著者

Nobuyuki Katsumata Daisuke Harama Takako Toda Yuto Sunaga Masashi Yoshizawa Yosuke Kono Yohei Hasebe Keiichi Koizumi Minako Hoshiai Tomohiro Saito Sho Hokibara Koji Kobayashi Miwa Goto Tomoaki Sano Makoto Tsuruta Makoto Nakamura Sonoko Mizorogi Masanori Ohta Mie Mochizuki Hiroki Sato Hiroshi Yokomichi Takeshi Inukai

出版者

Japan Epidemiological Association

雑誌

Journal of Epidemiology (ISSN:09175040)

巻号頁・発行日

vol.31, no.11, pp.573-580, 2021-11-05 (Released:2021-11-05)

参考文献数

42

被引用文献数

9

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Background: Kawasaki disease is suspected to be triggered by previous infection. The prevention measures for coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) have reportedly reduced transmission of certain infectious diseases. Under these circumstances, the prevention measures for COVID-19 may reduce the incidence of Kawasaki disease.Methods: We conducted a retrospective study using registration datasets of patients with Kawasaki disease who were diagnosed in all 11 inpatient pediatric facilities in Yamanashi Prefecture. The eligible cases were 595 cases that were diagnosed before the COVID-19 pandemic (from January 2015 through February 2020) and 38 cases that were diagnosed during the COVID-19 pandemic (from March through November 2020). Incidence of several infectious disease were evaluated using data from the Infectious Disease Weekly Report conducted by the National Institute of Infectious Diseases.Results: Epidemics of various infectious diseases generally remained at low levels during the first 9 months (March through November 2020) of the COVID-19 pandemic. Moreover, the incidence of COVID-19 was 50–80 times lower than the incidence in European countries and the United States. The total number of 38 cases with Kawasaki disease for the 9 months during the COVID-19 pandemic was 46.3% (−3.5 standard deviations [SDs] of the average [82.0; SD, 12.7 cases] for the corresponding 9 months of the previous 5 years. None of the 38 cases was determined to be triggered by COVID-19 based on their medical histories and negative results of severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2 testing at admission.Conclusion: These observations provide a new epidemiological evidence for the notion that Kawasaki disease is triggered by major infectious diseases in children.

著者

斉藤 知洋 Tomohiro SAITO

出版者

国立社会保障・人口問題研究所

雑誌

IPSS Working Paper Series = IPSS Working Paper Series (ISSN:24341207)

巻号頁・発行日

no.61, pp.1-19, 2022-03

著者

岩澤 美帆・守泉 理恵・釜野 さおり・余田 翔平・\n吉田 航・斉藤 知洋・別府 志海・是川 夕 Miho IWASAWA Rie MORIIZUMI Saori KAMANO Shohei\n YODA Wataru YOSHIDA Tomohiro SAITO Motomi BEPPU Yu KOREKAWA

出版者

国立社会保障・人口問題研究所

雑誌

人口問題研究 = Journal of Population Problems (ISSN:03872793)

巻号頁・発行日

vol.79, no.1, pp.89-99, 2023-03

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資料

著者

Tomohiro Saito Katsuhiko Tachibana Akira Shimatsu Noriyuki Katsumata Naomi Hizuka Kenji Fujieda Susumu Yokoya Toshiaki Tanaka

出版者

The Japanese Society for Pediatric Endocrinology

雑誌

Clinical Pediatric Endocrinology (ISSN:09185739)

巻号頁・発行日

vol.15, no.3, pp.79-84, 2006 (Released:2006-08-02)

参考文献数

8

被引用文献数

1 3

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Accurate and reliable determination of blood growth hormone level is essential in the diagnosis and treatment of short stature children. However, measured levels differed considerably among measurement kits available in Japan until 2003. Therefore, standardization of the measured values was attempted by measuring growth hormone levels in a sample of healthy adult individuals every year using the different kits. A standardization equation was developed for each kit through linear structural relationship with the mean values of the used kits and measured values in each kit as random variables. A Pearson's correlation coefficient between the mean values of all kits and the measured values from each kit was also obtained. Sources for the marked discrepancies amongst the measured values in the different kits were also explored. The obtained values for slopes and intercepts in the equations varied considerably, but the standard values obtained from these equations after the measured values for each kit were transformed into standard values served well as the standard. The standard solutions in the respective measurement kits were found to be the source of variability in the measured values among the kits.

著者

斉藤 知洋 Tomohiro SAITO

出版者

国立社会保障・人口問題研究所

雑誌

人口問題研究 = Journal of Population Problems (ISSN:03872793)

巻号頁・発行日

vol.79, no.1, pp.64-84, 2023-03

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研究論文

著者

Nobuyuki Katsumata Daisuke Harama Takako Toda Yuto Sunaga Masashi Yoshizawa Yosuke Kono Yohei Hasebe Keiichi Koizumi Minako Hoshiai Tomohiro Saito Sho Hokibara Koji Kobayashi Miwa Goto Tomoaki Sano Makoto Tsuruta Makoto Nakamura Sonoko Mizorogi Masanori Ohta Mie Mochizuki Hiroki Sato Hiroshi Yokomichi Takeshi Inukai

出版者

Japan Epidemiological Association

雑誌

Journal of Epidemiology (ISSN:09175040)

巻号頁・発行日

pp.JE20210132, (Released:2021-09-04)

参考文献数

42

被引用文献数

9

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Background: Kawasaki disease is suspected to be triggered by previous infection. The prevention measures for coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) have reportedly reduced transmission of certain infectious diseases. Under these circumstances, the prevention measures for COVID-19 may reduce the incidence of Kawasaki disease.Methods: We conducted a retrospective study using registration datasets of patients with Kawasaki disease who were diagnosed in all 11 inpatient pediatric facilities in Yamanashi Prefecture. The eligible cases were 595 cases that were diagnosed before the COVID-19 pandemic (from January 2015 through February 2020) and 38 cases that were diagnosed during the COVID-19 pandemic (from March through November 2020). Incidence of several infectious disease were evaluated using data from the Infectious Disease Weekly Report conducted by the National Institute of Infectious Diseases.Results: Epidemics of various infectious diseases generally remained at low levels during the first 9 months (March through November 2020) of the COVID-19 pandemic. Moreover, the incidence of COVID-19 was 50–80 times lower than the incidence in European countries and the United States. The total number of 38 cases with Kawasaki disease for the 9 months during the COVID-19 pandemic was 46.3% (−3.5 standard deviations [SDs] of the average [82.0; SD, 12.7 cases] for the corresponding 9 months of the previous 5 years. None of the 38 cases was determined to be triggered by COVID-19 based on their medical histories and negative results of severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2 testing at admission.Conclusion: These observations provide a new epidemiological evidence for the notion that Kawasaki disease is triggered by major infectious diseases in children.