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  1. Results from previous studies suggest that alcohol consumption can be genotoxic on peripheral lymphocytes. The aim of our study was to examine the association of alcohol consumption and its genotoxic effect on...

    Authors: Chuancheng Wu, Yuquan Lu and Kanehisa Morimoto
    Citation: Environmental Health and Preventive Medicine 2010 15:126
  2. Changes in plasma thioredoxin (TRX) concentrations before, during, and after a 130-km endurance race were measured with the aim of elucidating the relationship between exercise and oxidative stress (OS).

    Authors: Mitsuhiro Marumoto, Sadao Suzuki, Akihiro Hosono, Kazuyuki Arakawa, Kiyoshi Shibata, Mizuho Fuku, Chiho Goto, Yuko Tokudome, Hideki Hoshino, Nahomi Imaeda, Masaaki Kobayashi, Junji Yodoi and Shinkan Tokudome
    Citation: Environmental Health and Preventive Medicine 2009 15:119
  3. Milk contains considerable quantities of estrogens and progesterone and as such may be one of the risk factors for hormone-related cancers. To determine the hormonal effects of commercial and traditional types...

    Authors: Hong Zhou, Li-Qiang Qin, De-Fu Ma, Yan Wang and Pei-Yu Wang
    Citation: Environmental Health and Preventive Medicine 2009 15:123
  4. Idiopathic environmental intolerance (IEI) is characterized by non-specific symptoms attributed to exposure to environmental odours or chemicals at levels below those known to induce adverse health effects. A ...

    Authors: Sine Skovbjerg, Robert Zachariae, Alice Rasmussen, Jeanne Duus Johansen and Jesper Elberling
    Citation: Environmental Health and Preventive Medicine 2009 15:120
  5. The objective of this study was to assess intervention strategies against a novel influenza epidemic through simulations of various scenarios in Sapporo city, Hokkaido, Japan. A series of interventions were ex...

    Authors: Tomoko Morimoto and Hirofumi Ishikawa
    Citation: Environmental Health and Preventive Medicine 2009 15:122
  6. In an earlier study, we identified a locus for Moyamoya disease (MMD) on 17q25.3.

    Authors: Wanyang Liu, Hirokuni Hashikata, Kayoko Inoue, Norio Matsuura, Yohei Mineharu, Hatasu Kobayashi, Ken-ichiro Kikuta, Yasushi Takagi, Toshiaki Hitomi, Boris Krischek, Li-Ping Zou, Fang Fang, Roman Herzig, Jeong-Eun Kim, Hyun-Seung Kang, Chang-Wan Oh…
    Citation: Environmental Health and Preventive Medicine 2009 15:116
  7. We have attempted to upgrade and validate an in-house cDNA microarray system developed by our group for the evaluation of chemical toxicity.

    Authors: Hidekuni Inadera, Shinjiro Tachibana, Aya Suzuki and Akiko Shimomura
    Citation: Environmental Health and Preventive Medicine 2009 15:117
  8. The aims of this study were twofold: to examine the empirical evidence supporting the positive contribution that a forest environment can make on human psychological health and well-being and to describe the t...

    Authors: Won Sop Shin, Poung Sik Yeoun, Rhi Wha Yoo and Chang Seob Shin
    Citation: Environmental Health and Preventive Medicine 2009 15:114
  9. The present study aimed to define the framework of an environment conducive to the well-being of children with intellectually disability (CID).

    Authors: Luyinga Kalay, Saeko Fujimori, Hanako Suzuki, Keiko Minamoto, Kimiyo Ueda, Chang-Nian Wei, Akemi Tomoda, Koichi Harada and Atsushi Ueda
    Citation: Environmental Health and Preventive Medicine 2009 15:109
  10. We evaluated the effectiveness and safety of a disinfectant newly developed by our laboratories for use against influenza viruses.

    Authors: Hiroki Takakuwa, Toshiyuki Maruoka, Tadayo Hata, Masaaki Miyazawa, Tomoyo Hata, Hitoshi Toshimori and Koichi Otsuki
    Citation: Environmental Health and Preventive Medicine 2009 15:112
  11. The purpose of the study was to investigate the smoking habits of medical and other students and to explore the most important factors associated with students’ smoking.

    Authors: Evangelos C. Alexopoulos, Eleni Jelastopulu, Konstantinos Aronis and Dimitris Dougenis
    Citation: Environmental Health and Preventive Medicine 2009 15:110
  12. This study is aimed at the evaluation of countermeasures in terms of the total number of patients and deaths, the number of vaccine doses used, and the time for eradication as examined through simulations of t...

    Authors: Tomohiro Zenihana and Hirofumi Ishikawa
    Citation: Environmental Health and Preventive Medicine 2009 15:111
  13. Adolescents have many anxieties, and having someone to consult is important for them to maintain their mental health. This study examines: whether students have someone to consult; if they have, whether there ...

