Smoking and colorectal cancer in a non-Western population: a prospective cohort study in Japan.

abstract：BACKGROUND:While the immunogenicity and effectiveness of seasonal influenza vaccines among subjects with severe motor and intellectual disability (SMID) are known to be diminished, the efficacy of the A/H1N1pdm vaccine has not been evaluated. METHODS:We prospectively evaluated 103 subjects with SMID (mean age, 41.7 ye...

journal_title：Journal of epidemiology

authors： Hara M,Hanaoka T,Maeda K,Kase T,Ohfuji S,Fukushima W,Hirota Y

更新日期：2016-06-05 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Several epidemiologic studies have reported an inverse association between serum levels of carotenoids and cardiovascular disease risk. However, no studies have reported an association between serum carotenoids and N-terminal pro-brain-type natriuretic peptide (NT-proBNP) in the general population. METHODS:...

journal_title：Journal of epidemiology

authors： Suzuki K,Ishii J,Kitagawa F,Kuno A,Kusuhara Y,Ochiai J,Ichino N,Osakabe K,Sugimoto K,Yamada H,Ito Y,Hamajima N,Inoue T

更新日期：2013-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:We surveyed the emergency medical system (EMS) in Taiwan to provide information to policymakers responsible for decisions regarding the redistribution of national medical resources. METHODS:A systematic sampling method was used to randomly sample a representative database from the National Health Insurance ...

journal_title：Journal of epidemiology

authors： Yang NP,Lee YH,Lin CH,Chung YC,Chen WJ,Chou P

更新日期：2009-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：STUDY OBJECT:To reveal the relationship between regular exercise and physical fitness, life style, mental health, and other cardiovascular risk factors among the Japanese. DESIGN:cross-sectional study. SUBJECTS:Three thousands, one hundred and thirty-two individuals (1,795 men and 1,336 women) over 40 years old who w...

journal_title：Journal of epidemiology

authors： Hiraoka J,Ojima T,Nakamura Y,Yanagawa H

更新日期：1998-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：OBJECTIVE:This study surveyed the sexual behaviour of commercial sex workers and their clients in an attempt to identify factors of transmission of STDs (including HIV/AIDS) and to control their epidemics in Cambodia and South-East Asia. DESIGN:Cross-sectional study. SETTING:Trained questioners asked items of the que...

journal_title：Journal of epidemiology

authors： Morio S,Soda K,Tajima K,Leng HB,Kitamura K,Mizushima S,Ohshige K,Tan F,Suyama A,Sopheab H,Phalla T

更新日期：1999-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Both outdoor air pollution and extreme temperature have been associated with daily mortality; however, the effect of their interaction is not known. METHODS:This time-series analysis examined the effect of the interaction between outdoor air pollutants and extreme temperature on daily mortality in Shanghai,...

journal_title：Journal of epidemiology

authors： Cheng Y,Kan H

更新日期：2012-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Most twins after assisted reproductive technology (ART) are dizygotic. Analysis of dizygotic twin pairs is useful in assessing familial aggregation in the development of birth defects. METHODS:Using nationwide post-ART data from the Japan Society of Obstetrics and Gynecology, recurrence risk ratios (RRRs)-d...

journal_title：Journal of epidemiology

authors： Ooki S

更新日期：2013-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Strategies for preventing premature cardiovascular disease include measures to control its risk factors. To plan such activities, prevalence of these factors must be known. Data regarding risk factor prevalence is limited in Bangladesh and measurement of biochemical factors is not always feasible. The aim of...

journal_title：Journal of epidemiology

authors： Zaman MM,Choudhury SR,Ahmed J,Numan SM,Islam MS,Yoshiike N

更新日期：2004-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:It is unclear whether either neighborhood collective efficacy or school collective efficacy is associated with adolescent alcohol use. This study aimed to examine the relative contributions of collective efficacy, both in school and in the neighborhood contexts, to alcohol use among Japanese adolescents. ME...

journal_title：Journal of epidemiology

authors： Takakura M,Miyagi M,Ueji M,Kobayashi M,Kurihara A,Kyan A

更新日期：2019-10-05 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:The life expectancy is an important measure for describing health status among population. Several studies from the United States and Europe showed the harm of smoking by describing the life expectancies with different smoking status. No such study is examined in Japan, the country with the world's highest l...

journal_title：Journal of epidemiology

authors： Murakami Y,Ueshima H,Okamura T,Kadowaki T,Hozawa A,Kita Y,Hayakawa T,Okayama A,NIPPON DATA80 Research Group.

