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  1. Anti-thyroid peroxidase antibody (TPO-Ab) has been shown to cause autoimmune thyroiditis by inducing a deleterious influence on thyroid hormone synthesis. Further, thyroglobulin, which has an important role in...

    Authors: Yuji Shimizu, Yuko Nabeshima-Kimura, Shin-Ya Kawashiri, Yuko Noguchi, Yasuhiro Nagata, Takahiro Maeda and Naomi Hayashida

    Citation: Environmental Health and Preventive Medicine 2020 25:7

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  3. Following publication of the original article [1], the authors spotted errors in their paper concerning the positive rate in the right side in Table 2.

    Authors: Masanori Ogawa, Dai Akine and Teppei Sasahara

    Citation: Environmental Health and Preventive Medicine 2020 25:5

    Content type: Correction

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    The original article was published in Environmental Health and Preventive Medicine 2019 24:80

  4. Vitamin D deficiency associated with dyslipidemia can contribute towards cardiovascular diseases. Previous studies have found that Saudi Arabia has a high burden of vitamin D deficiency and cardiovascular dise...

    Authors: AlJohara M AlQuaiz, Ambreen Kazi, Randa M. Youssef, Norah Alshehri and Shatha Ahmed Alduraywish

    Citation: Environmental Health and Preventive Medicine 2020 25:4

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  5. Chronic noise exposure is one environmental hazard that is associated with genetic susceptibility factors that increase Alzheimer’s disease (AD) pathogenesis. However, the comprehensive understanding of the li...

    Authors: Donghong Su, Wenlong Li, Huimin Chi, Honglian Yang, Xiaojun She, Kun Wang, Xiujie Gao, Kefeng Ma, Ming Zhang and Bo Cui

    Citation: Environmental Health and Preventive Medicine 2020 25:3

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  6. Pneumonia has a high human toll and a substantial economic burden in developed countries like Japan, where the crude mortality rate was 77.7 per 100,000 people in 2017. As this trend is going to continue with ...

    Authors: Rebeka Amin, Yosuke Hatakeyama, Takefumi Kitazawa, Kunichika Matsumoto, Shigeru Fujita, Kanako Seto and Tomonori Hasegawa

    Citation: Environmental Health and Preventive Medicine 2020 25:2

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  7. This study aimed to describe the changing distribution of human brucellosis between 2004 and 2017 in mainland China and seek scientific evidence of the relationship between socio-economic, environmental, and e...

    Authors: Cheng Peng, Yan-Jun Li, De-Sheng Huang and Peng Guan

    Citation: Environmental Health and Preventive Medicine 2020 25:1

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  8. Promotion of oral health in children is recognized as one of the components of health-promoting schools (HPSs). However, few studies have addressed supportive school environments for children’s oral health. Th...

    Authors: Yuri Tashiro, Keiko Nakamura, Kaoruko Seino, Shiro Ochi, Hiroshi Ishii, Masaru Hasegawa, Yoshimichi Kawauchi and Mitsuyuki Chiba

    Citation: Environmental Health and Preventive Medicine 2019 24:83

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  9. This study aimed to analyse the epidemiological characteristics of bacillary dysentery (BD) caused by Shigella in Chongqing, China, and to establish incidence prediction models based on the correlation between me...

    Authors: Qiuyu Meng, Xun Liu, Jiajia Xie, Dayong Xiao, Yi Wang and Dan Deng

    Citation: Environmental Health and Preventive Medicine 2019 24:82

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  10. Human T cell leukemia virus type-1 (HTLV-1) stimulates inflammation activity. Our previous study revealed a positive association between asymptomatic HTLV-1 infection and advanced periodontitis among elderly J...

    Authors: Yuji Shimizu, Hirotomo Yamanashi, Masayasu Kitamura, Reiko Furugen, Takahiro Iwasaki, Hideki Fukuda, Hideaki Hayashida, Koji Kawasaki, Kairi Kiyoura, Shin-Ya Kawashiri, Toshiyuki Saito, Atsushi Kawakami and Takahiro Maeda

    Citation: Environmental Health and Preventive Medicine 2019 24:81

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  11. Two types of recombinant hepatitis B virus (HBV) vaccines are available in Japan. One type uses the antigen from genotype A (Heptavax-II®) and the other uses the antigen from genotype C (Bimmugen®). Potential ...