    Authors: Michiyo Okada, Takeshi Suzue and Fumihiko Jitsunari
    Citation: Environmental Health and Preventive Medicine 2009 15:108
  14. To clarify the association between dioxin concentrations in breast milk and food group intake in herbicide-sprayed and nonsprayed areas in Vietnam.

    Authors: Kae Saito, Dang Duc Nhu, Hiroyuki Suzuki, Teruhiko Kido, Rie Naganuma, Chiaki Sakakibara, Kenji Tawara, Muneko Nishijo, Hideaki Nakagawa, Kaoru Kusama, Phung Tri Dung, Le Hong Thom and Nguyen Ngoc Hung
    Citation: Environmental Health and Preventive Medicine 2009 15:106
  15. The American–Vietnam War ended over 35 years ago, but dioxins still remain in human tissue and Vietnam’s environment. The main objective of this study was to assess the correlation between dioxin concentration...

    Authors: Dang Duc Nhu, Teruhiko Kido, Rie Naganuma, Nobuhiro Sawano, Kenji Tawara, Muneko Nishijo, Hideaki Nakagawa, Nguyen Ngoc Hung and Le Thi Hong Thom
    Citation: Environmental Health and Preventive Medicine 2009 14:107
  16. The aim of this cross-sectional study was to investigate the association between bone mineral density (BMD) and lifestyle factors, as well as the influence of vitamin D receptor (VDR) gene polymorphism, in adult ...

    Authors: Yayoi Funakoshi, Hisamitsu Omori and Takahiko Katoh
    Citation: Environmental Health and Preventive Medicine 2009 14:104
  17. Hand hygiene is a basic measure to prevent infections. The purpose of this study was to obtain suggestions for the improvement of hand hygiene by evaluating the education, knowledge, and attitudes of care staf...

    Authors: Ikuko Takahashi, Yoneatsu Osaki, Mikizo Okamoto, Aya Tahara and Takuji Kishimoto
    Citation: Environmental Health and Preventive Medicine 2009 14:103
  18. Environmental specimen banks are an essential part of the infrastructure of environmental sciences. They have various functions: (1) evaluation of governmental environmental policy-making and regulations; (2) ...

    Authors: Akio Koizumi, Kouji H. Harada, Kayoko Inoue, Toshiaki Hitomi, Hye-Ran Yang, Chan-Seok Moon, Peiyu Wang, Nguyen Ngoc Hung, Takao Watanabe, Shinichiro Shimbo and Masayuki Ikeda
    Citation: Environmental Health and Preventive Medicine 2009 14:101
  19. Overweight and poor psychological well-being are becoming serious health issues in the Japanese workplace. Concurrence of those physical and mental conditions has been pointed out, especially in middle-aged wo...

    Authors: Takiko Sagara, Yoshiaki Hitomi, Yasuhiro Kambayashi, Yuri Hibino, Ichiyo Matsuzaki, Shinichiro Sasahara, Keiki Ogino, Kotaro Hatta and Hiroyuki Nakamura
    Citation: Environmental Health and Preventive Medicine 2009 14:100
  20. The association between clustering health-promoting components of lifestyle and bone status was examined among middle-aged women.

    Authors: Satoshi Tsuboi, Takehito Hayakawa, Hideyuki Kanda and Tetsuhito Fukushima
    Citation: Environmental Health and Preventive Medicine 2009 14:99
  21. A lower vital capacity (VC) has been reported to be an independent predictor of diabetes in Western countries. The aim of this study was to examine the relationships between VC and diabetes and between VC and ...

    Authors: Eiji Oda and Ryu Kawai
    Citation: Environmental Health and Preventive Medicine 2009 14:98
  22. The Quick Environment Exposure Sensitivity Inventory (QEESI©) has been used as a questionnaire to evaluate subjective symptoms of patients with multiple chemical sensitivity (MCS), also known as idiopathic enviro...

    Authors: Sachiko Hojo, Kou Sakabe, Satoshi Ishikawa, Mikio Miyata and Hiroaki Kumano
    Citation: Environmental Health and Preventive Medicine 2009 14:95
  23. “Shinrin-yoku”, which can be defined as “taking in the forest atmosphere or forest bathing”, has been receiving increasing attention in Japan in recent years for its capacity to provide relaxation and reduce s...

    Authors: Yuko Tsunetsugu, Bum-Jin Park and Yoshifumi Miyazaki
    Citation: Environmental Health and Preventive Medicine 2009 15:91
  24. The purpose of this study was to assess the validity of the candidate indicators secretory immunoglobulin A (s-IgA) and sense of coherence (SOC) as predictors of threatened premature birth.

