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    Predictive power of home blood pressure measurement for cardiovascular outcomes in patients with type 2 diabetes: KAMOGAWA-HBP study

    Our previous study showed that the morning systolic blood pressure target should be <120 mmHg to prevent the onset or progression of diabetic nephropathy in patients with type 2 diabetes. In this study, we exa...

    Emi Ushigome, Nobuko Kitagawa, Noriyuki Kitagawa, Toru Tanaka… in Hypertension Research (2021)

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    Impact of age on groin hernia profiles observed during laparoscopic transabdominal preperitoneal hernia repair

    How increasing age affects the characteristics of groin hernia remains uncertain. This study evaluated the association between age and the type of groin hernia, especially with respect to its multiplicity, obs...

    Kentaro Fukushima, Takahide Yokoyama, Shiro Miwa, Hiroaki Motoyama… in Surgical Endoscopy (2019)

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    Prognostic significance of home pulse pressure for progression of diabetic nephropathy: KAMOGAWA-HBP study

    Pulse pressure (PP) has been noted as a potential independent risk factor for micro and macrovascular diabetic complications. We aimed to examine the prognostic value of home-measured PP (home PP) in patients ...

    Noriyuki Kitagawa, Emi Ushigome, Shinobu Matsumoto, Chikako Oyabu… in Hypertension Research (2018)

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    Survival Benefits of Surgical Resection in Patients with Recurrent Biliary Tract Carcinoma

    Whether surgical resection for recurrent biliary tract carcinoma (BTC) prolongs survival and the patients who are most likely to benefit from such treatment remain unclear.

    Hiroaki Motoyama, Akira Kobayashi, Takahide Yokoyama… in World Journal of Surgery (2017)

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    Postprandial hyperglycemia was ameliorated by taking metformin 30 min before a meal than taking metformin with a meal; a randomized, open-label, crossover pilot study

    Taking metformin with a meal has been shown to decrease bioavailability of metformin. We hypothesized that taking metformin 30 min before a meal improves glucose metabolism. As an animal model, 18 Zucker-rats...

    Yoshitaka Hashimoto, Muhei Tanaka, Hiroshi Okada, Kazuteru Mistuhashi… in Endocrine (2016)

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    Hemoglobin concentration and incident metabolic syndrome: a population-based large-scale cohort study

    Previous cross-sectional studies revealed an association between hemoglobin concentration and a prevalence of metabolic syndrome (MetS). However, the association between hemoglobin concentration and incident M...

    Yoshitaka Hashimoto, Muhei Tanaka, Toshihiro Kimura, Noriyuki Kitagawa… in Endocrine (2015)

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    Liver failure after hepatocellular carcinoma surgery

    The aim of this study was to construct a prediction model for posthepatectomy liver failure (PHLF), as defined by the International Study Group of Liver Surgery, and evaluate its accuracy in hepatocellular car...

    Hiroaki Motoyama, Akira Kobayashi, Takahide Yokoyama… in Langenbeck's Archives of Surgery (2014)

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    Assessment of treatment outcomes based on tumor marker trends in patients with recurrent hepatocellular carcinoma undergoing trans-catheter arterial chemo-embolization

    The aim of the present study was to evaluate whether serum alpha-fetoprotein (AFP) and des-gamma-carboxy prothrombin (DCP) trends might be correlated with overall survival rates in patients with recurrent hepa...

    Takuma Arai, Akira Kobayashi, Ayumi Ohya… in International Journal of Clinical Oncology (2014)