Chisato Nagata

..67, (95 % CI 1.39, 2.01) for every 1.0 μg/g increase in urinary cadmium level, P-trend <0.01]. These data suggested that exposure to cadmium was associated with a risk of breast cancer in Japanese women...

..03)]. A favorable effect was suggested for total fat and PUFA intakes on mortality in men except for that from cardiovascular disease, whereas increased SFA intake may be associated with adverse health consequences in women...

..This report is part of a series of articles written by our research group, whose aim was to evaluate the existing evidence concerning the association between health-related lifestyles and cancer...

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..The data suggest that higher alcohol intake is associated with a higher prevalence of uterine fibroids. Further studies on diet, especially phyto-oestrogens, and uterine fibroids are needed given the limited data currently available...

..However, the potential role of melatonin as an intervening factor between light exposure at night and the serum concentrations of estrogen was equivocal...

..19, P = 0.01), but was unrelated to birth weight. Estrogen level during pregnancy may be regulated by dietary polyunsaturated fatty acids and mediate their effects on fetal growth...

..Pollinosis induced by the cedar pollen antigen is the most common seasonal allergic reaction in Japan. We aimed to examine the relationship between smoking and risk of cedar pollinosis in a population-based cohort of the Japanese...

..Further studies with more accurate measurement methods are needed to investigate the role of daily diet in skin ageing...

..These factors might explain the heterogeneity of results from studies. This present report contrasts background data from Japanese and Western women to identify the potential modifying of these factors...

..The aim of the present study was to examine the associations of these factors with blood concentrations of sex hormones and prolactin in premenopausal Japanese women...

..Demographic factors, smoking status, and menstrual and reproductive factors were unrelated to equol excretion. These data suggest that dairy product intake may be associated with the production of equol...

..02). There was no significant association between urinary aMT6-s level and the percent density in postmenopausal women. We found no evidence that the melatonin level is inversely associated with mammographic density...

..07 (95% CI: 0.81-1.42) in men and 0.89 (95% CI: 0.68-1.15) in women. These data did not support an association between soy isoflavone intake and risk of cedar pollinosis...

..The results imply that coffee consumption decreased the risk of developing diabetes. The protective effect may exist aside from the influence of caffeine intake...

..8 and 9.3%, respectively, with a 5% increase in the percentage of energy from total fat. These data suggest that a high intake of fat is associated with higher serum levels of estrone and DHEAS in postmenopausal women...

..We aimed to assess the associations of sex, age, body mass, sex steroid hormones, and lifestyle factors with the levels of melatonin in young children...

..We examined the relationship among these dietary factors and plasma sex hormone levels in premenopausal Japanese women...

..The Japanese Food Guide Spinning Top was developed by the Japanese Ministry of Health, Labor, and Welfare and the Ministry of Agriculture, Forestry, and Fishery to promote healthful diets...

..04), after adjusting for multiple potential confounders. Among men, no significant association was observed. Our results exhibited the weak benefit of soy foods only among women. Further research to confirm our results may be beneficial...

..As tobacco smoking may be one of the few modifiable risk factors for breast cancer, we focused on the association between tobacco smoking and the risk of breast cancer in this review...

..Few studies have examined whether dietary factors might affect blood pressure in children. We purposed to investigate whether seaweed intake is associated with blood pressure level among Japanese preschool children...

..A high intake of soy has been suggested to protect against breast cancer. We examined the hypothesis that maternal soy intake may be inversely associated with pregnancy hormone levels...

..Total energy intake was not associated with any sex steroids in boys or girls. These results suggest that soy intake might affect the secretion or metabolism of sex steroids in childhood and that the effects might differ by sex...

..The present cross-sectional study evaluated the relations of percent density with dietary factors, such as fats, protein, dietary fiber, and soy isoflavones...

..05). The current study implies that diets with a high dietary GI increase the risk of mortality from stroke among Japanese women...

..These data suggested that the urinary aMT6s level was inversely associated with established independent risk factors for CVD, such as WBC, UA, and hs-CRP. Endogenous melatonin may have implications for the risk of CVD...

..030). These associations were somewhat stronger among mothers with female offspring than those with male offspring. These results suggested that exposure to light at night might increase sex hormone levels during pregnancy...

..16; 95% Cl, 0.77-1.74; P-trend = 0.61) and vegetable (HR = 0.81, 95% CI: 0.49-1.34; P-trend = 0.47) intake. These data suggest that higher intake of vegetables is associated with reduced risk of death from CVD for women...

..We purposed to examine the association between dietary intake of these three vitamins and blood pressure of young children...

..We estimated the prevalence of tinnitus among the general adult population in Japan...

..Recent laboratory studies have suggested that cadmium is an estrogenic compound and may be a potential risk factor for breast cancer...

..Studies focusing on lifestyle and health factors and stress urinary incontinence (SUI) are scarce in Japan. The aim of this study is to examine the association of lifestyle and health factors in SUI...

..The data suggest that polyunsaturated fat and dietary fiber intake are associated with the parameters of menstrual cycle length, but further studies are required to better characterize these associations...

..The objective of this study was to evaluate the causal attributions for breast cancer and their association with the subsequent psychological adjustment...

..The purpose of the present study was to examine the relationships between the rationality and anti-emotionality (R/A) personality and dietary consumption in a Japanese community...

..However, data should be regarded as preliminary because it is impossible to estimate dietary melatonin intake from vegetables and or from the entire diet because of incomplete data for melatonin in plants...

..We aimed to assess the association of body size at birth or physical activity with sex steroid levels, independent of body mass among young children...