    Authors: Masanori Ogawa, Dai Akine and Teppei Sasahara

    Citation: Environmental Health and Preventive Medicine 2019 24:80

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    The Correction to this article has been published in Environmental Health and Preventive Medicine 2020 25:5

  12. The blocking of the programmed cell death protein (PD-1)/programmed death-ligand 1 (PD-L1) axis has been found to have an anticancer activity against various types of cancer by enhancing T cell immunity, while...

    Authors: Xiaoqiang Liu, Shaoya He, Huaming Wu, Hui Xie, Tao Zhang and Zhongliang Deng

    Citation: Environmental Health and Preventive Medicine 2019 24:79

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  13. Noise pollution is one of the most important occupational pollutants in heavy-vehicle drivers. Therefore, this epidemiological research was conducted with the aim of determining the prevalence of hearing loss ...

    Authors: Siamak Pourabdian, Saeid Yazdanirad, Saeid Lotfi, Parastoo Golshiri and Behzad Mahaki

    Citation: Environmental Health and Preventive Medicine 2019 24:78

    Content type: Research article

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  14. With the aim to prevent sick building syndrome and worsening of allergic symptoms, primarily resulting from the indoor environment, the relationships among people’s residential environment in recent years, the...

    Authors: Yoshitake Nakayama, Hiroko Nakaoka, Norimichi Suzuki, Kayo Tsumura, Masamichi Hanazato, Emiko Todaka and Chisato Mori

    Citation: Environmental Health and Preventive Medicine 2019 24:77

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  15. No study has yet been performed on the importance of the rate of pure “attended deaths at home,” excluding examined deaths subjected to a postmortem examination. Therefore, in the present study, we investigate...

    Authors: Yasuhiro Kakiuchi, Ryoko Nagao, Eriko Ochiai, Yu Kakimoto and Motoki Osawa

    Citation: Environmental Health and Preventive Medicine 2019 24:76

    Content type: Short communication

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  16. Despite the huge burden of domestic work on women in Japan, its effects on their health have been poorly investigated. We aimed to assess the association between domestic work stress and self-rated psychologic...

    Authors: Eri Maeda, Kyoko Nomura, Osamu Hiraike, Hiroki Sugimori, Asako Kinoshita and Yutaka Osuga

    Citation: Environmental Health and Preventive Medicine 2019 24:75

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  17. There have been inconsistent findings reported on maternal passive smoking during pregnancy and child risk of ADHD. In this study, ADHD symptoms at pre-school age children in association with prenatal passive ...

    Authors: Machiko Minatoya, Atsuko Araki, Sachiko Itoh, Keiko Yamazaki, Sumitaka Kobayashi, Chihiro Miyashita, Seiko Sasaki and Reiko Kishi

    Citation: Environmental Health and Preventive Medicine 2019 24:74

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  18. Before iodination of Swedish table salt in 1936, iodine deficiency resulting in goitre and hypothyroidism was common. Sweden has become iodine sufficient, as shown in a national survey in 2007, proving its iod...

    Authors: Sofia Manousou, Maja Stål, Robert Eggertsen, Michael Hoppe, Lena Hulthén and Helena Filipsson Nyström

    Citation: Environmental Health and Preventive Medicine 2019 24:73

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  19. Lead is a toxic metal abundant in the environment. Consumption of food contaminated at low levels of lead, especially by small children and pregnant women, raises a health concern.

    Authors: Mayumi Ohtsu, Nathan Mise, Akihiko Ikegami, Atsuko Mizuno, Yayoi Kobayashi, Yoshihiko Nakagi, Keiko Nohara, Takahiko Yoshida and Fujio Kayama

    Citation: Environmental Health and Preventive Medicine 2019 24:72

    Content type: Research article

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  20. Maintenance of instrumental activities of daily living (IADL) and social role (SR) is crucial to keep independent life because the decline in SR and IADL was a significant predictor of dependence in basic ADL ...

