著者

TOSHIMITSU SHINGU TAKAHIRO UCHIDA MASUJI NISHI KAZUO HAYASHIDA SEIZABURO KASHIWAGI JUN HAYASHI MASARO KAJI

出版者

Kurume University School of Medicine

雑誌

The Kurume Medical Journal (ISSN:00235679)

巻号頁・発行日

vol.29, no.3, pp.123-125, 1983-04-15 (Released:2010-02-08)

参考文献数

3

被引用文献数

9 16

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Seventeen hospital employees were inoculated with 40 -μcg hepatitis B vaccine as a part of a phase 1 trial in Japan. More than 90 per cent of the subjects developed antibodies against HBsAg after two doses of the vaccine. The third dose had a booster effect. Seven of the 16 vaccinated women experienced menstrual abnormalities after the first and/or second inoculation. These included hypomenorrhea, too short menstruation, oligomenorrhea and polymenorrhea. One subject also suffered from acne after the third inoculation. These abnormalities may be side effects of the hepatitis B vaccine which have not been reported previously.

著者

Hiroaki Ikezaki Norihiro Furusyo Yuya Yokota Masumi Ai Bela F Asztalos Masayuki Murata Jun Hayashi Ernst J Schaefer

出版者

Japan Atherosclerosis Society

雑誌

Journal of Atherosclerosis and Thrombosis (ISSN:13403478)

巻号頁・発行日

pp.54130, (Released:2020-04-10)

参考文献数

46

被引用文献数

13

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Aim: The association between small dense low-density lipoprotein cholesterol (sdLDL-C) levels and carotid intimal medial thickness (cIMT) progression has not been evaluated fully. We assessed specialized lipoproteins, including sdLDL-C, with regard to cIMT progression in a prospective observational study in Japan. Methods: Plasma total cholesterol, direct LDL-C, sdLDL-C, LDL-triglycerides (LDL-TG), high-density lipoprotein cholesterol (HDL-C), HDL2-C, HDL3-C, triglycerides, Lp(a), and adiponectin were measured in 2,030 men and women (median age 59 years, free of cardiovascular disease (CVD) and off cholesterol lowering medication). At both baseline and after a five-year follow-up, cIMT was assessed. Univariate, multivariate regression, and least square analyses were performed to examine the relationships between direct LDL-C, sdLDL-C, and other lipoproteins with cIMT progression. Results: The median cIMT at baseline was 0.63 mm and five-year progression was 0.18 mm. After adjustment for standard CVD risk factors, including age, gender, systolic blood pressure, total cholesterol, HDL-C, smoking, diabetes, and hypertension treatment, only direct LDL-C, sdLDL-C, and the sdLDL-C/LDL-C ratio were associated with cIMT progression. Even in subjects with direct LDL-C <100 mg/dL, who were considered at low CVD risk, elevated sdLDL-C were associated with cIMT progression (P for trend=0.009) in a model with established CVD risk factors, although the sdLDL-C/LDL-C ratio did not. Those correlations did not change by including triglycerides as a controlling factor or excluding premenopausal women from the analyzed population. Conclusions: Small dense LDL-C has a stronger relationship with cIMT progression than LDL-C does; therefore, measuring sdLDL-C may allow for the formulation of optimal therapy for CVD prevention.

著者

Toshio Naito Keito Torikai Masafumi Mizooka Fujiko Mitsumoto Kenji Kanazawa Shiro Ohno Hiroyuki Morita Akira Ukimura Nobuhiko Mishima Fumio Otsuka Yoshio Ohyama Noriko Nara Kazunari Murakami Kouichi Mashiba Kenichiro Akazawa Koji Yamamoto Mika Tanei Masashi Yamanouchi Shoichi Senda Susumu Tazuma Jun Hayashi

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.54, no.16, pp.1989-1994, 2015 (Released:2015-08-15)

参考文献数

26

被引用文献数

7 8

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Objective Although inflammatory markers, such as the white blood cell (WBC) count, erythrocyte sedimentation rate (ESR) and levels of C-reactive protein (CRP) and procalcitonin, are widely used to differentiate causes of fever of unknown origin (FUO), little is known about the usefulness of this approach. We evaluated relationships between the causes of classical FUO and the levels of inflammatory markers. Methods A nationwide retrospective study including 17 hospitals affiliated with the Japanese Society of Hospital General Medicine was conducted. Patients This study included 121 patients ≥18 years old diagnosed with "classical FUO" (axillary temperature ≥38.0°C at least twice over a ≥3-week period without elucidation of the cause on three outpatient visits or during three days of hospitalization) between January and December 2011. Results The causative disease was infectious diseases in 28 patients (23.1%), non-infectious inflammatory disease (NIID) in 37 patients (30.6%), malignancy in 13 patients (10.7%), other in 15 patients (12.4%) and unknown in 28 patients (23.1%). The rate of malignancy was significantly higher for a WBC count of <4,000 /μL than for a WBC count of 4,000-8,000 /μL (p=0.015). Among the patients with a higher WBC count, the rate of FUO due to NIID tended to be higher and the number of unknown cases tended to be lower. All FUO patients with malignancy showed an ESR of >40 mm/h. A normal ESR appeared to constitute powerful evidence for excluding a diagnosis of malignancy. In contrast, the concentrations of both serum CRP and procalcitonin appeared to be unrelated to the causative disease. Conclusion The present study identified inflammatory markers that should be considered in the differential diagnosis of classical FUO, providing useful information for future diagnosis.