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List of works by Akira Sekikawa

A Contemporary Estimate of Total Mortality and Cardiovascular Disease Risk in Young Adults With Type 1 Diabetes: The Pittsburgh Epidemiology of Diabetes Complications Study

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A Significant Positive Association of Vitamin D Deficiency with Coronary Artery Calcification among Middle-aged Men: For the ERA JUMP Study

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A cross-sectional association of obesity with coronary calcium among Japanese, Koreans, Japanese Americans, and U.S. whites

scientific article published on 13 June 2013

Adiponectin, systolic blood pressure, and alcohol consumption are associated with more aortic stiffness progression among apparently healthy men

scientific article published on 23 September 2012

Alcohol consumption and coronary artery calcium in middle-aged Japanese men.

scientific article published on 19 May 2006

Aortic Stiffness is Associated with Increased Risk of Incident Dementia in Older Adults

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Aortic stiffness and calcification in men in a population-based international study

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Association of Coronary Artery Calcification with Estimated Coronary Heart Disease Risk from Prediction Models in a Community-Based Sample of Japanese Men: The Shiga Epidemiological Study of Subclinical Atherosclerosis (SESSA).

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Association of alcohol consumption and aortic calcification in healthy men aged 40-49 years for the ERA JUMP Study

scientific article published on 21 November 2017

Association of blood levels of marine omega-3 fatty acids with coronary calcification and calcium density in Japanese men

scientific article published on 26 July 2018

Association of lipoprotein-associated phospholipase A2 with coronary calcification among American and Japanese men

scientific article published on November 2007

Association of total marine fatty acids, eicosapentaenoic and docosahexaenoic acids, with aortic stiffness in Koreans, whites, and Japanese Americans.

scientific article published on 02 July 2013

Associations between Inflammatory Markers and Subclinical Atherosclerosis in Middle-aged White, Japanese-American and Japanese Men: The ERA-JUMP Study

scientific article published on 29 November 2014

Associations of D-dimer and von Willebrand factor with atherosclerosis in Japanese and white men

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Associations of cardiovascular fat radiodensity and vascular calcification in midlife women: The SWAN cardiovascular fat ancillary study

Brachial artery stiffening in healthy primigravidas is associated with weight gain and increased cardiac output

scientific article published on 26 September 2018

Brachial-ankle pulse wave velocity is associated with coronary calcification among 1131 healthy middle-aged men.

scientific article published on 3 April 2015

Cadmium exposure and risk of pancreatic cancer: a meta-analysis of prospective cohort studies and case-control studies among individuals without occupational exposure history

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Cardiovascular disease and risk factors in Asia: a selected review

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Cholesteryl ester transfer protein, coronary calcium, and intima-media thickness of the carotid artery in middle-age Japanese men.

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Circulating levels of 8 cytokines and marine n-3 fatty acids and indices of obesity in Japanese, white, and Japanese American middle-aged men.

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Common carotid artery intima-media thickness increases throughout the pregnancy cycle: a prospective cohort study.

scientific article published on 31 May 2018

Comparability in coronary artery calcium scores on CT scan between two community-based cohort studies

scientific article published on March 2011

Comparison of HOMA-IR, HOMA-β% and disposition index between US white men and Japanese men in Japan in the ERA JUMP study: was the calculation of disposition index legitimate? Reply to Yamauchi K, Sato Y, Nakasone Y et al [letter].

scientific article published on 10 May 2015

Comparison of HOMA-IR, HOMA-β% and disposition index between US white men and Japanese men in Japan: the ERA JUMP study

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Comparison of carotid plaque burden among healthy middle-aged men living in the US, Japan, and South Korea

scientific article published on 01 September 2018

Continuous decline in mortality from coronary heart disease in Japan despite a continuous and marked rise in total cholesterol: Japanese experience after the Seven Countries Study.

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Coronary Heart Disease Mortality Among Men Aged 35-44 Years by Prefecture in Japan in 1995-1999 Compared With That Among White Men Aged 35-44 by State in the United States in 1995-1998. Vital Statistics Data in Recent Birth Cohorts

scientific article published on October 1, 2001

Coronary artery calcification by computed tomography in epidemiologic research and cardiovascular disease prevention

scientific article published on 07 April 2012

Coronary artery calcification in Japanese men in Japan and Hawaii

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Coronary calcification is more predictive of carotid intimal medial thickness in black compared to white middle aged men

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Correlation of a self-report and direct measure of physical activity level in the electron-beam tomography and risk assessment among Japanese and US Men in the post World War II birth cohort (ERA JUMP) study

scientific article published on 21 September 2013

Cross-sectional comparison of coronary artery calcium scores between Caucasian men in the United States and Japanese men in Japan: the multi-ethnic study of atherosclerosis and the Shiga epidemiological study of subclinical atherosclerosis.

