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JOURNAL ARTICLE
Paul L C Chua, Yuya Takane, Chris Fook Sheng Ng, Kazutaka Oka, Yasushi Honda, Yoonhee Kim, Masahiro Hashizume
BACKGROUND: Air conditioning (AC) presents a viable means of tackling the ill-effects of heat on human health. However, AC releases additional anthropogenic heat outdoors, and this could be detrimental to human health, especially in urban communities. This study determined the excess heat-related mortality attributable to anthropogenic heat from AC use under various projected global warming scenarios in seven Japanese cities. The overall protection from AC use was also measured. METHODS: Daily average 2-meter temperatures in the hottest month of August from 2000 to 2010 were modeled using the Weather Research and Forecasting (WRF) model with BEP+BEM (building effect parameterization and building energy model)...
November 7, 2023: Environment International
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JOURNAL ARTICLE
Shuhei Nomura, Marisa Nishio, Sarah Krull Abe, Akifumi Eguchi, Manami Inoue, Motoi Suzuki, Masahiro Hashizume
IntroductionThe Covid-19 pandemic has significantly impacted end-of-life decisions for cancer patients in Japan, with disparities existing between preferred and actual care settings. Our study investigates the potential shifts in cancer death locations during the pandemic and if there were excess cancer deaths.MethodsUtilizing national mortality data from the Ministry of Health, Labour, and Welfare from January 2012 to February 2023, we identified cancer deaths using ICD-10 codes. We assessed death locations, including medical institutions, nursing facilities, and homes...
October 21, 2023: Journal of Epidemiology
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JOURNAL ARTICLE
Massimo Stafoggia, Paola Michelozzi, Alexandra Schneider, Ben Armstrong, Matteo Scortichini, Masna Rai, Souzana Achilleos, Barrak Alahmad, Antonis Analitis, Christofer Åström, Michelle L Bell, Neville Calleja, Hanne Krage Carlsen, Gabriel Carrasco, John Paul Cauchi, Micheline Dszs Coelho, Patricia M Correa, Magali H Diaz, Alireza Entezari, Bertil Forsberg, Rebecca M Garland, Yue Leon Guo, Yuming Guo, Masahiro Hashizume, Iulian H Holobaca, Carmen Íñiguez, Jouni J K Jaakkola, Haidong Kan, Klea Katsouyanni, Ho Kim, Jan Kyselý, Eric Lavigne, Whanhee Lee, Shanshan Li, Marek Maasikmets, Joana Madureira, Fatemeh Mayvaneh, Chris Fook Sheng Ng, Baltazar Nunes, Hans Orru, Nicolás V Ortega, Samuel Osorio, Alfonso D L Palomares, Shih-Chun Pan, Mathilde Pascal, Martina S Ragettli, Shilpa Rao, Raanan Raz, Dominic Roye, Niilo Ryti, Paulo Hn Saldiva, Evangelia Samoli, Joel Schwartz, Noah Scovronick, Francesco Sera, Aurelio Tobias, Shilu Tong, César Dlc Valencia, Ana Maria Vicedo-Cabrera, Aleš Urban, Antonio Gasparrini, Susanne Breitner, Francesca K De' Donato
BACKGROUND: The epidemiological evidence on the interaction between heat and ambient air pollution on mortality is still inconsistent. OBJECTIVES: To investigate the interaction between heat and ambient air pollution on daily mortality in a large dataset of 620 cities from 36 countries. METHODS: We used daily data on all-cause mortality, air temperature, particulate matter ≤ 10 μm (PM10 ), PM ≤ 2...
