Takayama Study
Initiatives
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To investigate associations of diet and other lifestyle factors with cancer and other chronic diseases.
- Start Year
- 1992
- End Year
- 2008
- Funding
- Ministry of Education, Culture, Sports, Science, and Technology and the Ministry of Health, Labour and Welfare of Japan.
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Design
- Study design
- Population cohort
- Follow Up
- Mortality was ascertained during 16 years of follow-up. Information concerning subjects who died or moved away from Takayama City between the baseline (1 September 1992) and 1 October 2008, was obtained from residential registers or family registers. Causes of death were identified from death certificates provided by the Legal Affairs Bureau. In 2002 we conducted a mailed questionnaire survey.
Marker Paper
Nagata C, Wada K, Yamakawa M, Konishi K, Goto Y, Koda S, Mizuta F, Uji T. Intake of starch and sugars and total and cause-specific mortality in a Japanese community: the Takayama Study. Br J Nutr. 2019 Oct 14;122(7):820-828. doi: 10.1017/S0007114519001661.
PUBMED 32124712
Recruitment
- Sources of Recruitment
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- Individuals
Number of participants
- Number of participants
- 34,018
- Number of participants with biosamples
- Supplementary Information
- Aged over 35 years
Access
Availability of data and biosamples
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