Yoshiko Kagawa, M.D., D.Med.Sci., President

Laboratory of Applied Nutrition

References:
List of original papers written in English for recent five years.

Tamaki J, Iki M, Sato Y, Kajita E, Kagamimori S, Kagawa Y, Yoneshima H., Smoking among premenopausal women is associated with increased risk of low bone status: the JPOS Study. J Bone Miner Metab., 2009 (Epub ahead of print)

Iki M, Morita A, Ikeda Y,Sato Y, Akiba T, Matsumoto T, Nishino H, Kagamimori S, Kagawa Y, Yoneshima H;JPOS Study Group:Biochemical markers of bone turnover may predict progression to osteoporosis in osteopenic women- Japanese Population-based Osteoporosis (JPOS) Cohort Study: J Bone Miner Metab.: 25, 122-129(2007)

Ikeda Y, Iki M, Morita A, Kajita E, Kagamimori S, Kagawa Y, Yoneshima H.: Intake of fermented soybeans, natto, is associated with reduced bone loss in postmenopausal women-Japanese Population-based Osteoporosis(JPOS) Study: JNutr.136, 1323-1328(2006)

Iki M, Morita A, Ikeda Y, Sato Y, Akiba T, Matsumoto T, Nishino H, Kagamimori S, Kagawa Y, Yoneshima H; For the JPOS Study Group: Biochemical markers of bone turnover predict bone loss in perimenopausal women but not in postmenopausal women-Japanese Population-based Osteoporosis (JPOS) Cohort Study: Osteoporos Int. (2006)

Iki M, Morita A, Ikeda Y,Sato Y, Akiba T, Matsumoto T, Nishino H, Kagamimori S, Kagawa Y, Yoneshima H,JPOS Study Group：Biochemical markers of bone turnover predict bone loss in perimenopausal women but not in postmenopausal women-Japanese Population-based Osteoporosis (JPOS) Cohort Study: Osteoporos Int.: 17, 1086-1095(2006)

Morita A, Iki M, Dohi Y, Ikeda Y, Kagamimori S, Kagawa Y, Matsuzaki T, Yoneshima H, and Marumo F. for JPOS Study Group：Prediction of bone mineral density from vitamin D receptor polymorphisms is uncertain in representative samples of Japanese Women.The Japanese Population-based Osteoporosis(JPOS)study:International Journal of Epidemiology. 33,979-988(2004)

Yukihiro Ikeda, Masayuki Iki, Akemi Morita, Hirokuni Aihara, Sadanobu Kagamimori,Yoshiko Kagawa, Toshihisa Matsuzaki, Hideo Yoneshima, and Fumiaki Marumo for JPOS Study Group：Ultrasound bone densitometry of the calcaneus, determined with Sahara, in healthy Japanese adolescents-Japanese Population-based Osteoporosis（JPOS）Study: J Bone Miner Metab.:22,248-253 (2004)

Iki M, Akiba T, Matsumoto T, Nishino H, Kagamimori S, Kagawa Y, and Yoneshima H, JAPOS Study Group,Reference database of biochemical markers of bone turnover for the　Japanese female population-Japanese population–based osteoporosis（JPOS）study: Osteoporos Int.15,981-991(2004)

Matsukura T, Kagamimori S, Nishino H, Yamagami T, Iki M, Kajita E, Kagawa Y, Yoneshima H, Matsuzaki T, and Marumo F: The characteristics of bone turnover in the second decade in relation to age and puberty development in healthy Japanese male and female subjects-Japanese population-based osteoporosis study: Ann. Hum. Biol. 30, 13-25(2003)