Background: High blood pressure (BP) is linked to unhealthy lifestyles, and its treatment includes medications and exercise therapy. Many previous studies have evaluated the effects of exercise on BP improvement; however, exercise requires securing a location, time, and staff, which can be challenging in clinical settings. The antihypertensive effects of dance exercise for patients with hypertension have already been verified, and it has been found that adherence and dropout rates are better compared to other forms of exercise.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFBACKGROUND Mondor's disease (MD), or sclerosing superficial thrombophlebitis of the veins of the anterior thoracic wall, is a rare condition of unknown cause that usually involves the superior epigastric vein, producing a visible and palpable Mondor cord. This report describes a 27-year-old Japanese woman presenting with left chest wall pain due to palpable and visible sclerosing superficial thrombophlebitis. CASE REPORT We present the case of a 27-year-old Japanese woman who presented with 8 days of left chest wall and upper abdominal pain.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFIntroduction: The SARS-CoV-2 pandemic has had a widespread and severe impact on society, yet there have also been instances of remarkable recovery, even in critically ill patients.
Materials And Methods: In this study, we used single-cell RNA sequencing to analyze the immune responses in recovered and deceased COVID-19 patients during moderate and critical stages.
Results: Expanded T cell receptor (TCR) clones were predominantly SARS-CoV-2-specific, but represented only a small fraction of the total repertoire in all patients.
Background: Exercise prescription by physicians is beneficial for initiating or intensifying physical activity. However, providing specific exercise prescriptions is challenging; therefore, few physicians prescribe exercise.
Objective: This infodemiological study aimed to understand trends in exercise-related internet search keywords based on sex, age, and environmental factors to help doctors prescribe exercise more easily.
Early childhood lays the foundation for many outcomes in later life. Recent studies suggest that early childhood development may contribute to lifestyle-related diseases such as obesity, type 2 diabetes, and cardiovascular disease in adulthood; however, there have been few investigations on this association among adults in Japan. Therefore, we examined the relationship between recent physical measurements in adults who underwent health checkups at our university and their physical measurements at birth and during infancy recorded in the Maternal and Child Health Handbook.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFThis paper presents an interpretation of artificial intelligence (AI)-generated depictions of the present and future of general medicine in Japan. Using text inputs, the AI tool generated fictitious images based on neural network analyses. We believe that our study makes a significant contribution to the literature because the direction of general medicine in Japan has long been unclear, despite constant discussion.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFBackground: Research has found a COVID-19 pandemic-related impact on HIV medical services, including clinic visits, testing, and antiviral therapy initiation in countries including Japan. However, the change in trend for HIV/AIDS testing during the COVID-19 pandemic has not been explored extensively in the Japanese population.
Objective: This infodemiology study examines the web-based search interest for two types of HIV tests, self-test kits and facility-based tests, before and during the COVID-19 pandemic in Japan.
Prolonged symptoms that occur after COVID-19 (long-COVID) vary from mild, which do not interfere with daily life, to severe, which require long-term social support. This study assessed the secular trend in online searches on long-COVID in Japan. We conducted an observational study using data provided by Yahoo! JAPAN on the monthly search volume of query terms related to long-COVID from January 2020 to December 2022, including the search volume of the query "コロナ" (long-COVID in Japanese).
View Article and Find Full Text PDFAim: A predictive rule for risk factors for mortality due to ()bacteremia has not been defined, especially using the chi-square automatic interaction detector (CHAID) decision tree analysis. Here we aimed to create the predictive rule for risk factors for in-hospital mortality due to bacteremia.
Methods: The outcome of this retrospective cross-sectional survey was death in the hospital due to bacteremia.
There has been a decreasing trend in new severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2 (SARS-CoV-2) cases and fatalities worldwide. The virus has been evolving, indicating the potential emergence of new variants and uncertainties. These challenges necessitate continued efforts in disease control and mitigation strategies.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFBackground: In this study, we aimed to identify predictive factors for coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) patients with complicated pneumonia and determine which COVID-19 patients should undergo computed tomography (CT) using classification and regression tree (CART) analysis.
Methods: This retrospective cross-sectional survey was conducted at a university hospital. We recruited patients diagnosed with COVID-19 between January 1 and December 31, 2020.
Introduction: Risk factors for severe COVID-19 associated with people living with HIV (PLWH) have not been well studied in Japan. In this study, we aim to reveal how having AIDS and comorbidities affect adverse COVID-19 outcomes.