October 10, 2023: Environment International
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JOURNAL ARTICLE
Cong Liu, Renjie Chen, Francesco Sera, Ana Maria Vicedo-Cabrera, Yuming Guo, Shilu Tong, Eric Lavigne, Patricia Matus Correa, Nicolás Valdés Ortega, Souzana Achilleos, Dominic Roye, Jouni Jk Jaakkola, Niilo Ryti, Mathilde Pascal, Alexandra Schneider, Susanne Breitner, Alireza Entezari, Fatemeh Mayvaneh, Raanan Raz, Yasushi Honda, Masahiro Hashizume, Chris Fook Sheng Ng, Vânia Gaio, Joana Madureira, Iulian-Horia Holobaca, Aurelio Tobias, Carmen Íñiguez, Yue Leon Guo, Shih-Chun Pan, Pierre Masselot, Michelle L Bell, Antonella Zanobetti, Joel Schwartz, Antonio Gasparrini, Haidong Kan
OBJECTIVE: To investigate potential interactive effects of fine particulate matter (PM2.5 ) and ozone (O3 ) on daily mortality at global level. DESIGN: Two stage time series analysis. SETTING: 372 cities across 19 countries and regions. POPULATION: Daily counts of deaths from all causes, cardiovascular disease, and respiratory disease. MAIN OUTCOME MEASURE: Daily mortality data during 1994-2020...
October 4, 2023: BMJ: British Medical Journal
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JOURNAL ARTICLE
Yoko Tanemoto, Ui Yamada, Masaaki Nakayama, Takeaki Takeuchi, Fumiaki Tanemoto, Yugo Ito, Daiki Kobayashi, Daisuke Ohta, Masahiro Hashizume
Fatigue in hemodialysis recipients interferes with daily activities and renal rehabilitation, and its underlying causes and treatment remain unclear. Psychological factors, like illness perceptions and alexithymia, cause fatigue in other diseases; however, their contribution to hemodialysis-related fatigue is unknown. This cross-sectional study included 53 hemodialysis recipients. To assess participants' fatigue, we used a self-administered patient-reported outcome questionnaire whose items have shown correlation with those of established scales, such as the Profile of Mood States and Visual Analogue Scales...
October 3, 2023: Scientific Reports
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JOURNAL ARTICLE
Tsukasa Kanchiku, Toshihiko Taguchi, Miho Sekiguchi, Naofumi Toda, Noboru Hosono, Morio Matsumoto, Nobuhiro Tanaka, Koji Akeda, Hiroshi Hashizume, Masahiro Kanayama, Sumihisa Orita, Daisaku Takeuchi, Mamoru Kawakami, Mitsuru Fukui, Masahiko Kanamori, Eiji Wada, So Kato, Michio Hongo, Kei Ando, Yoichi Iizuka, Shota Ikegami, Naohiro Kawamura, Masanari Takami, Yu Yamato, Shinji Takahashi, Kei Watanabe, Jun Takahashi, Shinichi Konno, Hirotaka Chikuda
BACKGROUND: The choice of operative method for lumbar spinal stenosis with Meyerding grade I degenerative spondylolisthesis remains controversial. The purpose of this study was to identify the preoperative factors affecting the 2-year postoperative patient-reported outcome in Meyerding grade I degenerative spondylolisthesis. METHODS: Seventy-two consecutive patients who had minimally invasive decompression alone (D group; 28) or with fusion (DF group; 44) were enrolled...
December 2023: N Am Spine Soc J
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JOURNAL ARTICLE
Wenzhong Huang, Shanshan Li, Thomas Vogt, Rongbin Xu, Shilu Tong, Tomás Molina, Pierre Masselot, Antonio Gasparrini, Ben Armstrong, Mathilde Pascal, Dominic Royé, Chris Fook Sheng Ng, Ana Maria Vicedo-Cabrera, Joel Schwartz, Eric Lavigne, Haidong Kan, Patrick Goodman, Ariana Zeka, Masahiro Hashizume, Magali Hurtado Diaz, César De la Cruz Valencia, Xerxes Seposo, Baltazar Nunes, Joana Madureira, Ho Kim, Whanhee Lee, Aurelio Tobias, Carmen Íñiguez, Yue Leon Guo, Shih-Chun Pan, Antonella Zanobetti, Tran Ngoc Dang, Do Van Dung, Tobias Geiger, Christian Otto, Amanda Johnson, Simon Hales, Pei Yu, Zhengyu Yang, Elizabeth A Ritchie, Yuming Guo
BACKGROUND: The global spatiotemporal pattern of mortality risk and burden attributable to tropical cyclones is unclear. We aimed to evaluate the global short-term mortality risk and burden associated with tropical cyclones from 1980 to 2019. METHODS: The wind speed associated with cyclones from 1980 to 2019 was estimated globally through a parametric wind field model at a grid resolution of 0·5° × 0·5°. A total of 341 locations with daily mortality and temperature data from 14 countries that experienced at least one tropical cyclone day (a day with maximum sustained wind speed associated with cyclones ≥17·5 m/s) during the study period were included...
