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Akira Fujiyoshi
Researcher at Wakayama Medical University
Publications - 172
Citations - 3197
Akira Fujiyoshi is an academic researcher from Wakayama Medical University. The author has contributed to research in topics: Population & Medicine. The author has an hindex of 27, co-authored 149 publications receiving 2518 citations. Previous affiliations of Akira Fujiyoshi include Shiga University of Medical Science & University of Minnesota.
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Caloric restriction, the traditional Okinawan diet, and healthy aging: the diet of the world's longest-lived people and its potential impact on morbidity and life span.
Bradley J. Willcox,D. Craig Willcox,Hidemi Todoriki,Akira Fujiyoshi,Katsuhiko Yano,Qimei He,J. David Curb,Makoto Suzuki +7 more
TL;DR: Investigation of archived population data on the elderly cohort of Okinawans for evidence of CR lends epidemiologic support for phenotypic benefits of CR in humans and is consistent with the well‐known literature on animals with regard to CR phenotypes and healthy aging.
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Patient-Important Outcomes in Registered Diabetes Trials
Gunjan Y. Gandhi,M. Hassan Murad,Akira Fujiyoshi,Rebecca J. Mullan,David N. Flynn,Mohamed B. Elamin,Brian A. Swiglo,William L. Isley,Gordon H. Guyatt,Victor M. Montori +9 more
TL;DR: In this sample of registered ongoing RCTs in diabetes, only 18% included patient-important outcomes as primary outcomes, and in multivariate analysis, large trials and type 2 diabetes trials were less likely to assess patient- important outcomes as a primary outcome.
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Blood pressure categories and long-term risk of cardiovascular disease according to age group in Japanese men and women.
Akira Fujiyoshi,Takayoshi Ohkubo,Katsuyuki Miura,Yoshitaka Murakami,Shin-ya Nagasawa,Tomonori Okamura,Hirotsugu Ueshima +6 more
TL;DR: An overall graded increase in CVD risk with higher BP category in the very elderly is found, suggesting that keeping BP levels low is an important strategy for primary CVD prevention, even in an elderly population.
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Factors associated with mortality of myxedema coma: report of eight cases and literature survey.
TL;DR: It was revealed that greater age, cardiac complications, and high-dose thyroid hormone replacement were significantly associated with a fatal outcome within 1 month of treatment.
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Dietary sodium-to-potassium ratio as a risk factor for stroke, cardiovascular disease and all-cause mortality in Japan: the NIPPON DATA80 cohort study
Akira Okayama,Nagako Okuda,Katsuyuki Miura,Tomonori Okamura,Takehito Hayakawa,Hiroshi Akasaka,Hirofumi Ohnishi,Shigeyuki Saitoh,Yusuke Arai,Yutaka Kiyohara,Naoyuki Takashima,Katsushi Yoshita,Akira Fujiyoshi,Maryam Zaid,Takayoshi Ohkubo,Hirotsugu Ueshima +15 more
TL;DR: Dietary Na–K ratio assessed by a 3-day weighing dietary record was a significant risk factor for mortality from haemorrhagic stroke, all stroke, CVD and all causes among a Japanese population.