The concentration of cerebrospinal fluid total protein (CSF-TP) is important for the diagnosis neurological emergencies. Recently, some Western studies have shown that current upper reference limit CSF-TP quite low older patients. However, little reported about in Asian population. In this study, we retrospectively analyzed concentrations healthy Japanese volunteers. CSF samples 69 volunteers (...

The dynamic loads acting on passengers during road accidents depend not only the vehicle structure, but also properties of applied passenger and driver protection system. Two-point seat belts are most frequently used personal system for adult in bus vehicles. paper investigates thread body a 50 percentile dummy placed an armchair equipped with two-point belts. In order to solve this problem, te...

BACKGROUND AND OBJECTIVES New US Down syndrome (DS) BMI growth charts were recently published, but their utility in identifying children with excess adiposity or increased cardiometabolic risk (CMR) remains unknown. We sought to compare the ability of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) BMI 85th percentile and DS-specific BMI 85th percentile to identify excess adiposity in chil...

Although the percentile-based control charts are very effective with guaranteed in-control and out-of-control run lengths in statistical process control, they still lack algorithmic (especially) software support. The proposed (pbcc) tool fills this gap. This is freely available implements recent work on individual as well joint charts.

Although several studies have estimated the associations between mortality or morbidity and extreme temperatures in terms of relative risk, few studies have investigated the risk of emergency transport attributable to the whole temperature range nationwide. We acquired data on daily emergency ambulance dispatches in all 47 prefectures of Japan from 2007 to 2010. We examined the relationship bet...

OBJECTIVE To examine the association of BMI percentile and change in BMI percentile to change in blood pressure (BP) percentile and development of hypertension (HTN). METHODS This retrospective cohort included 101 606 subjects age 3 to 17 years from 3 health systems across the United States. Height, weight, and BPs were extracted from electronic health records, and BMI and BP percentiles were...

BACKGROUND The definition and treatment of glucose intolerance during pregnancy are matters of intense controversy. Our goal was to examine the value of the 75-g oral glucose tolerance test (OGTT) in terms of its ability to predict birth weight percentile in a group of women with singleton pregnancies who received minimal treatment for their glucose intolerance. METHODS We reviewed the result...