Methods: This observational, retrospective study examined the clinical outcomes for PLWH hospitalized as COVID-19 inpatients in Japan, using data extracted from hospitals with the Diagnosis Procedure Combination (DPC) system between January 2020 and December 2021.
Objectives: Differences in demographic factors, symptoms, and laboratory data between bacterial and non-bacterial arthritis have not been defined. We aimed to identify predictors of bacterial arthritis, excluding synovial testing.
Methods: This retrospective cross-sectional survey was performed at a university hospital.
CO2 insufflation has proven effective in reducing patients’ pain after colonoscopies but has not been examined in esophagogastroduodenoscopies. Therefore, we examined the effect of CO2 insufflation in examinees who underwent transnasal endoscopies without sedation. This study is a single-center, prospective, double-blind, case-control trial conducted between March 2017 and August 2018.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFObjective: The characteristic features, including blood test data, of the novel coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) versus influenza have not been defined. We therefore compared the clinical parameters, including blood test data, of COVID-19 and influenza.
Methods: This retrospective cross-sectional survey was conducted at Juntendo University Nerima Hospital.
A 40-year-old man presented at our hospital with anaemia that had been undiagnosed for 2 years. Blood tests, endoscopy, and contrast-enhanced computed tomography were performed, but a definitive diagnosis could not be made. A subsequent bone marrow biopsy revealed basophilic stippling in transformed red blood cells, which led to a differential diagnosis of lead poisoning.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFObjective: This study was performed to identify predictive factors for bacteremia among patients with pyelonephritis using a chi-square automatic interaction detector (CHAID) decision tree analysis model.
Methods: This retrospective cross-sectional survey was performed at Juntendo University Nerima Hospital, Tokyo, Japan and included all patients with pyelonephritis from whom blood cultures were taken. At the time of blood culture sample collection, clinical information was extracted from the patients' medical charts, including vital signs, symptoms, laboratory data, and culture results.
As the first authorized COVID-19 vaccine in Japan, the BNT162b2 mRNA COVID-19 vaccine is utilized for mass vaccination. Although efficacy has been proved, real-world evidence on reactogenicity in Japanese personnel is needed to prepare the public. Healthcare workers in a large academic hospital in Japan received two doses of the Pfizer-BioNTech vaccine from March 17 to May 19, 2021.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFEvidence to assess relationships between subcutaneous fat area (SFA) and lifestyle-related diseases, including hypertension, remains limited. The aim of this study was to investigate the relationship between SFA and hypertension. This study was a single-institution, cross-sectional study of 1,899 eligible Japanese participants who underwent health checkups between December 2016 and December 2018.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFBackground: The impact of subcutaneous fat accumulation remains controversial. This study assessed the association between visceral or subcutaneous fat area (VFA and SFA, respectively) and diabetes mellitus (DM) among Japanese subjects.
Methods: This was a cross-sectional study involving 1907 eligible participants (men, 1050; women, 857) who participated in a voluntary health check-up conducted at Juntendo University Hospital from January 2017 to December 2018, in Tokyo, Japan.
Background: Some previous studies have shown reduced levels of plasma B-type natriuretic peptide (BNP) in individuals with obesity. We aimed to estimate the relationship between BNP and abdominal fat distribution, adjusted for confounding factors.
Methods: This cross-sectional study included 1806 Japanese individuals (981 men and 825 women) who underwent a medical health check-up.
Background: Studies that have examined serum zinc deficiency/marginal deficiency in developed countries, including Japan, are still limited. The aim of this study was to assess serum zinc concentrations and associated characteristics among Japanese subjects.
Methods: This cross-sectional study, conducted from September 2016 to December 2018, included 2056 eligible subjects who participated in a voluntary health checkup.
Early treatment of HIV relies on a timely detection of the infection, but many people living with HIV/AIDS are unaware of their infection. In the current study, we applied an electronic medical records (EMR)-based alert system flagging high-risk patients previously diagnosed with infections of syphilis, hepatitis A virus, hepatitis B virus, and/or hepatitis C virus, and those aged 20-50 years with a prior diagnosis of shingles. During the study period (April to October 2019), a total of 47 individuals among 22,264 patients visiting our department were identified as having high-risk of carrying HIV, and 14 of these individuals underwent HIV testing.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFAbacavir/lamivudine (ABC/3TC) is a nucleoside reverse transcriptase inhibitor used for treating human immunodeficiency viral (HIV) infections. Hypersensitivity reactions such as skin eruptions caused by ABC are well-known, but rarely occur in Asians. Raltegravir (RAL) is an integrase strand transfer inhibitor, that is now increasingly, used for treating HIV infections because it has few adverse effects.
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