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A Case Study of Taeeumin Patient Who Experienced Refusing Food Intake after Stroke (뇌경색 발병 후 오식증(惡食症)을 보인 태음인(太陰人) 환자 1례)

  • Kim, Min-Ji;Bae, Hyo-Sang;Park, Seong-Sik
    • Journal of Sasang Constitutional Medicine
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    • v.25 no.1
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    • pp.71-79
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    • 2013
  • Objectives The purpose of this case thesis paper is to report the improvement of symptoms for a 58-year-old male patient who experienced refusing food intake 1 month after onset of stroke by treating the patient with Chungpyesagan-tang. Methods We have determined the patient to have the Taeeumin type physique with Dry Heat Syndrome and provided Chungpyesagan-tang to alleviate the patient's symptoms. The level of improvement was measured based on changes of food intake amount. Results The patient was hospitalized to receive treatment for roughly 2 weeks. The symptom of refusing food intake as well as other symptoms that simultaneously appeared including insomnia, headache, dizziness, and general weakness have improved. Conclusions In this case, the symptom of refusing food intake appeared one month after experiencing stroke, and the patient refused not only meals, but the intake of all other forms of food including water and medicine. The cause of such symptoms were deemed to be emotional rather than the types of food which generally provide the causes for Oh Shik Jeung. As the patient was deemed to have the Taeeumin type physique with Dry Heat Syndrome. Chungpyesagan-tang was provided for treatment. Acupuncture and oriental cupping therapy were also provided concurrently, and the main symptom and other accompanying conditions have largely improved after 2 weeks of hospitalized treatment.

Korean Food Exchange Lists for Diabetes: Revised 2010 (2010 당뇨병 환자를 위한 식품교환표 개정)

  • Ju, Dal-Lae;Jang, Hak-Chul;Cho, Young-Yun;Cho, Jae-Won;Yoo, Hye-Sook;Choi, Kyung-Suk;Woo, Mi-Hye;Sohn, Cheong-Min;Park, Yoo-Kyoung;Choue, Ryo-Won
    • Journal of Nutrition and Health
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    • v.44 no.6
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    • pp.577-591
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    • 2011
  • A food exchange system for diabetes is a useful tool for meal planning and nutritional education. The first edition of the Korean food exchange lists was developed in 1988 and the second edition was revised in 1995. With recent changes in the food marketplace and eating patterns of Koreans, the third edition of food exchange lists was revised in 2010 by the Korean Diabetes Association, the Korean Nutrition Society, the Korean Society of Community Nutrition, the Korean Dietetic Association and the Korean Association of Diabetes Dietetic Educators through a joint research effort. The third edition is based on nutritional recommendations for people with diabetes and focuses on adding foods to implement personalized nutrition therapy considering individual preferences in diverse dietary environment. Foods were selected based on scientific evidence including the 2007 Korea National Health and Nutrition Examination Survey data analysis and survey responses from 53 diabetes dietetic educators. While a few foods were deleted, a number of foods were added, with 313 food items in food group lists and 339 food items in the appendix. Consistent with previous editions, the third edition of the food exchange lists included six food categories (grains, meat, vegetables, fats and oils, milk, and fruits). The milk group was subdivided into whole milk group and low fat milk. The standard nutrient content in one exchange from each food group was almost the same as the previous edition. Korea Food & Drug Administration's FANTASY (Food And Nutrient daTA SYstem) database was used to obtain nutrient values for each individual food and to determine the serving size most appropriate for matching reference nutrients values by each food group. The revised food exchange lists were subjected to a public hearing by experts. The third edition of the food exchange lists will be a helpful tool for educating people with diabetes to select the kinds and amounts of foods for glycemic control, which will eventually lead to preventing complications while maintaining the pleasure of eating.

Style for the Consumer's Awareness and Purchase Behavior about the Forest Product (임산물 가공품 개발을 위한 인식 및 구매 행동 조사)

