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2007 Fiscal Year Final Research Report Summary

The basic research for the association of exercise and fitness with mental health status

Research Project

Project/Area Number 18500548
Research Category

Grant-in-Aid for Scientific Research (C)

Allocation TypeSingle-year Grants
Section一般
Research Field Applied health science
Research InstitutionKyushu University

Principal Investigator

NAGANO Mayumi  Kyushu University, User Science Institute, Visiting Associate Professor (10237547)

Co-Investigator(Kenkyū-buntansha) KUMAGAI Shuzo  Kyushu University, Health Science Institute, Professor (80145193)
OHNUKI Koichiro  Kyushu University, User Science Institute, Associate Professor (50378668)
Project Period (FY) 2006 – 2007
Keywordsmental health / cardiorespiratory fitness / elderly people / diabetes mellitus / fatty liver / hepatic enzyme
Research Abstract

The present study was performed according to following themes;
Theme 1: Selection of questionnaire for the present study
We examined the coordination between an answer to each questionnaire and physiological and biochemical indices, and decided to adopt the General Health Questionnaire (GHQ) for the present study.
Theme 2: The association between objective fitness and mental health in elderly people in a community.
In the elderly people in a community, no significant association was recognized between objective fitness and mental health.
Theme 3: The association among cardiorespiratory fitness, pathology and mental health in newly diagnosed diabetic patients. Sub theme 1) The impact of cardiorespiratory fitness on prevalence of metabolic abnormality
It was suggested that low cardiorespiratory fitness was strongly associated with elevated aspartate- aminotransferase (AST) and alanine-aminotransferase (ALT) which were the indices of hepatic function. No report has so far reported such phenomen … More a, it was therefore needed the following study to clarify its mechanism.
Sub theme 2) The investigation for the association among mental health, cardiorespitratory fitness and fatty liver and hepatic enzymes
In the patients having fatty liver, cardiorespiratory fitness and hepatic enzyme level were significantly worsened in the group with aggravated mental health than that in the group with normal mental health. In addition, the aggravated mental health was associated with low cardiorespiratory fitness after adjusting for visceral fat area and the other metabolic abnormalities. It was therefore suggested to be one of pathways that aggravated mental health might suppressed exercise behavior, and followed by high prevalence of metabolic abnormalities.
In summary, it was suggested that mental health was associated with cardiorespiratory fitness and metabolic markers in the diabetic patients rather than the healthy elderly people. In addition, the hepatic enzyme level could be able to be one of new biomarkers to express mental health status. Less

  • Research Products

    (2 results)

All 2008 Other

All Book (2 results)

  • [Book] 第2章:健康と運動の疫学・各論.(2)肥満・メタボリックシンドロームの運動疫学2008

    • Author(s)
      熊谷 秋三, 田中 喜代次, 藤井 宣晴編
    • Publisher
      医学書院
    • Description
      「研究成果報告書概要(和文)」より
  • [Book] Textbook for health and exercise epidemiology. (Section 2, Exercise epidemiology of metabolic syndrome, written by Nagano ; Exercise epidemiology of mental health, written by Kumagai)

    • Author(s)
      Nagano, M., Kumagai, S
    • Publisher
      Igaku Shoin(in print)
    • Description
      「研究成果報告書概要(欧文)」より

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Published: 2010-02-04  

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