Gender difference in the association between social support and metabolic syndrome in Japan: The 'enkai' effect?

Journal of Epidemiology and Community Health

Volumn 65, Issue 1, 2011, Pages 71-77

  Ikeda, Ai ^a,b   Kawachi, Ichiro ^a   Iso, Hiroyasu ^b   Inoue, Manami ^c   Tsugane, Shoichiro ^c  

^a HARVARD SCHOOL OF PUBLIC HEALTH   (United States)

^b OSAKA UNIVERSITY GRADUATE SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (Japan)

^c NATIONAL CANCER CENTER   (Japan)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CONTINGENT VALUATION; DRINKING; GENDER; METABOLISM; MULTIVARIATE ANALYSIS; POPULATION STRUCTURE; PUBLIC HEALTH; QUESTIONNAIRE SURVEY;

ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; ASIAN; BLOOD; BODY MASS; CROSS-SECTIONAL STUDY; CULTURAL FACTOR; ETHNOLOGY; FEMALE; HUMAN; JAPAN; LIFESTYLE; MALE; METABOLIC SYNDROME X; MIDDLE AGED; OBESITY; PREVALENCE; PROSPECTIVE STUDY; PSYCHOLOGICAL ASPECT; QUESTIONNAIRE; RISK FACTOR; SEX DIFFERENCE; SOCIAL SUPPORT; SOCIOECONOMICS;

ADULT; AGED; ASIAN CONTINENTAL ANCESTRY GROUP; BODY MASS INDEX; CROSS-SECTIONAL STUDIES; CULTURAL CHARACTERISTICS; FEMALE; HUMANS; JAPAN; LIFE STYLE; MALE; METABOLIC SYNDROME X; MIDDLE AGED; OVERWEIGHT; PREVALENCE; PROSPECTIVE STUDIES; QUESTIONNAIRES; RISK FACTORS; SEX FACTORS; SOCIAL SUPPORT; SOCIOECONOMIC FACTORS;

JAPAN;

EID: 78650855114     PISSN: 0143005X     EISSN: 14702738     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1136/jech.2009.090613     Document Type: Article

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