Environmental Health and Preventive Medicine

Assessment of accuracy of immediate blood separation method: a novel blood analysis strategy

Kunio Nakayama, Kanehisa Morimoto

Polychlorinated dioxins, furans, and biphenyls in blood of children and adults living in a dioxin-contaminated area in Tokyo

Chiharu Tohyama, Iwao Uchiyama, Shuji Hoshi, Masaki Hijiya, Hideaki Miyata, Masaki Nagai, Satoshi Nakai, Mariko Yauchi, Satsuki Ohkubo

Gene expression in primary cultured astrocytes affected by aluminum: alteration of chaperons involved in protein folding

David A. Aremu, Ojeiru F. Ezomo, Shunsuke Meshitsuka

Evaluation of health-related quality of life using EQ-5D in Takamatsu, Japan

Ai Fujikawa, Takeshi Suzue, Fumihiko Jitsunari, Tomohiro Hirao

Relation between temperature and suicide mortality in Japan in the presence of other confounding factors using time-series analysis with a semiparametric approach

Victoria Likhvar, Yasushi Honda, Masaji Ono

Correlation of light transmittance with asthma attack: fine water particles as a possible inducing factor of asthma

Kazuo Kanaya, Koji Okamoto, Shinichiro Shimbo, Masayuki Ikeda

Optimal cutoff values of waist circumference and the discriminatory performance of other anthropometric indices to detect the clustering of cardiovascular risk factors for metabolic syndrome in Japanese men and women

Kazuyo Nakamura, Hinako Nanri, Megumi Hara, Yasuki Higaki, Takeshi Imaizumi, Naoto Taguchi, Tatsuhiko Sakamoto, Mikako Horita, Koichi Shinchi, Keitaro Tanaka

Influence of personal patterns of behavior on the effects of Tai Chi: a pilot study

Masahiro Toda, Rei Den, Masako Hasegawa-Ohira, Kanehisa Morimoto

Clinical factors associated with severity in hospitalized children infected with avian influenza (H5N1)

Hiroyuki Furuya, Shoji Kawachi, Mika Shigematsu, Kazuo Suzuki, Tetsu Watanabe

Abstracts from Nippon Eiseigaku Zasshi (Japanese Journal of Hygiene) vol. 65 no. 4