Relationship between Alcohol Intake and Stroke Severity in Japanese Patients: a Sex- and Subtype-Stratified Analysis.

Objectives: This study aims to clarify the association between alcohol intake and stroke severity at admission and discharge according to sex and stroke subtype in Japanese patients with acute stroke.

Materials And Methods: We analyzed the data of 199,599 patients registered in the Japan Stroke Data Bank from 1999 to 2018, including sex, age, stroke subtypes (cardioembolic ischemic, noncardioembolic ischemic, hypertensive hemorrhagic, nonhypertensive hemorrhagic, and subarachnoid hemorrhagic), dates of onset and admission, National Institutes of Health Stroke Scale score at admission, modified Rankin Scale score at discharge, and alcohol intake. Multivariable logistic regression analysis adjusted for stroke-related factors was performed to estimate the odds ratios of alcohol intake for stroke severity.

Erectile dysfunction in young patients and elderly patients by sexual encounter profile: A comparative study.

Objective: Demand for erectile dysfunction treatments has increased not only in elderly patients but also in young patients. Reports indicate that frequent causes of erectile dysfunction in Japan are organic disorders in elderly patients and psychogenetic disorders in young patients.

Methods: We defined patients under the age of 40 as young erectile dysfunction patients, and those over 65 as elderly erectile dysfunction patients.

Depth Perception with a Newly Developed Microscope Stereotest.

Purpose: We aimed to compare the depth perception under a microscope between binocular and monocular conditions using a newly developed microscopic stereotest (M-stereotest) and examine the effect of anisometropia on depth perception under a microscope.

Subjects And Methods: Thirty young and healthy subjects were examined. A manipulator attached with a stainless wire was placed under the objective lens of a stereomicroscope.

Relationships between Alcohol Intake and Ischemic Stroke Severity in Sex Stratified Analysis for Japanese Acute Stroke Patients.

Background: The aim of this study is to evaluate in the relationships between alcohol intake and ischemic stroke severity in Japanese stroke patients.

Methods: Of a total of 101,165 registered cases of stroke in Japan, patient data of total strokes (n = 60,836), cardiogenic strokes (n = 11,894), and noncardiogenic strokes (n = 29,129) were extracted. The National Institutes of Health Stroke Scale (NIHSS) score at admission and the modified Rankin Scale (mRS) score at discharge were used.