    Authors: Masayo Komatsu, Kenji Obayashi, Kimiko Tomioka, Masayuki Morikawa, Noriko Jojima, Nozomi Okamoto, Norio Kurumatani and Keigo Saeki

    Citation: Environmental Health and Preventive Medicine 2019 24:71

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  21. This study focused on the newest evidence of the relationship between forest environmental exposure and human health and assessed the health efficacy of forest bathing on the human body as well as the methodol...

    Authors: Ye Wen, Qi Yan, Yangliu Pan, Xinren Gu and Yuanqiu Liu

    Citation: Environmental Health and Preventive Medicine 2019 24:70

    Content type: Review article

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  22. Even though there is bidirectional association between hypertension and atherosclerosis, atherosclerosis itself is involved in the process of endothelial repair. To clarify the association of endothelial repai...

    Authors: Yuji Shimizu, Shin-Ya Kawashiri, Kairi Kiyoura, Kenichi Nobusue, Hirotomo Yamanashi, Yasuhiro Nagata and Takahiro Maeda

    Citation: Environmental Health and Preventive Medicine 2019 24:69

    Content type: Research article

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  24. Scabies is a skin infestation caused by the mite Sarcoptes scabiei that causes a pruritic skin eruption. In Ethiopia, the disease is common especially during natural or manmade disasters such as flooding, drought...

    Authors: Henok Dagne, Awrajaw Dessie, Bikes Destaw, Walelegn Worku Yallew and Zemichael Gizaw

    Citation: Environmental Health and Preventive Medicine 2019 24:67

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  25. Children in Ulaanbaatar are exposed to air pollution, but few epidemiological studies have been conducted on the effects of environmental risk factors on children’s health. Also, no studies have yet examined t...

    Authors: Dambajamts Enkh-Undraa, Seiji Kanda, Masayuki Shima, Takaki Shimono, Mari Miyake, Yoshiko Yoda, Saijaa Nagnii and Toshimasa Nishiyama

    Citation: Environmental Health and Preventive Medicine 2019 24:66

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  26. Little is known regarding the effect of exposure to biomass fuel smoke inhalation on respiratory symptoms in the Bangladeshi population which is a major health hazard in most of the developing countries. This ...

    Authors: Md. Hasan, Sadia Tasfina, S. M. Raysul Haque, K. M. Saif-Ur-Rahman, Md. Khalequzzaman, Wasimul Bari and Syed Shariful Islam

    Citation: Environmental Health and Preventive Medicine 2019 24:65

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  27. Flourishing, defined as the coexistence of hedonic and eudaimonic well-being, is the most favorable end of the mental health spectrum. A growing body of evidence has demonstrated the association between flouri...

    Authors: Daisuke Hori, Yuichi Oi, Yuh Ohtaki, Christina-Sylvia Andrea, Tsukasa Takahashi, Nagisa Shiraki, Tomohiko Ikeda, Yu Ikeda, Shotaro Doki, Shinichiro Sasahara and Ichiyo Matsuzaki

    Citation: Environmental Health and Preventive Medicine 2019 24:64

    Content type: Research article

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  28. The identification of death is critical for epidemiological research. Despite recent developments in health insurance claims databases, the quality of death information in claims is not guaranteed because heal...

    Authors: M. Sakai, S. Ohtera, T. Iwao, Y. Neff, G. Kato, Y. Takahashi and T. Nakayama

    Citation: Environmental Health and Preventive Medicine 2019 24:63

    Content type: Short communication

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  29. Mercury has been documented as an industrial risk that posed a serious danger to human health. Mercury exposure results in oxidative stress that may lead to the pathogenesis of male reproductive dysfunction. T...

    Authors: Sarwat Jahan, Tayyaba Azad, Amina Ayub, Asad Ullah, Tayyaba Afsar, Ali Almajwal and Suhail Razak

    Citation: Environmental Health and Preventive Medicine 2019 24:62

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  30. Chemical intolerance (CI) is a chronic condition characterized by recurring and severe symptoms triggered by exposure to low levels of odorous or pungent substances. The etiology of CI has been a controversial...

