Despite the huge socioeconomic differences between China and Japan, the rapid increase of child obesity in both countries is alarming. The prevalence of overweight and obesity in children has increased two to four fold in the two countries over the past three decades. In the 2002 China National...
kg/m2estimated for Americans. CONCLUSIONS: The prevalence of obesity in Japanese populations should be estimated using ethnic specific values of BMI, rather than those drawn from Caucasians who tend to have higher BMI in each age group. The prevalence of overweight is increased as age increased in...
Diabetes was associated with each abnormal level of cardiometabolic marker independent of obesity.ConclusionOver 60% of the diabetic subjects in this Japanese population were not obese. Non-obese diabetes is not widely addressed and should be considered for increased public attention. The elevated ...
OBJECTIVE: Three critical periods have been suggested for the development of obesity during childhood: fetal, ages 4-6 y, and adolescence. The prevalence of obesity in elementary school children is increasing in Japan, and the present study examines whether this rising prevalence occurs during the ...
Obesity and its associated disorders are a growing epidemic across the world. Many genetic, physiological, and behavioral factors play a role in the etiology of obesity. Diet and exercise are known to play a valuable role in the treatment and prevention
WHO/IASO/IOTF ( ed): The Asia-Pacific Perspective: Redefining Obesity and Its Treatment. Melbourne, Health Communications Australia Pty Ltd, 2000. Kanauchi M, Kanauchi K, Hashimoto T, Saito Y : Metabolic syndrome and new category ‘pre-hypertension’ in a Japanese population. Curr Med Res ...
Official Japanese reports significantly underestimate prevalence of overweight in school children: Inappropriate definition of standard weight and calculation of excess weight.Obesitytrendcross sectional dataBMIheight specific standardBackground: The obesity epidemic in Japan continues to increase. However, the ...
Obesity is associated with significant health risks including stroke and heart disease. The prevalence of obesity has dramatically increased over the past ... N Vercruysse - 《Journal of the Japan Society for Health Care Management》 被引量: 0发表: 1996年 The Economic Impact of Obesity in the...
Prevalence and causes of early-onset dementia in Japan: a population-based study. Stroke. 2009;40(8):2709-2714. doi:10.1161/STROKEAHA.108.542308PubMedGoogle ScholarCrossref 12. Lambert MA, Bickel H, Prince M, et al. Estimating the burden of early onset dementia: systematic ...
In 2010, we established a cohort of participants in the National Health and Nutrition Survey of Japan. We divided 2,491 participants (1,081 men and 1,410 women) according to the WHO definitions of underweight, overweight or obesity and performed multinomial logistic analyses using BMI <18.5 kg...