

出版者

Public Library of Science

雑誌

PLoS ONE (ISSN:19326203)

巻号頁・発行日

vol.8, no.6, 2013-06-05

被引用文献数

17

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赤ちゃんの「人見知り」行動 : 単なる怖がりではなく「近づきたいけど怖い」心の葛藤. 京都大学プレスリリース. 2013-06-05.

著者

Yoshiki YUI Tetsuya SUMIYOSHI Kazuhisa KODAMA Atsushi HIRAYAMA Hiroshi NONOGI Katsuo KANMATSUSE Hideki ORIGASA Osamu IIMURA Masao ISHII Takao SARUTA Kikuo ARAKAWA Saichi HOSODA Chuichi KAWAI JMIC-B Study Group

出版者

日本高血圧学会

雑誌

Hypertension Research (ISSN:09169636)

巻号頁・発行日

vol.27, no.7, pp.449-456, 2004 (Released:2004-08-07)

参考文献数

19

被引用文献数

21 27

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We stratified findings from the Japan Multicenter Investigation for Cardiovascular Diseases-B according to whether or not the patients had diabetes and compared the incidence of cardiac events occurring over a 3-year period between treatment with nifedipine retard and angiotensin converting enzyme (ACE) inhibitor. The primary endpoint was the overall incidence of cardiac events (cardiac death or sudden death, myocardial infarction, hospitalization for angina pectoris or heart failure, serious arrhythmia, and coronary interventions), and the secondary endpoints were a composite of other events (cerebrovascular accidents, worsening of renal dysfunction, non-cardiovascular events, and total mortality). The results showed no significant difference in the incidence of the primary endpoint between the nifedipine group (n =199) and the ACE inhibitor group (n =173) in diabetic patients: 15.08% vs. 15.03%, relative risk 1.06, p =0.838. Also in nondiabetic patients, no significant difference was observed between the former (n =629) and the latter (n =649): 13.67% vs. 12.33%, relative risk 1.04, p =0.792. Similar results were obtained for the incidence of the secondary endpoints: in diabetic patients, 5.03% vs. 5.20%, relative risk 0.89, p =0.799; in nondiabetic patients, 2.70% vs. 2.47%, relative risk 1.07, p =0.842. Achieved blood pressure levels were 138/76 and 136/77 mmHg in the nifedipine group and 140/78 and 138/79 mmHg in the ACE inhibitor group in diabetic and nondiabetic patients, respectively. This study showed that nifedipine retard was as effective as ACE inhibitors in reducing the incidence of cardiac events in extremely high-risk hypertensive patients with complications of diabetes and coronary artery disease. (Hypertens Res 2004; 27: 449-456)

著者

Yoshiki YUI Tetsuya SUMIYOSHI Kazuhisa KODAMA Atsushi HIRAYAMA Hiroshi NONOGI Katsuo KANMATSUSE Hideki ORIGASA Osamu IIMURA Masao ISHII Takao SARUTA Kikuo ARAKAWA Saichi HOSODA Chuichi KAWAI JMIC-B Study Group

出版者

日本高血圧学会

雑誌

Hypertension Research (ISSN:09169636)

巻号頁・発行日

vol.27, no.3, pp.181-191, 2004 (Released:2004-10-19)

参考文献数

29

被引用文献数

70 103

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The Japan Multicenter Investigation for Cardiovascular Diseases-B was performed to investigate whether nifedipine retard treatment was associated with a significantly higher incidence of cardiac events than angiotensin converting enzyme inhibitor treatment in Japanese patients. The study used a prospective, randomized, open, blinded endpoint (PROBE) design. Patients were enrolled at 354 Japanese hospitals specializing in cardiovascular disease. The subjects were 1,650 outpatients aged under 75 years who had diagnoses of both hypertension and coronary artery disease. There were 828 patients subjected to intention-to-treat analysis in the nifedipine retard group and 822 patients in the angiotensin converting enzyme inhibitor group. The patients were randomized to 3 years of treatment with either nifedipine retard or angiotensin converting enzyme inhibitor. The primary endpoint was the overall incidence of cardiac events (cardiac death or sudden death, myocardial infarction, hospitalization for angina pectoris or heart failure, serious arrhythmia, and coronary interventions). The primary endpoint occurred in 116 patients (14.0%) from the nifedipine retard group and 106 patients (12.9%) from the angiotensin converting enzyme inhibitor group (relative risk, 1.05; 95% confidence interval, 0.81-1.37; p =0.75). In the Kaplan-Meier estimates, there were no significant differences between the two groups (log-rank test: p =0.86). The incidence of cardiac events and mortality did not differ between the nifedipine retard and angiotensin converting enzyme inhibitor therapies. Nifedipine retard seems to be as effective as angiotensin converting enzyme inhibitors in reducing the incidence of cardiac events and mortality. (Hypertens Res 2004; 27: 181-191)