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BMC Pregnancy Childbirth ; 24(1): 256, 2024 Apr 08.
Artículo en Inglés | MEDLINE | ID: mdl-38589811

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Prenatal vitamin D (PVD) is a vital micronutrient for dental caries (DCs). The association between prenatal vitamin D deficiencies (PVDD) and DCs in children has been conflicting in different reports. This meta-analysis aimed to investigate the association between PVDD and DCs in children for the first time. We searched PubMed, Scopus, Web of Sciences, Embase, and Scholar databases to find relevant studies based on mesh terms from 2000 to October 2023. This study was conducted based on the 2020 version of the PRISMA checklist. Cochran's Q and I2 tests were used to evaluate heterogeneity between studies. Egger's test was used to evaluate publication bias. The effect size of the association between PVDD and DCs was reported by the odds ratio (OR) at the 95% confidence interval (95% CI).Twelve studies, including 11,021 participants, were reviewed. The pooled prevalence of PVDD was estimated at 4353 (32%). The prevalence of DCs in children of mothers with and without PVDD was 44% and 25%, respectively. PVDD was significantly associated with an increased risk of DCs in children (OR: 1.35, 95% CI (1.22, 1.47), I2 = 86.6%). The association of DCs with PVDD was different based on gestational age groups, children's age groups, and vitamin D levels. This meta-analysis showed PVDD can be associated with an increased risk of DCs in children, especially in mothers with prenatal vitamin D levels ≤ 35 nmol/L. Adequate vitamin D levels throughout pregnancy can help prevent DCs in children.


Asunto(s)
Caries Dental , Deficiencia de Vitamina D , Humanos , Caries Dental/epidemiología , Deficiencia de Vitamina D/epidemiología , Deficiencia de Vitamina D/complicaciones , Embarazo , Femenino , Niño , Lactante , Complicaciones del Embarazo/epidemiología , Preescolar , Vitamina D/sangre , Prevalencia
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J Nanobiotechnology ; 22(1): 21, 2024 Jan 05.
Artículo en Inglés | MEDLINE | ID: mdl-38183090

RESUMEN

Periodontitis, one of the most prevalent dental diseases, causes the loss of bone and gum tissue that hold teeth in place. Several bacteria, commonly present in clinically healthy oral cavities, may induce and perpetuate periodontitis when their concentration rises in the gingival sulcus. Antibacterial effect against various Gram-negative and Gram-positive bacteria, including pathogenic and drug-resistant ones, has been shown for several distinct transient metal and metal oxide NPs. Therefore, NPs may be used in biomedicine to treat periodontal problems and in nanotechnology to inhibit the development of microorganisms. Instead of using harmful chemicals or energy-intensive machinery, biosynthesis of metal and metal oxide nanoparticles (NPs) has been suggested. To produce metal and metal oxide NPs, the ideal technique is "Green" synthesis because of its low toxicity and safety for human health and the environment. Gold NPs (AuNPs) appear to be less toxic to mammalian cells than other nanometals because their antibacterial activity is not dependent on reactive oxygen species (ROS). AgNPs also possess chemical stability, catalytic activity, and superior electrical and thermal conductivity, to name a few of their other advantageous characteristics. It was observed that zinc oxide (ZnO) NPs and copper (Cu) NPs exhibited discernible inhibitory effects against gram-positive and gram-negative bacterial strains, respectively. ZnO NPs demonstrated bactericidal activity against the microorganisms responsible for periodontitis. Medications containing magnetic NPs are highly effective against multidrug-resistant bacterial and fungal infections. The titanium dioxide (TiO2) NPs are implicated in elevating salivary peroxidase activity in individuals diagnosed with chronic periodontitis. Furthermore, specific metallic NPs have the potential to enhance the antimicrobial efficacy of periodontitis treatments when combined. Therefore, these NPs, as well as their oxide NPs, are only some of the metals and metal oxides that have been synthesized in environmentally friendly ways and shown to have therapeutic benefits against periodontitis.


