4 results match your criteria: "Waseda University Saitama Japan.[Affiliation]"
Focusing on Sedentary Behavior in Comprehensive Cardiac Rehabilitation.
Circ Rep
November 2024
Faculty of Sport Sciences, Waseda University Saitama Japan.
In recent years, the adverse effects of prolonged sedentary behavior in daily life, so-called 'sitting too much', on health have been pointed out. Sedentary behavior is defined as 'all waking behavior in which the energy expenditure in a sitting, semi-recumbent, or recumbent position is 1.5 metabolic equivalents or less'.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFEmergency department activities at the Athletes' Village during the Tokyo 2020 Olympic and Paralympic Games.
Acute Med Surg
November 2023
Department of Medical Service Tokyo Organizing Committee of the Olympic and Paralympic Games Tokyo Japan.
Article Synopsis
- The study examined medical services provided to over 15,000 athletes during the Tokyo 2020 Olympic and Paralympic Games, focusing on the emergency department within the polyclinic established in the Athletes' Village.
- From July 13 to September 8, 2021, data showed a total of 12,318 triage cases during the Olympics (with 75 treated in the ER) and 8,398 cases during the Paralympics (with 94 treated in the ER).
- The findings highlighted common health issues, such as musculoskeletal problems during the Olympics and ear, nose, and throat issues during the Paralympics, with insights aimed at enhancing medical services and infection prevention for future events.
The purpose of this consensus document was to develop feasible, evidence-based occupational heat safety recommendations to protect the US workers that experience heat stress. Heat safety recommendations were created to protect worker health and to avoid productivity losses associated with occupational heat stress. Recommendations were tailored to be utilized by safety managers, industrial hygienists, and the employers who bear responsibility for implementing heat safety plans.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFBackground: No reports have evaluated the long-term trends of the prevalence of anemia in Universiade athletes using preparticipation medical examinations (PPMEs). We aimed to investigate the prevalence of anemia among Japanese Universiade athletes, using longitudinal PPMEs.
Methods: In this retrospective, observational study, athletes with published data from official reports of the Japanese delegation of the summer Universiade games between 1977 and 2011 were included, as were similar-aged nonathletes with published health data, extracted from official national reports from the Japanese Ministry of Health, Labour and Welfare.