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ArticleJournal of epidemiology2017

Design of the health examination survey on early childhood physical growth in the Great East Japan Earthquake affected areas.

Hiroko Matsubara, Mami Ishikuro, Masahiro Kikuya, Shoichi Chida, Mitsuaki Hosoya, Atsushi Ono, Noriko Kato, Susumu Yokoya, Toshiaki Tanaka, Tsuyoshi Isojima and 4 more

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Article in Journal of epidemiology, 2017. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 3 papers.

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1 · What the graph read from it

What it found

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3 · Its place in the literature

Who cites it

3 citing papers in PubMed, 6 citations in OpenAlex.

  1. Changes in height standard deviation scores during early life are affected by nutrition.Pediatrics international : official journal of the Japan Pediatric Society · 2021
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4 · The record

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5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

14 authors at 8 institutions in 1 country.

Hiroko MatsubaraDepartment of Disaster Public Health, International Research Institute of Disaster Science (IRIDeS), Tohoku University, Sendai, Japan.
Mami IshikuroTohoku Medical Megabank Organization (ToMMo), Tohoku University, Sendai, Japan; Department of Molecular Epidemiology, Graduate School of Medicine, Tohoku University, Sendai, Japan.
Masahiro KikuyaTohoku Medical Megabank Organization (ToMMo), Tohoku University, Sendai, Japan; Department of Molecular Epidemiology, Graduate School of Medicine, Tohoku University, Sendai, Japan.
Shoichi ChidaDepartment of Pediatrics, School of Medicine, Iwate Medical University, Morioka, Japan.
Mitsuaki HosoyaDepartment of Pediatrics, School of Medicine, Fukushima Medical University, Fukushima, Japan.
Atsushi OnoDepartment of Pediatrics, School of Medicine, Fukushima Medical University, Fukushima, Japan.
Noriko KatoDepartment of Early Childhood and Elementary Education, Jumonji University, Niiza, Saitama, Japan.
Susumu YokoyaDepartment of Medical Subspecialties, National Center for Child Health and Development, Tokyo, Japan.
Toshiaki TanakaJapanese Association for Human Auxology, Tokyo, Japan.
Tsuyoshi IsojimaDepartment of Pediatrics, Graduate School of Medicine, The University of Tokyo, Tokyo, Japan.
Zentaro YamagataDepartment of Health Sciences, Graduate School Department of Interdisciplinary Research, University of Yamanashi, Chuo, Yamanashi, Japan.
Soichiro TanakaDepartment of Pediatrics, Graduate School of Medicine, Tohoku University, Sendai, Japan.
Shinichi KuriyamaDepartment of Disaster Public Health, International Research Institute of Disaster Science (IRIDeS), Tohoku University, Sendai, Japan; Tohoku Medical Megabank Organization (ToMMo), Tohoku University, Sendai, Japan; Department of Molecular Epidemiology, Graduate School of Medicine, Tohoku University, Sendai, Japan. Electronic address: kuriyama@med.tohoku.ac.jp.
Shigeo KureTohoku Medical Megabank Organization (ToMMo), Tohoku University, Sendai, Japan; Department of Pediatrics, Graduate School of Medicine, Tohoku University, Sendai, Japan.
Tohoku Medical Megabank Organization · JPTohoku University · JPFukushima Medical University · JPIwate Medical University · JPJumonji University · JPNational Center For Child Health and Development · JPThe University of Tokyo · JPUniversity of Yamanashi · JP

Funding

No grant is acknowledged in the PubMed record.

6 · The paper itself

Abstract

backgroundTo investigate the impact of the Great East Japan Earthquake on preschool children's physical growth in the disaster-affected areas, the three medical universities in Iwate, Miyagi, and Fukushima Prefectures conducted a health examination survey on early childhood physical growth.

methodsThe survey was conducted over a 3-year period to acquire data on children who were born in different years. Our targets were as follows: 1) children who were born between March 1, 2007 and August 31, 2007 and experienced the disaster at 43-48 months of age, 2) children who were born between March 1, 2009 and August 31, 2009 and experienced the disaster at 19-24 months of age, and 3) children who were born between June 1, 2010 and April 30, 2011 and were under 10 months of age or not born yet when the disaster occurred. We collected their health examination data from local governments in Iwate, Miyagi, and Fukushima Prefectures. We also collected data from Aomori, Akita, and Yamagata Prefectures to use as a control group. The survey items included birth information, anthropometric measurements, and methods of nutrition during infancy.

resultsEighty municipalities from Iwate, Miyagi, and Fukushima Prefectures and 21 from the control prefectures participated in the survey. As a result, we established three retrospective cohorts consisting of 13,886, 15,474, and 32,202 preschool children.

conclusionsThe large datasets acquired for the present survey will provide valuable epidemiological evidence that should shed light on preschool children's physical growth in relation to the disaster.

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Child DevelopmentEarthquakesChildChild HealthChild, PreschoolCohort StudiesDisastersFemaleHealth SurveysHumansJapanMaleRetrospective StudiesHealth examinationPhysical growthPreschool childrenRetrospective cohort studyThe Great East Japan Earthquake

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PMID28142052
PMCPMC5363786
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