著者
Tomomi Egawa-Takata Yutaka Ueda Akiko Morimoto Yusuke Tanaka Asami Yagi Yoshito Terai Masahide Ohmichi Tomoyuki Ichimura Toshiyuki Sumi Hiromi Murata Hidetaka Okada Hidekatsu Nakai Masaki Mandai Shinya Matsuzaki Eiji Kobayashi Kiyoshi Yoshino Tadashi Kimura Junko Saito Yumiko Hori Eiichi Morii Tomio Nakayama Mikiko Asai-Sato Etsuko Miyagi Masayuki Sekine Takayuki Enomoto Yorihiko Horikoshi Tetsu Takagi Kentaro Shimura
出版者
Japan Epidemiological Association
雑誌
Journal of Epidemiology (ISSN:09175040)
巻号頁・発行日
pp.JE20160155, (Released:2017-11-11)
参考文献数
14
被引用文献数
8

Background: In Japan, the rate of cervical cancer screening is remarkably low, especially among women in their twenties and thirties, when cervical cancer is now increasing dramatically. The aim of this study was to test whether a modified government reminder for 20-year-old women to engage in cervical cancer screening, acting through maternal education and by asking for a maternal recommendation to the daughter to receive the screening, could increase their participation rate.Methods: In two Japanese cities, 20-year-old girls who had not received their first cervical cancer screening before October of fiscal year 2014 were randomized into two study arms. One group of 1,274 received only a personalized daughter-directed reminder leaflet for cervical cancer screening. In the second group of 1,274, the daughters and their mothers received a combination package containing the same reminder leaflet as did the first group, plus an additional informational leaflet for the mother, which requested that the mother recommend that her daughter undergo cervical cancer screening. The subsequent post-reminder screening rates of these two study arms were compared.Results: The cervical cancer screening rate of 20-year-old women whose mothers received the information leaflet was significantly higher than that for women who received only a leaflet for themselves (11% vs 9%, P = 0.0049).Conclusions: An intervention with mothers, by sending them a cervical cancer information leaflet with a request that they recommend that their daughter receive cervical cancer screening, significantly improved their daughters’ screening rate.
著者
Aya Tanaka Linka Koun Rei Haruyama Kyna Uy Maryan Chhit Lumpiny Kim Noriko Fujita Yutaka Osuga Tadashi Kimura Kanal Koum
出版者
National Center for Global Health and Medicine
雑誌
GHM Open (ISSN:2436293X)
巻号頁・発行日
pp.2023.01002, (Released:2023-06-18)
参考文献数
21

The clinical features of newly diagnosed cervical cancer in Cambodia are poorly documented. We aimed to describe the histologic type and stage distributions of newly diagnosed cervical cancer patients at the Khmer Soviet Friendship Hospital in Phnom Penh, which is one of the two national cancer centers in Cambodia. A descriptive cross-sectional study was conducted using the Gynecologic Test Registry of the gynecology department between January and December 2019. In 2019, 351 women were histologically diagnosed with cervical cancer, representing approximately one-third of the estimated total cases occurring in the country. The mean age at presentation was 54.7 years. The histologic type distribution was largely consistent with other Asian countries, with squamous cell carcinoma accounting for 83.8%, followed by adenocarcinoma (15.4%). Among 309 patients with recorded staging information, 57.6% were advanced-stage cancers (i.e. stage IIB or higher). Raising awareness of early symptoms of cervical cancer, increasing access to cancer diagnosis, and better recording of patients’ clinical information are important to improve cervical cancer management in Cambodia.
著者
Sachiko Baba Satoyo Ikehara Ehab S. Eshak Kimiko Ueda Tadashi Kimura Hiroyasu Iso
出版者
Japan Epidemiological Association
雑誌
Journal of Epidemiology (ISSN:09175040)
巻号頁・発行日
vol.33, no.5, pp.209-216, 2023-05-05 (Released:2023-05-05)
参考文献数
48
被引用文献数
8

Background: Postpartum depression (PPD) has been associated with adverse health outcomes, including maternal suicide. Mode of delivery has been suggested to be a risk factor for PPD, but no large cohort study has examined the association between mode of delivery and PPD. We aimed to examine the association between mode of delivery and risks of PPD at 1 and 6 months after childbirth.Methods: In a nationwide study of 89,954 mothers with a live singleton birth, we examined the association between mode of delivery and risks of PPD. PPD was evaluated using the Edinburgh Postnatal Depression Scale (≥13) at 1 and 6 months after childbirth. Odds ratios (ORs) with 95% confidence intervals (CIs) of PPD were calculated using multivariable logistic regression analyses after adjustment of antenatal physical, socioeconomic, and mental factors.Results: Among 89,954 women, 3.7% and 2.8% had PPD at 1 and 6 months after childbirth, respectively. Compared with unassisted vaginal delivery, cesarean section (CS) was marginally associated with PPD at 1 month but not at 6 months; adjusted ORs were 1.10 (95% CI, 1.00–1.21) and 1.01 (95% CI, 0.90–1.13), respectively. The association with PPD at 1 month was evident in women with antenatal psychological distress (adjusted OR 1.15; 95% CI, 1.03–1.28). The observed associations were attenuated after adjusting for infant feeding method.Conclusion: Women who had antenatal psychological distress and underwent CS delivery may be regarded as a target for monitoring PPD.
著者
Kanami Tanigawa Satoyo Ikehara Meishan Cui Yoko Kawanishi Tadashi Kimura Kimiko Ueda Kazumasa Yamagishi Hiroyasu Iso
出版者
Japan Epidemiological Association
雑誌
Journal of Epidemiology (ISSN:09175040)
巻号頁・発行日
vol.33, no.3, pp.113-119, 2023-03-05 (Released:2023-03-05)
参考文献数
42
被引用文献数
1

