Environmental Health and Preventive Medicine This is an RSS file. You can use it to subscribe to this data in your favourite RSS reader or to display this data on your own website or blog.

The prevalence of psychological distress during pregnancy in Miyagi Prefecture for 3 years after the Great Eas t Japan Earthquake
ConclusionsThe lack of pre-disaster data in the Japan Environment and Children ’s Study made it impossible to compare the incidence of psychological distress before and after the March 2011 Great East Japan Earthquake. However, 3 years after the Great East Japan Earthquake, the prevalence of pregnant women with psychological distress did not improve in Miyagi Regional Center . Further, the prevalence of mental illness in inland areas was consistently higher than that in the 13 regional centers after the disaster. (Source: Environmental Health and Preventive Medicine)
Source: Environmental Health and Preventive Medicine - February 26, 2021 Category: Environmental Health Source Type: research

Effectiveness of community and school-based sanitation interventions in improving latrine coverage: a systematic review and meta-analysis of randomized controlled interventions
ConclusionOur study showed strong evidence for both community- and school-based sanitation interventions as effective for the safe disposal of human excreta. The finding suggests major implications for health policy and design of future intervention in developing countries. (Source: Environmental Health and Preventive Medicine)
Source: Environmental Health and Preventive Medicine - February 24, 2021 Category: Environmental Health Source Type: research

Lower albumin levels are associated with frailty measures, trace elements, and an inflammation marker in a cross-sectional study in Tanushimaru
ConclusionsLower albumin levels, even in the normal range, were found to be related factors of frailty measures, trace elements, and an inflammation marker in a general population. (Source: Environmental Health and Preventive Medicine)
Source: Environmental Health and Preventive Medicine - February 19, 2021 Category: Environmental Health Source Type: research

Time trends of socioeconomic inequalities in adolescent smoking in Okinawa, Japan, 2008 –2016: a repeated cross-sectional study
ConclusionsSmoking among Japanese adolescents has been declining and time trends of socioeconomic inequalities in smoking varied by absolute and relative measures. Further policies and/or interventions to reduce smoking inequalities should focus on the context of schools, especially in vocational high schools. (Source: Environmental Health and Preventive Medicine)
Source: Environmental Health and Preventive Medicine - February 17, 2021 Category: Environmental Health Source Type: research

Correction to: Effects of short-term exposure to ambient airborne pollutants on COPD-related mortality among the elderly residents of Chengdu city in Southwest China
An amendment to this paper has been published and can be accessed via the original article. (Source: Environmental Health and Preventive Medicine)
Source: Environmental Health and Preventive Medicine - February 16, 2021 Category: Environmental Health Source Type: research

Rapid respiratory panel test for non-COVID-19 pathogen examinations among frontline medical personnel in Taiwan
(Source: Environmental Health and Preventive Medicine)
Source: Environmental Health and Preventive Medicine - February 13, 2021 Category: Environmental Health Source Type: research

Dental caries and associated factors in Ethiopia: systematic review and meta-analysis
ConclusionOur meta-analysis found that the prevalence of dental caries was comparatively high, and sweet food consumption was the most risk issue for dental caries in Ethiopia. The Ethiopian Federal Ministry of Health ought to offer a lot of attention to strengthen the oral health care system and also the implementation of community-level interference programs. (Source: Environmental Health and Preventive Medicine)
Source: Environmental Health and Preventive Medicine - February 12, 2021 Category: Environmental Health Source Type: research

Outdoor air pollution and diminished ovarian reserve among infertile Korean women
ConclusionsIn a cohort of infertile Korean women, there was a suggestive evidence of the negative association between ambient PM concentration and ovarian reserve, highlighting the potential adverse impact of air pollution on women ’s fertility. (Source: Environmental Health and Preventive Medicine)
Source: Environmental Health and Preventive Medicine - February 11, 2021 Category: Environmental Health Source Type: research

Influence of height on endothelial maintenance activity: a narrative review
AbstractRecent studies have revealed an inverse association between height and cardiovascular disease. However, the background mechanism of this association has not yet been clarified. Height has also been reported to be positively associated with cancer. Therefore, well-known cardiovascular risk factors, such as increased oxidative stress and chronic inflammation, are not the best explanations for this inverse association because these risk factors are also related to cancer. However, impaired blood flow is the main pathological problem in cardiovascular disease, while glowing feeding vessels (angiogenesis) are the main c...
Source: Environmental Health and Preventive Medicine - February 6, 2021 Category: Environmental Health Source Type: research

Increasing hepatitis virus screening uptake at worksites in Japan using nudge theory and full subsidies
ConclusionsWhile fully subsidized screening led to the highest hepatitis screening rates, modifying client reminders using nudge theory significantly increased hepatitis screening uptake at lower costs per person. (Source: Environmental Health and Preventive Medicine)
Source: Environmental Health and Preventive Medicine - February 1, 2021 Category: Environmental Health Source Type: research

Possible mechanisms underlying the association between human T-cell leukemia virus type 1 (HTLV-1) and hypertension in elderly Japanese population
ConclusionAsymptomatic HTLV-1 infection is inversely associated with hypertension, possibly by activating endothelial maintenance, including atherosclerosis progression. (Source: Environmental Health and Preventive Medicine)
Source: Environmental Health and Preventive Medicine - January 29, 2021 Category: Environmental Health Source Type: research

Replacing school and out-of-school sedentary behaviors with physical activity and its associations with adiposity in children and adolescents: a compositional isotemporal substitution analysis
ConclusionsA reduction of out-of-school SB in favor of light PA should be advocated as an appropriate target for interventions and strategies to prevent childhood obesity. (Source: Environmental Health and Preventive Medicine)
Source: Environmental Health and Preventive Medicine - January 27, 2021 Category: Environmental Health Source Type: research

Association between exposure to ambient air pollution and hospital admission, incidence, and mortality of stroke: an updated systematic review and meta-analysis of more than 23 million participants
ConclusionsExposure to air pollution was positively associated with an increased risk of stroke hospital admission (PM2.5, PM10, SO2, NO2, CO, and O3), incidence (PM2.5, SO2, and NO2), and mortality (PM2.5, PM10, SO2, and NO2). Our study would provide a more comprehensive evidence of air pollution and stroke, especially SO2 and NO2. (Source: Environmental Health and Preventive Medicine)
Source: Environmental Health and Preventive Medicine - January 26, 2021 Category: Environmental Health Source Type: research

Effects of exposure to low-dose ionizing radiation on changing platelets: a prospective cohort study
ConclusionWe concluded that although the exposure dose was below the limit, medical workers exposed to low-dose ionizing radiation for a short period of time might have increased first and then decreased platelets, and there was a dose-response relationship between the cumulative radiation dose and platelets changing. (Source: Environmental Health and Preventive Medicine)
Source: Environmental Health and Preventive Medicine - January 25, 2021 Category: Environmental Health Source Type: research

Anemia as a risk factor for tuberculosis: a systematic review and meta-analysis
ConclusionAccording to the current systematic review and meta-analysis, we can conclude that anemia was a risk factor for tuberculosis. Therefore, anemia screening, early diagnose, and treatment should be provoked in the community to reduce the burden of tuberculosis. (Source: Environmental Health and Preventive Medicine)
Source: Environmental Health and Preventive Medicine - January 23, 2021 Category: Environmental Health Source Type: research