更新日期：2007-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:While laughter is broadly recognized as a good medicine, a potential preventive effect of laughter on disability and death is still being debated. Accordingly, we investigated the association between the frequency of laughter and onset of functional disability and all-cause mortality among the older adults i...

journal_title：Journal of epidemiology

authors： Tamada Y,Takeuchi K,Yamaguchi C,Saito M,Ohira T,Shirai K,Kondo K

更新日期：2020-05-16 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Intracellular folate hemostasis depends on the 5,10-methylenetetrahydrofolate reductase (MTHFR) gene. Because 5,10-MTHFR 677TT homozygosity and tobacco smoking are associated with low folate status, we tested the hypothesis that smoking in mothers with 5,10-MTHFR C677T or A1298C polymorphisms would be indepe...

journal_title：Journal of epidemiology

authors： Yila TA,Sasaki S,Miyashita C,Braimoh TS,Kashino I,Kobayashi S,Okada E,Baba T,Yoshioka E,Minakami H,Endo T,Sengoku K,Kishi R

更新日期：2012-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:We conducted a cohort study to investigate the effects of coffee and green tea consumption on all-cause mortality in a rural Japanese population. Data were obtained from 2,855 men and women aged 40-79 years in 1989, and during the subsequent 9.9 years of follow-up. Using the Cox regression model to adjust for potentia...

journal_title：Journal of epidemiology

authors： Iwai N,Ohshiro H,Kurozawa Y,Hosoda T,Morita H,Funakawa K,Okamoto M,Nose T

更新日期：2002-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A total of 507 residents (232 males and 275 females) of a rural area of Hokkaido, Japan, were enrolled in the present follow-up study as the follow-up cohort. We investigated the relationship between mortality rates from cancer or all causes and blood levels of SOD activity and Zn/Cu ratio, and serum levels of SOD act...

journal_title：Journal of epidemiology

authors： Ito Y,Suzuki K,Sasaki R,Otani M,Aoki K

更新日期：2002-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Inflammatory gene polymorphisms are potentially associated with atherosclerosis risk, but their age-related effects are unclear. To investigate the age-related effects of inflammatory gene polymorphisms on arterial stiffness, we conducted cross-sectional and 5-year follow-up studies using the cardio-ankle va...

journal_title：Journal of epidemiology

authors： Kheradmand M,Niimura H,Kuwabara K,Nakahata N,Nakamura A,Ogawa S,Mantjoro EM,Shimatani K,Nerome Y,Owaki T,Kusano K,Takezaki T

更新日期：2013-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Although the prevalences of obesity and hypertension (HT) are increasing in children, there have been few epidemiological studies of HT in Japanese children. We evaluated the prevalences of HT and high-normal blood pressure (HNBP), and examined the relationship between blood pressure (BP) and body mass index...

journal_title：Journal of epidemiology

authors： Shirasawa T,Shimada N,Ochiai H,Ohtsu T,Hoshino H,Nishimura R,Morimoto A,Tajima N,Kokaze A

更新日期：2010-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Epidemiological studies show a U-shaped tendency in Kawasaki disease (KD)-related coronary artery abnormalities (CAAs) across age categories. Since studies suggest seasonal variations in KD onset, this study aimed to clarify the epidemiologic features of CAAs, considering the seasons of KD-occurrence. METHO...

journal_title：Journal of epidemiology

authors： Kitano N,Takeuchi T,Suenaga T,Kakimoto N,Naka A,Shibuta S,Tachibana S,Takekoshi N,Suzuki T,Tsuchihashi T,Yamano T,Akasaka T,Suzuki H

更新日期：2020-02-22 00:00:00

abstract：:Iodine deficiency remains a considerable challenge worldwide, even after decades of efforts to address the problem. The aim of this review is to present the current situation in historically iodine-deficient Pakistan regarding iodine nutritional status and place it in a global perspective. We collected relevant articl...

journal_title：Journal of epidemiology

authors： Khattak RM,Khattak MNK,Ittermann T,Völzke H

更新日期：2017-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:There have been few prospective studies on diet and glucose abnormalities as determined by oral glucose tolerance test. METHODS:To investigate the impact of dietary factors on the development of glucose intolerance including diabetes and impaired glucose tolerance, we performed a follow-up survey of 1,075 s...

journal_title：Journal of epidemiology

authors： Kiyohara Y,Shinohara A,Kato I,Shirota T,Kubo M,Tanizaki Y,Fujishima M,Iida M

更新日期：2003-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Most ecological studies investigating the relationship between incidence and/or mortality of skin cancer and surrogate measures of ultraviolet radiation B (UVB) have been conducted among the Caucasian population. The objective of the present study was therefore to assess the geographical correlation between ambient UV...

