• 디지털융복합연구
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• 제11권12호
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• pp.615-620
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• 2013

이 연구은 2012년 인구보건복지협회가 검진한 일개도 통풍검사 결과를 성별을 구분하여 자료를 분석한 결과로 추후 통풍환자관리에 있어 기초 자료로 활용하기 위해 실시되었다. 분석은 SPSS 18.0을 이용하여 빈도분석, 카이제곱 분석 및 로지스틱 회귀분석을 실시하였다. 그 결과, 고요산혈증으로 정밀검사를 요하는 수진자는 남자가 월등히 많았고, 저요산혈증은 여자가 유의하게 많게 나타났다(p<0.001). 연령별 정밀검사를 요하는 수진자 및 저요산혈증은 70세 이상이 유의하게 가장 많았다(p<0.001). 고요산혈증으로 정밀검사를 요하는 수진자는 시지역이 저요산혈증은 군지역이 약간 높았으며, 고요산혈증은 내륙지역이 저요산혈증은 해안지역 약간 높은 비율이 나타났다. 이 조사를 토대로 하여 연도별, 연령별, 성별 통풍 유병률을 지속적으로 관찰한다면 통풍의 유병률 변화추세를 판단하기에는 상당히 유용할 것이며, 유소견자로 판정된 사람에 대한 추후관리 서비스 제공 및 폐경 후 여성에서 증가하는 고요산혈증 연구뿐만 아니라 저요산혈증의 원인에 대한 연구가 필요하다.

• Asian Pacific Journal of Cancer Prevention
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• 제15권19호
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• pp.8455-8460
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• 2014

Background: The National Central Cancer Registry of China (NCCR) affiliated to the Bureau of Disease Control, National Health and Family Planning Commission of China is responsible for cancer surveillance in the entire country. Cancer registration data from each local registry located in each province are collected by NCCR annually to be analyzed and published to provide useful information for policy makers and cancer researchers. Materials and Methods: Until 1st June, 2013, 219 population-based cancer registries submitted data of 2010 to the National Central Cancer Registry of China covering about 207,229,403 population, and 145 cancer registries were selected after quality evaluation for this study. Colorectal cancer cases were selected from the database according to ICD-10 coded as "C18-C20". We calculated the crude incidence and mortality rates by sex, age groups and location (urban/rural). The China population in 2000 and Segi's population were used as standardized populations for the calculation of age-standardized rates. The 6th National Population Census data of China was used to combined with the cancer registries' data to estimate the colorectal cancer burden in China in 2010. Results: Colorectal cancer was the sixth most common cancer in China. It was estimated that there were 274,841 new cases diagnosed in 2010 (157,355 in males and 117,486 in females), with the crude incidence rate of 20.1/100,000, highest in males in urban areas. Age-standardized rates by China standard population of 2000 (ASRcn) and World standard population (Segi's population, ASRwld) for incidence were 16.1/100,000 and 15.9/100,000 respectively. There were 132,110 cases estimated to have died from colorectal cancer in China in 2010 (76,646 men and 55,464 women) with the crude mortality rate of 10.1/100,000. The ASRcn and ASRwld for mortality were 7.55/100,000 and 7.44/100,000 respectively, higher in males and urban areas than in females and rural areas. The incidence and mortality rates increased with age, reaching peaksin the 80-84 year old, and oldest age groups, respectively. Conclusions: Colorectal cancer is one of the most common incident cancers and cause of cancer death in China. Primary and secondary prevention, with attention to a health lifestyle, physical activity and screening should be enhanced in the general population.

• Journal of the Korean Academy of Child and Adolescent Psychiatry
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• 제22권3호
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• pp.162-168
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• 2011

