Risk Factors for Prolonged Hospital Stay after Endoscopy.

Background/aims: The recovery room used after endoscopy has limited capacity, and an efficient flow of the endoscopy unit is desired. We investigated the duration of hospital stay after endoscopy and the risk factors for prolonged hospital stay among outpatients.

Methods: We retrospectively studied consecutive patients who underwent esophagogastroduodenoscopy or colonoscopy at the Toyoshima Endoscopy Clinic.

Relationship between smoking and a new index of arterial stiffness, the cardio-ankle vascular index, in male workers: a cross-sectional study.

Background: Cigarette smoking is one of the major factors that increases arterial stiffness. The purpose of this study was to examine further the relationship between smoking status and arterial stiffness using a new index, the cardio-ankle vascular index (CAVI), in male Japanese workers.

Methods: This cross-sectional study included 4,729 male Japanese workers undergoing annual health checkups.

Detection of exaggerated blood pressure response using laboratory of physical science protocol and risk of future hypertension.

Objective: To assess the usefulness of the Laboratory of Physical Science (LOPS) protocol for detecting exaggerated blood pressure (BP) response as a risk factor for future hypertension when controlling for work and personal factors.

Methods: Subjects were 815 healthy normotensive men (mean age, 43.1 ± 6.

Estimation method of finger tapping dynamics using simple magnetic detection system.

We have developed the simple estimation method of a finger tapping dynamics model for investigating muscle resistance and stiffness during tapping movement in normal subjects. We measured finger tapping movements of 207 normal subjects using a magnetic finger tapping detection system. Each subject tapped two fingers in time with a metronome at 1, 2, 3, 4, and 5 Hz.

Visceral fat area and markers of insulin resistance in relation to colorectal neoplasia.

Objective: Although abdominal obesity and related metabolic abnormalities are hypothesized to promote colorectal carcinogenesis, direct confirmation of this effect is required. Here, we examined the relation of early-stage colorectal neoplasia to visceral fat area and markers of insulin resistance.

Research Design And Methods: Subjects were participants in a comprehensive health screening conducted at the Hitachi Health Care Center, Ibaraki, Japan.