11 results match your criteria: "Aichi Saiseikai Rehabilitation Hospital.[Affiliation]"
The prevalence of metabolic syndrome is increasing in children and adolescents. Although some diagnostic criteria for metabolic syndrome exist, further research is needed to determine appropriate age-, sex-, and race-specific cutoffs for each component. Health examinations were conducted in 1,679 children aged 6-15 years in 9 regions of Japan.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFDevelopmental trajectories at a high risk for childhood overweight/obesity.
Pediatr Int
January 2023
Aichi Saiseikai Rehabilitation Hospital, Nagoya, Japan.
Background: The associations between developmental patterns (trajectories) in children and maternal factors have been widely investigated, but paternal effects on these trajectories are unclear. This study aimed to determine child and parental factors involved in developmental trajectories at high risk for causing adverse cardiovascular (CV) profiles in children.
Methods: We analyzed longitudinal anthropometric data from birth to the present and CV profiles of 1,832 healthy volunteers (51% girls) aged 3-15 years who participated in a nationwide study between July 2012 and January 2014.
Background: The usefulness of electrocardiographic (ECG) voltage criteria for diagnosing hypertrophic cardiomyopathy (HCM) in pediatric patients is poorly defined.
Methods and results: ECGs at the 1st grade (mean [±SD] age 6.6±0.
Diagnostic value of P-waves in children with idiopathic restrictive cardiomyopathy.
Heart Vessels
August 2021
Department of Cardiology, Saitama Medical University International Medical Center, Hidaka, Japan.
Article Synopsis
- Restrictive cardiomyopathy (RCM) is a rare heart condition in kids that leads to poor filling of the heart and has a generally bad outlook, often accompanied by abnormal P-waves in ECG.
- This study analyzed 17 ECGs from children diagnosed with idiopathic RCM across Japan, comparing them to a control group of nearly 35,000 students to identify key ECG characteristics.
- The researchers found that the sum of certain amplitudes in lead V1 (P1 + P2 V1) is a strong indicator of RCM, proposing a cutoff value of >200 µV to help detect the disease in asymptomatic or early-stage cases during school screenings.
Impact of the T-wave characteristics on distinguishing arrhythmogenic right ventricular cardiomyopathy from healthy children.
Int J Cardiol
January 2021
Department of Pediatrics, Kagoshima Medical Center, Kagoshima, Japan.
Background: T-wave inversion (TWI) is not considered useful for diagnosing pediatric arrhythmogenic right ventricular cardiomyopathy (ARVC), because right precordial TWI in ARVC resembles a normal juvenile pattern.
Objectives: The aims of this study were to clarify the electrocardiographic (ECG) characteristics of pediatric ARVC to distinguish those patients from healthy children.
Methods: Between 1979 and 2017, 11 ARVC patients under 18 years old were registered and compared with school screening ECGs from 48,401 healthy children.
Article Synopsis
- A randomized controlled trial in Japan aimed to assess the impact of walking on childhood obesity among elementary school children with a high percentage overweight (≥20%).
- Participants were divided into three groups: one encouraged to walk at least 10,000 steps on school holidays, another to limit screen time, and a control group with no intervention, with a primary outcome of %OW reduction after three months.
- Results showed that the walking group experienced a significant decrease in %OW (mean reduction of -4.06%) compared to the control group, suggesting that promoting walking can be an effective strategy for addressing obesity in children.
Left ventricular noncompaction (LVNC) is a hereditary cardiomyopathy and is associated with high morbidity and mortality. However, the role and significance of school screening for LVNC have not been fully elucidated. In this multicenter, retrospective cohort study, a total of 105 children with LVNC were included from 2000 to 2017.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFMultivariate analysis of TU wave complex on electrocardiogram in Andersen-Tawil syndrome with KCNJ2 mutations.
Ann Noninvasive Electrocardiol
May 2020
Department of Cardiovascular and Respiratory Medicine, Shiga University of Medical Science, Otsu, Japan.
Background: The exact differences between the TU wave complex of ATS1 and that of healthy individuals remain to be investigated. We sought to characterize the TU wave complex of Andersen-Tawil syndrome type 1 (ATS1) using high frequency electrocardiogram (ECG) data.
Methods: Electrocardiograms were recorded as time series data with a 2 kHz frequency ECG amplifier in 13 patients with ATS1 (positive for KCNJ2 mutation, ATS1 group) and age-matched healthy individuals (control group).
Common clinicopathological features in late-onset hereditary transthyretin amyloidosis (Ala97Gly, Val94Gly and Val30Met).
Amyloid
January 2020
a Department of Neurology, Nagoya University Graduate School of Medicine, Nagoya , Japan.
Article Synopsis
- A large study analyzed ECG results from over 48,000 children and adolescents in Kagoshima, Japan, focusing on how age and sex affect ECG parameters.
- The study found significant differences in ECG variables based on age and sex, revealing that conventional criteria for ventricular hypertrophy may not be applicable for this population.
- New reference data for interpreting pediatric ECGs has been established, which can help create more accurate guidelines for pediatric cardiologists.
Environmental risk factors for sudden infant death syndrome in Japan.
Eur J Pediatr
December 2016
Department of Pediatrics, Niigata City General Hospital, Niigata, Japan.
Unlabelled: While the prevalence of sudden infant death syndrome (SIDS) has decreased worldwide, this decline has plateaued recently. Strategies are needed to resume the constant decrease of SIDS in Japan. A prospective electrocardiographic screening program for infants was performed between July 2010 and March 2011.
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