Objectives: Alcohol problems of parents have an influence on not only their psychological problems but also on their children's psychosocial adaptation. The purpose of this study was to compare the emotional and behavioral problems, including school bullying and social skills, between children of alcoholics (COAs) and children of non-alcoholics (non-COAs). Methods: We recruited $4^{th}$ grade children (n=741) from 7 primary schools in Seoul and their parents as subjects. The self-rated psychiatric symptoms were assessed with the Korean version of the Children of Alcoholics Screening Test (CAST-K), the Children's Depression Inventory (CDI), the Rosenberg's Self-esteem Scale (RSES), the School Bullying Scale, the Social Skill Rating Scale and the Korean version of Alcohol Expectancy Questionnaire-Adolescent (AEQ-A). The Attention-deficit Hyperactivity Disorder Rating Scale-IV (ARS) was completed by the parents. Results: 518 children were non-COAs and 223 were COAs. The COAs showed higher CDI and ARS-IV scores and lower RSES scores than the non-COAs. Especially, the COAs also showed higher school bullying scale scores and lower cooperative scale scores on the social skill rating scales. But there was no difference of alcohol expectancy between the COAs and non-COAs. Conclusion: It was plausible that the COAs had more behavioral & psychosocial problems than the non-COAs among the school aged children. It is important to identify and intervene to solve the problems of peer relationships of school age COAs in order to prevent victimization by bullying and to improve psychosocial adaptation.

• Journal of the Korean Academy of Child and Adolescent Psychiatry
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• 제28권2호
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• pp.58-69
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• 2017

Attention-deficit hyperactivity disorder (ADHD) is a highly prevalent, impairing, and comorbid disorder that persists into adulthood. ADHD should be diagnosed in the same manner as other common adult mental health disorders. The three most important components in the comprehensive evaluation of patients with ADHD are the clinical interview, medical examination, and completion and scoring of behavior rating scales. The diagnostic evaluation of ADHD should include questions about the symptoms, family history, prior evaluation and treatment of ADHD, as well as other problems including alcohol and drug use. Screening interviews or rating scales, as well as interviews, should be used. When it is feasible, clinicians may wish to supplement these components of the evaluation with the objective assessments of the ADHD symptoms, such as through psychological tests. These tests are not essential to reaching a diagnosis, however, or to treatment planning, but may yield further information about the presence and severity of cognitive impairments that could be associated with some cases of ADHD. As comorbidity is the rule rather than the exception, clinicians should carefully screen for comorbid disorders as part of a comprehensive assessment of ADHD. To receive a diagnosis of ADHD, the person must be experiencing significant distress or impairment in his or her daily functioning, and must not meet the criteria for other mental disorders which might better account for the observed symptoms, such as mental retardation, autism or other pervasive developmental disorders, mood disorders and anxiety disorders. This report aims to suggest practice guidelines for the assessment and diagnosis of children, adolescents and adults with ADHD in Korea.

• 대한한의학회지
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• 제30권2호
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• pp.30-45
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• 2009

Background: The safety of herbal products is an important issue in Korea. It is more complicated because of the concomitant use of conventional western drugs and herbal medicine, including prescribed medicine, folk herbs and food supplements. Although both western and traditional Korean medical doctors have studied on the safety of HMP, their results did not show relevant or consistent conclusions because of the poor quality of studies, including bias. Objectives: The aim of this study was to review the studies in Korea related to drug induced liver injury (DILI) systematically. We tried to estimate the proportion of causative materials of DILI and evaluate the clinical difference of DILIs from different materials. Methods: Systematic searches were performed on MedRIC and MEDLIS in Korea. The extraction of data as well as selective screening of the studies was carried out independently by two of the authors. There were no restrictions on the types of publication, including grey literature. Results: Twenty-one articles were included. Of them only 7 adapted prospective design and only 6 were published in peer-reviewed journals. The proportion of conventional drugs associated with hepatotoxic injuries in all DILI ranged from 15.8% to 83.3% and that of herbal medicine was from 28.9% to 44.7%. However, the criteria for herbal medicine were not clearly defined and concomitant medications were not fully investigated in most studies. There were limited objective data in the clinical differences of liver injuries from different materials and their results were conflicting. Conclusions: The causality assessments regarding DILI of herbal medicine were not performed properly and causative materials were misclassified in most of the studies published in Korea. These make the safety issue still ambiguous because of the limitations and lack of objectivity of the studies. More rigorous studies are required for clearly addressing these conflicting issues with cooperative investigation between traditional Korean and western medicine.

