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| Differences in health characteristics between native Japanese and Japanese-Americans | | Author(s) | Saeko Fujiwara, Chun Huang, Philip D Ross |
| Journal title | Journal of Cross-Cultural Gerontology, vol 14, no 3, September 1999 |
| Pages | pp 273-287 |
| Keywords | Health [elderly] ; Menopause ; Biological ageing ; Comparison ; Japan ; United States of America. |
| Annotation | Health characteristics were compared among 1193 Japanese in Hiroshima, and 2306 Japanese-Americans in Hawaii. Japanese women experienced later menarche and earlier menopause than Japanese Americans. Japanese men and women were shorter and lighter, and the men had bad lower body mass index than Japanese Americans. Differences between populations were also found for the prevalence of artificial menopause, number of live births, lactation period, smoking, and alcohol consumption. Within one or both populations, significant trends with birth year were found for age at menarche, age at menopause, interval between menarche and menopause, lactation period, height, weight and body mass index, suggesting the existence of cohort effects. Some of these trends may also reflect age-related changes. Environmental factors likely to contribute to the differences in physique and reproductive factors, which may explain differences in frequency of osteoporosis, cardiovascular diseases, and cancer between the two populations. (RH). |
| Accession Number | CPA-991022248 A |
| Classmark | CC: CC:BD: BH: 48: 7DT: 7T |
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