Among women aged 25-34 years, junior high school graduates had the highest current smoking prevalence at 49.3% (95% CI, 46.3%-52.3%), and graduate school graduates had the lowest at 4.8% (95% CI, 2.9%-7.4%). Compared with older age groups, such as 65-94 years, younger age groups,...
Figure8.1illustrates the system of education in Japanese education today (Fig.8.1). Elementary school and junior high school are compulsory; however, since the 1970s, over 90% have continued education after this level. Therefore, it is the norm for most junior high school students to attend hig...
Adolescent asthma is characterized by secondary sexual characteristics, mental sensitivity and instability due to independence from parents, and social peculiarities such as school advancements, employment, and change from maternal to paternal care. Uncontrolled asthma during adolescence tends to carry over ...
The age at menarche of 284 school girls born and raised in urban districts was investigated. The arithmetic mean was 12.40 years and the range was from 9.63 to 15.44 years. Mean menarchial ages reported in Japan from 1884 to 1980 were gathered and the course of the secular change during ...
Given that young Japanese children do not learn formal mathematics before entering primary school but learn through play, they tend to use their fingers. Therefore, it is expected that by using the microgenetic approach to analyze a short-term video clip of a preschool activity involving finger ...
Department of Obstetrics and Gynecology, Hamamatsu University School of Medicine, Hamamatsu, 431-3192, Japan Hiroaki Itoh Contributions K. Nomura conceived the study design which was advised by S.S. and H.I.; H.I. obtained the data; K. Nagashima wrote statistical program and K.Nomura analyzed...
Data were collected in Japan, before, during and after the 2nd World War from students of senior high schools and from school health records. Maximum growth age in height (NAR/A 51, 4339) was about 11.9 years before the war, 12.3 years just after the war and fell after that to 10.7 ...
(about 75%) reported 150 min/week or more MVPA, the current recommendation for older adults. Demographic variables were categorized as below; age (“65 to 69” or “70 to 74 years”), years of education (“up to high school [<13 years]” or “college degree or more [≥13 years]”...
First, we showed that the toddlers’ target looking tended to gradually increase with age using polynomial regression (Fig. 1). Next, we evaluated whether the toddlers of each age group showed significantly larger values than zero at each age range by one-tailed Wilcoxon test. While the toddler...
The coefficient of variance for both waveforms was in the same range for every age group, but the elderly group showed the highest value in the quasirandom waveform task. Significant correlations were found between the two waveforms in all three groups, and there were significant differences betwe...