Conceptualization: Kimiko Tomioka, Norio Kurumatani. Data curation: Kimiko Tomioka, Keigo Saeki. Formal analysis: Kimiko Tomioka. Funding acquisition: Kimiko Tomioka, Norio Kurumatani. Methodology: Kimiko Tomioka ... , Keigo Saeki. Project administration: Norio Kurumatani. Supervision: Norio Kurumatani, Keigo Saeki. Validation: Keigo Saeki. Visualization: Kimiko Tomioka. Writing – original draft: Kimiko Tomioka
, Kashihara, Nara, 634-8521, Japan Keigo Saeki, Rika Ishizuka, Norio Kurumatani & Kenji Obayashi Department of Food Sciences and Nutrition, Mukogawa Women’s University, Hyogo, Japan Naoto Otaki Otemae ... also search for this author in PubMed Google Scholar Rika Ishizuka View author publications You can also search for this author in PubMed Google Scholar Norio Kurumatani View author publications
There is insufficient evidence regarding the relationship of home environment with functional capacity among community-dwelling older people without disabilities. We conducted a population-based longitudinal cohort study and examined whether stairs in the home were associated with capability to perform instrumental activities of daily living (IADL) in community-dwelling high...
Eye Institute for advices and suggestions. Author Contributions Data curation: Kimie Miyata, Masayuki Morikawa. Formal analysis: Kimie Miyata. Funding acquisition: Norio Kurumatani. Investigation ... : Kimie Miyata, Masayuki Morikawa. Methodology: Kimie Miyata, Masashi Mine. Project administration: Nozomi Okamoto, Norio Kurumatani, Nahoko Ogata. Supervision: Nahoko Ogata. Visualization: Kimie Miyata
Kurumatani 0 Hiroshi Hosoi 0 0 Nara Prefectural Health Research Center, Nara Medical University , Shijo-cho 840, Kashihara city, Nara 634-8521 , Japan Background: Little is known concerning the lifestyle
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) and intellectual activity (IA) in community-dwelling older Japanese. Self-administered questionnaires were mailed to all residents born between 1945 and 1949 and covered by A...
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Although numerous investigations have indicated that social participation (SP) has positive effects on the health of older adults, there have been few studies on its negative health consequences. We examined the cross-sectional associations of the type, frequency, and autonomy for SP with physical and mental health. The analytical subjects were 5126 males and 7006 females who...
Although many studies have suggested social participation (SP) has beneficial effects on elderly people’s health, most of them failed to deal with paid work. Additionally, few studies have focused on the age effect between SP and older people’s health. To investigate whether the association between SP, including paid work, and instrumental activities of daily living (IADL...
Background We examined the association between a decline in effectance and social participation (SP) from the perspective of the number and the type of SP in a prospective cohort study. Methods Included in this analysis were community-dwelling elderly aged ≥65 without dependency on the basic activities of daily living and reporting a perfect baseline effectance score (n = 4,588...
Background This study examined the factors related to intellectual activity in community-dwelling elderly persons. Methods Self-administered questionnaires mailed to all people aged ≥65 years in a dormitory suburb in Japan (n = 15,210). The response rate was 72.2%. Analytical subjects (n = 8,910) were those who lived independently and completely answered questions about...
Yuu Tanaka 1 Norio Kurumatani 0 0 Department of Community Health and Epidemiology, Nara Medical University , Shijo-cho 840, Kashihara City, Nara 634-8521 , Japan 1 Department of Anesthesiology, Nara
Risk for lung cancer in workers exposed to benzidine (BZ) and/or beta-naphthylamine (BNA), which are well-known bladder carcinogens, has been examined in many epidemiological studies, but individual epidemiological studies generally lack the power to examine the association between BZ/BNA exposure and lung cancer. We conduct a systematic review and meta-analysis to determine the...
Committee (Nozomi Okamoto, Akinori Hisashige, Yuu Tanaka, and Norio Kurumatani). Acquisition of subjects: NO NK. Manuscript preparation: NO AH YT NK. Conceived and designed the experiments: NO. Performed the
Norio Kurumatani Although oral melatonin administration may enhance a nocturnal blood pressure fall, it remains unclear whether endogenous melatonin, which is present at considerably lower levels than
The present study aimed to assess the reliability and validity of the Japanese version of KIDSCREEN-52 (J-KIDSCREEN-52), a generic questionnaire used to assess health-related quality of life (HRQOL) among children/adolescents and parents/proxies. We conducted a school-based study, in which 1564 children and adolescents aged 8–18 years and their 1326 parents participated from five...
Keigo Saeki 0 Kenji Obayashi 0 Tomo Nishi Kimie Miyata Shinji Maruoka Tetsuo Ueda Masahiro Okamoto Taiji Hasegawa Toyoaki Matsuura Nobuhiro Tone Nahoko Ogata Norio Kurumatani 0 0 Department of
