Yasushi Saito

Critical appraisal of the role of pitavastatin in treating dyslipidemias and achieving lipid goals (2009)

Saito, Yasushi

Yasushi SaitoPresident, Chiba University, Chiba, JapanAbstract: Pitavastatin is a potent HMG-CoA reductase inhibitor and efficient hepatocyte low-density lipoprotein cholesterol (LDL-C) receptor...

Shape measurement of bubble in a liquid metal (2009)

Saito, Yasushi, Shen, Xiuzhong, Mishima, Kaichiro, Matsubayashi, Masahito

Dynamic behavior of a two-phase bubble, i.e. a steam bubble containing a droplet evaporating in the bubble, in the molten alloy was clearly visualized using high-frame-rate neutron radiography. In...

Porcupine (2008)

Yasushi Saito, Brian N. Bershad, Henry M. Levy

Manageability, availability and performance in

Porcupine (2008)

Yasushi Saito, Brian N. Bershad, Henry M. Levy

Manageability, availability and performance in

AND (2008)

Yasushi Saito, Marc Shapiro

Data replication is a key technology in distributed systems that enables higher availability and performance. This article surveys optimistic replication algorithms. They allow replica contents to...

and retrieval]: Systems and software—Distributed systems General Terms (2008)

Yasushi Saito, Svend Frølund, Alistair Veitch, Arif Merchant, Susan Spence

This paper describes the design, implementation, and evaluation of a Federated Array of Bricks (FAB), a distributed disk array that provides the reliability of traditional enterprise arrays with...

and (2008)

Yasushi Saito, Marc Shapiro

Replication is a key enabling technology in distributed data sharing systems for improving both availability and performance. This paper surveys optimistic replication algorithms, which allow replica...

Manageability, availability and performance inPorcupine: a highly scalable, cluster-based mail service (2008)

Yasushi Saito, Brian N. Bershad, Henry M. Levy

Abstract This paper describes the motivation, design, and perfor-mance of Porcupine, a scalable mail server. The goal of Porcupine is to provide a highly available and scalable elec-tronic mail...

and (2008)

Yasushi Saito

Data replication is a key technology in distributed systems that enables higher availability and performance. This paper surveys optimistic replication algorithms. They allow replica contents to...

Taming (2007)

Yasushi Saito, Christos Karamanolis, Magnus Karlsson, Mallik Mahalingam

aggressive replication in the Pangaea wide-area file system

Taming (2007)

Yasushi Saito, Christos Karamanolis, Magnus Karlsson, Mallik Mahalingam

aggressive replication in the Pangaea wide-area file system

Abstract Optimistic Replication for Internet Data Services (2007)

Yasushi Saito, Henry M. Levy

We present a new replication algorithm that supports replication of a large number of objects on a diverse set of nodes. The algorithm allows replica sets to be changed dynamically on a per-object...

実験的大動脈硬化症に及ぼすエラスターゼの影響について (2007)

田丸, 淳一, 岩崎, 勇, 瀬山, 義幸, 斎藤, 康, タマル, ジュンイチ, Tamaru, Jun'ichi, ...

膵臓および血中のエラスターゼ活性の低下が動脈硬化症の発症および進展の一因をなすといわれている。そこで家兎に1%コレステロール添加飼料を投...

73家系81症例における家族性高コレステロール血症の診断と治療についての検討 (2007)

武城, 英明, 白井, 厚治, 斎藤, 康, 吉田, 尚, ブジョウ, ヒデアキ, Bujō, Hideaki, ...

近年,虚血性心疾患を起こす頻度の高い疾患として家族性高コレステロール血症(FHC)が注目されている。千葉大学第2内科及びその関連病院で経験したF...

USENIX Association Proceedings of HotOS IX: The 9th Workshop on Hot Topics in Operating Systems (2007)

Svend Frølund, Arif Merchant, Yasushi Saito, Susan Spence, Alistair Veitch

Rights to individual papers remain with the author or the author's employer. Permission is granted for noncommercial reproduction of the work for educational or research purposes. This copyright...

and retrieval]: Systems and software—Distributed systems General Terms (2007)

Yasushi Saito, Svend Frølund, Alistair Veitch, Arif Merchant, Susan Spence

This paper describes the design, implementation, and evaluation of a Federated Array of Bricks (FAB), a distributed disk array that provides the reliability of traditional enterprise arrays with...

