Effectiveness and Safety of Rehabilitation for Pediatric Patients with Nephrotic Syndrome in the Acute Phase: A Case Study.

Background: Exercise therapy for patients with pediatric nephrotic syndrome is necessary to improve physical function to maintain the patient's activities of daily life and school life while managing the risk of relapse; however, few studies have examined exercise therapy in the acute phase of the syndrome. This case study aimed to evaluate the efficacy and safety of exercise therapy in a patient with acute pediatric nephrotic syndrome being treated with steroids.

Case: The patient was a 10-year-old boy diagnosed with primary nephrotic syndrome.

Preoperative urinary tract obstruction in scoliosis patients.

Background: While the association between scoliosis and cardiac and respiratory function impairments has been well characterized in clinical practice and research, the potential effect of scoliosis on urinary tract structure and renal function has received little attention. Therefore, the purpose of this study was to evaluate the preoperative clinical characteristics of urinary tract structure and renal function in pediatric patients with idiopathic scoliosis, using a combination of blood tests, urinalysis, and imaging.

Methods: Preoperative measures of urinary tract structure and renal function were obtained for 16 patients, 13-17 years old, scheduled for corrective surgery for idiopathic scoliosis.

[Effects of age, period, and cohort on the trends in obesity rate and energy intake ratio from fat in Japanese adults].

Objectives: In the present study, we aimed to clarify the specific effects of age, period, and cohort on trends in obesity rate and energy intake ratio from fat in Japanese adults using a Bayesian age-period-cohort (APC) analysis and to evaluate the relationship between changes in obesity rate and energy intake ratio from fat.

Methods: We obtained data regarding obesity rate and calorie intake of fat, animal fat, carbohydrate, protein, animal protein, and total energy intake of Japanese adults from the National Nutrition Survey. The data were tabulated for five 10-year age groups (from 20-29 years to 60-69 years) and 17 annual demographic profiles (from 1995 to 2011), with regard to the energy intake ratio.

Liver injury due to 3-amino-1-methyl-5h-pyrido [4,3-b] indole (Trp-P-2) and its prevention by miso.

Trp-P-2(3-amino-1-methyl-5H-pyrido [4,3-b] indole) ingestion for 42 d by C3H/HeJJcl mice caused elevation of serum alanine transaminase (ALT) activity and several signs of liver injury. These alterations were not observed in mice fed the diet supplemented with 10% miso. This suggests a preventive effect of miso as to Trp-P-2 induced liver injury.

DNA adduct and tumor formations in rats after intratracheal administration of the urban air pollutant 3-nitrobenzanthrone.

3-Nitrobenzanthrone (3-NBA) has been isolated from diesel exhaust and airborne particles and identified as a potent direct-acting mutagen in vitro and genotoxic agent in vivo. In order to evaluate the in vivo toxicity and carcinogenicity of 3-NBA in a situation corresponding to inhalation, a combined short-term and lifetime study with intratracheal (i.t.

White coat effect and white coat hypertension in pediatric patients.

We evaluated the prevalence of white coat (WC) effect in pediatric age patients and that of white coat hypertension (WCH) in hypertensive pediatric patients. Two hundred and six patients (136 normotensive and 70 hypertensive patients, 107 boys and 99 girls, aged 6-25 years, mean 13.4, SD 4.