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Data on alcohol consumption and coronary artery calcification among asymptomatic middle-aged men for the ERA-JUMP study.

scientific article published on 16 February 2018

Development of a nosocomial outbreak investigation database.

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Difference in carotid intima-media thickness between Korean and Japanese men

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Differential association of docosahexaenoic and eicosapentaenoic acids with carotid intima-media thickness.

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Do differences in risk factors explain the lower rates of coronary heart disease in Japanese versus U.S. women?

scientific article published on 28 September 2013

Does the perception of downloading speed influence the evaluation of web-based lectures?

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Ectopic cardiovascular fat in middle-aged men: effects of race/ethnicity, overall and central adiposity. The ERA JUMP study.

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Effect of High-Dose Marine Omega-3 Fatty Acids on Atherosclerosis: A Systematic Review and Meta-Analysis of Randomized Clinical Trials

scientific article published on 30 October 2019

Effect of S-equol and Soy Isoflavones on Heart and Brain

scientific article published on 01 January 2019

Effects of weight management by exercise modes on markers of subclinical atherosclerosis and cardiometabolic profile among women with abdominal obesity: a randomized controlled trial

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Ethnic difference in liver fat content: a cross-sectional observation among Japanese American in Hawaii, Japanese in Japan, and non-Hispanic whites in United States

scientific article published on May 2013

Evaluating the reported prevalence of type 2 diabetes mellitus by the Oguni diabetes registry using a two-sample method of capture-recapture

scientific article published in June 1999

Explaining the decline in coronary heart disease mortality rates in Japan: Contributions of changes in risk factors and evidence-based treatments between 1980 and 2012

scientific article published on 14 February 2019

Expression of reg I alpha protein in human gastric cancers.

scientific article published on 27 May 2004

Expression of the REG IV gene in ulcerative colitis

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Fish consumption and early atherosclerosis in middle-aged men.

scientific article published in August 2007

Growth arrest-specific gene 6 and Axl signaling enhances gastric cancer cell survival via Akt pathway

scientific article published on February 2007

Hemoglobin A1c and Cardiovascular Disease Incidence in Type 1 Diabetes: An Application Of Joint Modeling Of Longitudinal And Time-To-Event Data In The Pittsburgh Epidemiology Of Diabetes Complications (EDC) Study

scientific article published on 31 January 2018

Higher dietary inflammation is associated with increased odds of depression independent of Framingham Risk Score in the National Health and Nutrition Examination Survey

scientific article published on 21 March 2018

Higher levels of adiponectin in American than in Japanese men despite obesity

scientific article published on December 2006

Higher liver fat content among Japanese in Japan compared with non-Hispanic whites in the United States.

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Impaired glucose tolerance is a risk factor for cardiovascular disease, but not impaired fasting glucose. The Funagata Diabetes Study

scientific article published in June 1999

Increased Aortic Calcification Is Associated With Arterial Stiffness Progression in Multiethnic Middle-Aged Men.

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Influence of cigarette smoking on coronary artery and aortic calcium among random samples from populations of middle-aged Japanese and Korean men

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Japanese men have larger areas of visceral adipose tissue than Caucasian men in the same levels of waist circumference in a population-based study

scientific article published on 31 January 2006

LOX-1 ligands containing apolipoprotein B and carotid intima-media thickness in middle-aged community-dwelling US Caucasian and Japanese men.

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Lipoprotein-associated phospholipase A2 is related to risk of subclinical atherosclerosis but is not supported by Mendelian randomization analysis in a general Japanese population.

scientific article published on 23 December 2015

Long chain n-3 polyunsaturated fatty acids and incidence rate of coronary artery calcification in Japanese men in Japan and white men in the USA: population based prospective cohort study.

scientific article published on 18 December 2013

Long chain n-3 polyunsaturated fatty acids are not associated with circulating T-helper type 1 cells: Results from the Multi-Ethnic Study of Atherosclerosis (MESA).

scientific article published on 26 August 2017

Long-chain n-3 polyunsaturated fatty acids intake and cardiovascular disease mortality risk in Japanese: a 24-year follow-up of NIPPON DATA80.

scientific article published on 17 December 2013

Marine-derived n-3 fatty acids and atherosclerosis in Japanese, Japanese-American, and white men: a cross-sectional study.

