Publications by authors named "Y Shimazaki"
Influence of Type of Dental Visit on the Incidence of COVID-19 and Related Hospitalisation Among Older People in Japan.
Int J Environ Res Public Health
December 2024
In 2020, the coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) pandemic began worldwide. We examined the association between dental visit status and the incidence of COVID-19 and hospitalisation for it among older people based on medical claims data to help reduce COVID-19 severity. The study included 170,232 people who were 75-85 years old in fiscal 2019, with fiscal 2020 and 2021 serving as the follow-up period to ascertain the status of COVID-19.
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- - Waterpipe tobacco smoking (WTS), popular among young Americans, carries serious health risks similar to traditional cigarette smoking, prompting a study of its promotion on social media.
- - Researchers collected over 4.8 million tweets related to waterpipes from March 2021 to March 2023, discovering 23,803 promotional tweets that trend toward decreasing activity over time, mostly concentrated later in the day.
- - The analysis revealed that a majority of promotional content focused on hookah lounges and parties, highlighting the need for regulatory measures and public health education to combat the promotion of WTS on social media.
Background: In questionnaire surveys, questions about self-reported number of teeth (SRNT) are often used as a measure oral health. This study investigated the validity of SRNT in older Japanese people.
Methods: In total, 4984 75- and 80-year-old patients who underwent dental examinations were enrolled.
Time series analysis of overwintering cereals in snowy areas has revealed several phenological patterns associated with climate changes in winter. Herein, to investigate the recent effect of climatic variations on overwintering cereals, we investigated the phenology over multiple decades at three snowy region sites with an air temperature (T) increase trend of 0.48-1.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFThis study investigates the genomic characteristics of canine and feline cefotaxime (CTX, a third-generation cephalosporin)-resistant Escherichia coli using the JVARM, Japanese Veterinary Antimicrobial Resistance Monitoring System, a nationwide monitoring. In this study, whole-genome sequencing (WGS) was performed on 51 canine and 45 feline CTX-resistant E. coli isolates, with certain isolates subjected to pulsed-field gel electrophoresis with S1 nuclease for plasmid-chromosome separation.
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