Influence of hypertension on the incidence of cardiovascular disease in two rural communities in Japan: the Tanno-Sobetsu [corrected] study.

The purpose of this study was to determine the relationship between hypertension and onset of cardiovascular disease in Japan. As part of an ongoing epidemiological survey of cardiovascular diseases in Hokkaido, Japan, 1,798 subjects (806 males and 992 females; mean age in the initial year of the survey, 58.6+/-11.

A Review of Cohort Studies on the Association Between History of Diabetes Mellitus and Occurrence of Cancer.

We conducted a review of previous cohort studies on the association between a history of diabetes mellitus (DM) and the occurrence of cancer. We limited the papers to those concerning cohort studies on 9 cancer sites, i.e.