Association of Mammary Gland Disease With Metabolic Syndrome Factors in Japanese Women-Case-Control Study Based on Health Screening Results.

Background: The association of obesity with breast cancer is clear. Although body mass index (BMI) is used as an indicator of obesity, its accuracy remains questionable. Although, there factors for diagnosing metabolic syndrome are caused by obesity, the association with breast cancer has not been clarified.

Poor survival of dialysis patients with unhealed wounds because of critical limb ischemia: Limb salvage and survival requires wound healing.

Maintenance of blood flow in the wound area is required to heal wounds of critical limb ischemia (CLI) in dialysis patients. However, many dialysis patients have both a stenotic lesion in below-knee blood vessels and a cardiovascular event as complications, and thus, it may be difficult to ensure sufficient blood flow. Therefore, many deaths occur because of problems with wound healing.

Use of Beta-Blockers on Maintenance Dialysis Patients and Ischemic Cerebral and Cardiovascular Deaths: An Examination Using Propensity Score.

Beta-blockers are frequently used in dialysis patients because of their cardioprotective properties. However, the effect of beta-blockers on reducing dialysis mortality has not been sufficiently examined to date. Thus, we sought to examine the effects on cardiovascular prognosis of beta-blockers using our outpatient dialysis database.

Efficacy of antihistamines on mortality in patients receiving maintenance hemodialysis: an observational study using propensity score matching.

Antihistamines are widely used to treat pruritus in patients receiving hemodialysis. In a previous cross-sectional study, we reported an association between antihistamine use and the absence of eccentric cardiac hypertrophy in patients receiving hemodialysis. Therefore, in this study, we sought to evaluate the efficacy of antihistamines on all-cause and cardiovascular mortality in patients receiving hemodialysis according to our outpatient dialysis database.

Prediction of Development of Critical Limb Ischemia in Hemodialysis Patients.

Hemodialysis (HD) patients with critical limb ischemia (CLI) suffer chronic inflammation and repeated infection, require intervention, and may have a protracted hospital stay. Therefore, early prediction is particularly important for management of CLI in patients with suspected peripheral artery disease. The purpose of this study is to develop a simple score for predicting the incidence of CLI in HD patients with suspected peripheral artery disease.

Left atrial dilatation and ST-T changes predict cardiovascular outcome in chronic hemodialysis patients.

The left atrium (LA) is afterload-sensitive, meaning that it responds to changes in left ventricular diastolic pressure, and left atrial volumetric remodeling has been reported. We prospectively examined the effects of LA enlargement and ST-T changes on cardiovascular outcome of chronic hemodialysis (HD) patients. Echocardiography was performed twice, a mean interval of 2.

The use of H1-receptor antagonists and left ventricular remodeling in patients on chronic hemodialysis.

Suppression of left ventricular (LV) remodeling secondary to heart failure seems critical to improve the prognosis of hemodialysis (HD) patients. This is a retrospective study on the relationship of an antiallergic drug and antihistamines with LV hypertrophy. A total of 149 patients (88 males and 61 females) were entered in the study.

PEG with introducer or pull method: a prospective randomized comparison.

Background: PEG by the conventional pull method has the potential drawback of being associated with a higher frequency of wound infection, presumably caused by contamination of the gastrostomy catheter as it passes through the oral cavity. This study investigated the occurrence of peristomal wound infection after PEG placement by using the pull and introducer techniques.

Methods: Between September 1999 and May 2002, consecutive patients with dysphagia for whom PEG was recommended were enrolled in the study and randomly assigned to two groups: PEG with the introducer method (Group I) or PEG with the pull method (Group II).