Sex difference in the association between surrogate markers of insulin resistance and arterial stiffness.

Aims: To investigate the predictive capability of insulin resistance surrogate markers for insulin resistance and arterial stiffness based on sex.

Methods: We assessed the association of triglyceride glucose (TyG) index, triglyceride to high-density lipoprotein cholesterol ratio (TG/HDL-C), visceral adiposity index (VAI), and lipid accumulation product (LAP) with homeostasis model assessment-insulin resistance (HOMA-IR) and brachial-ankle pulse wave velocity (baPWV) in both sexes.

Results: A total of 1720 men and 1098 women were evaluated.

Synergistic Effects of 1 h Post-Load Plasma Glucose and Smoking on Arterial Stiffness in Apparently Healthy Men: A Cross-sectional Study.

Aim: One-hour post-load plasma glucose (1h-PG) during an oral glucose tolerance test and smoking are associated with arterial stiffness. However, it remains unknown whether there are synergistic effects of these two factors on arterial stiffness. This study aimed to investigate the interaction between 1h-PG and smoking in relation to brachial-ankle pulse wave velocity (baPWV) in young men with normal glucose tolerance (NGT).

[Use of a pamphlet to encourage individuals to eat slowly to help reduce the development of metabolic syndrome].

Objectives: We examined how distributing a pamphlet that encourages individuals to eat food slowly can help reduce the development of metabolic syndrome among workers who regularly undergo health checkups in the workplace.

Methods: We prepared an educational dietary pamphlet that provided information on reducing the speed of eating and the importance of eating slowly and distributed it to C municipal officials who visited their workplace clinic for a medical checkup in 2013. We calculated the odds ratio (OR) for the development of metabolic syndrome (MetS) and obesity, defined as having a body mass index (BMI) of 25 kg/m or greater, by comparing workers before and after the pamphlet distribution.

Association between 1-h post-load plasma glucose levels and arterial stiffness in normotensive subjects with normal glucose tolerance.

Objective: To investigate the relationship between 1-h post-load plasma glucose, measured during an oral glucose tolerance test, and arterial stiffness, determined by brachial-ankle pulse-wave velocity, in normotensive subjects with normal glucose tolerance.

Methods: Study subjects were non-industrial workers aged 25-55 years ( n = 8381) who underwent a regular health check-up every 5 years. We included only normotensive subjects with normal glucose tolerance based on the American Diabetes Association criteria.

Prevalence of arrhythmias and conduction disturbances in large population-based samples of children.

The aim of our study is to provide data on the prevalence of disturbances of rhythm in the general population of children. Accurate estimates of true prevalence of such disturbances of rhythm from large samples are mandatory if we are to interpret properly electrocardiographic abnormalities. We analysed prevalence of disturbances of rhythm in a population of 152,322, comprised of 71,855 elementary school students, 36,692 males and 35,163 females, aged from 5 to 6 years, and 80,467 students of junior high school, 41,842 males and 38,625 females, aged from 12 to 13 years.

[Problems about tuberculin skin test raised from consultations and countermeasures--influence to the interpretation of tuberculin skin test in case of the stoppage of BCG revaccination abolition and the introduction of induration measurement].

Since people have very limited access to informations on TB, Chiba Anti-TB Association started "Chiba Kekkaku Dial 110", free TB consultation service through telephone, fax and e-mail, since October 1997. We received 1453 consultations during three years by September 2000. The most frequent consultations was about tuberculin skin test (TST) that amounted to 383, 26.

[Tuberculosis control of construction workers living in Hanba].

Construction workers living in temporal quarters, HANBA, rarely have opportunity to receive the routine health screening program such as that for general inhabitants organized by the local government or that for permanent employees by the employer. Long delay in detecting TB and high drop-out rate from TB treatment among them have been reported. We carried out the following interventions to cope with the problems: In 1999 and 2000, we organized TB screening with X-ray and further examination in the same day when necessary among workers in 6 HANBA in Chiba City.

Measurement of aortic diameters and detection of asymptomatic aortic aneurysms in a mass screening program using a mobile helical computed tomography unit.

In a mass chest computed tomography (CT) screening using a mobile helical CT unit, we measured the aortic diameter at three segments to confirm standard values and also attempted to detect any asymptomatic aortic aneurysms. The population screened in the present study consisted of 6971 subjects (3847 men and 3124 women, mean age 60.3 +/- 12.