The control of blood pressure (BP) is important in the prevention of cardiovascular diseases.
This study was conducted to evaluate the effect of a dietary educational program for free-…

Diabetic nephropathy is the leading cause of dialysis therapy worldwide. The number of
diabetes patients on dialysis in clinical settings has been increasing in Japan. In 2013, the …

OBJECTIVE: We evaluated the effect of direct angiogenesis inhibition in synovium of patients
with rheumatoid arthritis (RA), using a soluble vascular endothelial growth factor receptor 1 …

Chronic kidney disease (CKD) affects around 850 million people worldwide, posing
significant challenges in healthcare due to complications like renal anemia, end-stage kidney …

Purpose To investigate the efficacy of sagittal ultrasonography of the median nerve in diagnosing
carpal tunnel syndrome (CTS). Methods Seventy‐six hands with idiopathic CTS and 80 …

Background The purpose of the present study was to evaluate the usefulness of the median
nerve stenosis rate (MNSR) measured on sagittal sonographic images of the median nerve …

We radiographically examined the cementing grade in the cases using the medullary-plug
cementing technique of femoral stem in Total Hip Arthroplasty (THA). Among patients with …

We examined the clinical and radiographic results of femoral head replacement. We studied
a group of 46 patients, 47 joints (18 males and 28 females) consisting of 35 cases of …

Middle aged athletes in Japan were studied to evaluate changes in their hematological indices.
Ninety-two male and twelve female athletes (average age, male: 53.3 years, female 43.8 …

We evaluated the clinical and radiographic results of total knee arthroplasty in 17 patients
using the Duracon System. 13 knees of 10 patients had osteoarthrosis and 8 knees of 7 …