We experienced a case of adult T cell leukemia/lymphoma (ATLL) in a 48-year-old Korean female, who has never been abroad since birth and no history of blood transfusion. The patient had hypercalcemia and multiple lymphadenopathy. Histopathologic study of left cervical lymph node (LN) and bone marrow (BM) revealed that infiltrates of malignant lymphoid cells were composed of small, medium and la...

BACKGROUND To evaluate the relationship between age, axial length (AL), anterior chamber depth (ACD) and corneal steepness (K) in patients with cataract. METHODS In this retrospective study, medical records of 800 patients (800 eyes) who were diagnosed with cataract and received preoperative ophthalmologic examination were reviewed. Data including age, gender and ocular biometric data includi...

Background. We aimed to examine the association between sedentary time and central obesity in a nationally representative sample of adult Korean men. Methods. included 1269 participants from National Health Nutrition Examination Survey. Central was defined as having waist circumference (WC) ≥90 cm. The ORs 95% CIs for were calculated using multiple logistic regression analysis. Results. mean va...

the purpose of this study was to examine the relationship of physical activity levels with sleep duration (sd), and self-rated health (srh) using the fifth korean national health and nutrition examination survey data from 2010 and 2011.overall, 12,188 korean people were evaluated in relation to meeting guidelines for vigorous pa (mvpa), moderate pa (mmpa), and low pa (mlpa) associated with sd a...