Publications by authors named "Haruyo Yasui"
Article Synopsis
- - The study aimed to identify social determinants of health (SDOH) that contribute to health inequities experienced by Japanese patients with cardiovascular diseases (CVD).
- - An online survey of 2,083 CVD patients revealed high agreement on seven key SDOH factors, including employment, food insecurity, and poverty, which were linked to perceived health inequities.
- - Factors such as younger age, higher income, and education levels were associated with a greater perception of these health inequities, indicating that similar SDOH issues seen in Western countries also affect Japanese CVD patients.
In Japan, cerebrovascular diseases and cardiovascular diseases (CVDs) are major causes of death and long-term care. Against this, the Cerebrovascular and Cardiovascular Disease Control Act was passed by a legislative body and promulgated in December 2018, and enacted on December 1, 2019. Based on the Japanese National Plan for Promotion of Measures Against Cerebrovascular and Cardiovascular Disease (Japanese National Plan), prefectural plans have been formulated and published from March 2021 to January 2023.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFBackground: Despite the importance of implementing the concept of social determinants of health (SDOH) in the clinical practice of cardiovascular disease (CVD), the tools available to assess SDOH have not been systematically investigated. We conducted a scoping review for tools to assess SDOH and comprehensively evaluated how these tools could be applied in the field of CVD.
Methods and results: We conducted a systematic literature search of PubMed and Embase databases on July 25, 2023.
Background: The sympathetic nervous system is critical in maintaining the normal physiological function of the heart. Its dysfunction in pathological states may exacerbate the substrate for arrhythmias. Obviously, knowledge of its three-dimensional (3D) structure is important, however, it has been revealed by conventional methods only to a limited extent.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFEngineering of three-dimensional (3D) cardiac tissues using decellularized extracellular matrix could be a new technique to create an "organ-like" structure of the heart. To engineer artificial hearts functionally comparable to native hearts, however, much remain to be solved including stable excitation-propagation. To elucidate the points, we examined conduction properties of engineered tissues.
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