Association between serum uric acid levels and cardiometabolic risk factors among Japanese junior high school students.

Background: The present study was designed to examine whether serum uric acid (SUA) levels were associated with cardiometabolic risk factors and to determine optimal cut-offs for SUA to identify multiple risk factors among Japanese junior high school students.

Methods And Results: A total of 958 students (518 boys and 440 girls, aged 12.1-15.

Environmental exposure and p53 mutations in esophageal cancer patients in areas of low and high incidence of esophageal cancer in China.

Esophageal cancer is the 6th most common cancer in the world, and genetic factors (p53 mutations) in addition to the environmental factors (food, nutrition, smoking, drinking, etc.) are involved in its development. In this study, the association between the both factors, environmental risk factors for esophageal cancer and p53 mutations, in tumor tissues was investigated in 77 patients living in a high-incidence area and 50 patients living in a low-incidence area in Hebei Province, China.