August 2023: Lancet. Planetary Health
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JOURNAL ARTICLE
Satbyul Estella Kim, Yoonhee Kim, Masahiro Hashizume, Yasushi Honda, Oka Kazutaka, Yasuaki Hijioka, Ho Kim
Background : Relatively little attention has been paid to the potential effects of rising temperatures on changes in human behavior that lead to health and social consequences, including aggression. This study investigated the association between ambient temperature and aggression using assault death data from Seoul, South Korea (1991-2020). Methods : We conducted a time-stratified case-crossover analysis based on conditional logistic regression to control for relevant covariates. The exposure-response curve was explored, and stratified analyses were conducted by season and sociodemographic characteristics...
June 2023: Yale Journal of Biology and Medicine
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JOURNAL ARTICLE
Santosh Kumar Rauniyar, Masahiro Hashizume, Daisuke Yoneoka, Shuhei Nomura
OBJECTIVE: Aim of the study is to predict trends in morbidity and mortality due to breast cancer in 42 LMICs between 2020 and 2050. DESIGN: and Setting: National level cross-sectional breast cancer related data between 1990 and 2019 were used. Recurrent Neural Network, Long-Short-Term Memory (RNN-LSTM) model was employed to forecast the trend in breast cancer burden. MAIN OUTCOMES AND MEASURES: Age standardized breast cancer incidence, mortality, and disability adjusted life years (DALYs) rates...
June 2023: Heliyon
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JOURNAL ARTICLE
Cyrus Ghaznavi, Akifumi Eguchi, Kaung Suu Lwin, Daisuke Yoneoka, Yuta Tanoue, Santosh Kumar Rauniyar, Sayaka Horiuchi, Masahiro Hashizume, Shuhei Nomura
OBJECTIVES: The COVID-19 pandemic has disrupted the distribution of routine immunizations globally. Multi-country studies assessing a wide spectrum of vaccines and their coverage rates are needed to determine global performance in achieving vaccination goals. METHODS: Global vaccine coverage data for 16 antigens were obtained from WHO/UNICEF Estimates of National Immunization Coverage. Tobit regression was performed for all country-antigen pairs for which data were continuously available between 2015-2020 or 2015-2021 to predict vaccine coverage in 2020/2021...
May 22, 2023: Vaccine
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JOURNAL ARTICLE
Satbyul Estella Kim, Masahiro Hashizume, Ben Armstrong, Antonio Gasparrini, Kazutaka Oka, Yasuaki Hijioka, Ana M Vicedo-Cabrera, Yasushi Honda
BACKGROUND: The health effects of heat are well documented; however, limited information is available regarding the health risks of hot nights. Hot nights have become more common, increasing at a faster rate than hot days, making it urgent to understand the characteristics of the hot night risk. OBJECTIVES: We estimated the effects of hot nights on the cause- and location-specific mortality in a nationwide assessment over 43 y (1973-2015) using a unified analytical framework in the 47 prefectures of Japan...