Asunto(s)
Nanopartículas del Metal , Periodontitis , Óxido de Zinc , Animales , Humanos , Óxidos , Oro , Nanopartículas del Metal/uso terapéutico , Periodontitis/tratamiento farmacológico , Antibacterianos/farmacología , Mamíferos
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J Oral Maxillofac Surg ; 82(6): 671-683, 2024 Jun.
Artículo en Inglés | MEDLINE | ID: mdl-38513712

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BACKGROUND: Several measures have been implemented to minimize the side effects of impacted third molar (M3) removal including the use of platelet-rich fibrin (PRF). PURPOSE: This study compared the effects of three modifications of PRF (leukocyte-PRF [L-PRF], advanced-PRF [A-PRF], and advanced-PRF plus [A-PRF +]) on the side effects of impacted M3 removal. STUDY DESIGN, SETTING, AND SAMPLE: This double-blinded randomized controlled trial was conducted at the Oral Surgery Department of Kashan University between September 2022 and May 2023 on patients undergoing mandibular impacted M3 removal. Exclusion criteria were age over 30, local inflammation and infection, medication usage, and systemic disease. INDEPENDENT VARIABLE: The independent variable was the PRF product grouped into four categories (control, L-PRF, A-PRF, and A-PRF+). Study subjects were randomly distributed among the four groups. MAIN OUTCOME VARIABLE(S): The main outcome variables were postoperative sequelae including measures of soft tissue healing, pain, analgesic use, alveolar osteitis, trismus, and swelling. Subjects were assessed at baseline and on days 1, 2, 3, and 7 postsurgery. COVARIATES: Age, sex, duration of surgery, and side of surgery were the covariates. ANALYSES: Changes at different time points were analyzed using repeated measures analysis of variance. Pairwise comparisons were performed if significant. P values ≤.05 were considered statistically significant. RESULTS: The sample consisted of 64 subjects (16 per group). All three modifications of PRF yielded significantly better soft tissue healing index than the control group on days 2, 3, 7, and 14 postoperatively (P > .05). A-PRF and A-PRF + had significantly better healing index than L-PRF on the third day (P = .02, P = .01). All the study groups significantly reduced visual analog scale pain score than the control group on days 1, 2, and 3. A-PRF and A-PRF + had significantly lower visual analog scale scores than L-PRF on the second day (P = .003, P = .02). No significant difference was found in maximum mouth opening during follow-up sessions (P = .2). Study groups had less facial swelling on days 2 and 3 than the control group (P < .05). CONCLUSION AND RELEVANCE: L-PRF, A-PRF, and A-PRF + can improve postoperative outcomes after M3 removal but may not impact trismus. A-PRF and A-PRF + may be more effective than L-PRF in promoting soft tissue healing and reducing pain. A-PRF and A-PRF + have comparable results.


Asunto(s)
Mandíbula , Tercer Molar , Fibrina Rica en Plaquetas , Complicaciones Posoperatorias , Extracción Dental , Diente Impactado , Humanos , Diente Impactado/cirugía , Tercer Molar/cirugía , Femenino , Masculino , Método Doble Ciego , Mandíbula/cirugía , Adulto , Complicaciones Posoperatorias/prevención & control , Dolor Postoperatorio/prevención & control , Trismo/etiología , Trismo/prevención & control , Dimensión del Dolor , Plasma Rico en Plaquetas , Cicatrización de Heridas/fisiología
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Asian Bioeth Rev ; 16(4): 595-613, 2024 Oct.
Artículo en Inglés | MEDLINE | ID: mdl-39398462

RESUMEN

The Universal Declaration of Human Rights (UDHR) approved by the United Nations (UN) in 1948 includes the most widely accepted list of individual rights all over the world. Although it has been a catalyst in the pursuit of a universal ethic for human rights, it has not been updated for over 75 years during which significant progress has been made in the recognition of more human rights. It is time to examine whether the current global society aspires for more/other human rights that are not reflected in previous declarations. We offer a review of literature on the potential areas that human rights may be extended to in the current sociocultural atmosphere and share the results of a survey at an international university in Japan which examines the views of 232 young Asian students from Japan, Korea, Vietnam, Thailand, China, Indonesia, etc. regarding the human rights declaration items and their implications, as well as new hypothetical items that they would like to see recognized as human rights. The results demonstrate stronger support for 15 out of the 21 surveyed items by all respondents, as well as stronger support for 10 out of the 21 items by female respondents. These results suggest a variable expansion in the breadth of the human rights concept which is worthy of further research. Also, gender inequality may be the basis for the stronger support of certain human rights by female respondents.

