著者
Takayuki KIKUCHI Yasushi TAKAGI Jyoji NAKAGAWARA Tsukasa UENO Shiho UBUKATA Kiyohiro HOUKIN Yoshio ARAKI Jun C TAKAHASHI Hiroyuki NAKASE Toshiya MURAI Susumu MIYAMOTO COSMO-Japan Study Group
出版者
The Japan Neurosurgical Society
雑誌
Neurologia medico-chirurgica (ISSN:04708105)
巻号頁・発行日
pp.2023-0041, (Released:2023-05-11)
参考文献数
24

Cognitive impairment in adult patients with moyamoya disease (MMD) is sometimes overlooked and can occur in patients with no ischemic or hemorrhagic lesions. Better profiling and reliable diagnostic methods that characterize the group and associate the impairments and pathology of MMD are required in order to deliver appropriate treatments and support. The potential of 123I-iomazenil single-photon emission computed tomography (SPECT) for this issue has been reported in some studies, but the universality of this method remains unclear. A multicenter study of adult patients (aged 18-60 years) with MMD who experienced difficulties in social lives despite normal activities of daily living was implemented to delineate the common characteristics of this group of patients. In this study, iomazenil SPECT, besides patient characteristics, cognitive functions, and conventional imaging, was acquired to examine whether this method is suitable as a universal diagnostic tool. A total of 36 patients from 12 institutes in Japan were included in this study. Domain scores of world health organization quality of life 26 indicated low self-rating in physical health and psychological domains. The percentages of patients who had <85 in each index were 27.8%-33.3% in the WAIS-III and 16.7%-47.2% in the Wechsler Memory Scale-Revised. The group analysis of iomazenil SPECT demonstrated a decreased accumulation in the bilateral medial frontal areas in comparison with the normal control, whereas there were no specific characteristics on conventional imaging in the cohort. Iomazenil SPECT is a possible universal diagnostic method for the extraction of patients with cognitive impairment in MMD.
著者
Naoki Nakayama Takeshi Yamamoto Migaku Kikuchi Hiroyuki Hanada Toshiaki Mano Takahiro Nakashima Katsutaka Hashiba Akihito Tanaka Kunihiro Matsuo Osamu Nomura Sunao Kojima Junichi Yamaguchi Tetsuya Matoba Yoshio Tahara Hiroshi Nonogi for the Japan Resuscitation Council (JRC) Acute Coronary Syndrome (ACS) Task Force and the Guideline Editorial Committee on behalf of the Japanese Circulation Society (JCS) Emergency and Critical Care Committee
出版者
The Japanese Circulation Society
雑誌
Circulation Reports (ISSN:24340790)
巻号頁・発行日
vol.4, no.10, pp.449-457, 2022-10-07 (Released:2022-10-07)
参考文献数
20
被引用文献数
1 7

Background: Recent guidelines for acute coronary syndrome (ACS) recommend prehospital administration of aspirin and nitroglycerin for ACS patients. However, there is no clear evidence to support this. We investigated the benefits and harms of prehospital administration of aspirin and nitroglycerin by non-physician healthcare professionals in patients with suspected ACS.Methods and Results: We searched the PubMed database and used the Grading of Recommendations, Assessment, Development, and Evaluation (GRADE) approach to assess the certainty of evidence. Three retrospective studies for aspirin and 1 for nitroglycerin administered in the prehospital setting to patients with acute myocardial infarction were included. Prehospital aspirin administration was associated with significantly lower 30-day and 1-year mortality compared with aspirin administration after arrival at hospital, with odds ratios (OR) of 0.59 (95% confidence interval [CI] 0.35–0.99) and 0.47 (95% CI 0.36–0.62), respectively. Prehospital nitroglycerin administration was also associated with significantly lower 30-day and 1-year mortality compared with no prehospital administration (OR 0.34 [95% CI 0.24–0.50] and 0.38 [95% CI 0.29–0.50], respectively). The certainty of evidence was very low in both systematic reviews.Conclusions: Our systematic reviews suggest that prehospital administration of aspirin and nitroglycerin by non-physician healthcare professionals is beneficial for patients with suspected ACS, although the certainty of evidence is very low. Further investigation is needed to determine the benefit of the prehospital administration of these agents.
著者
Yukihiro Sato Eiji Yoshioka Yasuaki Saijo Toshinobu Miyamoto Hiroshi Azuma Yusuke Tanahashi Yoshiya Ito Sumitaka Kobayashi Machiko Minatoya Yu Ait Bamai Keiko Yamazaki Sachiko Itoh Chihiro Miyashita Atsuko Ikeda-Araki Reiko Kishi The Japan Environment and Children’s Study (JECS) Group
出版者
Japan Epidemiological Association
雑誌
Journal of Epidemiology (ISSN:09175040)
巻号頁・発行日
vol.32, no.6, pp.270-276, 2022-06-05 (Released:2022-06-05)
参考文献数
32
被引用文献数
1 3

