Shinnichi Sakamoto, Taiki Godo, M. Koshiyama, Eri Ikuta, Yumiko Watanabe
{"title":"Basic Study for the Quantitative Diagnosis of Edema Focusing on Ultrasound Propagation Time Waveform Information","authors":"Shinnichi Sakamoto, Taiki Godo, M. Koshiyama, Eri Ikuta, Yumiko Watanabe","doi":"10.17140/whoj-8-147","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.17140/whoj-8-147","url":null,"abstract":"Objective We conducted a research on a simple diagnosis of edema. We aimed to develop a safe and inexpensive method using ultrasound. Because B-mode imaging systems are expensive and specialized, we focused on the ultrasound propagation time waveform information. Experiment Experiments were conducted using a custom-made ultrasonic transducer. Measurements were performed on individuals with and without edema, and the results are discussed in this paper based on propagation time waveform information and frequency analysis. Summary Based on the results, we found three indices with a high possibility of understanding the state of edema. The first index was edema thickness, the second was the standard deviation of edema thickness, and the third was the shape of the frequency spectrum of the ultrasound propagation time waveform. The results indicated that the presence of edema can be easily and quickly determined by determining the thickness of the edema at the measurement point near the ankle (measurement point D) on the front surface of the lower limbs and performing frequency analyses.","PeriodicalId":89638,"journal":{"name":"The open women's health journal","volume":"6 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2022-12-30","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"78389464","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Early Intervention and Resources for Expectant Mothers with Substance Use Problems: Service Shortages in the Present Age","authors":"N. Tiburcio, Scarlett L. Baker","doi":"10.17140/whoj-8-148","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.17140/whoj-8-148","url":null,"abstract":"Substance use during pregnancy exposes prenatally unborn children to alcohol and other drugs. Such exposure may cause serious damage to the unborn child, including but not limited to fetal alcohol syndrome (FAS), neonatal abstinence syndrome (NAS), and is devastating in terms of human suffering, not to mention monumental healthcare costs. Expectant mothers should be shown compassion about their addiction and provided early access to resources to improve these outcomes. Punishing them will most likely push them away from the healthcare system and increases stigma.","PeriodicalId":89638,"journal":{"name":"The open women's health journal","volume":"18 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2022-12-30","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"74141015","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Thomas Baptiste-Weiss, B. Cuzin, Kandra Schmidtberger
{"title":"Integrative Medicine Approaches in Irritable Bowel Syndrome, Painful Bladder Syndrome and Infertility in Women Health","authors":"Thomas Baptiste-Weiss, B. Cuzin, Kandra Schmidtberger","doi":"10.17140/whoj-8-146","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.17140/whoj-8-146","url":null,"abstract":"Chronic pelvic pain syndrome (CPPS) is one of the common diseases in urology, gynecology, and gastroenterology. CPPS is a multifactorial disorder where pain may originate in any of the urogynecology, gastrointestinal, pelvic musculoskeletal, or nervous systems. The aim of this article is to sensitize general observation for all integrative medicine practitioner to analyze data for a best interdisciplinary approaches-oriented results for health orientation. Indeed, CPPS could be severe enough to limit functioning, unrelated to menstrual cycle, pregnancy, local trauma, or pelvic operations. This syndrome is one of the diseases shared by urology and gynecology. Its frequency is between 3% and 10%, and it is more frequent among women. The costs of treating CPPS were estimated at about $880 million annually. About 15% of women reported loss of workdays and 45% reported decreased work efficiency. This review aims at presenting an interdisciplinary overview on CPPS patients focusing on links between irritable bowel syndrome, painful bladder syndrome and infertility, to illustrate the relevance of integrative medicine. We propose an integrative approach to treating the diverse symptoms of irritable bowel syndrome (IBS) by combining the benefits of and need for pharmacotherapy with known complementary and alternative medicine (CAM) therapies to provide IBS patients with the best treatment outcome achievable.","PeriodicalId":89638,"journal":{"name":"The open women's health journal","volume":"9 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2022-12-30","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"90213150","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Chronic Pelvic Pain in Women: Sharing Interdisciplinary Experience","authors":"Thomas Baptiste-Weis, B. Cuzin","doi":"10.17140/whoj-7-144","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.17140/whoj-7-144","url":null,"abstract":"C pelvic pain (CPP) is a common, burdensome, and costly condition that disproportionately affects women. Touching an estimated more than 20% of people worldwide or approximately 1 in 7 women,1 CPP is a common problem. In one study of reproductive-aged women in primary care practices, the reported prevalence rate of pelvic pain was 39%.2 Of all referrals to gynecologists, 10% are for pelvic pain.3","PeriodicalId":89638,"journal":{"name":"The open women's health journal","volume":"1 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2021-12-31","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"80855422","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Eri Ikuta, M. Koshiyama, Miwa Nakagawa, Ayumi Ono, Yumiko Watanabe, Keiko Seki, Makiko Oowaki, Yuji Okuda
