Association between diabetes and increased prevalence of paranasal sinus disease: a cross-sectional study in Japanese adults.

abstract：BACKGROUND:Many studies have reported an association between physical activity and cardiovascular disease (CVD); however, the effect of physical activity remains controversial. Few such studies have been conducted in Japan. Therefore, we examined the relationship between physical activity and death from CVD using prosp...

journal_title：Journal of epidemiology

authors： Shibata Y,Hayasaka S,Yamada T,Goto Y,Ojima T,Ishikawa S,Kayaba K,Gotoh T,Nakamura Y

更新日期：2010-01-01 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：BACKGROUND:It has been reported that fruit intake protects against cardiovascular disease (CVD). However, most of the relevant studies were conducted in Western countries, and only a few investigated Japanese populations. The present cohort study assessed the effect of citrus fruit intake on the incidence of CVD and it...

journal_title：Journal of epidemiology

authors： Yamada T,Hayasaka S,Shibata Y,Ojima T,Saegusa T,Gotoh T,Ishikawa S,Nakamura Y,Kayaba K,Jichi Medical School Cohort Study Group.

更新日期：2011-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:The present study examined the prevalence of diabetes in Japan during the late 1990s and early 2000s using the Japan Public Health Center-based Prospective Diabetes cohort. We also investigated the distributions of HbA1c values in noncompliant diabetic participants in the cohort. METHODS:A total of 28 183 r...

journal_title：Journal of epidemiology

authors： Kabeya Y,Kato M,Isogawa A,Takahashi Y,Matsushita Y,Goto A,Iso H,Inoue M,Mizoue T,Tsugane S,Kadowaki T,Noda M

更新日期：2014-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Early childhood caries (ECC) is one of the most prevalent chronic diseases among children. The aim of this cross-sectional study was to investigate the association between nocturnal breastfeeding, snacking habits, or other risk factors and ECC in 18- to 23-month-old Japanese children. METHODS:Study subjects...

journal_title：Journal of epidemiology

authors： Nakayama Y,Mori M

更新日期：2015-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Physical activity is known to prevent obesity and metabolic syndrome in middle-aged and elderly people; however, the effectiveness of a comprehensive health education program for male white-collar employees is uncertain. METHODS:Forty-three men volunteered to participate in this study and were randomly assi...

journal_title：Journal of epidemiology

authors： Kamioka H,Nakamura Y,Okada S,Kitayuguchi J,Kamada M,Honda T,Matsui Y,Mutoh Y

更新日期：2009-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：OBJECTIVES:Eating alone is associated with an increased risk of depression symptoms. This association may be confounded by poor social networks. The present study aimed to determine the role of poor social networks in the association of eating alone with depression symptoms, focusing on cohabitation status. METHODS:Se...

journal_title：Journal of epidemiology

authors： Sakurai R,Kawai H,Suzuki H,Kim H,Watanabe Y,Hirano H,Ihara K,Obuchi S,Fujiwara Y

更新日期：2020-04-18 00:00:00

abstract：:We hypothesized that validity of semiquantitative food frequency questionnaire would be affected by food diversity (variety of foods consumed), because greater food diversity may be related to greater within-individual variation of nutrient intake, which can attenuate the correlation coefficient measuring validity of ...

journal_title：Journal of epidemiology

authors： Nagata C,Ohwaki A,Kurisu Y,Shimizu H

更新日期：1998-12-01 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:The effect of active smoking on development of nonalcoholic fatty liver disease (NAFLD) is controversial, and there are limited clinical data on the relationship between passive smoking and NAFLD. We investigated whether active and passive smoking are associated with NAFLD. METHODS:A total of 8580 subjects ...

journal_title：Journal of epidemiology

authors： Liu Y,Dai M,Bi Y,Xu M,Xu Y,Li M,Wang T,Huang F,Xu B,Zhang J,Li X,Wang W,Ning G

