• Advances in pediatric surgery
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• 제1권1호
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• pp.18-26
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• 1995

For the prevention of later contralateral hernia as well as unnecessary contralateral exploration in pediatric patients with unilateral inguinal hernias, a reasonable indication of contralateral exploration is required. To examine the contralateral positivity, a prospective selective contralateral exploration has been performed by the author from Sept. 1985 to Dec. 1993, at Pediatric Surgical Section of the Department of Surgery, Kangnam St. Mary's Hospital, Catholic University Medical College. Among the total 1200 cases of pediatric inguinal hernias, 580 cases of contralateral side were explored at hernia operations, by the indications as; male with infant onset, 2)female of all age, 3)prematurity, 4)profuse ascites due to cirrhosis, nephrotic syndrome, and ventriculoperitoneal shunt, and 5)remarkable silk sign. Overall positive rate was 71.4%, and positive rates of each indication were 80.7%, 70.4%, 73.1%, 66.7%, and 72.0%, respectively. Right side hernia showed 67.0%, left s ide 75.7%, and positive familial history 71.8% of contralateral positivities. In male, getting older revealed lower positive rates and the rate suddenly dropped after 12 years of age. Birth order, mother's age at delivery, postmaturity did not show any significant differences between the rates. Recurrence was seen in 3(0.5%) ipsilateral and 2(0.3%) contralateral, both of which were negative esplorations on previons operations. Overall complication rate was 3.8%, including 1 infection, 14 fluid or blood accumulation, 5 edemas, 3 temporary testicular edemas, 2 persisting fevers, 2 enures is and one delayed recovery from anesthesia. Among 38 cases with contralateral hernias developed after unilateral surgery by authors(6 cases) or surgeons in other institutions, 14 were males with infant onset, 4 were prematurities and 9 were females. Therefore, 27(71.7%) cases were originally under the contralateral exploration indications. The primary site of the hermia was right in 25 and left in 13. With above results, the following indications for contralateral exploration could be suggested ; 1)under one year of age, both sex, 2)prematurity, 3) remarkable silk sign, 4)in the double checked suspicions among males with infant onset, all age females, ascites, left hernia and familial history. After 12 years of age, exploration is not required. Considering complications, contralateral explorations could be considered only in the following situations; 1)expert, experienced pediatric surgeon, 2)experienced pediatric anesthesiologist, 3)operations could be done smoothly in an hour, 4)good general condition of the patient.

• 한국임상수의학회지
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• 제31권1호
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• pp.15-18
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• 2014

본 연구는 국내 애완용 토끼 총 122두를 대상으로 피부병변을 일으키는 토끼매독(Treponema paraluiscuniculi) 감염율을 혈청학적 방법으로 조사하고 피부병변 부위를 알아보기 위해 실시하였다. 혈청학적 감염율은 21.3%이었으며 수컷보다는 암컷이, 1세 이상보다는 1세 미만에서 유의성 있는 높은 감염율을 나타내었다(각각 p < 0.01). 피부병변은 입술(59.1%), 코(56.5%), 생식기(50.0%), 항문(40.9%) 및 눈꺼풀(18.2%) 순으로 나타났다. 혼합병변은 코와 입술(26.0%), 항문과 생식기(21.8%), 입술, 항문 및 생식기(17.4%) 순으로 나타났다. 모든 피부병변은 Penicillin G(48,000-84,000 IU/kg, 녹십자, 한국)로 1주일 간격으로 3-4회 치료 후 완치 되었다. 피부 병변을 가지고 있거나, 토끼매독의 혈청학적 양성을 나타내는 환자의 경우 즉각적인 치료 및 교배에서 배제가 필요하다.

• Journal of Preventive Medicine and Public Health
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• 제33권1호
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• pp.56-68
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• 2000

Objectives : To describe health behaviors related to hypertension in rural population of Korea and focused to identify inappropriate awareness, treatment, and control of hypertension. Methods : We surveyed 5,517 adults (2,288 males, 3,229 females) older than 30 years in 58 rural areas, purposely sampled nationwide from December 1996 to February 1997. Blood Pressure was checked twice af the time of the first visit. For those who showed high blood pressure using the JNC-6 criteria at their initial visit, we followed up their blood pressure one week later. Also information on the health behavior related to hypertension was collected through the person-to-person interview using structured questionnaire at the first visit. Results : For the past one year, females had more experiences of checking their blood pressure than males (77.3% versus 69.5%, p=0.001). Through the results of consecutively checked blood pressure, only 51.7% of the hypertensives were aware of their condition. Of the hypertensives who aware of their condition, 44.4% did not receive any medication and/or recommendation. And 50.4% of the hypertensives who had anti-hypertensive medication were classified as still having hypertensive blood pressure by 160/95 mmHg criteria. Of the medicated, 54.8% were found to take medication regularly for the past six months. Among the medicated, only 11.4% knew the name of anti-hypertensive drug they had. Conclusions : 'Rule of halves', which works in the situation of no special efforts for hypertension control, was identified. This study showed that much efforts to control hypertension would be required in the rural population of Korea.