May 2023: Environmental Health Perspectives
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JOURNAL ARTICLE
Masna Rai, Massimo Stafoggia, Francesca de'Donato, Matteo Scortichini, Sofia Zafeiratou, Liliana Vazquez Fernandez, Siqi Zhang, Klea Katsouyanni, Evangelia Samoli, Shilpa Rao, Eric Lavigne, Yuming Guo, Haidong Kan, Samuel Osorio, Jan Kyselý, Aleš Urban, Hans Orru, Marek Maasikmets, Jouni J K Jaakkola, Niilo Ryti, Mathilde Pascal, Masahiro Hashizume, Chris Fook Sheng Ng, Barrak Alahmad, Magali Hurtado Diaz, César De la Cruz Valencia, Baltazar Nunes, Joana Madureira, Noah Scovronick, Rebecca M Garland, Ho Kim, Whanhee Lee, Aurelio Tobias, Carmen Íñiguez, Bertil Forsberg, Christofer Åström, Ana Maria Vicedo-Cabrera, Martina S Ragettli, Yue-Liang Leon Guo, Shih-Chun Pan, Shanshan Li, Antonio Gasparrini, Francesco Sera, Pierre Masselot, Joel Schwartz, Antonella Zanobetti, Michelle L Bell, Alexandra Schneider, Susanne Breitner
BACKGROUND: Evidence on the potential interactive effects of heat and ambient air pollution on cause-specific mortality is inconclusive and limited to selected locations. OBJECTIVES: We investigated the effects of heat on cardiovascular and respiratory mortality and its modification by air pollution during summer months (six consecutive hottest months) in 482 locations across 24 countries. METHODS: Location-specific daily death counts and exposure data (e...
February 13, 2023: Environment International
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JOURNAL ARTICLE
Yo Akazawa, Koki Tamai, Maika Yoshioka, Sakina Hashizume, Masahiro Koh, Koji Hayashi, Akio Hara, Yoshiteru Katsura, Hajime Hirose, Natsumi Tanaka, Setsuko Yoshioka, Shu Okamura, Chikara Ebisui, Hideoki Yokouchi, Masahiko Yano
A 55-year-old male revealed with a 5 cm-diameter mass in the lower abdomen on ultrasonography incidentally. Computed tomography showed a mass of 7 cm in size on the left side of the bladder. A malignant tumor was suspected, and surgically excised for purpose of diagnosis and treatment. Pathological examination confirmed retroperitoneal leiomyosarcoma, and the resection margins were negative. Follow-up computed tomography scan was performed every 3 months. Repeated resections were performed for twice recurrences within a year after surgery...
March 2023: Gan to Kagaku Ryoho. Cancer & Chemotherapy
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REVIEW
Kaung Suu Lwin, Aurelio Tobias, Paul Lester Chua, Lei Yuan, Ramita Thawonmas, Sophearen Ith, Zin Wai Htay, Lin Szu Yu, Lisa Yamasaki, Marta Roqué, Xavier Querol, Julia C Fussell, Kari Christine Nadeau, Massimo Stafoggia, Najat A Saliba, Chris Fook Sheng Ng, Masahiro Hashizume
Desert dust and sandstorms are recurring environmental phenomena that are reported to produce serious health risks worldwide. This scoping review was conducted to identify the most likely health effects of desert dust and sandstorms and the methods used to characterize desert dust exposure from the existing epidemiological literature. We systematically searched PubMed/MEDLINE, Web of Science, and Scopus to identify studies that reported the effects of desert dust and sandstorms on human health. Search terms referred to desert dust or sandstorm exposure, names of major deserts, and health outcomes...
March 2023: GeoHealth
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JOURNAL ARTICLE
Takuya Sagawa, Yuichi Nikaido, Kazutoshi Iijima, Masahiro Sakaguchi, Yusuke Yataka, Mineo Hashizume
Natural polysaccharides are biocompatible and biodegradable; therefore, they can be used as feedstock for biodegradable structural materials and biomaterials. In this study, anisotropic polysaccharide composite films consisting of chondroitin sulfate C (CS) and chitosan (CHI) were fabricated from their polyion complex (PIC) gels by roll-press techniques. The obtained films (CS/CHI films) were thin and transparent, similar to the composite films prepared by hot-press techniques. The roll-press conditions were optimized, and it was observed that the molecular weight of CHI did not significantly affect the formability of the films, whereas the roll temperature and rolling speed were important...
