Paolo Vineis, Queenie Chan, Aneire Khan
It is estimated that 884 million people do not have access to clean drinking water in the world. Increasing salinity of natural drinking water sources has been reported as one of the many problems that affect low-income countries, but one which has not been fully explored. This problem is exacerbate...
Aneire Khan, Pauline Franka Denise Scheelbeek, Asma Begum Shilpi, Queenie Chan et al.
BACKGROUND: Hypertensive disorders in pregnancy are among the leading causes of maternal and perinatal death in low-income countries, but the aetiology remains unclear. We investigated the relationship between salinity in drinking water and the risk of (pre)eclampsia and gestational hypertension in ...
Maryam Zaid, Katsuyuki Miura, Akira Okayama, Hideaki Nakagawa et al.
BACKGROUND: Recently, high-density lipoprotein particles (HDL-P) have been found to be more strongly inversely associated with coronary artery disease (CAD) risk than their counterpart, HDL cholesterol (HDL-C). Given that lifestyle is among the first targets in CAD prevention, we compared the associ...
Yasuyuki Nakamura, Hirotsugu Ueshima, Nagako Okuda, Katsuyuki Miura et al.
Purpose Low-carbohydrate diets (LCD) are a popular dietary strategy for weight reduction. The effects of LCD on long-term outcome vary depending on type of LCD, possibly due to the fact that effects on cardiometabolic risk factors may vary with different types of LCD. Accordingly, we studied these r...
INTERMAP Study Group, Naoyuki Takashima, Takayoshi Ohkubo, Katsuyuki Miura et al.
Several studies demonstrated that visit-to-visit variability of blood pressure (BP) predicted future events of total death, stroke and cardiovascular disease. Little is known about factors associated with visit-to-visit BP variability in different countries. We recruited participants aged 40–59 year...
Yukiko Okami, Hirotsugu Ueshima, Yasuyuki Nakamura, Nagako Okuda et al.
AIM: The positive relationship between dietary cholesterol and serum cholesterol has been questioned by a set of recent cohort studies. This study aimed to investigate how employment status and education years relate to the association between dietary cholesterol and serum low-density lipoprotein ch...
Tai Wa Liu, Bonny Yee-Man Wong, Timothy T.T. Yam, William W. N. Tsang et al.
PURPOSE: To compare exergaming with a resistance component and traditional resistance training in terms of feasibility and the preliminary effects on sarcopenia, cognition, functional mobility, and frailty among pre-frail and frail nursing home residents. METHODS: A two-arm pilot randomized controll...
Yukiko Okami, Hirotsugu Ueshima, Yasuyuki Nakamura, Nagako Okuda et al.
Introduction: The upper limit of recommended dietary cholesterol has been abolished recently from guidelines in Japan and US even though high intake is known to increase serum cholesterol levels. Reverse causality has been involved, reflecting availability of widespread information with consequent l...
Yasuyuki Nakamura, Hirotsugu Ueshima, Nagako Okuda, Katsuyuki Miura et al.
Introduction: Sizable numbers of people have tried low carbohydrate diets (LCD) of varied types; data are sparse on effects on cardiometabolic risk factors with different types of LCD. Hypothesis: We assessed the hypothesis that relationships of LCD score to cardiometabolic risk factors and an infla...