129 results match your criteria: "Aichi Prefectural University[Affiliation]"

Background: It is critical to age successfully for general health considering the aging of the global population. Successful aging is an important indicator to assess whether older individuals are experiencing a healthy life and high-quality aging. This study aimed to explore the longitudinal relationship between the frequency and number of participation in leisure activities and the maintenance of successful aging.

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Unlabelled: Watanabe N, Kamakura Y, Fukada J. Esophageal speech training system and needs for esophageal speech training in a laryngectomy patient association in Japan. Jpn J Compr Rehabil Sci 2024; 15: 17-26.

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The authors aimed to explore the association between anthropometric indicators and cognitive function and determine which aspects of anthropometric indicators are most closely related to cognitive function. A sum of 3269 older women were included in this study. Body mass index (BMI), waist circumference, hip circumference, calf circumference, and waist-to-hip ratio were obtained to reflect anthropometric indicators.

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Independent and combined associations of depression and cognitive impairment with frailty in oldest-old adults.

BMC Psychol

September 2024

Faculty of Sports Science, Ningbo University, No. 818 Fenghua Road, Jiangbei District, Ningbo, 315211, Zhejiang, China.

Background: Frailty is one of the most significant issues related to human aging. Although studies have confirmed the association of mental and cognitive disorders with frailty, the association might be influenced by age, since oldest-old adults are more likely to have adverse health outcomes. Thus, this study aimed to examine independent and combined associations of mental health and cognitive function with frailty in oldest-old adults using data from the Chinese Longitudinal Healthy Longevity Survey in 2018.

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Breakfast skipping suppresses the vascular endothelial function of the brachial artery after lunch.

J Appl Physiol (1985)

November 2024

Department of Exercise Science and Physiology, School of Health Sciences, Prefectural University of Hiroshima, Hiroshima, Japan.

Breakfast skipping has been suggested to be associated with cardiovascular diseases. However, whether breakfast skipping affects vascular endothelial function (VEF), a marker of cardiovascular diseases, remains unclear. This study aimed to investigate the impact of breakfast consumption (Eating trial) and skipping (Skipping trial) on brachial artery (BA) VEF in healthy breakfast eaters.

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Deep-learning-based methods can improve robustness against individual variations in computed tomography (CT) images of the sternocleidomastoid muscle, which is a challenge when using conventional methods based on probabilistic atlases are used for automatic segmentation. Thus, this study proposes a novel multiclass learning approach for the joint segmentation of the sternocleidomastoid and skeletal muscles in CT images, and it employs a two-dimensional U-Net architecture. The proposed method concurrently learns and segmented segments the sternocleidomastoid muscle and the entire skeletal musculature.

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Objectives: To compare the characteristic competencies of public health nurses working for the older adult's health and welfare in public administration ("PA") with those at community general support centers ("CGSC") in Japan.

Methods: We conducted a questionnaire survey by mail for PA and CGSC public health nurses. A competency list that was developed to compare three groups (PA, CGSC experts with ≥5 years of experience, and CGSC newcomers with ≤2 years of experience) was used.

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Background: Identifying treatment targets for sarcopenia is a public health concern. This study aimed to examine the association of nocturnal sleep duration and midday napping with the presence of sarcopenia in middle-aged and older adults, utilizing data from the China Health and Retirement Longitudinal Study in 2011 and 2015.

Methods: A sum of 7,926 individuals (≥40 years) took part in this study.

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Background: Physical activity (PA) plays an important role in the process of several chronic diseases. It may be also associated with the incidence of sarcopenia. This study aimed to determine the association of PA from different components including frequency, duration, intensity, and volume with the incidence of sarcopenia in middle-aged and older adults.

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Objectives: This study investigates the relationship between locomotive syndrome (LS) and mental disorder (depression) in young Chinese college students.

Methods: Our study population (n = 165; mean age of 19.82 ±1.

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Triglyceride (TG) levels are affected by food intake, and the cutoff values for nonfasting TG levels vary. This study aimed to calculate fasting TG levels based on total cholesterol (TC), low-density lipoprotein cholesterol (LDL-C), and high-density lipoprotein cholesterol (HDL-C) levels. Multiple regression analysis was performed to determine estimated triglyceride (eTG) levels using data from 39,971 participants divided into six groups based on non-high-density lipoprotein cholesterol (nHDL-C) levels (<100, <130, <160, <190, <220, and ≥220 mg/dL).

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Speech imagery recognition from electroencephalograms (EEGs) could potentially become a strong contender among non-invasive brain-computer interfaces (BCIs). In this report, first we extract language representations as the difference of line-spectra of phones by statistically analyzing many EEG signals from the Broca area. Then we extract vowels by using iterative search from hand-labeled short-syllable data.

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Analysis of spontaneous speech in Parkinson's disease by natural language processing.