• 대한두경부종양학회지
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• 제28권1호
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• pp.3-7
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• 2012

Background and Objectives : Nasopharyngeal carcinoma(NPC) shows a distinct geographic and demographic distribution with high incidences in Chinese and Southeast Asians. Current WHO classification divides NPC into nonkeratinizing carcinoma(NKC)(differentiated and undifferentiated subtypes), keratinizing squamous cell carcinoma(KSCC), and basaloid squamous cell carcinoma(BSCC). Relative frequency of histologic subtypes of NPC is known to vary according to the incidence of NPC. Korea is one of the low-incidence countries according to the GLOBOCAN 2008 database by IARC. The aim of this study is to assess the histopathologic types and EBV status of NPC of Koreans. Materials and Methods : We reviewed and reclassified 168 cases of NPC(132 males and 36 females) diagnosed from January 1996 through July 2006. In situ hybridization for EBV-encoded early RNA(EBER) was performed on 146 cases and the results were compared among different histologic types, genders, and age and stage groups. Results : NKC, undifferentiated subtype(NKC-U) was identified in 106 cases(63.1%) and differentiated subtype(NKC-D) in 49 cases(29.2%). Remaining 13 cases(7.7%) were classified as KSCC. NKC and NKC-U were more common in females than in males. EBV prevalence was higher in NKC than in KSCC(NKC-U, 90% ;, NKC-D, 84.1% ; KSCC, 7.7%) and more common in younger age(${\leq}40$) than older age(>40) group. Conclusion : Histologic type distribution and EBV prevalence of NPC in Korean patients corresponded to that of intermediate incidence area. Pathogenesis of nasopharyngeal KSCC is assumed to be different from that of NKC.

• 대한임상검사과학회지
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• 제50권2호
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• pp.155-163
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• 2018

빌리루빈은 내인성 항산화제로서 항염작용이 있으며, 고혈압, 당뇨병, 대사증후군 및 인슐린 저항성과 역상관 관계에 있다고 보고된다. 그러나 간 특이적 지표와 비교하여 빌리루빈과 대사증후군간의 관련성을 평가한 연구는 부족하다. 본 연구에서는 건강검진을 실시한 한국 성인남녀를 대상으로 ALT, GGT와 비교하여 총 빌리루빈과 대사증후군 유병률 사이의 관련성을 조사하고자 하였다. 이 횡단면 연구에는 2015년 3월부터 2018년 2월까지 경기도 소재 종합병원에서 건강검진을 실시한 20세 이상 성인남녀 22,568명이 포함되었다. American Heart Association/National Heart, Lung, and Blood Institute(AHA/NHLBI)의 지침에 따라 대사증후군을 진단하였다. 남녀 모두에서 대사증후군 위험요인이 없는 군보다 대사증후군 진단군에서 간 효소치가 높았으며, 총 빌리루빈과 직접 빌리루빈치는 낮게 나타났다. 남녀 모두에서 혈청 총 빌리루빈은 복부비만(r=-0.066 vs r=-0.055), 중성지방(r=-0.127 vs r=-0.136)과 약한 역상관 관계를 보였으며, 이는 ALT와 GGT보다 약한 관련성이었다. 또한 남녀 모두에서 ALT와 GGT뿐만 아니라 총 빌리루빈은 대사증후군 발생 가능성을 예측하는 지표는 아닌 것으로 나타났다.