..We investigated whether seaweed intake is associated with sex steroid levels in young Japanese children...

..To examine the association of smoking and lifestyle factors with pancreatic cancer death in the prospective design...

..Soy diet has been suggested to have antihypertensive effect in animal studies. The present study examined the cross-sectional relationship between blood pressure and intake of soy products and other food groups in Japanese men and women...

..This report is one among a series of articles by our research group evaluating the existing evidence concerning the association between health-related lifestyles and cancer...

..Further, the association of diabetes with increasing risk of cancer has also been reported. Well-designed studies conducted among men and women in the general Japanese population remain scarce...

..Although smoking is a well-known risk factor for the onset of airway diseases, the associations between smoking and asthma are inconsistent...

..Our FFQ could reasonably rank individuals according to dietary intake for epidemiologic studies, although the validity of the questionnaire is limited to specific nutrients...

..We examined the association of experience of farming with occurrence of cedar pollinosis in a prospective cohort in Japan...

..16, P = 0.04). Umbilical cord AFP was unrelated to cord levels of estradiol and estriol. The data suggested a greater exposure to estriol and a lower exposure to AFP among high birth weight babies...

..43, 95% CI: 0.22-0.85). The findings suggest the possible linkage between a western diet and risk of colon cancer...

..03). The results indicate that increased consumption of vegetables raises circulatory melatonin concentrations...

..05). The analysis of BMI at the baseline did not show a significant relationship with the risk of death from stomach cancer. These results suggest that a high BMI(20y) is associated with an increased risk of death from stomach cancer...

..CONCLUSIONS: High intake of fats and low intake of foods with high concentration of carbohydrate may be associated with premenstrual symptoms...

..To assess the impact of changes in marital status on the mortality of elderly Japanese men and women...

..To evaluate the effect of menopause on weight change in Japanese women...

..The purpose of this study was to examine the relation between sodium intake and death from stroke in a population-based cohort of Japanese men and women...

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..13, P = 0.04). The correlations of saturated and monounsaturated fats with serum IGFBP-3 were of borderline significance (r = -0.12, P = 0.06 and r = -0.11, P = 0.07, respectively)...

..For women but not for men, n-3 fatty acids from fish were significantly inversely associated with total mortality. Results showed that soy intake may have moderate but beneficial effects on total mortality...

..Mammographic density is of interest in assessing the etiology of breast cancer, but it may also have potential as a surrogate marker of risk in interventions designed to reduce the risk of breast cancer...

..Therefore, when comparing ethnic groups with distinct physical proportions, the absolute size of the dense areas appears to be a better measure of breast cancer risk than the relative density...

..It is also noted that a lower cytomegalovirus IgG level and a smaller number of past pregnancies might be associated with the regression of CIN lesions...

..It is unclear whether tobacco smoking is related to colorectal cancer risk in Japan. We evaluated the association among the Japanese population based on a systematic review of epidemiologic evidence...

..It would be of value, therefore, to quantify that association in Japan based on a systematic review of epidemiological evidence for the primary prevention of lung cancer...

..To investigate the relationships of an individual's level on the R/A personality to cancer and cardiovascular disease mortality in Japan, we conducted a population-based cohort study...

..On the basis of a systematic review of epidemiological evidence, we evaluated this association among the Japanese population, who may be more susceptible to alcohol-related diseases than Western populations...

..Evidence suggests that < or =10% of the Asian population consumes as much as 25 g of soy protein or 100 mg of isoflavones per day. The applicability of these findings for making soy intake recommendations for non-Asians is discussed...

..This comparison of mammographic densities suggests that, on a group level, age-adjusted dense areas may reflect breast cancer incidence better than percent densities...

..We evaluated the association between tobacco smoking and gastric cancer risk among the Japanese population based on a systematic review of epidemiologic evidence...

..To clarify whether nonalcoholic fatty liver disease (NAFLD) increases the risk of cardiovascular disease...

..These findings suggest that a diet rich in soy foods and low in meats may be related to lower IGF-I levels, but it is unclear whether soy or other characteristics of diet and lifestyle are responsible for this association...

..Based on this analysis, the influence of circulating levels of IGF-I, IGFBP-3, and prolactin on percent density appears to be very small...

..Emerging epidemiologic data suggest that cigarette smoking may increase the risk of primary liver cancer. We evaluated this association based on a systematic review of epidemiologic evidence among Japanese populations...

..This study illustrates several problems related to dietary comparisons across populations and provides information for future investigations on chronic disease risk...

..This report is one of a series of articles by our research group, which is evaluating the existing evidence concerning the association between health-related lifestyles and cancer...

..We conducted a systematic review of epidemiological evidence to evaluate the association between alcohol drinking and total cancer risk among the Japanese population...

..We evaluated the association between tobacco smoking and total cancer risk among Japanese populations based on a systematic review of epidemiological evidence...

..An alcohol-colorectal cancer association seems to be more apparent in Japanese than in Western populations. Whether this difference can be ascribed to genetic or environmental factors needs to be clarified...

..Based on a systematic review of epidemiologic evidence, we evaluated this association among the Japanese population, who may be more susceptible to alcohol-related diseases than Western populations...

..CONCLUSION: These data suggest that intrauterine growth may be associated with lipid profile...

..CONCLUSIONS: These data clearly demonstrate that liver disease is the cause of ED in patients with CLD, and serum protein status could be relevant to this condition in these patients...

..Our data suggest that baseline IgG reactivities to HPV L1-capsids do not serve as a predictive marker of CIN regression, in contrast to histological CIN grades and HPV DNA status...