[Significance of clinical examination concerning arteriosclerosis].
According to the number of deaths by major cause, Malignant neoplasma takes the first rank as the cause of death and then heart disease as a second and next rank to cerebrovascular disease since 1985, instead of top rank of cerebrovascular by that time. However, heart disease and cerebrovascular could be supposed as a arteriosclerosis disease fundamentally, arteriosclerosis disease (heart disease plus cerebrovascular) is usually top of rank in the cause of death since the Showa era. Therefore, it is great significance to make studies of risk factor on the arteriosclerosis in the laboratory medicine.
Uesugi
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Department of Laboratory Medicine, Akita University School of Medicine.
Yamaguchi
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D001161:Arteriosclerosis / Q000175:diagnosis* / Q000401:mortality; D006801:Humans; D007564:Japan / Q000453:epidemiology