• 한국식품영양학회지
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• 제25권4호
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• pp.729-736
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• 2012

산삼 배양근 기능성 식품 및 화장품 소재로서의 이용 가능성을 조사하기 위해 산삼 배양근 70% 에탄올 추출물의 영양성분 및 항산화 활성(총 페놀 함량, 총 플라보노이드 함량, 전자공여능, 아질산염소거능, 환원력) 등을 측정하였다. 식품영양학적 접근에서의 산삼 배양근의 일반성분은 건량 기준으로 당질 61.72%, 조단백질 17.36%, 조지방 0.23% 및 조회분10.90%이었고, 산삼 배양근 100 g의 함유 열량은 323.97 kcal로 분석되었다. 또한, 총 18종의 아미노산으로 구성되었으며, 함량은 16.15 g이었고, 무기질 중 칼륨의 함유량이 가장 높았으며, 그 다음이 인, 칼슘, 마그네슘 순으로 나타나 알칼리성 재료임을 알 수 있었으며, 지방산 함량의 경우 총 포화 지방산 0.26 g, 불포화지방산 0.62 g으로 구성되어 있었다. 조 사포닌의 함량은 25.87 mg/g으로 분석되었다. 총 페놀 함량은 11.2 mg/g, 총 플라보노이드 함량은 4.2 mg/g으로 나타났으며, 전자공여능은 24.7~31.6%의 범위로 활성을 나타내었다. 아질산염소거능은 모든 pH 조건하에서 pH가 증가할수록 감소하였다. 환원력의 경우에는 $1,000{\mu}g/m{\ell}$에서 0.06의 값으로 가장 높은 활성을 보였다. 이상의 결과로부터 산삼 배양근 70% 에탄올 추출물은 항산화능이 있음을 확인할 수 있었다.

• 한국식품영양학회지
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• 제25권4호
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• pp.842-849
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• 2012

본 연구는 구멍쇠미역을 대상으로 건강기능성식품의 소재로의 활용을 위한 가능성을 타진하고자 영양성분 분석을 통한 식품영양학적 접근 및 생리활성 기능을 분석하였다. 식품 영양학적 접근에서의 구멍쇠미역의 일반성분은 건량 기준으로 당질 45.4%, 조단백질 15.0%, 조지방 2.3% 및 조회분 33.1%이었고, 구멍쇠미역 100 g의 함유 열량은 262.3 kcal로 분석되었으며, 총 식이섬유소 함량은 34.0%로 나타났다. 또한, 총 18종의 아미노산으로 구성되었으며, 그 함량은 12,402.42 mg이었고, 무기질 중 칼륨의 함유량이 가장 높았고, 그 다음이 칼슘, 나트륨, 마그네슘 순으로 나타나, 알칼리성 재료임을 알 수 있었다. 구멍쇠미역 추출물의 총 페놀 함량 및 총 플라보노이드 함량분석 결과, 각각 $34.1{\pm}2.56mg/g$과 $4.9{\pm}0.26mg/g$으로 나타났다. 다양한 항산화 평가 모델(DPPH, FRAP, 환원력, ABTS)을 통하여 구멍쇠미역 추출물의 항산화 활성을 측정한 결과, 구멍쇠미역 추출물의 농도가 증가함에 따라 항산화능이 유의적으로 증가하는 것으로 나타났다. 이상의 결과로부터 구멍쇠미역은 식품으로서의 이용가치가 매우 크며, 구멍쇠미역 추출물은 항산화능이 있음을 확인할 수 있었다.

• 대한의생명과학회지
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• 제12권2호
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• pp.73-79
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• 2006

Nebulin is a giant ($600{\sim}900$ kDa), modular sarcomeric protein proposed to regulate the assembly, and to specify the precise lengths of actin filamints in vertebrate skeletal muscles. Recently, There is an evidence that the nebulin also expressed in non muscle tissue, brain and liver. We identified a new isoform of nebulin from adult brain library by PCR screening. It contains two simple-repeats exon 165, 166 and linker-repeats exon $154{\sim}161$ except exon 159. The nebulin modules M160 to M170 (exon 150 to exon 161) has been shown to bind desmin. In mature striated muscle, desmin intermediate filaments surround Z-discs and link individual myofibrils laterally at their Z-discs and to other intracellular structures, including the costameres and the intercalated discs of the sarcolemma, sarcoplasmic reticulum, mitochondria, T-tubules, and nuclei. Therefore, it is an interesting possibility that the differential splice pathways within the linker region of nebulin modify the affinity of nebulin's interaction with desmin. The specific interactions of nebulin and desmin were confirmed in vivo by yeast two hybrid experiments. To verify in the cellular level the interaction between nebulin isoform and desmin, we transfected COS-7 cell with EGFP-tagged nebulin and DsRed-tagged desmin. Based on evidence showing that despite exon 159 was deleted, the new isoform of nebulin was interact with desmin. This suggest that nebulin in brain may interact with another intermediate filament. The conservation of these ligand-binding capacity in brain and skeletal nebulins suggest that nebulins may have conserved roles in brain and skeletal muscle.