Background: Lower respiratory tract infections (LRTIs) are a cause of inpatient and outpatient care among children. Although orofacial clefts seem to be associated with LRTIs, epidemiological studies are scarce on this topic. This study aimed to examine whether infants with orofacial clefts were associated with LRTIs.Methods: This prospective cohort study used data from the Japan Environment and Children’s Study, for which baseline recruitment was conducted during 2011–2014. This study included 81,535 participants. The number of infants with cleft lip and palate (CLP), cleft lip (CL), and cleft palate only (CP) was 67, 49, and 36, respectively. We defined history of LRTIs until 12 months’ age reported by their mothers as the dependent variable. Accumulated breastfeeding duration was used as a potential mediator.Results: The incidence proportion of LRTIs among the control group was 6.0%. The incidence proportion among infants with CLP, CL, and CP were 11.9%, 14.3%, and 5.6%, respectively. After adjusting for covariates, compared with the control group, infants with CLP and CL were associated with risk of LRTIs (incidence risk ratio [IRR] of CLP, 2.38; 95% confidence interval [CI], 1.30–4.36 and IRR of CL, 2.73; 95% CI, 1.40–5.33), but not ones with CP (IRR 1.08; 95% CI, 0.28–4.15). Accumulated breastfeeding duration decreased the IRR of CLP only (IRR of CLP, 2.16; 95% CI, 1.19–3.93).Conclusion: Infants with orofacial clefts aged 1 year have a potentially high incidence proportion of LRTIs. Accumulated breastfeeding duration might mediate the associations of CLP.
著者
Makiko Sekiyama Shin Yamazaki Takehiro Michikawa Shoji F. Nakayama Hiroshi Nitta Yu Taniguchi Eiko Suda Tomohiko Isobe Yayoi Kobayashi Miyuki Iwai-Shimada Masaji Ono Kenji Tamura Junzo Yonemoto Toshihiro Kawamoto Michihiro Kamijima the Japan Environment and Children’s Study Group
出版者
Japan Epidemiological Association
雑誌
Journal of Epidemiology (ISSN:09175040)
巻号頁・発行日
vol.32, no.5, pp.228-236, 2022-05-05 (Released:2022-05-05)
参考文献数
18
被引用文献数
8 26

Background: The Japan Environment and Children’s Study (JECS) is a nationwide birth cohort study investigating environmental effects on children’s health and development. A Sub-Cohort Study has begun, conducting extended exposure and outcome measurements by targeting a subgroup randomly selected from the JECS Main Study. We report the Sub-Cohort Study methodology and participants’ baseline profiles.Methods: Of 100,148 children in the JECS Main Study, children born after April 1, 2013 who met eligibility criteria ([1] all questionnaire and medical record data from children and their mothers collected from the first trimester to 6 months of age, [2] biospecimens [except umbilical cord blood] from children and their mothers collected at first to second/third trimester and delivery) were randomly selected for each Regional Centre at regular intervals. Face-to-face assessment of neuropsychiatric development, body measurement, paediatrician’s examination, blood/urine collection for clinical testing and chemical analysis, and home visits (ambient and indoor air measurement and dust collection) are conducted. Participants are followed up at 1.5 and 3 years old for home visits, and 2, 4, 6, and 8 years old for developmental/medical examination. The details of protocols after age 10 are under discussion.Results: Of 10,302 selected children, 5,017 participated. The profiles of the participating mothers, fathers and children did not substantially differ between the Main Study and Sub-Cohort Study.Conclusion: The JECS Sub-Cohort Study offers a platform for investigating associations between environmental exposure and outcomes.
著者
李 徳泳 吉田 章子 Duck-Young LEE Akiko YOSHIDA オーストラリア国立大学日本センター オーストラリア国立大学日本センター Japan Centre Faculty of Asian Studies Australian National University Graduate School of Asian Studies Japan Centre Australian National University
雑誌
世界の日本語教育. 日本語教育論集 = Japanese language education around the globe ; Japanese language education around the globe (ISSN:09172920)
巻号頁・発行日
vol.12, pp.223-237, 2002-06-28