    Authors: Kenichi Azuma, Iwao Uchiyama, Mari Tanigawa, Ikuko Bamba, Michiyo Azuma, Hirohisa Takano, Toshikazu Yoshikawa and Kou Sakabe

    Citation: Environmental Health and Preventive Medicine 2019 24:61

    Content type: Review article

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  31. Dental personnel are subject to exposure to a number of occupational factors including needlestick and sharp injuries (NSIs). Our study aims to address knowledge gaps on prevalence and associated factors for n...

    Authors: Lama AlDakhil, Nagarajkumar Yenugadhati, Ohoud Al-Seraihi and Mustafa Al-Zoughool

    Citation: Environmental Health and Preventive Medicine 2019 24:60

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  32. Arsenic and heavy metals are the main cause of water pollution and impact human health worldwide. Therefore, this study aims to assess the probable health risk (non-carcinogenic and carcinogenic risk) for adul...

    Authors: Hosein Alidadi, Seyedeh Belin Tavakoly Sany, Batoul Zarif Garaati Oftadeh, Tafaghodi Mohamad, Hosein Shamszade and Maryam Fakhari

    Citation: Environmental Health and Preventive Medicine 2019 24:59

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  33. Hookah or waterpipe smoking or use is an emerging trend in the US population, especially among the youth. The misperception of hookah being less harmful than cigarettes and the availability of different but “a...

    Authors: Hanan Qasim, Ahmed B. Alarabi, Karem H. Alzoubi, Zubair A. Karim, Fatima Z. Alshbool and Fadi T. Khasawneh

    Citation: Environmental Health and Preventive Medicine 2019 24:58

    Content type: Review article

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  35. Like most women, female nurses in the workforce experience life events such as marriage, childbirth, and child-rearing, and carry out numerous personal roles. This may result in an increase in various demands ...

    Authors: Nagisa Okada, Kosuke Yabase, Toshio Kobayashi and Hitoshi Okamura

    Citation: Environmental Health and Preventive Medicine 2019 24:56

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  36. We assessed the role of social support in presenteeism by examining organizational commitment among Chinese healthcare workers.

    Authors: Tianan Yang, Tengyang Ma, Pucong Liu, Yuanling Liu, Qian Chen, Yilun Guo, Shiyang Zhang and Jianwei Deng

    Citation: Environmental Health and Preventive Medicine 2019 24:55

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  37. Following publication of the original article [1], the authors reported an error in Table 2 in their paper. The table entry “Men’s P value” was mistakenly included under the table heading “Women”. The original...

    Authors: Junhyun Kwon, Eun-Cheol Park, Woorim Kim, Dong-Woo Choi and Sung-In Jang

    Citation: Environmental Health and Preventive Medicine 2019 24:54

    Content type: Correction

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    The original article was published in Environmental Health and Preventive Medicine 2019 24:49

  38. Influenza A viruses pose a significant risk to human health because of their wide host range and ability to reassort into novel viruses that can cause serious disease and pandemics. Since transmission of these...

    Authors: Eric Mogaka Osoro, Shirley Lidechi, Doris Marwanga, Jeremiah Nyaundi, Athman Mwatondo, Mathew Muturi, Zipporah Ng’ang’a and Kariuki Njenga

    Citation: Environmental Health and Preventive Medicine 2019 24:53

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  39. Health facilities can provide diagnostic, curative, and prognostic services for the community. While providing services, healthcare workers can be exposed to needlestick injuries that can transmit pathogenic o...

    Authors: Teshiwal Deress Yazie, Kasaw Adane Chufa and Mekonnen Girma Tebeje

    Citation: Environmental Health and Preventive Medicine 2019 24:52

    Content type: Review article

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  40. Achieving a desirable death is an urgent aging-related problem in Japan. However, measures of the quality of death and dying in Japan are lacking. This study aimed to identify components of a desirable death i...

    Authors: Kanae Kanda, Nobuko Takashima, Yoshimi Tsuji, Katsunori Yokoyama and Tomohiro Hirao

    Citation: Environmental Health and Preventive Medicine 2019 24:51

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  41. Polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbons (PAHs) are widely found in the environment, and comparing to adults, children are more vulnerable to PAHs exposure. Urinary metabolites of PAHs are used as preferred biomarkers...