  • Lee, Eun Young;Yeo, Ga Eun;Lee, Ji O;Jeon, Yoowha;Cho, Mi Sook;Oh, Ji Eun
    • The Journal of the Korea Contents Association
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    • v.20 no.11
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    • pp.77-87
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    • 2020
  • This study aims to suggest basic data for developing forest product in Jeongeup City by surveying and analyzing consumer awareness and purchasing behavior. A survey was conducted focusing on local tourist attractions in Jeongeup City, and the analysis was conducted on 234 people. Among the local specialty processed products that the survey participants had experience in purchasing, food was mainly tea, concentrate solution, liquor, snacks and fruit syrup/enzyme. The therapy was shown in order of soap, aroma oil, and lotion. It was found that the purchase cost was more than 10,000 won and less than 30,000 won. Major purchase uses were for direct use and gifts, and 56.8% of the customers were satisfied with the satisfaction of the products, which were found to be purchased because of their good quality, good gift, and good health functions. In the question of 11 kinds of forest products, the subjects were aware of bokbunja, balloon flower, wild flower, deodeok, bracken, durum, and mal, among which bokbunja and wild flower were recognized as the representative forest products of Jeongeup. A cluster of food and therapy product selection attributes was analyzed to find target consumers. As the group that is interested in forest products and values the safety and quality of products is highly recognized, the value of forest products should be increased in consideration of the quality and safety of forest products when developing products in the future.

A study on the Needs for Nutrition Management Program for Elderly Who use Welfare Facilities (노인복지시설 사용자 중심의 영양·식생활관리 프로그램 요구 분석)

  • Lee, Min-June;Kim, Jung-Hyun;Park, Ok-Jin;Lee, Young-Mi
    • Korean Journal of Community Nutrition
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    • v.21 no.1
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    • pp.65-74
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    • 2016
  • Objectives: This study was performed to investigate the nutritional status, health conditions, eating habits and experience and demand for nutrition dietary management of senior citizens. And these data are formed foundation of development of nutrition dietary management education program and contents in welfare facilities for the aged. Methods: We visited 3 public health centers, 3 senior citizens centers, and 4 welfare centers in Seoul, Gyeonggi-do, Chungnam province, and Daejeon area and carried out interview by semi-structured questionnaire for senior citizens older than 65 years who use those facilities. Results: The study included 17%, 30.7% and 52.3% of senior citizens from public health centers, seniorcitizen centers and and welfare centers, respectively. The age range of 43.9% of the population was 65-74 years and and 56.1% were older than 75 years. We observed that 83.2% of subjects took some medicines due to diseases that they have and 58.0% took prescription medicines for hypertension. The thing that they considered the most when selecting food was 'the taste'(p<0.05). Regarding the level of practice to keep the dietary life, they answered more than 'average' for most of items but answered less than 'average' for lot of salt intake, drinking, exercise. For the experience of nutrition dietary life education, only 19.8% answered 'Yes' and the service for nutrition dietary life management showed the highest score in the demand for 'provide nutritious food'. For the size of consulting group for nutrition/dietary life education, the public health center and welfare center preferred a larger group size but the senior citizens center preferred a smaller group. With regard to who will carry out the consulting, the demand for dietitian was the highest and the operation type showed the high demand in the order of consulting, education. The contents that they want to have consultation in nutrition dietary life education were diet therapy for diseases and the ordinary diet therapy for health. Conclusions: This study suggested the management of nutrition dietry life necessitates qualitative measures according to the different types of welfare facilities. For these, it is in need of development of counseling and education program included therapy for disease. Above all, the policy to secure dietitian of welfare facilities for the aged to perform these should be achived.

Association between Dietary Factors and Breast Cancer Risk among Chinese Females: Systematic Review and Meta-analysis

  • Liu, Xue-Ou;Huang, Yu-Bei;Gao, Ying;Chen, Chuan;Yan, Ye;Dai, Hong-Ji;Song, Feng-Ju;Wang, Yao-Gang;Wang, Pei-Shan;Chen, Ke-Xin
    • Asian Pacific Journal of Cancer Prevention
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    • v.15 no.3
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    • pp.1291-1298
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    • 2014
  • Background: Evidence for associations between dietary factors and breast cancer risk is inconclusive among Chinese females. To evaluate this question, we conducted a systematic review of relevant case-control and cohort studies. Methods: Studies were systematically searched among 5 English databases (PudMed, ScienceDirect, Wiley, Clinicaltrials.gov, and Cochrane) and 3 Chinese databases (CNKI, WanFang, and VIP) until November 2012. Random effects models were used to estimate summary odds ratios (ORs) and the corresponding 95% confidence intervals (CIs). Results: Thirty one case-control studies and two cohort studies involving 9,299 cases and 11,413 controls were included. Consumption of both soy and fruit was significantly associated with decreased risk of breast cancer, with summary ORs of 0.65 (95% CIs: 0.43-0.99; I2=88.9%, P<0.001; N=13) and 0.66 (95% CIs: 0.47-0.91; $I^2$=76.7%, P<0.001; N=7), respectively. Consumption of fat was significantly associated with increased risk of breast cancer (OR=1.36; 95% CIs: 1.13-1.63; $I^2$=47.9%, P=0.088; N=6). There was nonsignificant association between consumption of vegetables and breast cancer risk (OR=0.72; 95% CIs: 0.51-1.02; $I^2$= 74.4%, P<0.001; N=9). However, sensitivity analysis based on adjusted ORs showed decreased risk of breast cancer was also associated with consumption of vegetables (OR=0.49; 95% CIs: 0.30-0.67). Conclusion: Both soy food and fruit are significantly associated with decreased risk of breast cancer among Chinese females, and vegetables also seems to be protective while dietary fatexerts a promoting influence.

