… Second Department of Internal Medicine (H Sumino MD, T Nakamura MD), Department
of Laboratory Medicine (T Kanda MD) and Medical informatics and Decision Sciences (T …

Objective: The objective of this study was to compare doctor-patient communications in
clinical consultations via telemedicine technology to doctor-patient communications in face-to-…

Objective: To determine the effect of torasemide, a loop diuretic with antialdosteronergic
properties, compared with furosemide on cardiac sympathetic nerve activity in patients with …

Many studies have shown that a one-time 123 I-metaiodobenzylguanidine ( 123 I-MIBG)
scintigraphic study during a stable period is useful for determining the prognosis of patients with …

Aims It has been reported that carvedilol improves cardiac sympathetic nerve activity (CSNA)
in patients with dilated cardiomyopathy (DCM). However, the influence of carvedilol on …

Objectives: To investigate the decline per year in skin elasticity in postmenopausal women
and how much hormone replacement therapy (HRT) increased elasticity over 12 months. …

BACKGROUND: Homogeneous assays for low-density lipoprotein-cholesterol (LDL-C)
have good precision and are pretreatment-free procedures. However, their accuracies have …

AIMS: We compared the effects of oral conjugated equine estrogen (CEE) therapy and
transdermal estradiol therapy on pulse wave velocity (PWV) and circulating levels of vascular …

Background: Long-term outcome and the factors associated with restenosis after endovascular
treatment (EVT) for iliac artery lesions in peripheral arterial disease (PAD) were evaluated…

OBJECTIVE: The purpose of the study was to examine the prevalence and risk factors for
cerebral infarction (CI) and carotid artery stenosis (CAS) in patients with peripheral arterial …