Midori Ishii, Yongji Kim, Yoshiyuki Suehara, Takayuki Kawasaki, Joe Matsuoka, Keisuke Akaike, Kenta Mukaihara, Daisuke Kubota, Taketo Okubo, Tsuyoshi Saito, Tatsuya Takagi & Kazuo Kaneko·Journal of Advances in Medicine and Medical Research·2014
Background: To prevent locomotor dysfunction, the Japanese Orthopaedic Association (JOA) proposed the concept of locomotive syndrome (LS) in 2007, and has carried out numerous campaigns to increase the awareness of LS. We previously surveyed the recognition of LS and reported tha...
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Research Article10.9734/BJMMR/2015/14207
Aim: To determine periodontal treatment needs and the incidence of oral ulceration among children and adolescents with celiac disease and to compare their findings with a healthy age and gender-matched control group. Methods: A prospective study was conducted at King Hussein Medi...
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Research Article10.9734/BJMMR/2014/7580
Aims: The study was designed to assess the changes in knowledge, attitude and practice (KAP) of preschool teachers before and after 3 months of attending a nutrition education intervention program. Study Design: Place and duration of the study: Nine governmental and 13 private sc...
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Research Article10.9734/BJMMR/2014/6872
Aim: This study was aimed at understanding the earlier findings involving chronic, low-level cyanide exposure resulting from eating poorly processed cassava products associated with the development of goitre as seen in cassava endemic regions of Nigeria. Study Design: 30F1 female...
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Research Article10.9734/BJMMR/2014/6944
Angiotensin-I-converting enzyme (ACE) insertion/deletion (I/D) polymorphism has been associated with the genetic susceptibility to end stage renal disease (ESRD) in different populations. ACE DD genotype and D allele are associated with ESRD as risk factors in several studies. In...
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Research Article10.9734/BJMMR/2014/4463
Recently, biomarkers in medicine have gained comprehensive scientific and clinical interest. Biomarker or biological marker defined as alteration in the constituents of tissues or body fluids provide a powerful approach to understanding the spectrum of chronic diseases with appli...
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Research Article10.9734/BJMMR/2014/6917
Vitamin D (VD) is known to have pleiotropic effects on various tissues and organs including those of the immune and musculoskeletal systems. VD deficiency has been suggested to trigger the onset of autoimmune diseases including rheumatoid arthritis (RA), although the significance...
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Research Article10.9734/BJMMR/2014/7647
Aims: Porphyria Cutanea Tarda (PCT), the most common of porphyrias is triggered by several factors, including iron overload. Type I Hereditary Hemochromatosis is inherited as an autosomal recessive trait of the mutation p.C282Y or as a compound heterozygous form p.C282Y/p.H63D in...
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Research Article10.9734/BJMMR/2014/7303
Aims: To describe two unusual complications of a typical solitary pedunculated femoral osteochondroma that included a distal fracture of the exostosis and a missed fragment following surgical treatment as well as to evaluate the progress of the untreated free fragment at follow-u...
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Research Article10.9734/BJMMR/2014/7207
Aims: In a previous study (2004) we explored the clinical and microbiological aspects of bloodstream infections (BSI) in a multilevel geriatric hospital, and concluded that follow up and monitoring of these parameters is warranted. The purpose of this new study is to evaluate the...
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Research Article10.9734/BJMMR/2014/6892