更新日期：2013-01-01 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：:A self-reported questionnaire on the health status, life habits, and social background was conducted at baseline in the Japan Public Health Center-based Prospective Study on Cancer and Cardiovascular Diseases (JPHC study). This report presents the outcome of the study regarding past or family history of various diseas...

journal_title：Journal of epidemiology

authors： Konishi M,Kondou H,Okada K

更新日期：2001-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Some case-control association studies revealed the relationship between some endothelin-1 (ET-1) gene polymorphisms and blood pressure. Because no report was available about the relationship between any ET-1 gene polymorphism and incidence of hypertension, we examined the relationship between novel ET-1 gene...

journal_title：Journal of epidemiology

authors： Kaetsu A,Kishimoto T,Osaki Y,Okamoto M,Fukumoto S,Kurozawa Y

更新日期：2004-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Association of school absence with air pollution from suspended particulate matter (SPM) and nitrogen dioxide was analyzed in areas around arterial roads for five years, from 1993 to 1997. The prevalence of absence was calculated using the data for school absence in two schools around arterial roads, one of which is n...

journal_title：Journal of epidemiology

authors： Makino K

更新日期：2000-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:There is scarce epidemiological evidence regarding the relationships of the consumption of different types of vegetables or fruits with change in skeletal muscle strength. We prospectively examined the relationships among Japanese adults, using handgrip strength to assess skeletal muscle strength. METHODS:A...

journal_title：Journal of epidemiology

authors： Ren Z,Huang C,Momma H,Cui Y,Niu K,Sugiyama S,Nanno M,Nagatomi R

更新日期：2018-09-05 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Chronic stress may facilitate the development of metabolic diseases. Insulin resistance is present long before the clinical manifestations of individual metabolic abnormalities. To explore whether chronic stress is an independent risk factor of insulin resistance, we investigated the relationship between the...

journal_title：Journal of epidemiology

authors： Yan YX,Xiao HB,Wang SS,Zhao J,He Y,Wang W,Dong J

更新日期：2016-07-05 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Previous Japanese studies have led to the erroneous conclusion of antioxidant capacity (AOC) intakes of the overall Japanese diet due to limitations in the number and types of food measured, especially in rice and seafood intake. The aims of the study were to construct an AOC database of foods representative...

journal_title：Journal of epidemiology

authors： Tsubota-Utsugi M,Watanabe J,Takebayashi J,Oki T,Tsubono Y,Ohkubo T

更新日期：2020-01-25 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:The double burden of malnutrition is a growing public health problem in Japan. We estimated the dynamics of the energy imbalance gap (EIG) (average daily difference between energy intake and expenditure) to explain trends in the prevalence of underweight, overweight, and obese Japanese adults. METHODS:We us...

journal_title：Journal of epidemiology

authors： Fallah-Fini S,Ikeda N,Nishi N

更新日期：2020-06-27 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：:In order to evaluate the relationship between the patient-identified regions of abdominal pain and the disease diagnosis, a prospective study was conducted at General Medicine Outpatient Clinic, Saga Medical School Hospital. Four hundred eighty-nine outpatients complaining of abdominal pain at the first visit were cla...

journal_title：Journal of epidemiology

authors： Yamamoto W,Kono H,Maekawa M,Fukui T

更新日期：1997-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:The prevalence and risk factors for endometriosis may differ according to diagnosis methodologies, such as study populations and diagnostic accuracy. We examined risk profiles in imaging-diagnosed endometriosis with and without surgical confirmation in a large population of Japanese women, as well as the dif...

journal_title：Journal of epidemiology

authors： Yasui T,Hayashi K,Nagai K,Mizunuma H,Kubota T,Lee JS,Suzuki S

更新日期：2015-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:In Asia there are few reports considering time intervals in the examination of clinical features of primary biliary cirrhosis (PBC). Therefore, we tried to compare the characteristics of patients with PBC in two different years. METHODS:In two fiscal years (1999 and 2004), 9,761 and 13,142 patients with sym...

