Tokio Marine & Nichido Fire Insurance, Others Begin Offering SAS Diagnosis Program for Corporate Clients.Tokyo, Japan, Dec 6, 2005 - (JCN JCN Japan Corporate News JCN Journal of Cognitive Neuroscience JCN Journal of Cardiovascular Nursing JCN Journal of Christian Nursing JCN Job Control Number JCN Journal of Child Neurology JCN joint communications network (US DoD) ) - Tokio Marine & Nichido Fire Insurance announced on December 5 that it has developed and begun offering the SAS (1) (SAS Institute Inc., Cary, NC, www.sas.com) A software company that specializes in data warehousing and decision support software based on the SAS System. Founded in 1976, SAS is one of the world's largest privately held software companies. See SAS System. Diagnosis Program, a mass-screening program for sleep apnea syndrome sleep apnea syndrome Ondine's curse A condition defined by frequent episodes of sleep apnea, hypopnea, and Sx of functional respiratory impairment; it is potentially life-threatening, and associated with daytime hypersomnolence, MVAs, and cardiovascular M&M in (SAS). Co-developed with Tokio Marine & Nichido Medical Service, Fukuda Denshi, Fukuda Life Tech and the Association for Preventive Medicine preventive medicine, branch of medicine dealing with the prevention of disease and the maintenance of good health practices. Until recently preventive medicine was largely the domain of the U.S. of Japan, the new program is designed for use in regular medical checkups administered by corporations to their employees. The program works as follows. First, those who are found to be obese o·bese adj. Extremely fat; very overweight. obese characterized by obesity. obese adjective Characterized by obesity, see there; excessively fat or have symptoms of lifestyle-related diseases in regular medical checkups are required to monitor their sleeping conditions at home using Fukuda Denshi's proprietary monitoring device LS-100. Collected data is examined (judged) under the criteria guidelined by the Association for Preventive Medicine of Japan. If a subject is diagnosed as SAS, he will be referred to a hospital and a doctor specializing in SAS. It costs about 2,000,000 yen ($16,500) to screen about 500 subjects, or 4,000 yen ($33) per person. One theory has it that about 2% of the Japanese have SAS. Copyright [c] 2005 Japan Corporate News Network. All rights reserved. |
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