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Asian Bioeth Rev ; 15(4): 417-430, 2023 Oct.
Artículo en Inglés | MEDLINE | ID: mdl-37808444

RESUMEN

Emotions play a significant role in human relations, decision-making, and the motivation to act on those decisions. There are ongoing attempts to use artificial intelligence (AI) to read human emotions, and to predict human behavior or actions that may follow those emotions. However, a person's emotions cannot be easily identified, measured, and evaluated by others, including automated machines and algorithms run by AI. The ethics of emotional AI is under research and this study has examined the emotional variables as well as the perception of emotional AI in two large random groups of college students in an international university in Japan, with a heavy representation of Japanese, Indonesian, Korean, Chinese, Thai, Vietnamese, and other Asian nationalities. Surveys with multiple close-ended questions and an open-ended essay question regarding emotional AI were administered for quantitative and qualitative analysis, respectively. The results demonstrate how ethically questionable results may be obtained through affective computing and by searching for correlations in a variety of factors in collected data to classify individuals into certain categories and thus aggravate bias and discrimination. Nevertheless, the qualitative study of students' essays shows a rather optimistic view over the use of emotional AI, which helps underscore the need to increase awareness about the ethical pitfalls of AI technologies in the complex field of human emotions.

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Asian Bioeth Rev ; 13(4): 421-433, 2021 Dec.
Artículo en Inglés | MEDLINE | ID: mdl-34616496

RESUMEN

To evaluate the moral awareness of college students regarding artificial intelligence (AI) systems, we have examined 467 surveys collected from 152 Japanese and 315 non-Japanese students in an international university in Japan. The students were asked to choose a most significant moral problem of AI applications in the future from a list of ten ethical issues and to write an essay about it. The results show that most of the students (n = 269, 58%) considered unemployment to be the major ethical issue related to AI. The second largest group of students (n = 54, 12%) was concerned with ethical issues related to emotional AI, including the impact of AI on human behavior and emotion and robots' rights and emotions. A relatively small number of students referred to the risk of social control by AI (6%), AI discrimination (6%), increasing inequality (5%), loss of privacy (4%), AI mistakes (3%), malicious AI (3%), and AI security breaches (3%). Calculation of the z score for two population proportions shows that Japanese students were much less concerned about AI control of society (- 3.1276, p < 0.01) than non-Japanese students, but more concerned about discrimination (2.2757, p < 0.05). Female students were less concerned about unemployment (- 2.6108, p < 0.01) than males, but more concerned about discrimination (2.4333, p < 0.05). The study concludes that the moral awareness of college students regarding AI technologies is quite limited and recommends including the ethics of AI in the curriculum.

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Nagoya J Med Sci ; 82(4): 711-723, 2020 Nov.
Artículo en Inglés | MEDLINE | ID: mdl-33311802

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The World Health Organization (WHO) defines the postnatal period as the first six weeks (42 days) after delivery and recommends four postnatal care (PNC) visits for women giving birth to a child to enable early detection and treatment of complications. However, a low utilization of PNC visits by Afghan women has contributed to a relatively high maternal mortality in Afghanistan. This study aimed to identify factors influencing the utilization of PNC visits among Afghan women by sampling nationally representative data from Afghanistan Demographic and Health Survey (AfDHS), 2015. The logistic model was used to measure the adjusted odds of utilizing PNC services among women, with a 95% confidence interval (95% CI) and a p-value of <0.05 for statistical significance. The study found that the utilization of PNC visits in Afghanistan is low; among 8,581 women (44%) who utilized PNC visits and 10,924 women (56%) who didn't, the women's age, place of residence, parity, education, occupation, number of antenatal care (ANC) visits, place of delivery, exposure to public media, the woman's role in decision making and needing a permission to seek healthcare were found to be associated with the level of utilization of PNC visits. Based on the study results, health promotion interventions are recommended to increase the utilization of PNC visits.


