CEREBROVASCULAR DISEASES IN JAPAN

Secular trends in mortality for cerebrovascular diseases in Japan, 1960 to 1979.

In Japan the age-adjusted death rate from cerebrovascular diseases has decreased for both males and females since 1965. This downward trend accelerated in 1971. This is not due to artifacts such as changes in diagnostic methods of stroke and in rules for coding cause of death on death certificates. The progress and spread of detection, treatment and control of hypertension appears to have been ...

Cerebrovascular Disease in Rheumatic Diseases

Thermography in occlusive cerebrovascular diseases.

Cooling of the skin over the medial supraorbital region in 80% of patients who have an occlusion or severe stenosis of a carotid artery can be demonstrated by facial thermography. Minor stenotic lesions in the carotid arteries do not produce characteristic thermographic changes, while thermography is of no help in the diagnosis of vertebrobasilar arterial disease.Thermographic changes suggestiv...

Influence of the great East Japan earthquake and tsunami 2011 on occurrence of cerebrovascular diseases in Iwate, Japan.

BACKGROUND AND PURPOSE Little information is available regarding the occurrence of cerebrovascular diseases after tsunamis. This study was performed to determine the influence of the tsunami damage caused by the Great East Japan earthquake on occurrence of cerebrovascular diseases. METHODS Subjects from the coastline and inland areas of Iwate Prefecture who developed cerebrovascular diseases ...

Cerebrovascular diseases and their underlying vascular lesions in Hisayama, Japan--a pathological study of autopsy cases.

Frequency of cerebrovascular diseases (CVD) and their underlying vascular lesions were analyzed in 724 autopsy cases, aged 40 years and over, in the community of Hisayama, Japan during the period 1961 to 1981. Cerebral infarction (CI) was more frequently found at autopsy than cerebral hemorrhage (CH) with a ratio of infarction and hemorrhage of 4.4. Small CI occupied 75.7% of the cases with CI....