• Journal of Yeungnam Medical Science
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• 제7권2호
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• pp.79-87
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• 1990

Using Zung's self-rating depression scale, the authors studied depression in 310 elderlies residing in the 9 home for the aged (HFA) in Kyungbuk area, and 234 elderlies living in Taegu city and 107 elderlies attending a Life-long education program in Taegu, which serve as a control group, Community resident elderlies(CRE). The research had been administered during the period from June to August, 1986. The results were as follows : 1. The mean scores of male. female. and the total of the elderlies in HFA were $38.95{\pm}11.55$, $44.18{\pm}14.15$:: and $42.8{\pm}13.7$ respectively while CRE marked $40.8{\pm}11.3$ for male, $45.2{\pm}12.0$ for female, and $43.4{\pm}11.9$ for the total. Therefore there were significant differences between male and female in both groups(p<0.01, p<0.001), though no significant difference between the two groups. However, the depression score of elderlies in HFA might be much higher than that of CRE if 81 elderlies(14.2%) in HFA who had been left out of the statistical evaluation due to their having severe depression, organic brain syndrom, or pseudoementia, etc had been included. 2. The score distribution by items for the elderlies in HFA were from highest scores hopelessness, worthlessness, emptiness, decreased appetite, confusion, while for CRE, hopelessness, decreased appetite, psychomotor retardation, indecisiveness, and worthlessness. Elderlies in HFA showed significantly high scores in depressed mood, weight loss, suicidal rumination(ideation) and psychomotor excitement, while CRE showed significantly high scores in decreased appetite, psychomotor retardation, indecisiveness, and dissatisfaction. 3. Elderlies who scored over 50 numbered 10 males(16%), 57 females(34%), and total of 67(29%) in HFA and 28 males(21%), 77 females(37%), and total of 105(31%) in CRE : female showed higher seores in both groups. 4. Psychosocial factors such as getting older(respectively p<0.01, p<0.01), being Buddhist(respectively p<0.01, p<0.01), and monthly pocket money less than \30,000(respectively p<0.001, p<0.001) were found to have a noticable impact on the depression level of the elderlies in both groups. Factors such as illiteracy (p<0.001, monthly pocket money less than \10,000(p<0.05), and having no family(p<0.01) recorded significantly higher scores among CRE than the elderlies in HFA.

• 대한지역사회영양학회지
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• 제13권3호
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• pp.374-385
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• 2008

A study has been performed to provide the basic information about the current dietary habits, health related behaviors, and body indices and to bring forward the importance of this information to the people's attention based upon the relation between employee's life patterns and health conditions in their daily lives. Three hundred and five department store workers were examined from August 2006 to September 2006. With the average BMI values $23.9{\pm}2.2$ for males and $20.0{\pm}1.9$ for females, both gender groups were in normal, but 62.2% of the males were overweight and 15.4% of the females were under-weight. Regarding dietary and health related factors on how they perceive themselves, as normal were 204 (66.9%) the most and bad and very bad were respectively 43 (14.1%) and 5 (1.6%). Half of the subjects (43.2%) perceived sleeping hours to be insufficient, and 64.4% of them need to exercise regularly. As problems related to eating habits, they reported irregular meal times, overeating, preference of hot and spicy food, skipping meal, unbalanced meals. Regarding weight control they have attempted were the most (73.0%), after weight reduction, 51.2% of the subjects had side effects, such as gastrointestinal troubles, anemia, dizziness, sense of fatigue, constipation, physiological disorder, and diarrhea, etc. In the food habit score, it was shown that overall average score of the subjects was $62.63{\pm}9.86$ which is lower than other studies. Female ($62.76{\pm}10.15$) had better score than male ($61.67{\pm}8.06$). While the item with the highest point was eat all three meals of the day, that was the lowest point, exercise every day. The food habit score of the younger group had lower than older group, and also they preferred sweet foods to other group. The results suggest that nutrition education for workers at specific working fields needs to be more focused on the improvement of dietary habits and health status of workers.

• 대한지역사회영양학회지
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• 제23권6호
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• pp.488-495
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• 2018

Objectives: This study examined the milk intake patterns with lactose and milk fat in Korean male adults using the following variables: milk intake level, awareness of lactose, and milk fat, health problems, and necessity of milk intake. In addition, the factors affecting milk intake were analyzed by multiple regression analysis. Methods: The subjects were 532 males aged 20 years or older among the nationwide milk purchasing group. The subjects were 223 (41.9%) in the 20-29 year age group, 188 (35.3%) in the 30-49 year age group and 121(22.7%) in the over 50 year age group. The survey was conducted using ANOVA and multiple comparative analysis to examine the differences in age and multiple regression analysis was performed to investigate the factors affecting the intake of milk. Results: The intake of milk in the subjects was $538.14{\pm}494.23ml$ per week. There were statistically significant differences in the subjects' age according to processed milk, low fat, nonfat milk, cheese, and ice cream. The perception of milk and lactose and milk fat was recognized as a good food for skeletal health when milk was consumed. Among the milk nutrients, lactose was highly recognized at the age of 20-29, and milk fat was recognized in those over 50 years. In addition to lactose and milk fat, calcium was the most highly recognized among the milk nutrients. Health problems associated with milk were skeletal health, obesity, and lactose intolerance. The perception of lactose intolerance was related to lactose intolerance and fatness, and the dietary behavior was unaffected. Conclusions: This study examined the milk intake patterns of adult Korean males. Many variables were found to be related to the intake of milk. In this study, the milk intake was high when there was no problem with the perception and dietary behaviors of milk nutrition (lactose and milk fat). This study focused on lactose and milk fat, which are major nutrients in milk, and it is a new perspective study among milk-related research.

