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  1. Chronic noise exposure has been associated with tau hyperphosphorylation and Alzheimer’s disease (AD)-like pathological changes, but the underlying mechanism is unknown. In this study, we explored the effects ...

    Authors: Zhihui Gai, Donghong Su, Yawen Wang, Wenlong Li, Bo Cui, Kang Li, Xiaojun She and Rui Wang
    Citation: Environmental Health and Preventive Medicine 2017 22:79
    Content type: Research article Published on:

  2. Neuropsychological effects of considerably low levels of lead exposure are observed in children, and a reliable and possibly painless technique that can detect such levels is required for the assessment of suc...

    Authors: Nozomi Tatsuta, Kunihiko Nakai, Miyuki Iwai-Shimada, Futoshi Mizutani, Katsuyuki Murata, Yoichi Chisaki and Hiroshi Satoh
    Citation: Environmental Health and Preventive Medicine 2017 22:78
    Content type: Research article Published on:

  3. Triglycerides are reported to be positively associated with blood pressure (both systolic and diastolic). However, in a previous study, we reported a significant positive association between triglycerides and ...

    Authors: Yuji Shimizu, Shimpei Sato, Yuko Noguchi, Jun Koyamatsu, Hirotomo Yamanashi, Mako Nagayoshi, Koichiro Kadota, Shin-Ya Kawashiri, Yasuhiro Nagata and Takahiro Maeda
    Citation: Environmental Health and Preventive Medicine 2017 22:77
    Content type: Research article Published on:

  4. This retrospective study evaluated the influence of the joint impact of habitual exercise and glycemic control on the incidence of chronic kidney disease (CKD) during a 6-year follow-up period in middle-aged a...

    Authors: Ryoma Michishita, Takuro Matsuda, Shotaro Kawakami, Satoshi Tanaka, Akira Kiyonaga, Hiroaki Tanaka, Natsumi Morito and Yasuki Higaki
    Citation: Environmental Health and Preventive Medicine 2017 22:76
    Content type: Research article Published on:

  5. The p.R4810K and other rare variants of ring finger protein 213 gene (RNF213) were illustrated as susceptibility variants for moyamoya (MMD) and non-moyamoya intracranial artery stenosis/occlusion disease (ICASO)...

    Authors: Xin Liao, Jing Deng, Wenjie Dai, Tong Zhang and Junxia Yan
    Citation: Environmental Health and Preventive Medicine 2017 22:75
    Content type: Research article Published on:

  7. This study aimed to examine the level of perception of the technical terms related to the effect of radiation on the human body among residents of the six prefectures of Miyagi, Fukushima, Tokyo, Aichi, Hirosh...

    Authors: Yoshitoku Yoshida, Yasuko Yoshida, Emiko Isogai, Takashi Hayase, Kozue Nakamura, Mitsuo Saito and Koji Arizono
    Citation: Environmental Health and Preventive Medicine 2017 22:73
    Content type: Research article Published on:

  8. Heterocyclic aromatic amines (HAAs) may confer prostate cancer risk; however, the evidence is inconclusive and the activity of HAA-metabolizing enzymes is modulated by gene variants. The purpose of our study w...

    Authors: Masahide Koda, Motoki Iwasaki, Yuko Yamano, Xi Lu and Takahiko Katoh
    Citation: Environmental Health and Preventive Medicine 2017 22:72
    Content type: Research article Published on:

    The Correction to this article has been published in Environmental Health and Preventive Medicine 2018 23:30

  9. Numerous studies have reported that spending time in nature is associated with the improvement of various health outcomes and well-being. This review evaluated the physical and psychological benefits of a spec...

    Authors: Byeongsang Oh, Kyung Ju Lee, Chris Zaslawski, Albert Yeung, David Rosenthal, Linda Larkey and Michael Back
    Citation: Environmental Health and Preventive Medicine 2017 22:71
    Content type: Review article Published on:

  10. Innate immune factors exert widespread effects on cytokine secretion, cell survival, autophagy, and apoptosis. Nucleotide-binding and oligomerization domain-like receptors (NLRs) are members of the innate immu...

