2013 Fiscal Year Final Research Report
Examination of the Latent Health Dysfunction due to Lean Body-frame in Japanese Young Women
| Project/Area Number |
23500811
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| Research Category |
Grant-in-Aid for Scientific Research (C)
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| Allocation Type | Multi-year Fund |
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| Section | 一般 |
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| Research Field |
Applied health science
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| Research Institution | Hokkaido Information University |
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Principal Investigator |
HIROKI Satoh 北海道情報大学, 医療情報学部, 教授 (40507216)
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| Co-Investigator(Renkei-kenkyūsha) |
NISHIHIRA Jyun 北海道情報大学, 医療情報学科, 教授 (30189302)
YOSHIOKA Eiji 旭川医科大学, 健康科学講座, 准教授 (70435957)
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| Project Period (FY) |
2011 – 2013
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| Keywords | 若年日本人女性 / やせ型体型 / 健康障害 |
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| Research Abstract |
Recently, the wrong recognition of the lean body-frame as the healthy condition in the young women has been widely spread. We examined the daily life habits and health conditions according to their body-frame such as normal, low body weight and normal body fat, and lean assessed by body mass index and body fat percentage. The numbers of the lean women were 23 subjects (11.6%) and they had the bad daily life habits such as short sleep duration and not having breakfast. Moreover, the serum total and high molecular weight adiponectin concentrations in the lean subjects were significantly lower than those of normal subjects. These associations were also found in longitudinal examinations. The low serum adiponectin concentrations were the significant and independent risks for the occurrence of cardiovascular disease, diabetes mellitus, and endometriosis.
These results indicated that the lean body-frame of young women might be needed the new enlightenments for preventive medicine.
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