Mar 17 2021
Professor Hirohito Sone of the Department of Hematology, Endocrinology and Metabolism and Specially Appointed Associate Professor Kazuya Fujihara of the Medical Course on Extended Healthy Life Expectancy/Lifestyle-Related Disease Prevention (endowed course by Agano City), Niigata University Graduate School of Medical and Dental Sciences, and Agano City, Niigata Prefecture, conducted joint research, demonstrating a 2.9-times higher risk of cardiovascular-metabolic abnormalities (= lifestyle-related disease in adults) in junior high school students with obesity than those with normal weight in Agano City.
The results of the study were published in an international journal of nutrition, Asia Pacific Journal of Clinical Nutrition, in January 2021.
- Junior high school students with obesity had an about 2.9-times higher risk of cardiovascular-metabolic abnormalities (= lifestyle-related disease in adults) than those with normal weight.
- Even slightly overweight female students without obesity were significantly more likely to have hypertension than those with normal weight.
Title: Weight and cardiometabolic risk among adolescents in Agano city, Japan: NICE EVIDENCE Study-Agano 1
Journal: Asia Pacific Journal of Clinical Nutrition
Authors: Sakiko Yoshizawa Morikawa; Kazuya Fujihara; Yasunaga Takeda; Mariko Hatta; Chika Horikawa; Masahiro Ishizawa; Masahiko Yamamoto; Tomonobu Shiraishi; Hajime Ishiguro; Takaho Yamada; Yohei Ogawa; Hirohito Sone.
DOI: 10.6133/apjcn.202012_29(4).0022
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