journal_title：Journal of epidemiology

authors： Takahashi K,Pan G,Feng Y,Ohtaki M,Watanabe S,Yamaguchi N

更新日期：1999-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:We examined apolipoprotein E (Apo E) polymorphism and methylenetetrahydrofolate reductase (MTHFR) 677 C to T mutation by using the polymerase chain reaction (PCR) method in 100 elderly Japanese aged 60 or more, and assessed whether these genetic factors are associated with an increased risk for the clinical phenotypes...

journal_title：Journal of epidemiology

authors： Nishiyama M,Kato Y,Hashimoto M,Yukawa S,Omori K

更新日期：2000-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Urbanizing rural areas in China face a rapidly growing cardiovascular disease burden. Epidemiologic studies and effective preventive strategies are urgently needed. METHODS:The Fangshan Cohort Study is a prospective study that began in 2008 and targets local residents aged 40 years or older living in 3 town...

journal_title：Journal of epidemiology

authors： Wu N,Tang X,Wu Y,Qin X,He L,Wang J,Li N,Li J,Zhang Z,Dou H,Liu J,Yu L,Xu H,Zhang J,Hu Y,Iso H

更新日期：2014-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Japan's historically low immigration rate and monolingual culture makes it a particularly interesting setting for clarifying non-national medical care. Our study objective was to examine disease patterns and outcome differences between Japanese and non-Japanese patients in a rapidly globalizing nation. METH...

journal_title：Journal of epidemiology

authors： Ishii E,Nawa N,Matsui H,Otomo Y,Fujiwara T

更新日期：2020-12-05 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:The estimation of incidence rates of infectious diseases based on the sentinel surveillance data is rather rare. We attempted to estimate these in 2000 in Japan by the surveillance data, and to evaluate their biases. METHODS:We used the incidences of influenza-like illness and 12 pediatric diseases in each ...

journal_title：Journal of epidemiology

authors： Hashimoto S,Murakami Y,Taniguchi K,Shindo N,Osaka K,Fuchigami H,Nagai M

更新日期：2003-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：OBJECTIVE:To examine the validity and reproducibility of food groups in the semi-quantitative food frequency questionnaire (FFQ) developed for the Tehran Lipid and Glucose Study (TLGS). METHODS:To evaluate the reproducibility of food groups included in the FFQ, 132 subjects (61 men and 71 women) aged 20 years or older...

journal_title：Journal of epidemiology

authors： Esfahani FH,Asghari G,Mirmiran P,Azizi F

更新日期：2010-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:To investigate the psychological characteristics of smoking and tobacco dependence, a questionnaire survey was conducted of 2,051 consenting adults aged 21 to 65 years from the total population of a town in Akita Prefecture. Valid responses were received from 673 men and 818 women, for a total of 1,491 (72.7%). The qu...

journal_title：Journal of epidemiology

authors： Yoshimura K

更新日期：2000-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:We reutilized the existing Three-Prefecture Cohort to evaluate the relationship between lifestyle factors and the incidence or mortality from non-communicable diseases. METHODS:This study was a prospective population-based observation conducted from the 1980s to 2000 in three prefectures (Miyagi, Aichi, and...

journal_title：Journal of epidemiology

authors： Sado J,Kitamura T,Kitamura Y,Zha L,Liu R,Sobue T,Nishino Y,Tanaka H,Nakayama T,Tsuji I,Ito H,Suzuki T,Katanoda K,Tominaga S,Three-Prefecture Cohort Study Group.

更新日期：2017-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:We present here the survey methods and basic results of dietary records which were used as reference values in the present validation study of a self-administered food frequency questionnaire (FFQ) for the 5-year follow-up survey of the JPHC study. A semi-weighed dietary record was kept for four seven consecutive days...

journal_title：Journal of epidemiology

authors： Sasaki S,Takahashi T,Iitoi Y,Iwase Y,Kobayashi M,Ishihara J,Akabane M,Tsugane S,JPHC.

更新日期：2003-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:We explored the distinct trajectories of functional decline among older adults in Japan, and evaluated whether the frequency of outings, an important indicator of social activity, predicts the identified trajectories. METHODS:We analyzed data on 2,364 adults aged 65 years or older from the Japan Aichi Geron...

journal_title：Journal of epidemiology

authors： Saito J,Kondo N,Saito M,Takagi D,Tani Y,Haseda M,Tabuchi T,Kondo K

更新日期：2019-02-05 00:00:00

abstract：:To evaluate the effects of passive smoking identified by urine cotinine on serum carotenoids and alpha-tocopherol, we categorized 124 residents in a rural city of Japan into 4 groups by their urine cotinine/creatinine (Cot/Cr) ratio (u.d. (undetectable); low (0-50 ng/mg); moderate (50-120 ng/mg); high (> 120 ng/mg)) a...

journal_title：Journal of epidemiology

authors： Takatsuka N,Kawakami N,Ito Y,Kabuto M,Shimizu H

更新日期：1998-08-01 00:00:00