Assessment of associations between ischaemic attacks in patients with type 2 diabetes mellitus and air concentrations of particulate matter <2.5 μm.

Objective: To investigate the relationship between air concentrations of fine particulate matter <2.5 µm in diameter (PM2.5) and ischaemic attacks in high-risk elderly patients (aged ≥60 years).

"Quartile" screening method to analyze the relationship between HIS and "AEROS" in Japan.

Atmospheric pollution affects the health through complex mechanisms and to varying degrees. However, even by secondary usage of retrospective HIS and "AEROS" data, screening can be performed for specific ICD10 diseases caused by environmental factors. Our screening method showed good agreement with doctors' common knowledge on the relationship between atmospheric data and disease.

Relationship between environment factors and the number of outpatient visits at a clinic for nonallergic rhinitis in Japan, extracted from electronic medical records.

Background: The objective of this study was to evaluate the influence of the environmental factors (meteorological factors, air pollutant levels, etc.) on the number of clinic consultations for nonallergic rhinitis (NAR).

Methods: Among the 9056 outpatients visiting a general internal medicine clinic in Japan between August 2012 and the end of July 2013 (counting return visitors as multiple cases), the total daily number of first visits for NAR plus the number of extraordinary visits by patients with NAR for acute exacerbation of the disease was investigated using electronic medical records and analyzed.

Beneficial effect of complementary alternative medicine on lymphedema with rheumatoid arthritis.

Lymphedema of the limbs can be an added complication in a small number of rheumatoid arthritis cases, becoming a long-standing problem even when there is good control of inflammatory joint disease. In the present article, we describe a patient with RA who developed lymph-edema of the forearms successfully treated with TJ-48 (Juzentaihoto) as a complementary alternative medicine (CAM). This kind of edema does not seem to show any consistent relationship with the severity of arthritis in the literature surveyed.

In long-term bedridden elderly patients with dietary copper deficiency, biochemical markers of bone resorption are increased with copper supplementation during 12 weeks.

Background: Although the effect of copper on bone has been tested in animals and healthy subjects, no studies concerning the effect of copper supplementation on bone metabolism in patients with copper deficiency have been reported because of the rarity of these patients. This study was conducted to investigate the effect of copper supplementation on bone metabolism in copper-deficient patients.

Method: This study included 10 patients (83.

[Relationships among urine pH, serum uric acid and pyuria in hospitalized elderly patients].

To identify risk factors of urinary tract infection (UTI) in geriatric patients, the levels of serum uric acid, serum creatinine, and urine pH were compared between pyuria-positive and -negative patients in a geriatric ward. The level of serum uric acid was higher with lower urine pH level in the pyuria-negative patients than in positive patients. The level of serum creatinine was relatively higher in the pyuria-negative patients than in the positive patients.