Transmission systems for (2006)

Greg Minshall, Yasushi Saito, Jeffrey C. Mogul, Ben Verghese

Performance improvements to networked applications can have unintended consequences. In a study of the performance of the Network News Transport Protocol (NNTP), the initial results suggested it...

S.: RAMBO for dummies (2005)

Jeannie R. Albrecht, Yasushi Saito

consensus, distributed computing RAMBO and RAMBO II are algorithms for emulating shared memory in a distributed asynchronous environment with nodes joining and leaving the system dynamically. This...

Optimistic replication (2005)

Yasushi Saito

Data replication is a key technology in distributed data sharing systems, enabling higher availability and performance. This paper surveys optimistic replication algorithms that allow replica...

� Ease of use (2005)

Presented Chen Tian, Yasushi Saito

� What is jockey and how does it work? � How does jockey record/replay a multithreaded program? � What is the basic idea of my current work? � How do we use the current replay system to avoid...

Jockey: A user-space library for record-replay debugging (2005)

Yasushi Saito

Jockey is an execution record/replay tool for debugging Linux programs. It records invocations of system calls and CPU instructions with timing-dependent effects and later replays them...

Jockey, debugging, Linux (2005)

Yasushi Saito

This paper describes Jockey, an execution record/replay tool for debugging distributed Linux programs. Jockey is implemented as a shared object file that is linked to the target program. Jockey...

A decentralized algorithm for erasure-coded virtual disks (2004)

Svend Frølund, Arif Merchant, Yasushi Saito, Susan Spence, Alistair Veitch

A Federated Array of Bricks is a scalable distributed storage system composed from inexpensive storage bricks. It achieves high reliability with low cost by using erasure coding across the bricks to...

A decentralized algorithm for erasure-coded virtual disks (2004)

Svend Frolund, Svend Frølund, Arif Merchant, Arif Merchant, Yasushi Saito, Yasushi Saito, ...

quorum systems, erasure-coding, crash-recovery, storage systems, distributed systems A Federated Array of Bricks is a scalable distributed storage system composed from inexpensive storage bricks. It...

Devirtualizable virtual machines enabling general, single-node, online maintenance (2004)

David E. Lowell, Yasushi Saito, Eileen J. Samberg

Maintenance is the dominant source of downtime at high availability sites. Unfortunately, the dominant mechanism for reducing this downtime, cluster rolling upgrade, has two shortcomings that have...

Building storage registers from crash-recovery processes (2003)

Svend Frølund, Arif Merchant, Yasushi Saito, Susan Spence, Alistair Veitch

Abstract—This paper defines a new type of register, called a storage register, to represent blocks of a replicated logical volume built from a distributed collection of disks. We give a formal...

FAB: Enterprise storage systems on a shoestring (2003)

Svend Frølund, Arif Merchant, Yasushi Saito, Susan Spence, Alistair Veitch

Abstract—A Federated Array of Bricks (FAB) is a logical disk system that provides the reliability and performance of enterprise-class disk arrays, at a fraction of the cost and with better...

FAB: Enterprise storage systems on a shoestring (2003)

Svend Frølund, Arif Merchant, Yasushi Saito, Susan Spence, Alistair Veitch

Abstract—A Federated Array of Bricks (FAB) is a logical disk system that provides the reliability and performance of enterprise-class disk arrays, at a fraction of the cost and with better...

USENIX Association Proceedings of the (2002)

Yasushi Saito, Christos Karamanolis, Magnus Karlsson, Mallik Mahalingam

Rights to individual papers remain with the author or the author's employer. Permission is granted for noncommercial reproduction of the work for educational or research purposes. This copyright...

Taming aggressive replication in the Pangaea wide-area file system (2002)

Yasushi Saito, Christos Karamanolis, Magnus Karlsson, Mallik Mahalingam

Pangaea is a wide-area file system that supports data sharing among a community of widely distributed users. It is built on a symmetrically decentralized infrastructure that consists of commodity...

Unilateral Version Vector Pruning Using (2002)

Loosely Synchronized Clocks, Yasushi Saito

inactive entries in version vectors (VVs). This algorithm lets each node remove inactive VV entries without any coordination with other nodes. It achieves this feature by devising a new way to...