    Authors: Naomi Sekizuka, Akemi Sakai, Keiko Shimada, Noriko Tabuchi, Yukie Kameda and Hiroyuki Nakamura
    Citation: Environmental Health and Preventive Medicine 2009 14:96
  25. The objective of this metallomics study is to investigate comprehensively some relationships between cancer risk and minerals, including essential and toxic metals.

    Authors: Hiroshi Yasuda, Kazuya Yoshida, Mitsuru Segawa, Ryoichi Tokuda, Toyoharu Tsutsui, Yuichi Yasuda and Shunichi Magara
    Citation: Environmental Health and Preventive Medicine 2009 14:92
  26. The aim of this study was to determine the prevalence of Echinococcus multilocularis environmental contamination in an urban fringe—the Nopporo forest park of Sapporo city, Hokkaido, Japan. A secondary aim was to...

    Authors: Jose Trinipil G. Lagapa, Yuzaburo Oku, Masami Kaneko, Sumiya Ganzorig, Takashi Ono, Nariaki Nonaka, Fumio Kobayashi and Masao Kamiya
    Citation: Environmental Health and Preventive Medicine 2009 14:83
  27. The aim of our study was to explore the relationship between a medium-scale earthquake and maternal depression and child-rearing in a depopulated community in the Noto Peninsula of Japan.

    Authors: Yuri Hibino, Jiro Takaki, Yasuhiro Kambayashi, Yoshiaki Hitomi, Akemi Sakai, Naomi Sekizuka, Keiki Ogino and Hiroyuki Nakamura
    Citation: Environmental Health and Preventive Medicine 2009 14:90
  28. Exposure to polychlorinated biphenyls (PCBs) is considered to have culminated between 1950 and 1970 in Japan, and exposure through diet, the major exposure route, has decreased significantly over the last 10 y...

    Authors: Akio Koizumi, Kouji H. Harada, Bita Eslami, Yoshinori Fujimine, Noriyuki Hachiya, Iwao Hirosawa, Kayoko Inoue, Sumiko Inoue, Shigeki Koda, Yukinori Kusaka, Katsuyuki Murata, Kazuyuki Omae, Norimitsu Saito, Shinichiro Shimbo, Katsunobu Takenaka, Tatsuya Takeshita…
    Citation: Environmental Health and Preventive Medicine 2009 14:89
  29. This paper reviews previous research on the physiological effects of Shinrin-yoku (taking in the forest atmosphere or forest bathing), and presents new results from field experiments conducted in 24 forests acros...

    Authors: Bum Jin Park, Yuko Tsunetsugu, Tamami Kasetani, Takahide Kagawa and Yoshifumi Miyazaki
    Citation: Environmental Health and Preventive Medicine 2009 15:86
  30. Many elderly patients with hip fracture (HF) present with gait deficits. As such, an HF both indirectly and directly increases the number of elderly people requiring care, making it a major medical and economi...

    Authors: Eiki Tsushima, Ryukichi Hada, Manabu Iwata and Hitoshi Tsushima
    Citation: Environmental Health and Preventive Medicine 2009 14:79
  31. This review aims to contribute to the ongoing discussion about human health, global change, and biodiversity by concentrating on the relationships between forests and human health. This review gives a short ov...

    Authors: Eeva Karjalainen, Tytti Sarjala and Hannu Raitio
    Citation: Environmental Health and Preventive Medicine 2009 15:69
  32. In Japan, a forest bathing trip, called “Shinrinyoku” in Japanese, is a short, leisurely visit to a forest; it is regarded as being similar to natural aromatherapy. This review focuses on the effects of forest...

    Authors: Qing Li
    Citation: Environmental Health and Preventive Medicine 2009 15:68
  33. Nanotoxicology and nano-risk have been attracting increasing attention of toxicologists and regulatory scientists as the production of nanomaterials increases worldwide (Oberdorster et al. in Environ Health Pe...

    Authors: Seishiro Hirano
    Citation: Environmental Health and Preventive Medicine 2009 14:64
  34. This review is partly composed of the presentation “Cytokine alteration and speculated immunological pathophysiology in silicosis and asbestos-related diseases” delivered during the symposium “Biological effec...

    Authors: Shuko Murakami, Yasumitsu Nishimura, Megumi Maeda, Naoko Kumagai, Hiroaki Hayashi, Ying Chen, Masayasu Kusaka, Takumi Kishimoto and Takemi Otsuki
    Citation: Environmental Health and Preventive Medicine 2009 14:63
  35. Inflammation and pulse wave velocity (PWV) are a potential risk factor and marker, respectively, for atherosclerosis in the primary prevention setting. Atherosclerosis is now generally accepted to be an inflam...

    Authors: Yasuaki Saijo, Megumi Utsugi, Eiji Yoshioka, Tomonori Fukui, Fumihiro Sata, Naoki Nakagawa, Naoyuki Hasebe, Takahiko Yoshida and Reiko Kishi
    Citation: Environmental Health and Preventive Medicine 2009 14:80