    Authors: Natsu Yamaguchi, Yoshimi Suzuki, M. H. Mahbub, Hidekazu Takahashi, Ryosuke Hase, Yasutaka Ishimaru, Hiroshi Sunagawa, Rie Watanabe, Yoshinobu Eishi and Tsuyoshi Tanabe
    Citation: Environmental Health and Preventive Medicine 2017 22:70
    Content type: Review article Published on:

  11. Communicating health messages is an important way to influence people’s behaviors towards health issues. Providers need to incorporate audience’s perspective to design more persuasive messages. This study aime...

    Authors: Machi Suka, Takashi Yamauchi and Hiroyuki Yanagisawa
    Citation: Environmental Health and Preventive Medicine 2017 22:69
    Content type: Research article Published on:

  12. Amid the effects of global warming, Tokyo has become an increasingly hot city, especially during the summertime. To prepare for the upcoming 2020 Summer Olympics and Paralympics in Tokyo, all participants, inc...

    Authors: Takeyasu Kakamu, Koji Wada, Derek R. Smith, Shota Endo and Tetsuhito Fukushima
    Citation: Environmental Health and Preventive Medicine 2017 22:68
    Content type: Commentary Published on:

  13. We have read with interest the article by Lu et al. entitled “Association of excessive mobile phone use during pregnancy with birth weight: an adjunct study in Kumamoto of Japan Environment and Children’s Stud...

    Authors: Ghazal Mortazavi, S.A.R. Mortazavi and S.M.J. Mortazavi
    Citation: Environmental Health and Preventive Medicine 2017 22:67
    Content type: Letter to the Editor Published on:

  14. This study aims to assess the hepatoprotective potential of Commelina nudiflora against CCl4-induced hepatic injury in rats.

    Authors: Muhammad Dawood Shah, Urban J.A. D’Souza and Mohammad Iqbal
    Citation: Environmental Health and Preventive Medicine 2017 22:66
    Content type: Research article Published on:

  15. Little is known concerning the lifestyle habits and health conditions in community-dwelling elderly who do not get medical care. We investigated the cross-sectional association between medical expenses (ME) an...

    Authors: Kimiko Tomioka, Norio Kurumatani and Hiroshi Hosoi
    Citation: Environmental Health and Preventive Medicine 2017 22:65
    Content type: Research article Published on:

  16. This study aimed to assess the association between exposure to the Great Chinese Famine (1959–1961) during early life and hypertension in adulthood.

    Authors: Lingli Liu, Xianglong Xu, Huan Zeng, Yong Zhang, Zumin Shi, Fan Zhang, Xianqing Cao, Yao Jie Xie, Cesar Reis and Yong Zhao
    Citation: Environmental Health and Preventive Medicine 2017 22:64
    Content type: Research article Published on:

    The Correction to this article has been published in Environmental Health and Preventive Medicine 2018 23:11

  17. Nowadays, the bacterial contamination in the hospital environment is of particular concern because the hospital-acquired infections (HAIs), also known as nosocomial infections, are responsible for significant ...

    Authors: Silvia Di Lodovico, Valentina Cataldi, Emanuela Di Campli, Elisabetta Ancarani, Luigina Cellini and Mara Di Giulio
    Citation: Environmental Health and Preventive Medicine 2017 22:63
    Content type: Research Published on:

  18. Asian-specific single nucleotide polymorphism (SNPs) (rs3782886) is reported to be associated with myocardial infarction; sarcopenia is reported to be associated with coronary subclinical atherosclerosis. On t...

    Authors: Yuji Shimizu, Shimpei Sato, Yuko Noguchi, Jun Koyamatsu, Hirotomo Yamanashi, Miho Higashi, Mako Nagayoshi, Koichiro Kadota, Shin-Ya Kawashiri, Yasuhiro Nagata, Noboru Takamura and Takahiro Maeda
    Citation: Environmental Health and Preventive Medicine 2017 22:62
    Content type: Research article Published on:

  19. There is worldwide concern about the effects of environmental factors on children’s health and development. The Miami Declaration was signed at the G8 Environment Ministers Meeting in 1997 to promote children’...