journal_title：Journal of epidemiology

authors： Sakauchi F,Oura A,Ohnishi H,Mori M

更新日期：2007-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Lung cancers are classified into small-cell lung cancer (SCLC) and non-small-cell lung cancer due to their different treatment and prognosis. Although many studies have reported the specific survival of SCLC patients treated at cancer hospitals, survival from population-based data has rarely been reported. ...

journal_title：Journal of epidemiology

authors： Oze I,Ito H,Nishino Y,Hattori M,Nakayama T,Miyashiro I,Matsuo K,Ito Y

更新日期：2019-09-05 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Few studies have examined the association between seaweed intake and blood pressure in children. We conducted an intervention study to investigate whether seaweed intake affects blood pressure. METHODS:Subjects were children aged 4 to 5 years attending a preschool in Aichi Prefecture, Japan, in 2010. Among ...

journal_title：Journal of epidemiology

authors： Wada K,Tsuji M,Nakamura K,Oba S,Nishizawa S,Yamamoto K,Watanabe K,Ando K,Nagata C

更新日期：2021-01-05 00:00:00

abstract：:The Second British Epidemiology and Public Health Course was held from 19 to 25 August 1996 in Osaka as a satellite meeting for the 14th International Scientific Meeting of the International Epidemiological Association. Thirty-three researchers from 10 countries participated in the course. Professor Walter W Holland g...

journal_title：Journal of epidemiology

authors： Tanihara S,Morioka S,Kodama K,Hashimoto T,Yanagawa H,Holland WW

更新日期：1998-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Large-scale cohort studies conducted in Japan do not always include psychosocial factors as exposures. In addition, such studies sometimes fail to satisfactorily evaluate disability status as an outcome. METHODS:This prospective cohort study comprised 49 603 (22 438 men and 27 165 women) community-dwelling ...

journal_title：Journal of epidemiology

authors： Kuriyama S,Nakaya N,Ohmori-Matsuda K,Shimazu T,Kikuchi N,Kakizaki M,Sone T,Sato F,Nagai M,Sugawara Y,Tomata Y,Akhter M,Higashiguchi M,Fukuchi N,Takahashi H,Hozawa A,Tsuji I

更新日期：2010-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:We examined the validity and reproducibility of a 44-item food frequency questionnaire used in a baseline survey of the Japan Public Health Center-Based Prospective Study Cohort I conducted in February 1990. Subjects were 94 men and 107 women selected on a voluntary basis among respondents to the baseline survey. Four...

journal_title：Journal of epidemiology

authors： Tsubono Y,Kobayashi M,Sasaki S,Tsugane S,JPHC.

更新日期：2003-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Previous studies suggest that neighborhood social capital is associated with children's mental health. The purpose of this study was to examine the association between neighborhood collective efficacy and children's psychosocial development. METHODS:We used data on children and their parents (n = 918) who w...

journal_title：Journal of epidemiology

authors： Ichikawa K,Fujiwara T,Kawachi I

更新日期：2017-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Marital transitions are associated with adverse health events, such as mortality and cardiovascular disease. Since marital transitions (e.g., becoming widowed) are unavoidable life events, it is necessary to identify modifiable intermediate outcomes. Thus, we examined the association between marital transiti...

journal_title：Journal of epidemiology

authors： Noguchi T,Kondo F,Nishiyama T,Otani T,Nakagawa-Senda H,Watanabe M,Imaeda N,Goto C,Hosono A,Shibata K,Kamishima H,Nogimura A,Nagaya K,Yamada T,Suzuki S

更新日期：2020-10-17 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Because of the increasing number of mothers who continue to work after childbirth, participation in childcare has diversified. However, the impact of the main caregiver on children's habits has not been determined. We sought to examine the effect of caregiver differences on childhood habituation of between-m...

journal_title：Journal of epidemiology

authors： Sata M,Yamagishi K,Sairenchi T,Ikeda A,Irie F,Watanabe H,Iso H,Ota H

更新日期：2015-01-01 00:00:00