Replication: Optimistic Approaches (2002)

Yasushi Saito, Marc Shapiro

optimistic, replication, survey Replication is a key enabling technology in distributed data sharing systems for improving both availability and performance. This paper surveys optimistic replication...

Functionally Homogeneous Clustering: a Framework for Building Scalable Data-intensive Internet Services (2001)

Yasushi Saito

This dissertation proposes functionally homogeneous clustering (FHC), a new software architecture for building data-intensive Internet services that are manageable, available, fast, and inexpensive....

Optimistic Replication Algorithms (2000)

Yasushi Saito

Optimistic replication algorithms allow replica contents to be stale but in a controlled way. By propagating updates in background and allowing any replica to be read most of the time, they become...

Optimistic Replication for Internet Data Services (2000)

Yasushi Saito, Henry M. Levy

. We present a new replication algorithm that supports replication of a large number of objects on a diverse set of nodes. The algorithm allows replica sets to be changed dynamically on a per-object...

Janus kinase 3 (Jak3) is essential for common cytokine receptor {gamma} chain ({gamma}c)-dependent signaling: comparative analysis of {gamma}c, Jak3, and {gamma}c and Jak3 double-deficient mice (2000)

Suzuki, Kotaro, Nakajima, Hiroshi, Saito, Yasushi, Saito, Takashi, Leonard, Warren J., Iwamoto, Itsuo

The common cytokine receptor γ chain (γc) is an essential receptor component for IL-2, IL-4, IL-7, IL-9 and IL-15, and thereby γc-deficient mice exhibit impaired T cell and B cell development. The...

卒前臨床教育の変革に関する検討 : (第三報)コンピュータによる患者管理シミュレーション実習 (1999)

高林, 克日己, 藤川, 一寿, 鈴木, 隆弘, 山崎, 俊司, 岩本, 逸夫, 齋藤, 康, ...

千葉大学医学部学生のコンピュータ普及率はこの6年間で, 29.7%から69.1%とほぼ倍増した。このような中で,...

Manageability, availability and performance in Porcupine: a highly scalable, cluster-based mail service (1999)

Yasushi Saito, Brian N. Bershad, Henry M. Levy

This paper describes the motivation, design, and performance of Porcupine, a scalable mail server. The goal of Porcupine is to provide a highly available and scalable electronic mail service using a...

Manageability, availability and performance in Porcupine: a highly scalable, cluster-based mail service (1999)

Yasushi Saito, Brian N. Bershad, Henry M. Levy

The growth of the Internet has led to the need for highly scalable and highly available services. This paper describes the Porcupine scalable electronic mail service. Porcupine achieves scalability...

Manageability, Availability and Performance in Porcupine: A Highly Scalable, Cluster-Based Mail Service (1999)

Yasushi Saito, Brian N. Bershad, Henry M. Levy

This paper describes the motivation, design, and performance of Porcupine, a scalable mail server. The goal of Porcupine is to provide a highly available and scalable electronic mail service using a...

System Call Support in an Extensible Operating System (1999)

Yasushi Saito, Brian Bershad

this paper, we describe an architecture to support user-defined system call handlers in the SPIN operating system. We have designed and implemented the mechanisms for system call handler installation...

Manageability, Availability and Performance in Porcupine: A Highly Scalable, Cluster-Based Mail Service (1999)

Yasushi Saito, Brian N. Bershad, Henry M. Levy

This paper describes the motivation, design, and performance of Porcupine, a scalable mail server. The goal of Porcupine is to provide a highly available and scalable electronic mail service using a...

Application performance pitfalls and TCP's Nagle algorithm (1999)

Greg Minshall, Yasushi Saito, Jeffrey C. Mogul, Ben Verghese

Performance improvements to networked applications can have unintended consequences. In a study of the performance of the Network News Transport Protocol (NNTP), the initial results suggested it...

Manageability, Availability and Performance in (1999)

Porcupine Highly Scalable, Yasushi Saito, Brian N. Bershad, Henry M. Levy

This paper describes the Porcupine scalable electronic mail service. Porcupine achieves scalability by clustering many small machines (PCs), enabling them to work together in an efficient manner. In...

A Transactional Memory Service in an Extensible Operating System (1998)

Yasushi Saito, Brian Bershad

This paper describes Rhino, a transactional memory service implemented on top of the SPIN operating system. Rhino is implemented as an extension that runs in SPIN kernel's address space. We...