    Authors: Kazue Ishitsuka, Shoji F. Nakayama, Reiko Kishi, Chisato Mori, Zentaro Yamagata, Yukihiro Ohya, Toshihiro Kawamoto and Michihiro Kamijima
    Citation: Environmental Health and Preventive Medicine 2017 22:61
    Content type: Review article Published on:

  21. A man-made chemical disaster occurred in the Amur River, leading to posttraumatic stress disorder (PTSD) in the Nanai people indigenous to the river’s surrounding area. PTSD severity measured by the total scor...

    Authors: Yoko Ota, Natalia Korshunova, Masashi Demura, Midori Katsuyama, Hironobu Katsuyama, Sri Ratna Rahayu and Kiyofumi Saijoh
    Citation: Environmental Health and Preventive Medicine 2017 22:59
    Content type: Research article Published on:

  22. Members of the genus Acanthamoeba are widely distributed throughout the world, and some of them are considered pathogenic, as they are capable of causing corneal and central nervous system diseases. In this study...

    Authors: Yinghua Xuan, Yanqin Shen, Yuxi Ge, Gen Yan and Shanzi Zheng
    Citation: Environmental Health and Preventive Medicine 2017 22:58
    Content type: Research article Published on:

  24. The aim of the performed study was to investigate personal and environmental factors as predictors of thermal sensation perceived by a population of students in a university setting.

    Authors: Cristina I. Petrescu
    Citation: Environmental Health and Preventive Medicine 2017 22:56
    Content type: Research article Published on:

  25. Numerous earlier studies examining the association of air pollution with maternal and foetal health estimated maternal exposure to air pollutants based on the women’s residential addresses. However, residentia...

    Authors: Takehiro Michikawa, Seiichi Morokuma, Hiroshi Nitta, Kiyoko Kato and Shin Yamazaki
    Citation: Environmental Health and Preventive Medicine 2017 22:55
    Content type: Short communication Published on:

  27. The immunological effects of asbestos exposure on various lymphocytes such as the regulatory T cell (Treg), responder CD4+ T helper cell (Tresp), CD8+ cytotoxic T lymphocytes (CTL), and natural killer (NK) cel...

    Authors: Hidenori Matsuzaki, Naoko Kumagai-Takei, Suni Lee, Megumi Maeda, Nagisa Sada, Tamayo Hatayama, Shoko Yamamoto, Miho Ikeda, Kei Yoshitome, Yu Min, Yasumitsu Nishimura and Takemi Otsuki
    Citation: Environmental Health and Preventive Medicine 2017 22:53
    Content type: Review article Published on:

  28. Low birth weight has been shown to be closely associated with neonatal mortality and morbidity, inhibited growth, poor cognitive development, and chronic diseases later in life. Some studies have also shown th...

    Authors: Xi Lu, Masako Oda, Takashi Ohba, Hiroshi Mitsubuchi, Shota Masuda and Takahiko Katoh
    Citation: Environmental Health and Preventive Medicine 2017 22:52
    Content type: Research article Published on:

  29. As Japan becomes a super-aging society, presentation of the best ways to provide medical care for the elderly, and the direction of that care, are important national issues. Elderly people have multi-morbidity...

    Authors: Takeo Nakayama, Yuichi Imanaka, Yasushi Okuno, Genta Kato, Tomohiro Kuroda, Rei Goto, Shiro Tanaka, Hiroshi Tamura, Shunichi Fukuhara, Shingo Fukuma, Manabu Muto, Motoko Yanagita and Yosuke Yamamoto
    Citation: Environmental Health and Preventive Medicine 2017 22:51
    Content type: Study Protocol Published on:

  30. This study was conducted in rapidly urbanizing Ulaanbaatar, Mongolia, to examine patterns of perceived neighborhood quality by residents and the associations between these patterns and self-reported general an...

    Authors: Tserendulam Shagdarsuren, Keiko Nakamura and Layla McCay
    Citation: Environmental Health and Preventive Medicine 2017 22:50
    Content type: Research article Published on:

  31. Involvement of agrochemicals have been suggested in the development of chronic kidney disease of unknown etiology (CKDu). The association between CKDu and blood level of organochlorine pesticides (OCPs) in CKD...

    Authors: Rishila Ghosh, Manushi Siddarth, Neeru Singh, Vipin Tyagi, Pawan Kumar Kare, Basu Dev Banerjee, Om Prakash Kalra and Ashok Kumar Tripathi
    Citation: Environmental Health and Preventive Medicine 2017 22:49
    Content type: Research article Published on:

  32. Stepfamilies remain poorly understood in Japanese society, and the support needs of stepfamily mothers are unclear. This study aimed to identify characteristics of stepfamilies and maternal mental health as co...

