Professor Kiyoshi Aoyagi

Speciality / Research theme / Keywords

Public Health

Supervision

Masters Programme

Qualifications

PhD

Personal/work Web page addresses

http://www.med.nagasaki-u.ac.jp/public-h/staff/index.html

Affiliation(s)

Department of Public Health, Nagasaki University Graduate School of Biomedical Sciences

Background

1979 – 1985 – Nagasaki University School of Medicine (undergraduate)
1989 – 1989 – Nagasaki University Graduate School of Medicine
1989 Nagasaki University Hospital (Orthopedics)
1989 Tagawa City Hospital (Orthopedics)
1991 Kitakyushu General Hospital (Orthopedics)
1993 Mitsugi General Hospital (Orthopedics)
1995 Hawaii Osteoporosis Center (Research fellow)
1996 Nagasaki University Hospital (Orthopedics)
1997 Public Health, Nagasaki University School of Medicine
2002 Professor, Public Health, Nagasaki University Graduate School of Biomedical Sciences 2007 Professor, Graduate School of International Health Development Nagasaki University

Teaching

1998 – present – Medical care & Public Health
2001 – present – Thesis Research on Public Health
2001 – present – Seminar on Public Health
2001 – present – Practice on Public Health
2002 – 2003 – First-year Seminar
2004 – 2009 – Health Science
2007 – 2014 – Environmental Health
2012 – 2014 – Nutrition and Health

Research

Epidemiology of bone health and lifestyle-related disease
Statistical analysis of rheumatoid arthritis

The country/countries where you work currently

Japan

Five MOST IMPORTANT/INTERESTING recent publications

Mizukami S, Arima K, Abe Y, Tomita Y, Nakashima H, Honda Y, Uchiyama M, Ookawachi T, Goto H, Hasegawa M, Sou Y, Kanagae M, Osaki M, Aoyagi K. Association between fat mass by bioelectrical impedance analysis and bone mass by quantitative ultrasound in relation to grip strength and serum 25-hydroxyvitamin D in postmenopausal Japanese women: the Unzen study. Journal of Physiological Anthropology. 2022; 41(1):7.
Uchiyama M, Mizukami S, Arima K, Nishimura T, Tomita Y, Abe Y, Tanaka N, Honda Y, Goto H, Hasegawa M, Sou Y, Tsujimoto R, Kanagae M, Osaki M, Aoyagi K. Association between serum 25-hydroxyvitamin D and physical performance measures in middle-aged and old Japanese men and women: The Unzen study. PLoS One. 2021;16(12): e0261639.
Honda Y, Arima K, Nishimura T, Tomita Y, Mizukami S, Abe Y, Tanaka N, Kojima M, Jeng TP, Goto H, Hasegawa M, Sou Y, Tsujimoto R, Kanagae M, Osaki M, Aoyagi K. Association between vitamin D and bone mineral density in Japanese adults: the Unzen study. Archives of Osteoporosis. 2021;16(1):127.
Arima K, Mizukami S, Nishimura T, Tomita Y, Nakashima H, Abe Y, Aoyagi K. Epidemiology of the association between serum 25-hydroxyvitamin D levels and musculoskeletal conditions among elderly individuals: a literature review. Journal of Physiological Anthropology. 2020; 39(1):38
Tomita Y, Arima K, Mizukami S, Tsujimoto R, Kawashiri SY, Nishimura T, Okabe T, Tanaka N, Honda Y, Nakahara K, Yamamoto N, Ohmachi I, Goto H, Hasegawa M, Sou Y, Horiguchi I, Kanagae M, Abe Y, Nonaka F, Tamai M, Yamanashi H, Nagata Y, Kawakami A, Maeda T, Aoyagi K. Association between self-reported walking speed and calcaneal stiffness index in postmenopausal Japanese women. BMC Geriatrics. 2020; 20(1):466.

Message

Tropical medicine generally concerns developing countries and the problems of community health and disease. In the class, we also cover the basic concepts of public health, policies and measures. In the process of “health transition”, many developing countries have an aging population with a growing number of patients exhibiting heart/cerebrovascular disease and malignant tumors, while traditional infectious diseases are yet to be overcome. In Japan, on the other hand, deaths from infectious diseases have declined, while non-infectious diseases such as heart/cerebrovascular diseases and malignant tumors account for 60% of deaths. We study Japan’s past public health policies and current and future public health measures so as to draw lessons for application to developing countries.

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