Executive Summary of the Japan Atherosclerosis Society (JAS) Guidelines for the Diagnosis and Prevention of Atherosclerotic Cardiovascular Diseases in Japan ^|^mdash;2012 Version

Association between poor psychosocial conditions and diabetic nephropathy in Japanese type 2 diabetes patients: A cross‐sectional study

“…Fasting blood samples were collected, and hemoglobin A1c, glycoalbumin, serum total, low‐density lipoprotein and high‐density lipoprotein cholesterol, serum triglyceride, and creatinine levels were measured using standard laboratory protocols. The presence of hypertension and dyslipidemia was diagnosed by the primary doctors based on the criteria of the Japanese Society of Hypertension14 and the Japan Atherosclerosis Society15.…”

Predicting Coronary Heart Disease Using Risk Factor Categories for a Japanese Urban Population, and Comparison with the Framingham Risk Score: The Suita Study

“…In addition, based on the urbanized nature of the study population, it may not be possible to apply this tool in the whole Japanese population. However, since the outcome of the Suita study was the development of CHD, we believe that this tool can be a complement to the NIPPON DATA 80 risk score adopted in the JAS 2012 guidelines 11) , in which the outcome was CHD mortality. The external validation of our score must be evaluated in other cohort studies, although a lack of external validation is a common problem with the existing Japanese risk prediction tools, including the NIPPON DATA 80, JALS, JMS cohort and Hisayama study.…”

“…Because approximately 66% of the Japanese population lives in urban areas according to 2006 Japanese Census 48) , this is an important feature of our analysis. Interestingly, the JMS cohort and JALS reported that the crude incidence of AMI was 0.68 and 0.60 per 1000 person-years, respectively 11,14,15,49) . On the contrary, the crude incidence of AMI in the Suita study was 1.40 50) .…”

“…The HRs of the other predictors were similar between the with CKD and without CKD models. Table 4 shows the best Cox model for the Suita Score with CKD according to the cut-off levels of LDL-C and HDL-C proposed in the Japan Atherosclerosis Society (JAS) Guidelines for the Prevention of Atherosclerotic Cardiovascular Diseases 2012 11,31) (LDL Suita Score). For convenient clinical use, we developed prediction sheets based on the TC and LDL Suita Scores ( Table 5).…”

“…The NIPPON DATA 80 prediction tool has been used as the standard prediction tool in Japan 10) , and has been adopted by some clinical guidelines for the stratification of risk in Japanese subjects 11) . However, the NIPPON DATA 80's outcome measure was coronary death, not the incidence of CHD.…”