Having more healthy practice was associated with low white blood cell counts in middle-aged Japanese male and female workers

Industrial Health

Volumn 46, Issue 4, 2008, Pages 341-347

  Otsuka, Rei ^a,b   Tamakoshi, Koji ^a   Wada, Keiko ^a   Matsushita, Kunihiro ^a   Ouyang, Pei ^a   Hotta, Yo ^a   Takefuji, Seiko ^a   Mitsuhashi, Hirotsugu ^a   Toyoshima, Hideaki ^a,c   Shimokata, Hiroshi ^b   Yatsuya, Hiroshi ^a  

^a NAGOYA UNIVERSITY GRADUATE SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (Japan)

^b NATIONAL CENTER FOR GERIATRICS AND GERONTOLOGY   (Japan)

^c ANJO KOSEI HOSPITAL   (Japan)

Author keywords

Cross sectional study; Epidemiology; Healthy practice; Japanese; Questionnaire; White blood cell

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ALCOHOL CONSUMPTION; ARTICLE; ATHEROSCLEROSIS; BLOOD SAMPLING; CARDIOVASCULAR DISEASE; EATING HABIT; FEMALE; FEMALE WORKER; HEALTH BEHAVIOR; HUMAN; INFLAMMATION; JAPANESE; LEUKOCYTE COUNT; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; OBESITY; OCCUPATIONAL HEALTH; PHYSICAL ACTIVITY; QUESTIONNAIRE; RISK FACTOR; SLEEP; SMOKING; SMOKING CESSATION;

ADULT; CROSS-SECTIONAL STUDIES; FEMALE; HEALTH BEHAVIOR; HEALTH STATUS; HUMANS; JAPAN; LEUKOCYTE COUNT; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; QUESTIONNAIRES;

EID: 51849127007     PISSN: 00198366     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2486/indhealth.46.341     Document Type: Article

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