Publications by authors named "M Igawa"
Recently, non-invasive hemoglobin measurement (SpHb) using Pulse CO-Oximeter Rad-67™ Spot-check (Rad-67) has been validated although anemia diagnosis typically relies on blood hemoglobin concentration measurement. In this large-scale survey of Japanese children aged 1-5 years, we evaluated SpHb distribution to understand the prevalence of suspected anemia, and further examined the relationship between SpHb and background factors. Children were recruited from large retail stores in Japan between November 2022 and August 2023.
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- A study investigates how a mother's experience of childhood abuse impacts her child's temperament, focusing on factors like self-objectification and body boundaries.
- The research involved 440 women shortly after childbirth, with assessments of maternal history and infant temperament taken three months later.
- Results showed that mothers’ self-objectification and feelings of disrupted body boundaries mediated the links between their childhood abuse and their infants’ emotional responses and regulation abilities.
Idiopathic pulmonary fibrosis (IPF) is a diagnosis of exclusion, requiring that potential etiologies of interstitial lung disease be ruled out. Antinuclear antibody (ANA) testing is commonly performed in individuals with IPF, but the clinical significance of ANA positivity remains uncertain. A retrospective search identified 161 patients diagnosed with IPF between May 2010 and January 2021.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFIntroduction: The aim of this study was to estimate the time to pregnancy and live birth and evaluate the effect of weight regain in women with a history of bariatric surgery (BS) who underwent in vitro fertilization (IVF) treatments.
Methods: This is a retrospective cohort study. All patients with previous BS who underwent IVF treatment in a tertiary university-affiliated hospital between 2013 and 2022 were included.