Background: Both short and long interpregnancy intervals (IPIs) have been associated with risk of preterm birth, but the evidence is limited in Asians. It is also uncertain whether the association is modified by dietary folate intake or folic acid supplementation during pregnancy. Thus, we examined associations between IPI and risk of preterm birth and effect modification of those associations by dietary intake of folate and supplementation with folic acid on the basis of a nationwide birth cohort study.Methods: Among 103,062 pregnancies registered in the Japan Environment and Children’s Study, 55,203 singleton live-birth pregnancies were included in the analysis. We calculated IPI using birth date, gestational age at birth of offspring, and birth data of the latest offspring. Odds ratios (ORs) and 95% confidence intervals (CIs) of the risk of preterm birth were estimated according to IPI categories.Results: Both <6-month and ≥120-month IPIs were associated with an increased risk of preterm birth, compared with an 18–23-month IPI. The multivariable ORs were 1.63 (95% CI, 1.30–2.04) for <6-month and 1.41 (95% CI, 1.11–1.79) for ≥120-month IPIs. These associations were confined to women with inadequate intake of dietary folate and folic acid supplementation during pregnancy. Multivariable ORs were 1.76 (95% CI, 1.35–2.29) for <6-month IPI and 1.65 (95% CI, 1.24–2.19) for ≥120-month IPI.Conclusion: Both <6-month and ≥120-month IPIs were associated with an increased risk of preterm birth. These higher risks were confined to women with inadequate intake of dietary folate and folic acid supplementation during pregnancy.
著者
Hisashi Takahashi Tadashi Kimura Natsuko Yuki Akira Yoshioka
出版者
The Japanese Society of Internal Medicine
雑誌
Internal Medicine (ISSN:09182918)
巻号頁・発行日
pp.8941-17, (Released:2017-11-01)
参考文献数
16
被引用文献数
4

A 79-year-old woman with a history of Guillain-Barré syndrome (GBS) developed somnolence and tetraparesis after pneumonia. Based on clinical and laboratory findings, she was diagnosed with complications of acute inflammatory demyelinating polyneuropathy (AIDP) and acute disseminated encephalomyelitis (ADEM). Anti-galactocerebroside (Gal-C) IgG antibodies were detected in her serum. Cases of recurrent GBS in patients who are positive for this antibody are extremely rare. The anti-Gal-C IgG antibodies likely played an important role in the pathogenesis of the AIDP and ADEM.
著者
Tomomi Egawa-Takata Yutaka Ueda Akiko Morimoto Yusuke Tanaka Asami Yagi Yoshito Terai Masahide Ohmichi Tomoyuki Ichimura Toshiyuki Sumi Hiromi Murata Hidetaka Okada Hidekatsu Nakai Masaki Mandai Shinya Matsuzaki Eiji Kobayashi Kiyoshi Yoshino Tadashi Kimura Junko Saito Yumiko Hori Eiichi Morii Tomio Nakayama Mikiko Asai-Sato Etsuko Miyagi Masayuki Sekine Takayuki Enomoto Yorihiko Horikoshi Tetsu Takagi Kentaro Shimura
出版者
Japan Epidemiological Association
雑誌
Journal of Epidemiology (ISSN:09175040)
巻号頁・発行日
vol.28, no.3, pp.156-160, 2018-03-05 (Released:2018-03-05)
参考文献数
14
被引用文献数
2 8

Background: In Japan, the rate of cervical cancer screening is remarkably low, especially among women in their twenties and thirties, when cervical cancer is now increasing dramatically. The aim of this study was to test whether a modified government reminder for 20-year-old women to engage in cervical cancer screening, acting through maternal education and by asking for a maternal recommendation to the daughter to receive the screening, could increase their participation rate.Methods: In two Japanese cities, 20-year-old girls who had not received their first cervical cancer screening before October of fiscal year 2014 were randomized into two study arms. One group of 1,274 received only a personalized daughter-directed reminder leaflet for cervical cancer screening. In the second group of 1,274, the daughters and their mothers received a combination package containing the same reminder leaflet as did the first group, plus an additional informational leaflet for the mother, which requested that the mother recommend that her daughter undergo cervical cancer screening. The subsequent post-reminder screening rates of these two study arms were compared.Results: The cervical cancer screening rate of 20-year-old women whose mothers received the information leaflet was significantly higher than that for women who received only a leaflet for themselves (11% vs 9%, P = 0.0049).Conclusions: An intervention with mothers, by sending them a cervical cancer information leaflet with a request that they recommend that their daughter receive cervical cancer screening, significantly improved their daughters’ screening rate.