A Usenet Performance Study (1998)

Yasushi Saito, Jeffrey C. Mogul, Ben Verghese

This report is an attempt to address these problems. First, we introduce Usenet and describe the structure of servers that manage Usenet. Next, we show the result of a trace study conducted on a...

A Transactional Memory Service in an Extensible Operating System (1998)

Yasushi Saito, Brian Bershad

This paper describes Rhino, a transactional memory service implemented on top of the SPIN operating system. Rhino is implemented as an extension that runs in SPIN kernel's address space. We...

Trypsin Treatment May Impair the Interfacial Activation Action of Lipoprotein Lipase (1992)

Tashiro, Jun, Kobayashi, Junji, Shirai, Kohji, Saito, Yasushi, Nakamura, Hideo, Morimoto, Yuuki, ...

Lipoprotein lipase was expressed in Chinese hamster ovary (CHO) cells transfected with human lipoprotein lipase cDNA. The lipoprotein lipase retained tributyrin, water-soluble substrate, hydrolyzing...

Role of Phospholipid in Adrenaline-Induced Lipolysis and Cyclic AMP Production (1978)

OKUDA, Hiromichi, SAITO, Yasushi, MATSUOKA, Nobuo, TAKEDA, Etsuko, KUMAGAI, Akira

Lipid micelles consisting of a glyceride mixture (triolein, diolein, and monoolein) and lecithin bound adrenaline-14C more strongly than did micelles consisting of the glyceride mixture only. Lipid...

Studies on Adrenaline-induced Lipolysis in Artificial Lipid Micelles (1977)

OKUDA, Hiromichi, TAKEDA, Etsuko, SAITO, Yasushi, MATSUOKA, Nobuo

Lipid micelles were prepared by incubating a mixture of glycerides (triolein, diolein, and monoolein), and lecithin in Krebs-Ringer phosphate buffer at 37�C for 30 mm. It was found that adrenaline...

Further Studies on the Mechanism of Adrenaline-induced Lipolysis in Lipid Micelles (1976)

SAITO, Yasushi, MATSUOKA, Nobuo, OKUDA, Hiromichi, FUJII, Setsuro

Lipase [EC 3. 1.1. 3] depleted lipid micelles, in which lipolysis was not elicited by adrenaline, were prepared from lipid micelles. When these lipase-depleted lipid micelles incubated with adipose...

Studies on Triglyceride Synthesis in Lipid Micelles from Adipose Tissue (1974)

MATSUOKA, Nobuo, SAITO, Yasushi, OKUDA, Hiromichi, FUJII, Setsuro

Lipid micelles were prepared from isolated fat cells by treatment under hypotonic conditions as reported previously. The micelles were found to have triglyceride synthesizing activity as well as...

Studies on Lipolysis in Lipid Micelles Isolated from Adipose Tissue (1974)

SAITO, Yasushi, OKUDA, Hiromichi, FUJII, Setsuro

Adrenaline-sensitive lipid micelles were prepared from rat epididymal adipose tissue by hypotonic treatment. The lipolytic activity (free fatty acid release) of these micelles was stimulated by...

Studies on Hormone-sensitive Lipolytic Activity (1974)

SAITO, Yasushi, MATSUOKA, Nobuo, OKUDA, Hiromichi, FUJII, Setsuro

Lipid micelles were prepared from isolated fat cells by disruption in a hypotonic medium. On addition of 10−6 M adenosine 3′, 5′-monophosphate (cyclic AMP) or dibutyryl cyclic AMP (DBcAMP) the...

Mechanism of Adrenaline-induced Lipolysis in Adipose Tissue (1974)

OKUDA, Hiromichi, SAITO, Yasushi, MATSUOKA, Nobuo, FUJII, Setsuro

Lipolysis in isolated fat cells was increased by dibutyryl-cyclic AMP (DBcAMP) and adrenaline but not by cyclic AMP. 3H-DBcAMP and 3H-cyclic AMP were incorporated into fat cells to the same extent....

Induction of differentiation of pre-NKT cells to mature Vα14 NKT cells by granulocyte/macrophage colony-stimulating factor

Sato, Hiroshi, Nakayama, Toshinori, Tanaka, Yujiro, Yamashita, Masakatsu, Shibata, Yoichi, Kondo, Eisuke, ...