    Authors: Masako Sugimoto and Yoshie Yokoyama
    Citation: Environmental Health and Preventive Medicine 2017 22:48
    Content type: Research article Published on:

    The Erratum to this article has been published in Environmental Health and Preventive Medicine 2017 22:57

  33. Creating a successful intervention that supports an active lifestyle and prevents sedentary one requires a better understanding of the factors associated with physical inactivity (PI) and sedentary behavior (S...

    Authors: Abdelghaffar El-ammari, Hicham El kazdouh, Siham Bouftini, Samira El fakir and Youness El achhab
    Citation: Environmental Health and Preventive Medicine 2017 22:47
    Content type: Research article Published on:

  34. The Hokkaido Study on Environment and Children’s Health is an ongoing study consisting of two birth cohorts of different population sizes: the Sapporo cohort and the Hokkaido cohort. Our primary study goals ar...

    Authors: Reiko Kishi, Atsuko Araki, Machiko Minatoya, Tomoyuki Hanaoka, Chihiro Miyashita, Sachiko Itoh, Sumitaka Kobayashi, Yu Ait Bamai, Keiko Yamazaki, Ryu Miura, Naomi Tamura, Kumiko Ito and Houman Goudarzi
    Citation: Environmental Health and Preventive Medicine 2017 22:46
    Content type: Research article Published on:

  35. It is generally acknowledged that the determination of harmful chemical compounds excreted into saliva is useful for assessing their exposure levels. The aim of the present study was to compare the total arsen...

    Authors: Dapeng Wang, Yasuyo Shimoda, Sanxiang Wang, Zhenghui Wang, Jian Liu, Xing Liu, Huanyu Jin, Fenfang Gao, Jian Tong, Kenzo Yamanaka, Jie Zhang and Yan An
    Citation: Environmental Health and Preventive Medicine 2017 22:45
    Content type: Research article Published on:

  36. Antibiotic resistant Acinetobacter baumannii has emerged as one of the most problematic hospital acquired pathogens around the world. This study was designed to investigate the presence of antibiotic resistant A....

    Authors: Zahra Shamsizadeh, Mahnaz Nikaeen, Bahram Nasr Esfahani, Seyed Hamed Mirhoseini, Maryam Hatamzadeh and Akbar Hassanzadeh
    Citation: Environmental Health and Preventive Medicine 2017 22:44
    Content type: Research article Published on:

  38. Smoking is a risk factor for cardiovascular diseases as well as pulmonary dysfunction. In particular, adolescent smoking has been reported to have a higher latent risk for cardiovascular disease. Despite the r...

    Authors: Ju Ri Kim, Purum Kang, Hui Su Lee, Ka Young Kim and Geun Hee Seol
    Citation: Environmental Health and Preventive Medicine 2017 22:42
    Content type: Research article Published on:

  39. RNF213 p.R4810K was identified as a susceptibility variant for moyamoya disease in Asia and non-moyamoya intracranial artery stenosis/occlusion disease in Japan and Korea recently. The...

    Authors: Tong Zhang, Congrong Guo, Xin Liao, Jian Xia, XiaoXiao Wang, Jing Deng and Junxia Yan
    Citation: Environmental Health and Preventive Medicine 2017 22:41
    Content type: Short communication Published on:

  40. The recent National Nutrition Survey of 2013 demonstrated that 16.7% of women in childbearing age are underweight, and 5.0–10.0% of these women manifested a Hemoglobin (Hb) level less than 11.0 g/dl. The purpo...

    Authors: Saki Horie, Kyoko Nomura, Shinichi Takenoshita, Junko Nakagawa, Michiko Kido and Mitsuhiro Sugimoto
    Citation: Environmental Health and Preventive Medicine 2017 22:40
    Content type: Research article Published on:

  41. The effects of prenatal exposures to polychlorinated biphenyls (PCBs), methylmercury, and lead on birth weight remain disputable. The aim of this study was to investigate whether these chemicals affect birth w...

