Dietary intake and cancer mortality in Japan

Article type: Research Article

Authors: Yasuhiro Matsumura, | Nobuo Yoshiike, | Tetsuji Yokoyama, | Heizo Tanaka, ^;

Affiliations: Division of Adult Health Science, National Institute of Health and Nutrition, 1-23-1, Toyama, Shinjuku-ku, Tokyo 162-8636, Japan | Department of Epidemiology, Medical Research Institute, Tokyo Medical and Dental University, Tokyo, Japan

Abstract: We examined the correlation between the prefectural variation of standardized mortality ratio (SMR) for lung and colon cancer and the consumption of foods using dietary data from National Nutrition Survey in Japan from 1976 to 1995. We found partly the same results on promoting factors and preventing factors of these cancers as the previously reported large scale cohort studies. But, we also found the inconsistent results. This might be partly because of the limitation of data collection method in the National Nutrition Survey. It was thought that the method of National Nutrition Survey should be modified to monitor nutrition and health conditions to correspond the epidemiological study and to prevent chronic diseases.

Keywords: National Nutrition Survey, standardized mortality ratio, geographic correlation, ecological study

Journal: BioFactors, vol. 12, no. 1-4, pp. 95-99, 2000