Y Morikawa

..A strategy for health promotion that targets the disadvantaged population is necessary for the prevention of cardiovascular disease...

..Conclusion: Shift workers who engage in night work may try to modify their health behavior to cope with sleep problems. Such modification may be a risk factor for heavy drinking...

..To assess the effects of self-rated health and behavioural risk factors on sickness absence in the two cohorts, and whether they explain socio-economic differences in sickness absence within and between cohorts...

..Stroke mortality in Japan has significantly declined during recent decades. To determine the cause of this decrease, we studied the trends in stroke incidence and case fatality within 28 days after stroke in a rural area in Japan...

..This study investigated whether shift work is a risk factor for the development of diabetes mellitus...

..The other five NJSS subscales did not relate to immune parameters. In conclusion, the results suggest that perceived job strains, particularly quantitative work load, decreased NK cell function...

..The aim of this cohort study was to investigate the effects of shift work on changes in parameters related to metabolic disturbances...

..Therefore, it is suspected that microalbuminuria is a renal facet of insulin resistance, and a predictor value of hypertension...

..These findings suggest that shift workers who are engaged on a particular shift schedule are more likely to take leave due to sickness...

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..Our study suggests that increased calcium intake may provide a benefit of lowering blood pressure independently of other minerals such as sodium and potassium...

..These findings indicate that increased serum gamma-glutamyltransferase is an independent predictor of subsequent development of hyperuricemia...

..Since there is little information derived from prospective studies on the amount of alcohol drinking required to induce hyperuricaemia, we attempted to address this issue in a Japanese population...

..However, in young adult women, resting SBP rather than exercise SBP would be better to predict future SBP...

..05 mmol/liter in women. The results suggest that lower birth weight and lower rate of height increase during childhood are independently associated with increases in blood pressure and serum cholesterol in adult life...

..This study investigated the relationship between waist circumference and the subsequent incidence of Type 2 diabetes and the association with insulin resistance and pancreatic B-cell function in relatively lean Japanese individuals...

..These results suggest that work characteristics such as sedentary job and shift work should also be considered when trying to prevent increases in BMI and WHR...

..To determine the association of alcohol consumption with years-long blood pressure (BP) change, as well as baseline BP, adjusted for potential confounders...

..To estimate the total number of patients with idiopathic cardiomyopathy in Japan and the prevalence of the disorder...

..The relationship between glycated hemoglobin A(1c) (HbA(1c)) and stroke has not been fully elucidated. In addition, there have been few reports from Asia, and few trials have been conducted for each stroke subtype...

..To investigate prognosis and prognostic factors in patients with hypertrophic cardiomyopathy (HCM) in Japan...

..To clarify the causes of death of residents with renal tubular dysfunction induced by cadmium (Cd) in the environment...

..Mikulicz's disease (MD) has been considered as one manifestation of Sjögren's syndrome (SS). Recently, it has also been considered as an IgG(4)-related disorder...

..Detailed epidemiological investigations on the relationship of environmental factors, especially occupational and microbiological factors, to the development of idiopathic dilated cardiomyopathy (IDC) are scarce...

..The relationships are not clear in Japanese whose intake of seafood-based long-chain n-3 PUFAs is high...

..There have been few large-scale nationwide studies investigating both the prognosis and the prognostic factors of idiopathic dilated cardiomyopathy (IDC). A predictive score that can be used in clinical practice has not been established...

..Shift work, particularly midnight shift work, affected nutrient intake. The impact of shift work on nutrient intakes differed by age and the type of shift work...

..These differences support not only a racial and a gender factor but also a possible environmental influence...

..This study examined the effect of changes in psychosocial workplace characteristics on weight gain and abdominal obesity...

..The purpose of this longitudinal study was to investigate the effects of burnout on risk factors for arteriosclerotic disease...

..The purpose of this investigation was to examine the relationship in a long-term cohort study of Japanese men and women among whom stroke occurrence is higher than in Western countries...

..This study investigated the association between dietary glycemic index (GI)/glycemic load (GL) and serum lipids in middle-aged Japanese men and women...

..The percentage of children with polydactyly whose mother smoked were relatively higher than that for the other congenital anomalies...

..This study was undertaken to examine the association between sickness absence in Japanese employees and job demand/control and occupational class as psychosocial work characteristics...

..48 for MBP, 2.46 for DBP, 2.25 for SBP, and 1.57 for PP. The long-term incident stroke risk of high BP in Asians should be assessed by SBP and DBP together, or by MBP, not by PP...

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..Group counseling may be more effective in women...

..This study investigated the relationship between changes in lipoprotein particle size and body weight change over a 9-year period in Japanese adult men and women...

..The association of overweight/obesity with the incidence of cardiovascular diseases, especially stroke, has not been comprehensively examined in relatively lean populations in which stroke is more prevalent than coronary heart disease...

..These results suggest that a causal association between Cd body burden and mortality exists among inhabitants environmentally exposed to Cd but that no special disease may be induced except renal diseases...

..Thus, the nationwide surveys of Japanese patients have yielded important current epidemiological and clinical information on the characteristics of cardiomyopathies in Japan...

..To examine the association between hypertension and the C825T polymorphism in the G-protein beta 3 subunit gene in Japanese workers...

..The targeting of this polymorphism therefore is unlikely to be beneficial in preventing hypercholesterolemia in the general Japanese population...

..Waist circumference in men and BMI in women should be given more importance in the screening of and guidelines on hypertension in Asians...

..5 mm Hg lower diastolic blood pressure and a 2.3 mm Hg lower mean blood pressure than the AA genotype. This study indicates that the 1330V allele is an independent factor for lower diastolic and mean blood pressure in Japanese males...

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..In conclusion, this study indicated that the GNB3 C825T polymorphism is not a significant factor for overweight in Japanese people...

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..1 compared to the QQ genotype. This study indicates that the Q89R polymorphism is an independent factor for hypertension in Japanese females...

..CONCLUSION: These results suggest that nutrition and exercise habit affect calcaneal bone mass in high school students of both sexes, especially milk consumption being an important factor related to bone mass in girls...

..The targeting of this polymorphism is unlikely to be beneficial in the prevention of hyperuricemia in the general Japanese population...

..About 30 percent of obese children at 3 years remain obese into adulthood. These results are of interest with respect to assessment of future risk of adulthood obesity at medical examinations for infants in Japan...