Vα14 NKT cells express an invariant antigen receptor encoded by Vα14 and Jα281 gene segments as well as natural killer (NK) markers, including NK1.1. Here, we describe a precursor population of...

Transient gene transfer and expression of Smad7 prevents bleomycin-induced lung fibrosis in mice

Nakao, Atsuhito, Fujii, Makiko, Matsumura, Ryutaro, Kumano, Kotaro, Saito, Yasushi, Miyazono, Kohei, ...

TGF-β plays an important role in lung fibrosis, which is a major cause of suffering and death seen in pulmonary disease. Smad7 has been recently identified as an antagonist of TGF-β signaling. To...

Induction of differentiation of pre-NKT cells to mature Vα14 NKT cells by granulocyte/macrophage colony-stimulating factor

Sato, Hiroshi, Nakayama, Toshinori, Tanaka, Yujiro, Yamashita, Masakatsu, Shibata, Yoichi, Kondo, Eisuke, ...

Vα14 NKT cells express an invariant antigen receptor encoded by Vα14 and Jα281 gene segments as well as natural killer (NK) markers, including NK1.1. Here, we describe a precursor population of...

Transient gene transfer and expression of Smad7 prevents bleomycin-induced lung fibrosis in mice

Nakao, Atsuhito, Fujii, Makiko, Matsumura, Ryutaro, Kumano, Kotaro, Saito, Yasushi, Miyazono, Kohei, ...

TGF-β plays an important role in lung fibrosis, which is a major cause of suffering and death seen in pulmonary disease. Smad7 has been recently identified as an antagonist of TGF-β signaling. To...

卒前臨床教育の変革に関する検討 : (第二報)第二内科におけるベッドサイドラーニング

高林, 克日己, タカバヤシ, カツヒコ, Takabayashi, Katsuhiko, TAKABAYASHI, Katsuhiko, 岩本, 逸夫, イワモト, イツオ, ...

千葉大学第二内科におけるベッドサイドラーニング(BSL)での評価による学生能力, および評価自身の意義について検討する目的で,...

卒前臨床教育の変革に関する検討 : (第二報)第二内科におけるベッドサイドラーニング

高林, 克日己, 岩本, 逸夫, 齋藤, 康, タカバヤシ, カツヒコ, Takabayashi, Katsuhiko, イワモト, イツオ, ...

千葉大学第二内科におけるベッドサイドラーニング(BSL)での評価による学生能力, および評価自身の意義について検討する目的で,...

Role of p27Kip1 and Cyclin-Dependent Kinase 2 in the Proliferation of Non-Small Cell Lung Cancer

Kawana, Hidetada, Tamaru, Jun-ichi, Tanaka, Tomoaki, Hirai, Aizan, Saito, Yasushi, Kitagawa, Masatoshi, ...

The cell cycle is governed by a family of cyclin-dependent kinases (Cdks). Cdk2 forms a functional complex with cyclin E and plays a pivotal role in the regulation of G1/S transition. Cdk2 activity...

A New Method for Large Scale Isolation of Kidney Glomeruli from Mice

Takemoto, Minoru, Asker, Noomi, Gerhardt, Holger, Lundkvist, Andrea, Johansson, Bengt R., Saito, Yasushi, ...

Here we report a new isolation method for mouse glomeruli. The method is fast and simple and allows for the isolation of virtually all glomeruli present in the adult mouse kidney with minimal...

Suppression of neointimal thickening by a newly developed HMG-CoA reductase inhibitor, BAYw6228, and its inhibitory effect on vascular smooth muscle cell growth

Igarashi, Masahiko, Takeda, Yuki, Mori, Seijiro, Ishibashi, Naoko, Komatsu, Eiichi, Takahashi, Kentaro, ...

The aim of this study was to determine whether BAYw6228 (BAYw), a newly developed 3-hydroxy-3-methylglutaryl-CoA (HMG-CoA) reductase inhibitor, could suppress an atherogenic process such as intimal...

Role of transforming growth factor-β pathway in the mechanism of wound healing by saponin from Ginseng Radix rubra

Kanzaki, Tetsuto, Morisaki, Nobuhiro, Shiina, Ritsuko, Saito, Yasushi

The effects of saponin from Ginseng Radix rubra on extracellular matrix metabolism, the activation and synthesis of TGF-β1, and the modification of TGF-β receptor in fibroblasts were examined to...