Improved Production Efficiencies of Various Adeno-Associated Virus (AAV) Serotypes and a Novel Universal AAV Titration Method (다양한 adeno-associated virus (AAV) 혈청형의 효율성 높은 생산법과 새로운 공통적 정량법 개발)

  • Cho, Young-Hwa;Choi, Ye-Jin;Yun, Jung-Hee;Kim, Nam-Hee;Choi, Mi-Ra;Choi, Young-Kook;Kim, Kyung-Hee;Lee, Young-Ill;Lee, Beom-Jun;Park, Kee-Rang
    • Journal of Life Science
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    • v.22 no.6
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    • pp.703-712
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    • 2012
  • Adeno-associated virus (AAV) has been considered to be a very safe and efficient gene delivery system. However, the major obstacles to therapeutic usage of AAV have been to achieve highly efficient and reproducible production processes, and also to develop a reliable quantifying method of various serotypes with a simple protocol. We compared the efficiency of the conventional production protocol of AAV2 and adenovirus (Ad) co-infection to that of a new method containing AAV2 infection followed by pHelper transfection. We tested HEK293 and 293T, and further examined the time-dependent changes of AAV2 production. The new method of AAV2 and pHelper DNA gave about ten times higher production efficiency than that of the conventional protocol. The highest production efficiency in 293T was achieved as $1.61{\times}10^5$ virus genomes (v.g.)/cell by the new method of 10 MOI of AAV2 infection and 5 days post-infection. This protocol of the highest efficiency was then applied to produce various AAV serotypes and showed the efficiencies higher than $10^5$ v.g./cell. Next, we designed the universal PCR primers of highly conserved regions for various AAV serotypes to develop a simple and reliable titration method. The universal primers could amplify all the tested AAV serotypes with similar sensitivities by ten molecular copies. Therefore, this pair of universal primers can be further utilized to detect AAV contaminants in therapeutic adenoviral vectors.

Highly Sensitive Detection of Low-Abundance White Spot Syndrome Virus by a Pre-Amplification PCR Method

  • Pan, Xiaoming;Zhang, Yanfang;Sha, Xuejiao;Wang, Jing;Li, Jing;Dong, Ping;Liang, Xingguo
    • Journal of Microbiology and Biotechnology
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    • v.27 no.3
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    • pp.471-479
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    • 2017
  • White spot syndrome virus (WSSV) is a major threat to the shrimp farming industry and so far there is no effective therapy for it, and thus early diagnostic of WSSV is of great importance. However, at the early stage of infection, the extremely low-abundance of WSSV DNA challenges the detection sensitivity and accuracy of PCR. To effectively detect low-abundance WSSV, here we developed a pre-amplification PCR (pre-amp PCR) method to amplify trace amounts of WSSV DNA from massive background genomic DNA. Combining with normal specific PCR, 10 copies of target WSSV genes were detected from ${\sim}10^{10}$ magnitude of backgrounds. In particular, multiple target genes were able to be balanced amplified with similar efficiency due to the usage of the universal primer. The efficiency of the pre-amp PCR was validated by nested-PCR and quantitative PCR, and pre-amp PCR showed higher efficiency than nested-PCR when multiple targets were detected. The developed method is particularly suitable for the super early diagnosis of WSSV, and has potential to be applied in other low-abundance sample detection cases.

Socio-demographic factors and diet-related characteristics of community-dwelling elderly individuals with dysphagia risk in South Korea

