Professor ARISAWA Kokichi
The goals of our department are to clarify the associations between environmental factors and health problems among human populations using epidemiologic methods and to contribute to disease prevention.
The current major research is the Japan Multi-Institutional Collaborative Cohort Study （J-MICC Study） Tokushima site survey.
The current research themes are as follows :
- Association between dietary acid load and mortality,
- Association of skipping breakfast and sleep duration with the prevalence of metabolic syndrome,
- Association of metabolic syndrome, obesity and metabolic health status with cancer mortality,
- Epidemiological studies of liver disease.
