Work Environment-related Stress Factors are Correlated with Diabetes Development in Workers with Impaired Glucose Tolerance: A 5-year Follow-up Study Using the Brief Job Stress Questionnaire (BJSQ).

Several previous studies have investigated the effects of occupational stress on the onset of diabetes mellitus (DM), but there are few studies of occupational stress and DM using the Brief Job Stress Questionnaire (BJSQ), a standard stress check method in Japan. This study aimed to determine the relationship between occupational stress factors and the onset of DM using the BJSQ. We examined 6,620 male company workers aged 40 years and above in 2013, using the BJSQ.

[Generalized erythema triggered by a rapid decrease of basophils in chronic myeloid leukemia treated with imatinib].

A 57-year-old woman with chronic myeloid leukemia showing severe basophilia (WBC 17.1 X 10(9)/L, basophils 23%) was treated with 400mg imatinib in June 2003. A high basophil count (WBC 10.