    Authors: Nozomi Tatsuta, Naoyuki Kurokawa, Kunihiko Nakai, Keita Suzuki, Miyuki Iwai-Shimada, Katsuyuki Murata and Hiroshi Satoh
    Citation: Environmental Health and Preventive Medicine 2017 22:39
    Content type: Research article Published on:

  42. Psychosocial and environmental factors at the workplace play a significant role in building-related symptoms (BRSs). Environmental factors change during summer cooling and winter heating using air-conditioning...

    Authors: Kenichi Azuma, Koichi Ikeda, Naoki Kagi, U Yanagi and Haruki Osawa
    Citation: Environmental Health and Preventive Medicine 2017 22:38
    Content type: Research article Published on:

  43. Workers in Japan are not sufficiently active; however, it remains unclear how their leisure-time physical activity habits may be developed. This cross-sectional study investigated the relationship of age- and ...

    Authors: Hiroaki Itoh, Fumihiko Kitamura, Noriko Hagi, Tomoe Mashiko, Takehisa Matsukawa and Kazuhito Yokoyama
    Citation: Environmental Health and Preventive Medicine 2017 22:37
    Content type: Research article Published on:

  44. Radon is a known human lung carcinogen, whose underlying carcinogenic mechanism remains unclear. Recently, circular RNA (circRNA), a class of endogenous non-protein coding RNAs that contain a circular loop, wa...

    Authors: Weiwei Pei, Lijing Tao, Leshuai W. Zhang, Shuyu Zhang, Jianping Cao, Yang Jiao, Jian Tong and Jihua Nie
    Citation: Environmental Health and Preventive Medicine 2017 22:36
    Content type: Research article Published on:

  45. Recently, the association of plasma free amino acid (PFAA) profile and lifestyle-related diseases has been reported. However, few studies have been reported in large Asian populations, about the usefulness of ...

    Authors: Natsu Yamaguchi, MH Mahbub, Hidekazu Takahashi, Ryosuke Hase, Yasutaka Ishimaru, Hiroshi Sunagawa, Hiroki Amano, Mikiko Kobayashi- Miura, Hideyuki Kanda, Yasuyuki Fujita, Hiroshi Yamamoto, Mai Yamamoto, Shinya Kikuchi, Atsuko Ikeda, Mariko Takasu, Naoko Kageyama…
    Citation: Environmental Health and Preventive Medicine 2017 22:35
    Content type: Research article Published on:

  46. Carbon monoxide (CO) is one of the primary components of emissions from light-duty vehicles, and reportedly comprises 77% of all pollutants emitted in terms of concentration. Exposure to CO aggravates cardiova...

    Authors: Geon-Woo Lee, Mun-Joo Bae, Ji-Yeon Yang, Jung-Woo Son, Jae-Lim Cho, Sang-Gyu Lee, Bo-Mi Jang, Hyun-Woo Lee, Jong-Soon Lim, Dong-Chun Shin and Young-Wook Lim
    Citation: Environmental Health and Preventive Medicine 2017 22:34
    Content type: Research article Published on:

  47. Although there is much literature on adolescent suicide, combined effects of depression and anorexia nervosa on suicide were rarely investigated. The aims of this study are to examine the association between a...

    Authors: Qiguo Lian, Xiayun Zuo, Yanyan Mao, Shan Luo, Shucheng Zhang, Xiaowen Tu, Chaohua Lou and Weijin Zhou
    Citation: Environmental Health and Preventive Medicine 2017 22:30
    Content type: Research article Published on:

  49. This study examined associations between psychosocial factors and the perception that adequate employment opportunities might not be provided for people with limited work capacity due to psychiatric disorders.

    Authors: Hisashi Eguchi, Koji Wada, Yoshiyuki Higuchi and Derek R. Smith
    Citation: Environmental Health and Preventive Medicine 2017 22:23
    Content type: Research article Published on:

  50. Fluorosis, caused by ingestion of excessive amount of fluoride through food or water, is a major public health problem in India. This study was undertaken to quantify the dental fluorosis burden among school g...

    Authors: Anand Verma, Bharatesh K. Shetty, Vasudeva Guddattu, Mehul K. Chourasia and Prachi Pundir
    Citation: Environmental Health and Preventive Medicine 2017 22:17
    Content type: Research article Published on:

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