results the electrophysiology laboratory staff received higher doses of ionizing radiation (17.2 ± 11.9 msv; p < 0.001). there was a significant positive correlation between the years of working experience and effective dose in the lens (p < 0.001). in general, our findings showed that the incidence of lens opacity was 79% (95% ci, 69.9-88.1) in participants with exposure (the case group) and o...

According to the statistics for 2018 in Japan, cardiovascular disease and cerebrovascular were most common causes of death (cardiovascular with 208,210, 108,165), these two diseases account 23.2% all deaths. Stroke, especially cerebral hemorrhage, was main cause Japan after World War II. Along improved management hypertension, mortality rate from hemorrhage reached a high 266.7 per 100,000 men ...

Received January 11, 2017; revised manuscript received March 7, 2017; accepted March 15, 2017; released online April 20, 2017 Time for primary review: 14 days Department of Heart Rhythm Management (Y.O., R.K., H.A.), Department of Preventive Medicine and Community Health (Y.F.), University of Occupational and Environmental Health Japan, Kitakyushu; Cardiovascular Center, Saiseikai Kumamoto Hosp...

Figure 1. Professor Da-Yi Hu, MD, FACC Professor Da-Yi Hu (Figure 1) was born in Henan province of central China, in 1946. He graduated from the Beijing Medical School (now Peking University Health Science Center) in 1970 and furthered his education both at SUNY-Oswego and University of Illinois from 1985 to 1987. Professor Hu has been a pioneer in the field of radio-frequency ablation technolo...