Publications by authors named "Chisato Ito"
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- The study investigates the long-term effects of the COVID-19 pandemic on anxiety disorders in Germany, projecting prevalence rates up to 2030 for both men and women.* -
- Using a three-state illness-death model and historical data, the researchers estimate that without additional pandemic-related increases, approximately 3.86 million women and 2.13 million men will have anxiety disorders by 2030; with potential increases, those numbers could rise to 5.67 million women and 3.30 million men.* -
- The findings suggest that any rise in anxiety cases during the pandemic has lasting implications, highlighting the need for effective public health planning as more data becomes available.*
Introduction: Estimates of future disease burden supports public health decision-making. Multistate modeling of chronic diseases is still limited despite a long history of mathematical modeling of diseases. We introduce a discrete time approach to the illness-death model and a recursion formula, which can be utilized to project chronic disease burden.
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- CD8+ CD25+-activated cytotoxic T cells and anti-thyroglobulin antibodies play independent roles in the severity of Hashimoto's disease (HD).
- The study examined the +874A/T polymorphism in the IFN-gamma gene among various patient groups, finding that the +874T allele linked to higher IFN-gamma production was more frequent in patients with severe HD compared to those with mild HD.
- The +874T frequency difference was particularly significant in HD patients without anti-thyroglobulin antibodies, suggesting a possible genetic factor influencing the disease's severity.