Asunto(s)
Aceptación de la Atención de Salud/estadística & datos numéricos , Atención Posnatal , Adulto , Afganistán/epidemiología , Atención Ambulatoria/estadística & datos numéricos , Demografía , Femenino , Necesidades y Demandas de Servicios de Salud , Encuestas Epidemiológicas , Humanos , Servicios de Salud Materna/estadística & datos numéricos , Servicios de Salud Materno-Infantil/estadística & datos numéricos , Atención Posnatal/métodos , Atención Posnatal/estadística & datos numéricos , Embarazo , Trastornos Puerperales/prevención & control , Factores Socioeconómicos
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Asian Pac J Cancer Prev ; 8(1): 93-7, 2007.
Artículo en Inglés | MEDLINE | ID: mdl-17477780

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The use of Positron Emission Tomography (PET) or PET/CT for voluntary cancer screening of asymptomatic individuals is becoming common in Japan, though the utility of such screening is still controversial. This study estimated the general test validity and effective radiation dose for PET/CT cancer screening of healthy Japanese people by evaluating four standard indices (sensitivity, specificity, positive/negative predictive values), and predictive values with including prevalence for published literature and simulation-based Japanese data. CT and FDG-related dosage data were gathered from the literature and then extrapolated to the scan parameters at a model PET center. We estimated that the positive predictive value was only 3.3% in the use of PET/CT for voluntary cancer screening of asymptomatic Japanese individuals aged 50-59 years old, whose average cancer prevalence was 0.5%. The total effective radiation dose of a single whole-body PET/CT scan was estimated to be 6.34 to 9.48 mSv for the average Japanese individual, at 60 kg body weight. With PET/CT cancer screening in Japan, many healthy volunteers screened as false positive are exposed to at least 6.34 mSv without getting any real benefit. More evaluation concerning the justification of applying PET/CT for healthy people is necessary.


Asunto(s)
Fluorodesoxiglucosa F18 , Neoplasias/diagnóstico por imagen , Tomografía de Emisión de Positrones , Radiofármacos , Tomografía Computarizada por Rayos X , Imagen de Cuerpo Entero , Adulto , Anciano , Anciano de 80 o más Años , Exposición a Riesgos Ambientales , Femenino , Humanos , Japón/epidemiología , Masculino , Tamizaje Masivo/métodos , Persona de Mediana Edad , Dosis de Radiación , Medición de Riesgo , Sensibilidad y Especificidad
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Radiat Med ; 24(8): 560-7, 2006 Oct.
Artículo en Inglés | MEDLINE | ID: mdl-17041792

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PURPOSE: The aim of this study was to examine the usage parameters of diagnostic computed tomography (CT) in children because of concerns of possible overuse in Japanese hospitals, including the "technical" CT exposure settings and the "clinical" grounds for CT requests. MATERIALS AND METHODS: We examined the methodology at the radiology department to reduce radiation exposure to children and performed a retrospective study on pediatric CT requests during a 1-year period at Nagasaki University Hospital. The parameters of diagnostic CT usage for minor head trauma and acute appendicitis were studied in detail. RESULTS: CT radiation dose settings are adjusted for children based on guidelines issued by the Japan Radiological Society, with few limitations. CT requests were made for 62% of minor head trauma cases and 76% of cases clinically suspected to be acute appendicitis. These figures are considerably higher than those reported by studies in the United Kingdom, Canada, or the United States. No specific guidelines are advocated regarding CT usage for minor head trauma. The diagnosis of acute appendicitis in children is almost routinely referred for "confirmation" by CT. CONCLUSION: CT radiation risks to children at Japanese hospitals need to be considered more seriously. Physicians should be encouraged to follow diagnostic algorithms that help avoid unnecessary CT usage in children.