「けど」は日本語の会話においてもっとも頻繁に使われる表現の一つであるが、特に「んだ」と共起して「んだけど」の形で用いられる場合が多い(本研究のデータは「けど節」全体の 58% が「んだ + けど」)。これは、「んだ」と「けど」が組み合わされることによってそれぞれの機能や特性が結合し、会話で頻繁に用いられる何らかの効果を生み出しているのにその理由があると考えられるのである。本研究の目的は、会話における「けど」の役割や「んだ」 の特性を調べ、これらの結合のメカニズムを明らかにすることである。 分析の結果をまとめると、まず、発話に「けど節」が主節(本稿では「関連要素」)と一緒に現れた場合に、「けど節」は「前置き」または「補足」としての役割を果たすが、ここで「んだ + けど」の組み合わせは、聞き手の注意を喚起する働きを持つ。また主節は現れず「けど節」が単独で使われた場合には、「んだ + けど」は、一方では話し手の気持ちを一通り表し、他方ではそれがあまり強く直線的にならないように抑える二重的な働きを持つ。この二重的な働きにより話し手は自分の気持ち感情を過不足なく表すことができ、また聞き手の注意を喚起する働きにしても、主節における主メッセージを相手に理解してもらう上で重要である。このようにして「んだけど」の表現は、円滑なコミュニケーションを行なう上で重要なストラテジーとして好まれるのだと考えられる。
著者
Miyuki Hasegawa Shamima Akter Huanhuan Hu Ikuko Kashino Keisuke Kuwahara Hiroko Okazaki Naoko Sasaki Takayuki Ogasawara Masafumi Eguchi Takeshi Kochi Toshiaki Miyamoto Tohru Nakagawa Toru Honda Shuichiro Yamamoto Taizo Murakami Makiko Shimizu Akihiko Uehara Makoto Yamamoto Teppei Imai Akiko Nishihara Kentaro Tomita Satsue Nagahama Ai Hori Maki Konishi Isamu Kabe Tetsuya Mizoue Naoki Kunugita Seitaro Dohi the Japan Epidemiology Collaboration on Occupational Health Study Group
出版者
Japan Society for Occupational Health
雑誌
Journal of Occupational Health (ISSN:13419145)
巻号頁・発行日
vol.62, no.1, pp.e12095, 2020-01-20 (Released:2020-02-28)
参考文献数
42
被引用文献数
17

Objective: The present study aimed to estimate cumulative incidence of overweight and obesity and describe 5-year longitudinal changes in body mass index (BMI) in a large occupational cohort in Japan.Methods: Participants were 55 229 Japanese employees, who were aged 20-59 years and attended at all subsequent annual health check-ups between 2009 and 2014. Mixed model analysis was performed to examine the effects of age and cohort by gender on BMI change, with age as a random variable. Cumulative incidence of overweight (23.0≤ BMI <27.5 kg/m2) and obesity (BMI ≥27.5 kg/m2) was calculated. Logistic regression analysis was used to estimate odds ratios for the incidence of overweight and obesity according to age group.Results: The incidence of overweight and obesity was approximately double in men (28.3% and 6.7%, respectively) compared to women (14.3% and 3.9%, respectively). The incidence of obesity decreased with age in men, but did not differ according to age in women (P for trend: .02 and .89, respectively). Among overweight participants, the incidence of obesity was higher in women (18.9%) than men (14.5%) and decreased with advancing age (P for trend: <.001 in men and .003 in women). Mean BMI was higher in men than women in all age groups throughout the period. Younger cohorts tended to have a higher BMI change compared with older cohorts.Conclusions: In this Japanese occupational cohort, transition from overweight to obesity is higher in women than men, and the more recent cohorts had a higher change in mean BMI than the older cohorts.
著者
Muneyuki SHIMIZU Taisuke KATO Yuichi ADACHI Takuya WADA Shokei MURAKAMI Yasunori ITO Toshiko ITAZAWA Yoko S ADACHI Akiko TSUCHIDA Kenta MATSUMURA Kei HAMAZAKI Hidekuni INADERA the Japan Environment and Children’s Study Group
出版者
Center for Academic Publications Japan
雑誌
Journal of Nutritional Science and Vitaminology (ISSN:03014800)
巻号頁・発行日
vol.68, no.5, pp.375-382, 2022-10-31 (Released:2022-10-31)
参考文献数
27
被引用文献数
6