  • Lim, Youngsuk;Kim, Chorong;Park, Haeryun;Kwon, Sooyoun;Kim, Oksun;Kim, Heeyoung;Lee, Youngmi
    • Nutrition Research and Practice
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    • v.12 no.5
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    • pp.406-414
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    • 2018
  • BACKGROUND/OBJECTIVES: The objective of this study was to determine dysphagia risk among community-dwelling elderly people living at home. We also examined the impact of socio-demographic variables on dysphagia risk as well as the relationship between dysphagia risk and dietary characteristics. SUBJECTS/METHODS: The study sample included 568 community-dwelling individuals, aged 65 years and above, who were living independently in their own home in Seoul, Gyeonggi, or Gwangju in South Korea. We used a dysphagia risk assessment scale to screen for dysphagia risk and the Mini nutritional assessment to evaluate the nutritional status. Associations between dysphagia risk and other variables were assessed using logistic regression analysis. RESULTS: Of the 568 subjects, 350 (61.6%) were classified into the dysphagia risk group (DR) and 218 (38.4%) were classified into the normal group (non-DR). Being female (odds ratio (OR) = 1.82, 95% confidence interval (CI) = 1.28-2.59), being 75 years and older (OR = 2.40, 95% CI = 1.69-3.42), having a lower education level (OR = 2.29, 95% CI = 1.33-3.97), and having a lower perceived economic status (OR = 2.18, 95% CI = 1.32-3.60) were more frequently observed with dysphagia risk compared to those who did not have such characteristics. Lowered mastication ability (OR = 14.40, 95% CI = 4.43-46.95), being at risk of malnutrition or malnourished (OR = 2.72, 95% CI = 1.75-4.23), lowered appetite (OR = 3.27, 95% CI = 2.16-4.93), and decreased food intake (OR = 2.95, 95% CI = 1.83-4.78) were observed more frequently in the DR group than in the non-DR group when adjusting for potential confounding factors. CONCLUSIONS: It is necessary to develop and apply integrated programs to improve the dietary habits and nutritional status of elderly individuals at risk for dysphagia, especially for women aged 75 years or older with lower educational and economic levels.

Antioxidant Activities of Functional Beverage Concentrates Containing Herbal Medicine Extracts

  • Park, Seon-Joo;Kim, Mi-Ok;Kim, Jung Hoan;Jeong, Sehyun;Kim, Min Hee;Yang, Su-Jin;Lee, Jongsung;Lee, Hae-Jeung
    • Preventive Nutrition and Food Science
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    • v.22 no.1
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    • pp.16-20
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    • 2017
  • This study investigated the antioxidant activity of functional beverage concentrates containing herbal medicine extracts (FBCH) using various antioxidant assays, such as 1,1-diphenyl-2-picrylhydrazyl (DPPH) radical scavenging activity, 2,2'-azino-bis(3-ethylbenzothiazoline-6-sulfonic acid (ABTS) radical scavenging activity, and reducing power assay. The total polyphenolic content of FBCH (81.45 mg/100 g) was higher than Ssanghwa tea (SHT, 37.56 mg/100 g). The antioxidant activities of FBCH showed 52.92% DPPH and 55.18% ABTS radical scavenging activities at 100 mg/mL, respectively. FBCH showed significantly higher antioxidant activities compared to the SHT (DPPH, 23.43%; ABTS, 22.21%; reducing power optical density; 0.23, P<0.05). In addition, intracellular reactive oxygen species generation significantly decreased in a concentration-dependent manner following FBCH treatment. These results suggest that the addition of herbal medicine extract contributes to the improved functionality of beverage concentrates.

Antimicrobial Resistance Patterns of Escherichia coli and Vibrio parahaemolyticus Isolated from Shellfish from the West Coast of Korea (서해안 패류에서 분리한 대장균 및 장염비브리오균의 항균제 내성 패턴)

  • Ryu, A Ra;Park, Kunbawui;Kim, Song Hee;Ham, In Tae;Kwon, Ji Young;Kim, Ji Hoe;Yu, Hong Sik;Lee, Hee Jung;Mok, Jong Soo
    • Korean Journal of Fisheries and Aquatic Sciences
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    • v.50 no.6
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    • pp.662-668
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    • 2017
  • This study investigated the antimicrobial resistance patterns of Escherichia coli and Vibrio parahaemolyticus isolated from oysters Crassostrea gigas, short-necked clams Ruditapes philippinarum and corb shells Cyclina sinensis from the West Coast of Korea from June through November 2013. The antimicrobial susceptibility patterns of the isolated strains of E. coli and V. parahaemolyticus to 12 antimicrobial agents used in Korea for clinical or veterinary therapy were analyzed. Antimicrobial resistance to at least one antibiotic was seen in 52.0% of the E. coli isolates (156 strains) and 44.3% of the V. parahaemolyticus isolates (194 strains). The resistance of the E. coli (34.0%) and V. parahaemolyticus (41.8%) isolates to ampicillin was highest. Multiple antimicrobial resistance against at least three antimicrobials was seen in 9.0% of the E. coli isolates and 1.0% of the V. parahaemolyticus isolates.