NK-104, a 3-hydroxy-3-methylglutaryl coenzyme A reductase inhibitor, reduces osteopontin expression by rat aortic smooth muscle cells

Takemoto, Minoru, Kitahara, Masaki, Yokote, Koutaro, Asaumi, Sunao, Take, Ayako, Saito, Yasushi, ...

It has been suggested that osteopontin promotes the development of atherosclerosis, especially under diabetic conditions.In the present study, we found that NK-104, a new potent synthetic inhibitor...

Caprylic acid and medium-chain triglycerides inhibit IL-8 gene transcription in Caco-2 cells: comparison with the potent histone deacetylase inhibitor trichostatin A

Hoshimoto, Aihiro, Suzuki, Yasuo, Katsuno, Tatsuro, Nakajima, Hiroshi, Saito, Yasushi

Medium-chain triglyceride (MCT) is often administered to patients with Crohn's disease (CD) or short-bowel syndrome. However, little is known about the effects of medium-chain fatty acids (MCFAs) and...

Bisphenol A affects glucose transport in mouse 3T3-F442A adipocytes

Sakurai, Kenichi, Kawazuma, Michiru, Adachi, Tetsuya, Harigaya, Toshio, Saito, Yasushi, Hashimoto, Naotake, ...

Recently, environmental chemicals have appeared in daily human life, and these chemicals have been incidentally taken in by humans. The serum concentrations of some of these chemicals have been found...

Proteolytic Processing of Stat6 Signaling in Mast Cells as a Negative Regulatory Mechanism

Suzuki, Kotaro, Nakajima, Hiroshi, Kagami, Shin-ichiro, Suto, Akira, Ikeda, Kei, Hirose, Koichi, ...

Accumulating evidence has shown the importance of Stat6-mediated signaling in allergic diseases. In this study, we show a novel regulatory mechanism of Stat6-mediated signaling in mast cells. When...

IL-4–Stat6 Signaling Induces Tristetraprolin Expression and Inhibits TNF-α Production in Mast Cells

Suzuki, Kotaro, Nakajima, Hiroshi, Ikeda, Kei, Maezawa, Yuko, Suto, Akira, Takatori, Hiroaki, ...

Increasing evidence has revealed that mast cell–derived tumor necrosis factor α (TNF-α) plays a critical role in a number of inflammatory responses by recruiting inflammatory leukocytes. In this...

Ang II–stimulated migration of vascular smooth muscle cells is dependent on LR11 in mice

Jiang, Meizi, Bujo, Hideaki, Ohwaki, Kenji, Unoki, Hiroyuki, Yamazaki, Hiroyuki, Kanaki, Tatsuro, ...

Medial-to-intimal migration of SMCs is critical to atherosclerotic plaque formation and remodeling of injured arteries. Considerable amounts of the shed soluble form of the LDL receptor relative LR11...

Unrelated or mismatched related donor stem cell transplantation for myeloid malignancies with a fludarabine- and busulfan-based reduced-intensity conditioning regimen

Ise, Mikiko, 伊勢, 美樹子, イセ, ミキコ, Nakaseko, Chiaki, 中世古, 知昭, ナカセコ, チアキ, ...

Many patients with myeloid malignancies are ineligible for conventional allogeneic hematopoietic stem cell transplantation (allo-HSCT) with myeloablative conditioning because of their age, medical...

Selective Reduction and Recovery of Invariant Vα24JαQ TCR T Cells in Correlation with Disease Activity in Patients with Chronic Graft-versus-Diseases

HANAOKA, Hideki, 花岡, 英紀, ハナオカ, ヒデキ, OISHI, Yoshinori, 大石, 嘉則, オオイシ, ヨシノリ, ...

Natural Killer (NK) T cells regulate immune responses including autoimmunity and are selectively decreased in autoimmune disease. We investigated the regulatory role of CD4- CD8- double-negative (DN)...

The potential role of patient awareness regarding one's own medical data in the management of lifestyle-related diseases

NEFF, Yukiko, ネフ, 由紀子, ネフ, ユキコ, BUJO, Hideaki, 武城, 英明, ブジョウ, ヒデアキ, ...

The aim of this study was to investigate the significance of patient awareness regarding one's own medical data, relative to the improvement of their life style-related diseases. The awareness scores...