A proton pump inhibitor relieve ...
The mainstay treatment for benign esophageal stricture is dilation with medical therapy. Although dilation usually provides symptomatic relief, recu ...
Difference between urban and ru ...
Background Many environmental and genetic factors are presumed to be involved in the etiology of esophageal squamous cell carcinoma (ESCC). We devel ...
Is surgery always necessary in ...
Two randomized trials showed that survival was similar after definitive chemoradiation (CRT) or after CRT and surgery in locally advanced esophageal ...
The relationship between social ...
Objective The aim of this study was to use a multilevel analysis to examine whether cognitive and structural dimensions of regional social capital w ...
MEM spectral analysis for predi ...
Objectives The prediction of influenza epidemics has long been the focus of attention in epidemiology and mathematical biology. In this study, we te ...
The effect of sleep restriction ...
Objective The effect of a severely stressful situation (sleep restriction and psychological load) on the diurnal changes in novel tryptamine-related ...
Social network disruption as a ...
Objectives The 2004 Niigata–Chuetsu earthquake of Japan caused a great deal of damage, and people living in the affected region are still struggling ...
Evidence of tubular damage in t ...
Background In the North Central Province of Sri Lanka, chronic kidney disease of uncertain etiology (CKDue) has increased markedly over the past 15– ...
C-reactive protein levels, airf ...
Objectives There is some evidence that chronic obstructive pulmonary disease and chronic kidney disease (CKD) may be related, perhaps through system ...
Blood lead levels of contempora ...
Objectives Lead concentrations in whole blood (BPb) of Japanese children were measured to obtain insight into the sources of variation and to estima ...
Growing concern about heatstrok ...
Heat stroke management will be a major challenge following the Fukushima nuclear plant accident that occurred due to the Great East Japan Earthquake ...
Effectiveness assessment of vac ...
Objectives In 2007, measles prevailed among the youth and young adult population in Japan, creating in a serious social problem. Among the developed ...
An assessment of radiation dose ...
Objectives On 11 March 2011, the Great East Japan Earthquake occurred. Due to this earthquake and subsequent tsunami, malfunctions occurred at the F ...
Indoor air pollution and health ...
Objectives Indoor air pollutants from biomass combustion pose a risk for respiratory diseases in children. It is plausible that distinct differences ...
QOL-associated factors in elder ...
Objectives Quality of life (QOL) was compared between elderly patients treated with cardiac surgery (cardiac surgery group) and general elderly nono ...
The relation between ambulance ...
Objective Our aim was to investigate the link between ambulance transports stratified by heat stroke and air temperature in August 2009 in Japan. M ...
Evaluation of anthropometric pa ...
Objectives We evaluated anthropometric parameters and physical fitness in elderly Japanese. Methods A total of 2,106 elderly Japanese (749 men and ...
The relation between estimated ...
Objective We investigated the link between renal function as evaluated by estimated glomerular filtration rate (eGFR) and proteinuria in Okayama Pre ...
Clinical factors associated wit ...
Objective The World Health organization received reports of 478 laboratory-confirmed cases of influenza A (H5N1) from 15 countries between November ...
Positive predictive values for ...
Objectives Self-reporting provides useful information for assessing the risk factors of osteoporotic fractures in large cohort studies. However, to ...
BMI, waist circumference, and c ...
Objective To examine whether the association between waist circumference (WC) and clustering of cardiovascular risk factors varies with obesity (BMI ...
Brachial-ankle pulse wave veloc ...
Objectives Cardiovascular morbidity and mortality are closely associated with hypertension, however, predictors of incident hypertension have not be ...
Assessment of accuracy of immed ...
Objectives This study assesses the accuracy of the immediate blood separation method, a novel blood sampling strategy that enables blood analysis in ...
Promoting effects of nanopartic ...
Although the adverse health effects of nanoparticles/ materials have been proposed and are being clarified, their facilitating effects on preexistin ...
MicroRNAs in the Human Pituitar ...
MicroRNAs (miRNAs) represent a novel class of small RNA molecules that play a crucial role as posttranscriptional regulators of gene expression. As ...