2010 Fiscal Year Final Research Report
Relation of the increase of the obesity and allergic disease and the change of the life style and the environment among the children in Okinawa prefecture.
Project/Area Number |
21610020
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Research Category |
Grant-in-Aid for Scientific Research (C)
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Allocation Type | Single-year Grants |
Section | 一般 |
Research Field |
Children studies (Studies of environment on children)
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Research Institution | Toyohashi Sozo University (2010-2011) Teikyo Heisei University (2009) |
Principal Investigator |
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Co-Investigator(Kenkyū-buntansha) |
大山 健司 (80051861)
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Project Period (FY) |
2009 – 2011
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Keywords | アレルギー / 肥満 / 子ども / 沖縄県 / メタボリック症候群 |
Research Abstract |
Okinawa prefecture is a place that experiences the rapid changes of life style, dietary environment and environmental pollution. As the result, many problems have been apparent in Okinawa prefecture. We focused on the problem about the relation of the environmental changes and obesity and allergic disease among the children in Okinawa prefecture after the return to Japan 40 years ago. The result showed that in the factor which showed urbanization, the incidence of children with allergic condition, asthma, atopic dermatitis, and children with obesity was significantly high. On the contrary there was no result which showed the opposite tendency.
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