著者

Yukiko Kurosawa Koji Hara Haruka Tohara Chizuru Namiki Ariya Chantaramanee Ayako Nakane Kazuharu Nakagawa Kohei Yamaguchi Kanako Yoshimi Junichi Furuya Shunsuke Minakuchi

出版者

Tohoku University Medical Press

雑誌

The Tohoku Journal of Experimental Medicine (ISSN:00408727)

巻号頁・発行日

vol.248, no.3, pp.201-208, 2019 (Released:2019-07-30)

参考文献数

39

被引用文献数

9

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Dysphagia is a common problem among older adults, causing aspiration pneumonia and malnutrition. It has been reported that calf circumference (CC), an index of nutritional status and physical activity, correlated with dysphagia in acute care hospitals, suggesting that CC can be a useful index for assessing dysphagia. We therefore aimed to explore the association between dysphagia and CC among community elderly people who require long-term care and determined the optimal CC cut-off value for patients with dysphagia. Our cross-sectional study, conducted at Tokyo Metropolis, included 154 participants (65 men) aged > 65 years (mean age: 80.1 ± 7.1) who required long-term care and were examined for dental disease and dysphagia during home visiting treatment. Age, body mass index (BMI), mini-nutritional assessment short-form (MNA-SF) score, Barthel index (BI), CC, functional oral intake scale (FOIS), and dysphagia severity scale (DSS) were evaluated. A DSS score < 5 was defined as dysphagia. To determine the association between CC and dysphagia, we performed logistic regression analysis and calculated the CC cut-off value for dysphagia. Thirty-seven participants (24.0%) were diagnosed with dysphagia. The logistic regression analysis showed that the presence of dysphagia was independently associated with CC after adjusting for age and sex. The CC cut-off value for the presence of dysphagia was 31.0 cm in men (sensitivity, 0.818; specificity, 0.868) and 29.3 cm in women (sensitivity, 0.760; specificity, 0.859). CC is a useful index for assessing dysphagia among community dwelling individuals who require long-term care.

著者

Koji Hara Yukihiro Tominari Masakazu Yamagishi Jun Takeya

出版者

The Surface Science Society of Japan

雑誌

e-Journal of Surface Science and Nanotechnology (ISSN:13480391)

巻号頁・発行日

vol.13, pp.426-426, 2015-09-19 (Released:2015-09-19)

参考文献数

2

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On July 30th 2015, the Editor-in-Chief sent a letter to the corresponding author of the above-mentioned manuscript [1] about the result of survey by the Editorial Committee of e-J. Surf. Sci. Nanotech. According to the letter, the Committee concluded that the above-mentioned manuscript resembles the paper published in another journal [2] too much. As a result of this report, all of the authors of the above-mentioned manuscript have agreed to a complete retraction of the paper.

著者

Koji Hara Yukihiro Tominari Masakazu Yamagishi Jun Takeya

出版者

The Japan Society of Vacuum and Surface Science

雑誌

e-Journal of Surface Science and Nanotechnology (ISSN:13480391)

巻号頁・発行日

vol.6, pp.138-141, 2008-05-29 (Released:2008-05-29)

参考文献数

10

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This article was retracted.