- 著者
- Osamu EZAKI Mayumi TAKAHASHI Takashi SHIGEMATSU Kyoko SHIMAMURA Junji KIMURA Haruo EZAKI Takahiko GOTOH
- 出版者
- Center for Academic Publications Japan
- 雑誌
- Journal of Nutritional Science and Vitaminology (ISSN:03014800)
- 巻号頁・発行日
- vol.45, no.6, pp.759-772, 1999 (Released:2009-04-28)
- 参考文献数
- 30
- 被引用文献数
- 48 61
Although important roles of dietary n-3 fatty acids in the prevention of coronary heart disease (CHD) have been suggested, long-term effects of dietary α-linolenic acid (ALA, 18:3n-3) have not yet been established under controlled conditions. We tested whether a moderate increase of dietary ALA affects fatty acids composition in serum and the risk factors of CHD. Oxidized LDL (OxLDL) was directly measured by ELISA using antibody specific to OxLDL. By merely replacing soybean cooking oil (SO) with perilla oil (PO) (i.e., increasing 3g/d of ALA), the n-6/n-3 ratio in the diet was changed from 4:1 to 1:1. Twenty Japanese elderly subjects were initially given a SO diet for at least 6 mo (baseline period), a PO diet for 10 mo (intervention period), and then returned to the previous SO diet (washout period). ALA in the total serum lipid increased from 0.8 to 1.6% after 3 mo on the PO diet, but EPA and DHA increased in a later time, at 10 mo after the PO diet, from 2.5 to 3.6% and 5.3 to 6.4%, respectively (p<0.05), and then returned to baseline in the washout period. In spite of increases of serum n-3 fatty acids, the OxLDL concentration did not change significantly when given the PO diet. Body weight, total serum cholesterol, triacylglycerol, glucose, insulin and HbA1c concentrations, platelet count and aggregation function, prothrombin time, partial thromboplastin time, fibrinogen and PAT-1 concentration, and other routine blood analysis did not change significantly when given the PO diet. These data indicate that, even in elderly subjects, a 3g/d increase of dietary ALA could increase serum EPA and DHA in 10 mo without any major adverse effects.
- 著者
- HARUO EZAKI NOBUO TAKEICHI YASUHIKO YOSHIMOTO
- 出版者
- Journal of Radiation Research 編集委員会
- 雑誌
- Journal of Radiation Research (ISSN:04493060)
- 巻号頁・発行日
- vol.32, no.SUPPLEMENT, pp.193-200, 1991 (Released:2006-05-31)
- 参考文献数
- 7
- 被引用文献数
- 14 20
We analysed thyroid cancers which were diagnosed clinically or detected at autopsy during 22 years (1958 to 1979) in a sample of 75, 493 study subjects exposed in Hiroshima belonging to the extended LSS sample of the Radiation Effects Research Foundation. One hundred and twenty-five cases of clinical thyroid cancer (15 in males and 110 in females) were confirmed, giving a crude incidence rate per 100, 000 person-years of 2.7 for males, 12.4 for females and 8.6 for both sexes combined. There was a significant increase of thyroid cancer with increase of atomic bomb radiation dose (thyroid tissue dose based on T65D) in females and in the sexes combined. This tendency was predominant in those exposed at less than 19 years of age. Compared to the control group, the relative risk in the ≥0.50 Gy group was higher at 4.0 for males (not significant) and at 4.3 for females (p <0.01). Latent thyroid cancer was detected in 155 cases or 3.5% (2.5% for males and 4.5% for females) of the 4, 425 cases that came to autopsy during the same period. Compared to the control group, the relative risk in the 50 + rad group was 1.7 for males (not significant), 2.0 for females (p <0.05) and 1.9 for both sexes combined (p <0.05). New data obtained from autopsy cases between 1950 and 1985 have been added.