Publications by authors named "Hidemi Ito"

Background: It has been suggested that the association between body mass index and breast cancer risk differs between Asian women and Western women. We aimed to assess the associations between body mass index and breast cancer incidence in East Asian women.

Methods: Pooled analyses were performed using individual participant data of 319,189 women from 13 cohort studies in Japan, Korea, and China.

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Aim: We examined the association between dairy intake and all-cause, cancer, and cardiovascular disease mortality in a cohort of the general population followed up for 12 years across Japan.

Methods: We conducted a longitudinal cohort study of 79,715 participants from the Japan Multi-Institutional Collaborative Cohort study (57.2% women, mean age 54.

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The prospective cohort study in a large Japanese population suggested that metabolic phenotypes are important risk factors for total and some site-specific cancers in Japanese adults. Moreover, the risk of each site-specific cancer may differ according to metabolic phenotypes.

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Importance: The global burden of obesity is increasing, as are colorectal cancer (CRC) incidence and mortality.

Objectives: To assess the association between body mass index (BMI) and risks of incident CRC and CRC-related death in the Asian population.

Design, Setting, And Participants: This cohort study includes data pooled from 17 prospective cohort studies included in The Asia Cohort Consortium.

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  • The study explored the relationship between polygenic risk scores (PRS) for blood pressure and mortality due to cardiovascular disease (CVD) and all causes, particularly considering environmental lifestyle factors.
  • It analyzed data from 9,296 participants over a median follow-up of 12.6 years, finding that higher PRS groups had significantly increased risks of CVD mortality compared to medium PRS groups.
  • The findings suggest that combining genetic risk factors with lifestyle information could help identify individuals who might benefit from targeted lifestyle interventions, despite the PRS having limited ability to independently predict outcomes.
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Prognosis for patients undergoing hematopoietic cell transplantation (HCT) has been improving. Short-term survival information, such as crude survival rates that consider deaths immediately after the transplantation, may not be sufficiently useful for assessing long-term survival. Using the data of the Japanese HCT registry, the net survival rate of patients who survived for a given period was determined according to age, disease, and type of transplant.

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Background: Evidence suggests a possible link between diabetes and gastric cancer risk, but the findings remain inconclusive, with limited studies in the Asian population. We aimed to assess the impact of diabetes and diabetes duration on the development of gastric cancer overall, by anatomical and histological subtypes.

Methods: A pooled analysis was conducted using 12 prospective studies included in the Asia Cohort Consortium.

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  • A study was conducted using data from 968,738 adults across 20 cohort studies in Asia to investigate the link between diabetes and liver cancer incidence and mortality.
  • The findings revealed that adults with diabetes had a significantly higher risk of being diagnosed with liver cancer (hazard ratio of 1.97) and dying from it (adjusted hazard ratio of 1.97) compared to those without diabetes.
  • The robust results, supported by a two-stage meta-analysis, contribute valuable evidence to the understanding of liver cancer risks among diabetic populations in Asian countries.
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Background: Epidemiological studies have shown inconsistent results regarding the link between smoking and breast cancer risk, despite the biological plausibility of a positive association.

Methods: Participants were 166 611 women from nine prospective cohort studies in Japan which launched in 1984-1994 and followed for 8-22 years. Information on smoking and secondhand smoke was obtained through self-administered baseline questionnaires.

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  • A large study analyzed data from 444,143 Japanese individuals to investigate the relationship between body mass index (BMI) and lung cancer risk.
  • Results showed that lower BMI, specifically under 18.5, increased lung cancer risk, while being overweight or obese correlated with reduced risk.
  • The findings suggest an inverse relationship between BMI and lung cancer risk in the Japanese population, with the effect being more significant in male smokers, indicating possible smoking-related confounding.
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  • A study investigated the genetic factors influencing alcohol consumption in 175,672 Japanese individuals, focusing on a specific genetic variant (rs671) associated with drinking behavior.
  • The analysis found significant genetic interactions, identifying three key genetic locations in individuals with one variant (wild-type homozygotes) and six in those with two variants (heterozygotes), with some linked to esophageal cancer risk.
  • The research highlights how genetic makeup can shape alcohol consumption patterns and potentially increase the risk of alcohol-related diseases in different ancestral groups.
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Background: Reproductive factors, such as age at menarche, are known to be associated with disease risk, but data on trends in these factors in Japan are limited. In this study, we investigated secular trends in reproductive factors and explored their potential association with socioeconomic and historical events.

Methods: We conducted a retrospective analysis of 62,005 Japanese women born between 1890 and 1991 using a survey conducted over 25 years.