Maternal nutrition during pregnancy is one of the factors affecting the health of offspring. There are conflicting findings about the association between maternal vitamin D status and the development of allergic diseases in offspring. The purpose of this study is to evaluate the association between maternal vitamin D intake and the development of allergic diseases in offspring at 1 y of age. From an ongoing nationwide birth cohort study (the Japan Environment and Children’s Study), we obtained information on maternal vitamin D intake, determined by a food frequency questionnaire, and parent-reported physician-diagnosed allergic diseases in offspring at 1 y of age. From the full dataset of 103,062 pregnancies, we analyzed complete data for 82,592 mother–offspring pairs. The prevalence of physician-diagnosed asthma, food allergy, and atopic dermatitis in the children was 2.5%, 6.6%, and 4.3%, respectively. The mean (± standard deviation) maternal vitamin D intake was 4.7±4.7 μg/d, which is much lower than the recommended amount in Japan (7 μg/d). After adjustment for various covariates, the odds ratios were significantly higher for asthma in the 2nd quintile and for food allergies in the 3rd and 4th quintiles compared with the 1st quintile. However, there were no clear associations between maternal vitamin D intake and the development of allergic diseases in offspring at 1 y of age, even in a large nation-wide cohort study. Protective effects of vitamin D supplementation remain unclear.
著者
Teruhide Koyama Nagato Kuriyama Etsuko Ozaki Satomi Tomida Ritei Uehara Yuichiro Nishida Chisato Shimanoe Asahi Hishida Takashi Tamura Mineko Tsukamoto Yuka Kadomatsu Isao Oze Keitaro Matsuo Haruo Mikami Yohko Nakamura Rie Ibusuki Toshiro Takezaki Sadao Suzuki Takeshi Nishiyama Kiyonori Kuriki Naoyuki Takashima Aya Kadota Hirokazu Uemura Sakurako Katsuura-Kamano Hiroaki Ikezaki Masayuki Murata Kenji Takeuchi Kenji Wakai for the Japan Multi-institutional Collaborative Cohort (J-MICC) Study Group
出版者
Japan Atherosclerosis Society
雑誌
Journal of Atherosclerosis and Thrombosis (ISSN:13403478)
巻号頁・発行日
pp.54320, (Released:2020-04-08)
参考文献数
35
被引用文献数
6 15

Aim: Accumulating evidence reveals that sedentary behavior is associated with mortality and cardiometabolic disease; however, there are potential age and sex differences in sedentary behavior and health outcomes that have not been adequately addressed. This study aimed to determine the association of sedentary behavior with cardiometabolic diseases such as hypertension, dyslipidemia, diabetes mellitus, and its risk factors in a large Japanese population according to age and sex. Methods: Using data from the Japan Multi-Institutional Collaborative Cohort Study obtained from baseline surveys, data of 62,754 participants (27,930 males, 34,824 females) were analyzed. This study uses a cross-sectional design and self-administered questionnaires to evaluate sedentary time and anamnesis. For the logistic regression analysis, sedentary time <5 h/day was used as the reference and then adjusted for age, research areas, leisure-time metabolic equivalents, and alcohol and smoking status. From the analysis of anthropometric and blood examinations, 35,973 participants (17,109 males, 18,864 females) were analyzed. Results: For hypertension and diabetes, sedentary time was associated with a significantly higher proportion of male participants. Both sexes were associated with a significantly higher proportion of participants with dyslipidemia. Participants who had longer sedentary time tended to have increased levels of blood pressure, triglycerides, and non-high-density lipoprotein cholesterol (HDL-C), and decreased levels of HDL-C, especially in the 60–69 years group. Conclusions: Independent of leisure-time physical activity, sedentary time was associated with cardiometabolic diseases in a large Japanese population classified by age and sex. Our findings indicate that regularly interrupting and replacing sedentary time may contribute to better physical health-related quality of life.
著者
Sunao Kojima Takeshi Yamamoto Migaku Kikuchi Hiroyuki Hanada Toshiaki Mano Takahiro Nakashima Katsutaka Hashiba Akihito Tanaka Junichi Yamaguchi Kunihiro Matsuo Naoki Nakayama Osamu Nomura Tetsuya Matoba Yoshio Tahara Hiroshi Nonogi for the Japan Resuscitation Council (JRC) Acute Coronary Syndrome (ACS) Task Force and the Guideline Editorial Committee on behalf of the Japanese Circulation Society (JCS) Emergency and Critical Care Committee
出版者
The Japanese Circulation Society
雑誌
Circulation Reports (ISSN:24340790)
巻号頁・発行日
vol.4, no.8, pp.335-344, 2022-08-10 (Released:2022-08-10)
参考文献数
24
被引用文献数
3