Asunto(s)
Hospitales Universitarios/estadística & datos numéricos , Pediatría/estadística & datos numéricos , Tomografía Computarizada por Rayos X/estadística & datos numéricos , Adolescente , Apendicitis/diagnóstico por imagen , Canadá/epidemiología , Niño , Preescolar , Traumatismos Craneocerebrales/diagnóstico por imagen , Femenino , Estudios de Seguimiento , Encuestas de Atención de la Salud , Humanos , Lactante , Recién Nacido , Japón/epidemiología , Masculino , Dosis de Radiación , Servicio de Radiología en Hospital/normas , Estudios Retrospectivos , Medición de Riesgo , Tomografía Computarizada por Rayos X/normas , Estados Unidos/epidemiología
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Asian Pac J Cancer Prev ; 13(3): 897-900, 2012.
Artículo en Inglés | MEDLINE | ID: mdl-22631668

RESUMEN

Cervical cancer resulting from prior infection with human papillomavirus (HPV) is a significant public health threat against young Japanese women. A national immunization plan to vaccinate 13~16 year old female students against HPV infection has been started in Japan since 2010, and may reach almost full coverage by the end of 2012. Older age females who may already be sexually active are not targeted by this plan but should follow safer sex practices as well as periodic screening of the cervix cytology to reduce their risk of developing cervical cancer. HPV vaccination alone does not offer full protection either, because only some HPV types are covered by the vaccines and the long-term efficacy of the vaccines has not been determined yet. Therefore, we did a survey at an international university in Japan to study the knowledge and attitude of female college students towards prevention of cervical cancer, to examine the age when they start sexual activity and other related attributes that may influence the risk of cervical cancer. We discuss the results of our survey and what they imply for the possible impact of an HPV immunization plan on the risk of cervical cancer in Japan, and conclude by an emphasis on the need to increase awareness among Japanese female adolescents and to enhance the cervical screening rates among older females who are already sexually active.


Asunto(s)
Conocimientos, Actitudes y Práctica en Salud , Infecciones por Papillomavirus/prevención & control , Vacunas contra Papillomavirus , Estudiantes/psicología , Neoplasias del Cuello Uterino/prevención & control , Adolescente , Adulto , Alphapapillomavirus , Estudios Transversales , Detección Precoz del Cáncer , Femenino , Humanos , Japón , Tamizaje Masivo , Vacunación Masiva , Conducta Sexual , Encuestas y Cuestionarios , Universidades , Neoplasias del Cuello Uterino/virología , Adulto Joven
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Environ Health Prev Med ; 10(4): 213-8, 2005 Jul.
Artículo en Inglés | MEDLINE | ID: mdl-21432142

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We made a bibliographic search for Japanese and non-Japanese literature on tuberculosis control programs to study the current public health policies for tuberculosis control in Japan especially in regard to cost-effectiveness. Then, we compared the Japanese, strategies for tuberculosis control with those in other countries including the United States, and those recommended by World Health Organization (WHO). The current trend of tuberculosis incidence in the Japanese community demonstrates major differences from the situation that had prompted installation of tuberculosis control measures several decades ago. The tuberculosis control measures should be targeted to the elderly people (over 65 years old) because of the following three aspects. (1) A continuing decline of tuberculosis in the young Japanese population, particularly children who might attain benefits from BCG immunization; (2) The enhancement of the prevalence among the elderly people who are not covered by a uniform national surveillance strategy; (3) Cost-ineffectiveness of Mass Miniature Radiography (MMR) being used as a means to screen for tuberculosis. The cost-effectiveness issue must be considered more seriously, and the WHO recommendations especially in regard with the DOTS (directly-observed treatment, short course) strategy need to be incorporated more effectively into the national program since the incidence of drug resistant tuberculosis in Japan has been recently increasing. Finally, we propose to limit BCG immunization further and to discontinue annual MMR in the young population, and instead to develop effective strategies of both active and passive case finding in the elderly through public and community health services.

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