• 대한임상검사과학회지
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• 제53권3호
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• pp.208-216
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• 2021

코로나바이러스 감염증 19는 중증급성호흡기증후군 코로나바이러스 2의 명칭에서 명명되었다. 이 연구는 코로나바이러스 감염증 19 환자의 신기능 상태를 조사하는 것을 목적으로 하였다. 본 연구는 경기도 남부 한 병원에서 코로나바이러스 감염증 19로 입원한 649명 환자를 대상으로 하였다. 이번 연구에서 검토한 코로나바이러스 감염증 19 환자의 혈액요소질소와 크레아티닌은 증가된 패턴을 보였다. 본 연구의 대상자 중 남성의 혈액요소질소는 정상 범위보다 높았다. 특히 60대, 80대 이상에서 높게 나타났고, 크레아티닌 수치도 비슷하게 나타났다. 이 연구에서 환자의 전해질 검사는 정상 범위에서 벗어나는 결과는 관찰되지 않았다. 이 연구의 대상에서 80세 이상의 남성은 60 mL/min/1.73 m² 이하의 만성신장질환 역학협력 사구체여과율을 나타냈다. 최근 연구에 따르면 COVID-19의 일부 심각한 사례는 코로나바이러스에 감염되기 전에 기저 신기능의 문제가 없었던 사람들에게도 콩팥 손상의 징후를 보이고 있다. 따라서 여러 지표 평가의 신기능 검사는 검사결과의 검토는 코로나19 환자의 비정상 신기능 발견에 도움이 될 수 있다.

• 한국노년학
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• 제28권4호
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• pp.1089-1111
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• 2008

본 연구는 노년기의 활동 유형을 자원봉사 활동과 경제활동으로 구분하여 각 집단의 사회인구학적인 변인과 가치관이 삶의 만족도에 미치는 영향을 살펴보고자 하였다. 연구 대상은 60세 이상의 노인으로 활동 유형별로 질문지를 구분하여 자료를 수집하였다. 자원봉사활동 집단은 총201명(남성 76명, 36.8%, 여성 125명, 62.2%), 경제활동 집단은 총219명(남성 127명, 58.0%, 여성 92명, 42.0%)이다. 구체적인 자료 분석을 위해 SPSS 14.0 Windows 프로그램을 이용하여 빈도, 평균, 표준편차, 요인분석, 적률 상관관계, t-test, 일원변량 분석, 위계적 중다회귀 분석을 실시하였다. 본 연구의 주요 결과로 노년기 활동 유형별 자원봉사 활동 집단에서는 집단주의 가치관이 높을수록 그리고 종교가 있는 노인 집단과 인지적인 건강 상태가 양호할수록 삶의 만족도를 높게 지각하는 것으로 나타났다. 한편 경제활동 집단에서는 집단주의 가치관이 높을수록 그리고 월평균 수입이 많고, 인지적 건강상태가 양호할수록 삶의 만족도를 높게 지각하는 것으로 나타났다. 이와 같이 본 연구는 두 활동 유형 모두 집단주의 가치관이 삶의 만족도에 영향을 미치는 중요한 공통변인임이 입증되었다. 즉, 연령이 증가할수록 전통적인 성향의 집단주의 가치관이 더욱 두드러지는 경향으로 나타났으며, 경제활동 집단보다 자원봉사활동 집단에서 보다 더 높은 집단적인 가치관이 표현되었고, 삶의 만족도에 영향을 미치는 것으로 나타났다. 그러므로 삶의 질을 높이고, 만족감을 증진시킬 수 있는 방안으로 자원봉사 활동의 다양한 종류가 개발되고, 운영될 수 있는 체계적 시스템이 구축되어야 할 것이다.