February 14, 2023: ACS Omega
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JOURNAL ARTICLE
Aufandra C Wardhana, Akira Yamaguchi, Kiyohiro Adachi, Daisuke Hashizume, Masahiro Miyauchi
The titanium dioxide (TiO2 ) photocatalyst is only active under UV irradiation due to its wide-gap nature. A novel excitation pathway denoted as interfacial charge transfer (IFCT) has been reported to activate copper(II) oxide nanoclusters-loaded TiO2 powder (Cu(II)/TiO2 ) under visible-light irradiation for only organic decomposition (downhill reaction) so far. Here, the photoelectrochemical study shows that the Cu(II)/TiO2 electrode exhibits a cathodic photoresponse under visible-light and UV irradiation...
February 20, 2023: Small
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JOURNAL ARTICLE
Lina Madaniyazi, Aurelio Tobías, Ana M Vicedo-Cabrera, Jouni J K Jaakkola, Yasushi Honda, Yuming Guo, Joel Schwartz, Antonella Zanobetti, Michelle L Bell, Ben Armstrong, Michael J Campbell, Klea Katsouyanni, Andy Haines, Kristie L Ebi, Antonio Gasparrini, Masahiro Hashizume
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January 30, 2023: Epidemiology
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JOURNAL ARTICLE
Szu Yu Lin, Chris Fook Sheng Ng, Yoonhee Kim, Zin Wai Htay, Alton Quan Cao, Rui Pan, Masahiro Hashizume
BACKGROUND: Despite the substantial disease burden caused by nervous system diseases, few studies have examined the association between ambient temperature and nervous system diseases, especially during cold seasons. Evidence for specific disease subgroups such as Alzheimer's and Parkinson's is also lacking. OBJECTIVES: This study examined the association between short-term changes in ambient temperature and nervous system diseases-related mortality in ten Japanese prefectures from 1 January 2010 to 31 December 2019...
January 5, 2023: Science of the Total Environment
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JOURNAL ARTICLE
Kazuaki Hashimoto, Takeaki Takeuchi, Maya Murasaki, Miki Hiiragi, Akiko Koyama, Yuzo Nakamura, Masahiro Hashizume
BACKGROUND: Medically unexplained symptoms (MUS) are common conditions that cause various somatic complaints and are often avoided in primary care. Fatigue frequently occurs in patients with MUS. However, the somatic and psychiatric symptoms associated with fatigue in patients with MUS are unknown. This study aimed to clarify the intensity of fatigue and the related somatic and psychiatric symptoms in patients with MUS. METHODS: A total of 120 patients with MUS aged 20-64 years who visited the Department of Psychosomatic Medicine, Toho University Medical Center Omori Hospital, between January and March 2021 were considered...
January 2023: Journal of General and Family Medicine
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JOURNAL ARTICLE
Hironori Nishikawa, Xerxes Tesoro Seposo, Lina Madaniyazi, Yoonhee Kim, Aurelio Tobías, Makiko Yamagami, Satbyul Estella Kim, Akinori Takami, Seiji Sugata, Yasushi Honda, Kayo Ueda, Masahiro Hashizume, Chris Fook Sheng Ng
BACKGROUND AND AIM: Short-term associations between air pollution and mortality have been well reported in Japan, but the historical changes in mortality risk remain unknown. We examined temporal changes in the mortality risks associated with short-term exposure to four criteria air pollutants in selected Japanese cities. METHODS: We collected daily mortality data for non-accidental causes (n = 5,748,206), cardiovascular (n = 1,938,743) and respiratory diseases (n = 777,266), and air pollutants (sulfur dioxide [SO2 ], nitrogen dioxide [NO2 ], suspended particulate matter [SPM], and oxidants [Ox]) in 10 cities from 1977 to 2015...
December 19, 2022: Environmental Research
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