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Yuichiro Yano

Northwestern University

Publishes on Obesity, Physical Activity, Diet, Health disparities and outcomes, Child Nutrition and Water Access. 11 papers and 1.4k citations.

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Heterogeneous Effects of Intensive Glycemic and Blood Pressure on Cardiovascular Events Among Diabetes by Living Arrangements
K. Kiyohara, Naoki Kondo, Taku Iwami et al.|Journal of the American Heart Association|2024
Cited by 2Open Access

Background Although living alone versus with others is a key social element for cardiovascular prevention in diabetes, evidence is lacking about whether the benefit of intensive glycemic and blood pressure (BP) control differs by living arrangements. We thus aim to investigate heterogeneity in the joint effect of intensive glycemic and BP control on cardiovascular events by living arrangements among participants with diabetes. Methods and Results This study included 4731 participants with diabetes in the ACCORD‐BP (Action to Control Cardiovascular Risk in Diabetes‐Blood Pressure) trial. They were randomized into 4 study arms, each with glycated hemoglobin target (intensive, <6.0% versus standard, 7.0–7.9%) and systolic BP target (intensive, <120 mm Hg versus standard <140 mm Hg). Cox proportional hazard models were used to estimate the joint effect of intensive glycemic and BP control on the composite cardiovascular outcome according to living arrangements. At a mean follow‐up of 4.7 years, the cardiovascular outcome was observed in 445 (9.4%) participants. Among participants living with others, intensive treatment for both glycemia and BP showed decreased risk of cardiovascular events compared with standard treatment (hazard ratio [HR], 0.68 [95% CI, 0.51–0.92]). However, this association was not found among participants living alone (HR, 0.96 [95% CI, 0.58–1.59]). P for interaction between intensive glycemic and BP control was 0.53 among participants living with others and 0.009 among those living alone ( P value for 3‐way interaction including living arrangements was 0.049). Conclusions We found benefits of combining intensive glycemic and BP control for cardiovascular outcomes among participants living with others but not among those living alone. Our study highlights the critical role of living arrangements in intensive care among patients with diabetes.

Unraveling the Implications of Digit Bias in Digital Health - A Literature Review
Takahiro Suzuki, Hajime Nagasu, Takeshi Ebara et al.|Internal Medicine|2024
Cited by 1Open Access

Digital health, which encompasses digital medicine and therapy, integrates advanced technologies across healthcare. Central to this transformation is 'digitization,' which converts continuous analog data into a discrete digital form. However, this process is challenging. First, digitization inherently has the potential to introduce information loss, thereby diminishing the richness and complexity of data. Second, "digit bias," a cognitive distortion, emerges in the interpretation phase, where individuals' perceptions of and reactions to digital data are intrinsically skewed. There exist two major cognitive biases during digitization process: "digit preferences," where healthcare providers prioritize specific numbers, and "left digit bias" where continuous variables are disproportionately estimated by focusing on the leftmost digit. Although information loss and cognitive biases can cause significant distortions in healthcare, the effects of this "digitization" process have not been adequately quantified, and the accumulation of further evidence in this field is anticipated.