• 한국환경보건학회지
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• 제27권3호
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• pp.71-80
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• 2001

Blood and urine mercury level of three workers were monitored during 60~80 days after high exposure to mercury at the silver refining plant. Mercury was used to form silver-mercury amalgam from plating sludge. Workers were exposed to mercury about 70 days at the several processes, such as hand held weaving, vibration table, and heating from the furnace. mercury was analysed by atomic absorption spectroscopy-vapor generation technique. Recovery from the biological sample was 95.51% and pooled standard deviation was 0.033. At the time of study, there was no work at the workplace. So, airborne mercury concentration was measured with area sampling 5 days after the work, ranged from 0.1459 to 1.2351 mg/㎥(Arithmatic mean 0.4711 mg/㎥, Geometric mean 0.3566 mg/㎥) at the inside of the plant, that is far above the ACGIH's TLV(0.025 mg/㎥) and ranged from 0.0073 to 0.0330 mg/㎥ at the outdoor. Blood mercury levels at the beginning of the monitoring were 4~14 times greater than the American Conference of Governmental Industrial Hygienists Biological Exposure Index(ACGIH BEI, 15 ug/L). Blood mercury levels were decreased logarithmically, that is, rapidly at the high level and slowly at the low level but sustained above the level of the ACGIH BEI 60~80 days after the work. Urine mercury levels at the beginning of the monitoring were 8~16 times greater than the ACGIH BEI(35 ug/g creatinine). Urine mercury levels were decreased logarithmically, but correlation between urine level and off-days were lower than those of blood. Decreasing pattern of blood mercury levels were little affected than that of urine levels when the chelating agent, D-penicillamine, was administered. There was correlation between blood mercury level and urine mercury level(0.81~0.83) but it didn\`t mean that the highest blood mercury level corresponded the highest urine mercury level. In our study, Case 1 always shows the highest level in urine but case 3 always shows the highest level in blood. Creatinine correction represented better correlations between urine mercury levels and blood levels, and between urine levels and off-days rather than by urine volume. Spot urine sampling had a wide variation than that of whole day urine sampling. So, We recommend spot urine sampling for screening and whole day urine sampling for exact diagnosis.

• 대한임상검사과학회지
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• 제50권3호
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• pp.261-266
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• 2018

만성C형 간염환자 160예를 대상으로 immunoblot방법과 RT-PCR-hybridization법을 실시하여 임상검사의 유용성을 알아보았다. 양성 150예 중 133예만 RT-PCR-hybridization 법에서 양성을 나타내어 immunoblot법의 진양성율은 88.6%를 나타났으며 두 방법 간의 일치율은 89.3%를 나타났다. 한국인의 HCV 아형을 알기 위하여 혈청형과 유전형을 실시하였다. HCV혈청형 1형과 2형 그리고 1b와 2a유전형이 가장 많은 C형간염 감염원으로 나타났다. 49예를 혈청형과 유전형을 서로 비교한 결과, 혈청형 검사에서 28예(57.1%)가 1형, 21예(42.9%)가 2형으로 나타났으며 유전자형 검사에서 1b형이 25예(51.0%), 1b/2b를 나타낸 예가 1예(2.0%), 2a형이 17예(34.7%), 2a/2c를 나타낸 예가 4예(8.2%), 그리고 2b형이 2예(4.1%)로 나타났다. 본 연구에서는 HCV 간이검출법으로는 immunoblot방법이 유용하며, immunoblot방법 양성 확진검사로는 RT-PCR-hybridization법을 실시하였다. 혈청형이 C형간염의 치료 나 진행과정을 관찰하기 위해서는 유전형보다 유용하나 인터페론 치료효과는 1형과 2형 혈청형별에 따라 차이를 보이지 않았다.