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This study aimed to investigate the association between daily sedentary time and the risk of breast cancer (BC) in a large Japanese population. The participants were 36,023 women aged 35-69 years from the Japan Multi-Institutional Collaborative Cohort Study. Cox proportional hazards analysis was used to estimate adjusted hazard ratios (HRs) and 95% confidence intervals (CIs) for BC incidence in relation to time spent sedentarily (categorical variables: <7 and ≥7 hours/day [h/d]).

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Advances in diagnostic techniques and treatment modalities have impacted head and neck cancer (HNC) prognosis, but their effects on subsite-specific prognosis remain unclear. This study aimed to assess subsite-specific trends in mid- and long-term survival for HNC patients diagnosed from 1993 to 2011 using data from population-based cancer registries in Japan. We estimated the net survival (NS) for HNC by subsite using data from 13 prefectural population-based cancer registries in Japan.

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  • Body fatness is highlighted as a potential risk factor for biliary tract cancer (BTC), with established correlations between obesity and cholelithiasis (gallstones).
  • A comprehensive analysis of data from over 905,000 participants across 21 studies in Asia found that higher body mass index (BMI) correlates with increased BTC mortality, especially in females.
  • The study indicates that while obesity is linked to BTC mortality in women without gallstones, the relationship is less clear in men and when gallstones are present, suggesting complex interactions between BMI, gender, and gallstone presence.
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Fluorouracil (FU) exerts its antitumor activity by inhibiting folate-mediated one-carbon metabolism. Evidence that folate may play a role in the carcinogenic process via folate-mediated one-carbon metabolism has given rise to the hypothesis that pre-diagnostic folate intake may induce heterogeneous chemosensitivity to FU-containing induction chemotherapy (IC) in head and neck cancer. To assess this hypothesis, we conducted a cohort study to investigate whether the association between prediagnostic dietary folate intake and cancer survival differed between treatment regimens with and without FU-containing IC in 504 cases of locally advanced (stage III/IV) HNSCC, using an epidemiologic database combined with clinical data.

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Introduction: Although lung cancer prediction models are widely used to support risk-based screening, their performance outside Western populations remains uncertain. This study aims to evaluate the performance of 11 existing risk prediction models in multiple Asian populations and to refit prediction models for Asians.

Methods: In a pooled analysis of 186,458 Asian ever-smokers from 19 prospective cohorts, we assessed calibration (expected-to-observed ratio) and discrimination (area under the receiver operating characteristic curve [AUC]) for each model.

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Background: Improving diets requires an awareness of the need to limit foods for which excessive consumption is a health problem. Since there are limited reports on the link between this awareness and mortality risk, we examined the association between awareness of limiting food intake (energy, fat, and sweets) and all-cause mortality in a Japanese cohort study.

Methods: Participants comprised 58,772 residents (27,294 men; 31,478 women) aged 35-69 years who completed baseline surveys of the Japan Multi-Institutional Collaborative Cohort Study from 2004 to 2014.

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Centralization of childhood cancer treatment in specialized hospitals is necessary for quality treatment and care, but imposes a time and cost burden for patients and their families. We investigated the 20-year trend in the patients' car travel burden to reach cancer-care hospitals in Aichi Prefecture, Japan. From the Aichi population-based cancer registry data, 1,741 cases diagnosed in 1998-2017 under 15 years of age were extracted and assigned to three treatment groups: invasive treatment (n = 697), radiotherapy (n = 371), or chemotherapy groups (n = 1,462), allowing for duplicate assignment.

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Characterizing trends in mortality rates with consideration of trends in incidence rates at the population level could help identify unmet needs in public health and provide essential indicators of cancer control. In the late 20th century, the arrival of the first molecular targeted agent, rituximab, for non-Hodgkin lymphoma (NHL) led to a paradigm shift in NHL treatment. However, the public health impact of this arrival has not been fully clarified.

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Background: Previous cohort studies have yielded contradictory findings regarding the associations of dietary carbohydrate and fat intakes with risks of mortality.

Objectives: We examined long-term associations of carbohydrate and fat intakes with mortality.

Methods: In this cohort study, 34,893 men and 46,440 women aged 35-69 y (mean body mass index of 23.

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Observational studies suggest that abnormal glucose metabolism and insulin resistance contribute to colorectal cancer; however, the causal association remains unknown, particularly in Asian populations. A two-sample Mendelian randomisation analysis was performed to determine the causal association between genetic variants associated with elevated fasting glucose, haemoglobin A1c (HbA1c), and fasting C-peptide and colorectal cancer risk. In the single nucleotide polymorphism (SNP)-exposure analysis, we meta-analysed study-level genome-wide associations of fasting glucose (~ 17,289 individuals), HbA1c (~ 52,802 individuals), and fasting C-peptide (1,666 individuals) levels from the Japanese Consortium of Genetic Epidemiology studies.

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