EPA Nurse Candidates Concentrated in Metropolitan Areas:Case Study of the Tokyo Metropolitan Area

High Assurance System for the Tokyo Metropolitan Area Railway Network

L Introduction Large-scale public systems in today’s information control field require. that seveml conditions should be satisfied. Fmt, a phased-in construction of the system must be possible so that the system can be constructed over a long period of time. Second the system must be flexible and be adapted to meet the changes of social needs. All such systems are assumed to constantly grow, ex...

Pedometer-determined physical activity among youth in the Tokyo Metropolitan area: a cross-sectional study

BACKGROUND Providing large-scale descriptive data of objectively measured physical activity in youth is informative for practitioners, epidemiologists, and researchers. The purpose of this study was to present the pedometer-determined physical activity among Japanese youth using the Tokyo Metropolitan Survey of Physical Fitness, Physical Activity and Lifestyle 2011. METHODS This study used a ...

Topological Analysis of Tokyo Metropolitan Railway System

Recent Change in the Annual Incidence of Childhood Type 2 Diabetes in the Tokyo Metropolitan Area

This study evaluated recent changes in the annual incidence of childhood type 2 diabetes in the Tokyo metropolitan area. From 1974 to 2004, a total of 236 students were diagnosed as having type 2 diabetes by the urine glucose screening program at school. The overall incidence of type 2 diabetes was 2.55/100,000. Overall, 83.9% of students with diabetes were obese; junior high school students ha...

Brief survey of common intestinal parasites in the Tokyo Metropolitan Area.

Since 1955, when sanitary conditions were poor, the incidence of intestinal parasitism has steadily decreased. Similarly, the number of requests for fecal examinations by physicians has also decreased. However, in our hospital, the incidence of parasites detected in fecal material has been increasing since 1994, regardless of the decreasing number of stool exams performed. Possible reasons for ...