Social and Environmental Medicine
Outline
We conduct studies on health protection and promotion in working populations, especially aiming to clarify mechanisms underlying the relations of working conditions or job characteristics to lifestyles or lifestyle diseases, psychosocial work stress or mental health problems, and musculoskeletal disorders, and to establish the measures for preventing those diseases. In addtion, we carry out studies on the health effects of environmental cadmium exposure.
e-mail: hygiene@kanazawa-med.ac.jp
Faculty
Professor
Professor Emeritus
Research Achievements
Sakurai M, Suwazono Y, Nishijo M, Nogawa K, Watanabe Y, Ishizaki M, Morikawa Y, Kido T, Nakagawa H. Relationship between urinary β2-microglobulin concentration and mortality in a cadmium-polluted area in Japan: A 35-year follow-up study. J Appl Toxicol 41 (2):224-232, 2021.
Sakurai M, Ishizaki M, Morikawa Y, Kido T, Naruse Y, Nakashima Y, Okamoto C, Nogawa K, Watanabe Y, Suwazono Y, Hozawa A, Yoshita K, Nakagawa H. Frequency of consumption of balanced meals, body weight gain, and incident risk of glucose intolerance in Japanese men and women: a cohort study. J Diabetes Invest 12 (5):763-770, 2021.
Sakurai M, Suwazono Y, Nishijo M, Nogawa K, Watanabe Y, Yoneda K, Ishizaki M, Morikawa Y, Kido T, Nakagawa H. The relationship between the urinary cadmium concentration and cause-specific mortality in subjects without severe renal damage: a 35-year follow-up study in a cadmium-polluted area of Japan. Int J Environment Res Public Health 18 (15):7747 (16 pages), 2021.
Sakurai M, Ishizaki M, Miura K, Nakashima M, Morikawa Y, Kido T, Naruse Y, Nogawa K, Suwazono Y, Nogawa K, Nakagawa H. Health status of workers approximately 60 years of age and the risk of early death after compulsory retirement: A cohort study. J Occup Health 62(1):e12088, 2020
External Research Funding
Grant-in-Aid for Scientific Research(C), 22K10539, ISHIZAKI Masao 2022-2024
Grant-in-Aid for Scientific Research(C), 21K10509, SAKURAI Masaru 2021-2024
Grant-in-Aid for Scientific Research(C), 18K10092, ISHIZAKI Masao 2018-2020