"Mrs Smith, we now have all the information obtainable from your medical history and tests and we find that you are 60-3 years old." "But doctor, there must be a mistake," says the thoroughly startled Mrs Smith, "I am only 50 years old." Mrs Smith, having had a check-up at a clinic using a computerised risk factor appraisal system, now learns that because of her bad habits and life-style she st...

Gastrointestinal duplication is a rare congenital disease which affected more commonly the ileum, while the stomach is rarely involved. Generally diagnosed in paediatric or young age, it could be difficult to suspect a gastrointestinal duplication in adults. Herein, we report a 55-year-old male with a gastric duplication cyst found on routinely checkup for chronic hepatitis and first misdiagnos...

RESEARCH DESIGN AND METHODS A nested case-control study was conducted among women who participated in the Kaiser Permanente Northern California multiphasic health checkup (1984–1996) and had a subsequent pregnancy (1984–2009). Case patients were 256 women who developed GDM. Two control subjects were selected for each case patient and matched for year of blood draw, age at examination, age at pr...

Few studies have investigated the prevalence of shaking and smothering and whether they are associated with co-sleeping. In Japan, co-sleeping is common during infancy and early childhood. This study investigates the prevalence of shaking and smothering and their associations with co-sleeping among 4-month-old infants in Japan. A questionnaire was administered to mothers who participated in a 4...

• Restructuring of healthcare governance and professional regulatory approaches; • Changes to organizational care delivery systems and the scopes of practice of nurses and other disciplines; • The aging of the nursing leadership and the lack of concerted succession planning; • Funding challenges and cost-containment initiatives in light of increasing service demands; • The focus on patient safe...

To clarify measures for making clearer instructions on how to read the results of general health checkups in a workplace by surveying the views of workers on these instructions, an anonymous self-administered questionnaire survey was conducted at a Japanese manufacturing plant. The responses of 984 male workers were analyzed. The average age of the subjects was 32.1 yr (range, 19-60 yr). Regard...