Toshimasa Sone

..7). This prospective cohort study indicated a positive linear association between alcohol consumption and the risk of suicide, and the suicide risk among the light drinkers was not decreased as compared with that in nondrinkers...

..The psychological factors play important roles in morbidity and mortality risks. However, the association between the negative psychological factors and the risk of mortality is inconclusive...

..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...

..However, no evidence from cohort studies is available for Asian populations, whose lifestyle is very different from that of westerners...

..Although it is expected that green tea consumption would lower the risk of incident functional disability, this has never been investigated directly...

..No data are available on the association between green tea consumption and the risk of pneumonia in humans...

..Although green tea or its constituents might reduce psychological stress, the relation between green tea consumption and psychological distress has not been investigated in a large-scale study...

..To clarify the effect of age on the association between body mass index (BMI) and all-cause mortality...

..Therefore, controlling these factors is required to investigate whether screenees have a lower mortality risk than non-screenees independent of their lifestyles or health conditions...

..To investigate the association between green tea consumption and liver cancer incidence...

..The purpose of this study was to examine the relationship between depressive status and subsequent certification of long-term care insurance use, and to investigate sex differences in this relationship in an elderly Japanese population...

..In conclusion, coffee consumption was associated with a lower risk of oral, pharyngeal, and esophageal cancers, even in the group at high risk of these cancers...

..Our results suggest that pain is associated with an increased risk of completed suicide among Japanese men. The association was consistently observed among apparently healthy subjects...

..In Asia, there has been no population-based epidemiological study using the K6, a 6-item instrument that assesses nonspecific psychological distress...

..The aim of this study was to investigate whether peripheral arterial disease (PAD) is predictive of disability and whether the relationship between PAD and disability can be fully explained by baseline physical functions...

..To examine the association between green tea consumption and tooth loss...

..The purpose of this study was to propose a suitable cut-off point for the serum albumin value to predict which elderly individuals are qualified for long-term care insurance certification and those at risk of death...

..32, 1.78) for myeloid neoplasms. This inverse association was consistent across sex and body mass index strata. In conclusion, green tea consumption was associated with a lower risk of hematologic malignancies...

..Encouraging people to walk may extend life expectancy and decrease lifetime medical expenditure, especially for men...

..To compare the predictive power of physical function assessed by questionnaire and physical performance measures for subsequent disability in community-dwelling elderly persons...

..47 (95% CI, -1.97 to 1.02). These results suggest that the presence of the Trp64Arg variant of the beta(3)-adrenergic receptor gene may not play a major role as a hindrance to weight reduction...

..The aim of this study was to investigate the association between social roles (engaged in working outside or house work) or hobbies and changes in care level among users of Preventive Care Service under Long-Term Care Insurance...