{"title":"The Preventive Effect of Dietary Antioxidants on Viral Infection (Coronavirus Disease-2019, Influenza and Human Papillomavirus) and the Development of Cervical Carcinogenesis","authors":"Eri Ikuta, M. Koshiyama, Miwa Nakagawa, Ayumi Ono, Yumiko Watanabe, Keiko Seki, Makiko Oowaki, Yuji Okuda","doi":"10.17140/whoj-7-145","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.17140/whoj-7-145","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":89638,"journal":{"name":"The open women's health journal","volume":"2005 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2021-12-31","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"88359764","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Promoting Mother-to-Baby Attachment to Prevent Postpartum Depression: An Intervention Study","authors":"Kafumi Sugishita, M. Kitagawa","doi":"10.17140/WHOJ-4-128","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.17140/WHOJ-4-128","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":89638,"journal":{"name":"The open women's health journal","volume":"56 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2018-12-30","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"77633003","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Granuloma Annulare in Women: Evaluating the Annular Configuration in the Context of Germline Repair","authors":"Colleen Reisz, J. Sandhu","doi":"10.17140/WHOJ-4-127","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.17140/WHOJ-4-127","url":null,"abstract":"G annulare (GA) is characterized by the abrupt onset of annular plaques with central clearing in the skin.1 GA commonly occurs in the skin around joints in women in their later reproductive years.2,3 Diseases that occur more commonly in women have been associated with sex-related immune differences, non-hormonal factors on X and Y chromosomes, and pregnancy related changes in immune and metabolic function.4-8 Cell biologists have outlined the mechanisms of organelle movement during cell stress. Microtubules and actin, which form the internal structure and lattice like transport system within the cell, are continually reorienting in response to cellular need. These needs may present internally, as a response to aneuploidy, or externally, in response to an allergen or infectious agent.","PeriodicalId":89638,"journal":{"name":"The open women's health journal","volume":"9 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2018-12-30","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"77369705","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Hormone Replacement Therapy and its Risks and Benefits for Women","authors":"R. Laura","doi":"10.17140/WHOJ-4-E017","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.17140/WHOJ-4-E017","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":89638,"journal":{"name":"The open women's health journal","volume":"1 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2018-12-30","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"90099337","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
J. Nassif, A. Khalil, Naji Aswad, A. A. Musa, G. Rameh
{"title":"Endometriosis and Epigenetics: What do we Know?","authors":"J. Nassif, A. Khalil, Naji Aswad, A. A. Musa, G. Rameh","doi":"10.17140/WHOJ-4-125","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.17140/WHOJ-4-125","url":null,"abstract":"Objective Endometriosis is a common gynecological condition with a pathogenesis that is multifactorial and not well understood. The aim of this review was to explore the multiplicity of epigenetic changes in the field of this disease. Main Findings Epigenetic alterations in endometriosis may be classified into four main categories, with cross-reactions between these changes as well as genetic, environmental, hormonal factors, etc. Deoxyribonucleic acid (DNA) hypomethylation and hypermethylation control the transcription of several genes leading to the progression of this condition. Micro RNAs (miRNA) dysregulation controls ribonucleic acid (RNA) translation, degradation, and splicing. Immunologic changes involved downregulate the ability of immune cells to target shed cells. Furthermore, histone hypoacetylation and hyperacetylation affect the metabolism of steroids. Conclusion Endometriosis pathogenesis is a very wide and complex subject, associating several hypotheses. The epigenetic pathways discussed in this review may be the target of new more effective treatments in this field.","PeriodicalId":89638,"journal":{"name":"The open women's health journal","volume":"109 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2018-12-30","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"77814612","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Development and Significance of “Mamin”: A Child-Care Record-Keeping Mobile Application for Parents","authors":"Makiko Oowak, Y. Iida, M. Koshiyama","doi":"10.17140/WHOJ-4-126","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.17140/WHOJ-4-126","url":null,"abstract":"Factors hindering early detection and early intervention include the following: 1) family or other near child failing to notice signs of illness and/or disability; 2) health care workers with whom the parents consult failing to notice signs of illness and/or disability due to a lack of specialized knowledge, and 3) parents being unable to accept the illness and/or disability, which delays treatment.","PeriodicalId":89638,"journal":{"name":"The open women's health journal","volume":"11 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2018-12-30","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"88612144","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}