    Authors: Xin Huang, Xu Deng, Wenyan Li, Shudan Liu, Yiwen Chen, Bo Yang and Qin Liu

    Citation: Environmental Health and Preventive Medicine 2019 24:50

    Content type: Review article

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  42. The number of patients with depressive symptoms worldwide is increasing steadily, and the prevalence of depression among caregivers is high. Therefore, the present study aimed to identify the effects of indivi...

    Authors: Junhyun Kwon, Eun-Cheol Park, Woorim Kim, Dong-Woo Choi and Sung-In Jang

    Citation: Environmental Health and Preventive Medicine 2019 24:49

    Content type: Research article

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    The Correction to this article has been published in Environmental Health and Preventive Medicine 2019 24:54

  44. The plasticizer di(2-ethylhexyl) phthalate (DEHP) has been widely used in the manufacture of polyvinyl chloride-containing products such as medical and consumer goods. Humans can easily be exposed to it becaus...

    Authors: Yuki Ito, Michihiro Kamijima and Tamie Nakajima

    Citation: Environmental Health and Preventive Medicine 2019 24:47

    Content type: Review article

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  45. In recent years, many of Japanese workers have complained of fatigue and stress, considering them as risk factors for depression. Studies have found that “forest bathing” (Shinrin-yoku) has positive physiologi...

    Authors: Akemi Furuyashiki, Keiji Tabuchi, Kensuke Norikoshi, Toshio Kobayashi and Sanae Oriyama

    Citation: Environmental Health and Preventive Medicine 2019 24:46

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  46. More than half of the disease burden in Uganda can be prevented through improving water, sanitation, and hygiene (WASH). In slum communities, water supply is insufficient but also highly contaminated; therefor...

    Authors: Charles Ssemugabo, Solomon Tsebeni Wafula, Rawlance Ndejjo, Frederick Oporia, Jimmy Osuret, David Musoke and Abdullah Ali Halage

    Citation: Environmental Health and Preventive Medicine 2019 24:45

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  47. Slow-motion training, which comprises exercising using extremely slow-movements, yields a training effect like that of high-intensity training, even when the applied load is small. We developed a slow-training...

    Authors: Kanae Kanda, Yutaka Mori, Kunihisa Yamasaki, Hiroko Kitano, Aya Kanda and Tomohiro Hirao

    Citation: Environmental Health and Preventive Medicine 2019 24:44

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  48. Failure to provide adequate sanitation services to all people is perhaps the greatest development failure. Globally, billions of people have no access to improved sanitation facilities. Though the link between...

    Authors: Zemichael Gizaw, Gashaw Andargie Biks, Mezgebu Yitayal, Geta Asrade Alemayehu, Kassahun Alemu, Tadesse Awoke, Adino Tesfahun Tsegaye, Amare Tariku, Terefe Derso, Solomon Mekonnen Abebe and Mulugeta Bayisa Chala

    Citation: Environmental Health and Preventive Medicine 2019 24:43

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  49. We reported that human T cell leukemia virus 1 (HTLV-1) infection is positively associated with atherosclerosis. Recent evidence has revealed a close association of periodontitis with atherosclerosis, endothel...

    Authors: Yuji Shimizu, Hirotomo Yamanashi, Masayasu Kitamura, Reiko Furugen, Takahiro Iwasaki, Hideki Fukuda, Hideaki Hayashida, Koji Kawasaki, Kairi Kiyoura, Shin-Ya Kawashiri, Toshiyuki Saito, Atsushi Kawakami and Takahiro Maeda

    Citation: Environmental Health and Preventive Medicine 2019 24:42

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  50. Bisphenol A (BPA) is a monomer primarily used in the production of polycarbonate plastic and epoxy resins. Bisphenol F (BPF) is apparently the main BPA replacement that is used increasingly. BPF has been detec...

    Authors: Asad Ullah, Madeeha Pirzada, Tayyaba Afsar, Suhail Razak, Ali Almajwal and Sarwat Jahan

    Citation: Environmental Health and Preventive Medicine 2019 24:41

    Content type: Research article

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The editors of Environmental Health and Preventive Medicine would like to thank all our reviewers who have contributed to the journal.

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