Parkinsonism Relat Disord

August 2023

Department of Neurology, Nagoya University Graduate School of Medicine, Nagoya, Japan; Department of Clinical Research Education, Nagoya University Graduate School of Medicine, Nagoya, Japan. Electronic address:

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  • Patients with Parkinson's disease (PD) experience various speech issues, such as difficulties with dysarthria and language, which were compared to healthy controls (HC) using advanced language analysis tools.
  • The study included 53 PD patients with normal cognitive function and 53 HCs, utilizing machine learning to analyze their spontaneous speech based on specific linguistic features like part-of-speech and syntactic complexity.
  • Findings revealed that PD patients produced fewer morphemes and differed in verb and noun usage compared to HCs, with over 80% accuracy in distinguishing between the two groups using these speech characteristics.
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Objectives: This study examined the effectiveness of a newly developed work-family life support program on the work-family interface and mental health indicators among Japanese dual-earner couples with a preschool child(/ren) using a randomized controlled trial with a waitlist.

Methods: Participants who met the inclusion criteria were randomly allocated to the intervention or the control groups (n = 79 and n = 85, respectively). The program comprised two 3-h sessions with a 1-month interval between them and provided comprehensive skills by including self-management, couple management, and parenting management components.

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Aim: The study objective was to evaluate the effectiveness of an education program to improve community orientation among community health nurses in Fiji. A 1.5-day education program was developed that enabled participants to learn a concept through discussion, as they reviewed their experiences.

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This study aims to investigate the prevalence of locomotive syndrome (LS) and to examine the relationship of LS with musculoskeletal symptoms (pain, generalized joint laxity (GJL)) in young Chinese adults. Our study population (n = 157; mean age of 19.8 ± 1.

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Purpose: The significance of thyroglobulin antibodies (TgAbs) and thyroid peroxidase antibodies (TPOAbs) in Graves' disease (GD) remains unclear. Therefore, this study aimed to clarify the clinical significance of TgAbs and TPOAbs in GD.

Methods: A total of 442 patients with GD were recruited and divided into four groups based on TgAb and TPOAb positivity.

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Decoding cellular deformation from pseudo-simultaneously observed Rho GTPase activities.

Cell Rep

February 2023

Graduate School of Science and Technology, Nara Institute of Science and Technology, Ikoma, Nara 8916-5, Japan; Data Science Center, Nara Institute of Science and Technology, Ikoma, Nara 8916-5, Japan. Electronic address:

Limitations in simultaneously observing the activity of multiple molecules in live cells prevent researchers from elucidating how these molecules coordinate the dynamic regulation of cellular functions. Here, we propose the motion-triggered average (MTA) algorithm to characterize pseudo-simultaneous dynamic changes in arbitrary cellular deformation and molecular activities. Using MTA, we successfully extract a pseudo-simultaneous time series from individually observed activities of three Rho GTPases: Cdc42, Rac1, and RhoA.

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The occurrence of sexual dysfunction in couples after childbirth is well recognized, yet sexual satisfaction in couples with young children (CYC) has received little research attention. This study sought to enable this construct to be measured by developing and validating a Japanese version of the Index of Sexual Satisfaction (ISS) in CYC. Data were collected using a self-administered questionnaire.

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Physical fitness, which can be measured using various health- and skill-related components, is an important indicator of child development and health status. This study undertakes a scoping review on physical fitness assessment methods in preschool children to summarize the most widely used field-based physical fitness batteries and specific test items for preschool children. A search of the literature in English was undertaken using two major electronics databases, which yielded 76 literatures that met the inclusion and exclusion criteria.

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Background And Aims: The aim of this study was to calculate the visceral fat area (VFA) based on the criteria for metabolic syndrome (MetS).

Methods: A multiple regression analysis was performed to determine the estimated VFA using data from Japanese participants (2315 men and 1684 women). Receiver operating characteristic curve (ROC) analyses were performed to determine the optimal estimated VFA cutoff for the diagnosis of central obesity.

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This study examined the effectiveness of a new health promotion program, which is a collective intervention program aimed at improving lifestyle habits. It was designed as a one-year prospective cohort study. This program targeted non-obese persons at risk of developing lifestyle-related diseases and participants with hypertension, dyslipidemia, or hyperglycemia who were not included in the specific health guidance system in Japan.

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This study aimed to identify and classify the needs of caregivers of children with disabilities living in resource-limited settings and develop a framework for need assessment. This study was conducted in the Maha Sarakham Province, Thailand, with 15 caregivers caring for children with disabilities recruited from hospitals, the Association for the Disabled, and primary health centers. Semi-structured interviews were conducted in local dialects, recorded, transcribed, converted into standard Thai, and then into English for thematic analysis.

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  • This study compares the effects of consuming soy protein isolate (SPI) versus soy peptide (PEP) before a glucose tolerance test on stomach emptying, insulin, and blood sugar levels.
  • Nine healthy young individuals participated in two experiments, consuming either SPI or PEP before the test to assess their glycemic response and gastric emptying.
  • Results showed that PEP led to higher insulin levels and faster gastric emptying than SPI, suggesting that PEP may better regulate blood sugar after meals.
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  • The clinical practice guideline aims to guide nurses in assessing aspiration and pharyngeal residue to prevent aspiration pneumonia in adults with oropharyngeal dysphagia during eating and swallowing.
  • Established by the Japan Academy of Nursing Science in April 2018, the guideline follows the Minds Manual for Guideline Development 2017 to ensure evidence-based management options that consider patient values and benefits.
  • Ten recommendations were developed from various assessment methods, with eight classified as GRADE 2C, demonstrating the guideline's reliability and incorporation of recent research findings.
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