Background: In Japan, oxygen is commonly administered during the acute phase of myocardial infarction (MI) to patients without oxygen saturation monitoring. In this study we assessed the effects of supplemental oxygen therapy, compared with ambient air, on mortality and cardiac events by synthesizing evidence from randomized controlled trials (RCTs) of patients with suspected or confirmed acute MI.Methods and Results: PubMed was systematically searched for full-text RCTs published in English before June 21, 2020. Two reviewers independently screened the search results and appraised the risk of bias. The estimates for each outcome were pooled using a random-effects model. In all, 2,086 studies retrieved from PubMed were screened. Finally, 7,322 patients from 9 studies derived from 4 RCTs were analyzed. In-hospital mortality in the oxygen and ambient air groups was 1.8% and 1.6%, respectively (risk ratio [RR] 0.90; 95% confidence interval [CI] 0.38–2.10]); 0.8% and 0.5% of patients, respectively, experienced recurrent MI (RR 0.44; 95% CI 0.12–1.54), 1.5% and 1.6% of patients, respectively, experienced cardiac shock (RR 1.10; 95% CI 0.77–1.59]), and 2.4% and 2.0% of patients, respectively, experienced cardiac arrest (RR 0.91; 95% CI 0.43–1.94).Conclusions: Routine supplemental oxygen administration may not be beneficial or harmful, and high-flow oxygen may be unnecessary in normoxic patients in the acute phase of MI.
著者
Katsutaka Hashiba Takahiro Nakashima Migaku Kikuchi Sunao Kojima Hiroyuki Hanada Toshiaki Mano Takeshi Yamamoto Akihito Tanaka Junichi Yamaguchi Kunihiro Matsuo Naoki Nakayama Osamu Nomura Tetsuya Matoba Yoshio Tahara Hiroshi Nonogi for the Japan Resuscitation Council (JRC) Acute Coronary Syndrome (ACS) Task Force and the Guideline Editorial Committee on behalf of the Japanese Circulation Society (JCS) Emergency and Critical Care Committee
出版者
The Japanese Circulation Society
雑誌
Circulation Reports (ISSN:24340790)
巻号頁・発行日
pp.CR-22-0034, (Released:2022-07-13)
参考文献数
19
被引用文献数
4

Background: In the management of patients with ST-elevation myocardial infarction (STEMI), system delays for reperfusion therapy are still a matter of concern. We investigated the impact of prehospital activation of the catheterization laboratory in the management of STEMI patients.Methods and Results: This is a systematic review of observational studies. A search was conducted of the PubMed database from inception to July 2020 to identify articles for inclusion in the study. The critical outcomes were short- and long-term mortality. The important outcome was door-to-balloon time. The GRADE approach was used to assess the certainty of the evidence. Seven studies assessed short-term mortality; 1,541 were assigned to the prehospital activation (PH) group and 1,191 were assigned to the emergency department activation (ED) group. There were 26 fewer deaths per 1,000 patients in the PH group. Three studies assessed long-term mortality; 713 patients were assigned to the PH group and 1,026 were assigned to the ED group. There were 54 fewer deaths per 1,000 patients among the PH group. Five studies assessed door-to-balloon time; 959 were assigned to the PH group and 631 to the ED group. Door-to-balloon time was 33.1 min shorter in the PH group.Conclusions: Prehospital activation of the catheterization laboratory resulted in lower mortality and shorter door-to-balloon time for patients with suspected STEMI outside of a hospital.