pumoSe The purpose of this study was to investigate the role of Clchannel) in lens volume regulation and its involvement in cataractogenesis. There is considerable evidence that lens swelling precedes opacification. The primary role of the lens is to focus light onto the retina and a prerequisite for achieving this is to maintain lens transparency Questions therefore to be addressed arej how ca...

Received April 25, 2014; revised manuscript received May 20, 2014; accepted May 21, 2014; released online June 27, 2014 Time for primary review: 19 days Department of Cardiovascular Medicine, Tohoku University Graduate School of Medicine, Sendai, Japan The Guest Editor for this article was Ken-ichi Hirata, MD. Mailing address: Yasuharu Matsumoto, MD, PhD, Department of Cardiovascular Medicine, ...

Received October 1, 2014; revised manuscript received October 25, 2014; accepted November 10, 2014; released online November 28, 2014 Time for primary review: 19 days Department of Cardiovascular Medicine, National Cerebral and Cardiovascular Center, Suita (S.S., O.K., T.K., F.O., K.H., H.O., S.Y.); Department of Advanced Cardiovascular Medicine, Tohoku University Graduate School of Medicine, S...

OBJECTIVE The purpose of this study was to analyse the association between resting heart rate (RHR) and type 2 diabetes and hypertension in Korean adults. METHODS A total of 5124 participants, who participated in the exercise programme at the National Health Promotion Center between 2007 and 2010 (male=904, female=4220) were analysed in this study. Anthropometrics, body mass index (BMI), bloo...

Received December 15, 2010; revised manuscript received May 29, 2011; accepted June 10, 2011; released online July 29, 2011 Time for primary review: 12 days Cardiovascular Division, Institute of Clinical Medicine, Graduate School of Comprehensive Human Sciences, University of Tsukuba, Tsukuba (Y.H., H.T., T.I., H.W., H.Y., Y. Sekiguchi, Y. Seo, K.A.); and Division of Cardiology, Mitsui Memorial...

Received March 20, 2017; revised manuscript received July 16, 2017; accepted August 1, 2017; released online September 1, 2017 Time for primary review: 45 days Department of Cardiovascular Medicine (K.M., S.F., K.S., A.T., T.O., N.N., S.Y.), Department of Pediatric Cardiology (H.O.), National Cerebral and Cardiovascular Center, Suita, Japan Mailing address: Shigefumi Fukui, MD, PhD, Department ...