WHAT IS ALREADY KNOWN ABOUT THIS SUBJECT Hypogonadism is associated with increased fat mass and reduced muscle mass, which contributes to obesity and health risks, such as cardiovascular disease.Testosterone treatment of hypogonadal men improves muscle mass and reduces fat mass; however, many of these studies are of short duration.Thus, the long-term effects of testosterone on body anthropometr...

BACKGROUND Neck circumference (NC) measurement is one of the simple screening measurements which can be used as an index of upper body fat distribution to identify obesity. OBJECTIVES The aim of this study was to determine the relationship between neck circumferences and obesity. METHODS A total 411 volunteer adults participated in this study (174 men, 237 women). A questionnaire which cons...

BACKGROUND The ductus arteriosus connects the main pulmonary trunk to the descending aorta. The incidence of isolated patent ductus arteriosus (PDA) in full-term infants is about 1 in 2000. The Amplatzer Ductal Occluder (ADO) is recommended for PDAs with sizes larger than 2 mm. In this procedure, we must confirm the ADO position in PDA by aortogram from the arterial line. The purpose of this st...

OBJECTIVE Many patients with transfusional iron overload are at risk for progressive organ dysfunction and early death and poor compliance with older chelation therapies is believed to be a major contributing factor. Phase II/III studies have shown that oral deferasirox 20-30 mg/kg/d reduces iron burden, depending on transfusional iron intake. METHODS The prospective, open-label, 1-yr ESCALAT...

CD8 -Deficient Mice Are Highly Susceptible to 5-Fluorouracil-Induced Lethality Naoto Itoh, Hitoshi Nishimura, Tetsuya Matsuguchi, Toshiki Yajima, Yasuji Mokuno, Takashi Hiromatsu, Yuji Nimura, and Yasunobu Yoshikai* Laboratory of Host Defense, Research Institute for Disease Mechanisms and Control, and Division of Surgical Oncology, Department of Surgery, Nagoya University School of Medicine, Na...

1Institute of Space and Astronautical Science, Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency, 3-1-1 Yoshinodai, Sagamihara, Kanagawa 229-8510, Japan 2Department of Earth and Planetary Science, University of Tokyo, 7-3-1 Hongo, Tokyo 113-0033, Japan 3Department of Earth and Planetary Sciences, Tokyo Institute of Technology, Ookayama, Tokyo 152-8550, Japan 4Department of Space and Astronautical Science, Sok...

Prevention Patient Outcomes Research Team (PORT) indicates that racial differences exist in treatment of patients at risk for stroke. Black patients hospitalized with transient ischemic attacks (TIAs, also called mini strokes) are significantly less likely than comparable white patients to receive diagnostic testing and surgery to prevent stroke and to have a neurologist as their attending phys...

Forty-six Hereford heifers were slaughtered at different stages of gestation. Udders and gravid uteri were removed. Each gravid uterus was dissected into fetus, fetal membranes, fetal fluids and uterus. Fresh weights, dry matter, ether extract, ash, nitrogen and gross energy contents of the various tissues were determined. Weights and compositions of udders and uteri from 36 non-pregnant heifer...

Released online January 21, 2017 Department of Cardiology, Nagoya University Graduate School of Medicine, Nagoya, Japan Mailing address: Toyoaki Murohara, MD, PhD, Department of Cardiology, Nagoya University Graduate School of Medicine, 65 Tsurumai, Showa-ku, Nagoya 466-8550, Japan. E-mail: [email protected] ISSN-1346-9843 All rights are reserved to the Japanese Circulation Society. F...