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Much lower prevalence of coronary calcium detected by electron-beam computed tomography among men aged 40-49 in Japan than in the US, despite a less favorable profile of major risk factors

scientific article published on 24 November 2004

Occupational lung diseases and global occupational health on the Net

scientific article published on 01 January 1998

Open source model for global collaboration in higher education.

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Particle numbers of lipoprotein subclasses and arterial stiffness among middle-aged men from the ERA JUMP study

scientific article published on 04 July 2013

Prevalence of hypertension, its awareness and control in adult population in Japan.

scientific article published on December 2004

Progression of coronary artery calcium in Japanese American men and white men in the ERA JUMP study.

scientific article published on 14 November 2016

REG Ialpha protein may function as a trophic and/or anti-apoptotic factor in the development of gastric cancer.

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Recent findings of long-chain n-3 polyunsaturated fatty acids (LCn-3 PUFAs) on atherosclerosis and coronary heart disease (CHD) contrasting studies in Western countries to Japan.

scientific article published on 06 March 2015

Regional pulse wave velocities and their cardiovascular risk factors among healthy middle-aged men: a cross-sectional population-based study.

scientific article published on 13 January 2014

Relationship of Insulin Resistance to Prevalence and Progression of Coronary Artery Calcification Beyond Metabolic Syndrome Components: Shiga Epidemiological Study of Subclinical Atherosclerosis.

scientific article published on 9 June 2016

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Risk stratification for 25-year cardiovascular disease incidence in type 1 diabetes: Tree-structured survival analysis of the Pittsburgh Epidemiology of Diabetes Complications study

scientific article published on 21 April 2016

STAT3 is constitutively activated and supports cell survival in association with survivin expression in gastric cancer cells.

scientific article published on June 2004

Serum levels of marine-derived n-3 fatty acids in Icelanders, Japanese, Koreans, and Americans--a descriptive epidemiologic study

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Serum n-6 fatty acids and lipoprotein subclasses in middle-aged men: the population-based cross-sectional ERA-JUMP study

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Significant inverse association of equol-producer status with coronary artery calcification but not dietary isoflavones in healthy Japanese men.

scientific article published on January 2017

Significant inverse association of marine n-3 fatty acids with plasma fibrinogen levels in Japanese in Japan but not in whites or Japanese Americans.

scientific article published on 7 September 2011

Significant inverse associations of serum n-6 fatty acids with plasma plasminogen activator inhibitor-1.

scientific article published on 16 August 2011

Significantly Greater Progression of Intima-Media Thickness of the Carotid Artery in Japanese American Men Than in White Men: The ERA JUMP Study.

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Striking variation in coronary heart disease mortality in the United States among black and white women aged 45-54 by state

scientific article published in June 2000

Stronger associations of sagittal abdominal diameter with atherogenic lipoprotein subfractions than waist circumference in middle-aged US white and Japanese men.

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Studies on the association of NIDDM in Japanese patients with hyperthyroid Graves' disease

scientific article published on 01 January 1992

The Associations of Indices of Obesity with Lipoprotein Subfractions in Japanese American, African American and Korean Men

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The association of home and accurately measured office blood pressure with coronary artery calcification among general Japanese men

scientific article published on 05 April 2019

The effect of soy isoflavones on arterial stiffness: a systematic review and meta-analysis of randomized controlled trials

scientific article published on 11 June 2020

The impact of equol-producing status in modifying the effect of soya isoflavones on risk factors for CHD: a systematic review of randomised controlled trials

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The role of initial and longitudinal change in blood pressure on progression of arterial stiffness among multiethnic middle-aged men.

scientific article published on 20 October 2016

Towards an internet civil defence against bioterrorism

scientific article published on 01 September 2001

Trends in mortality from major diseases in Europe during 1980 to 1993

scientific article published on 01 March 2000

Vegetarian diets and blood pressure: a meta-analysis

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Visceral and subcutaneous adiposity and adiponectin in middle-aged Japanese men: the ERA JUMP study.

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World Health Organization-defined metabolic syndrome is a better predictor of coronary calcium than the adult treatment panel III criteria in American men aged 40-49 years.

scientific article published on December 2004