Salt intake and age‐adjusted death rate from cerebral infarction
Salt intake and age‐adjusted death rate from cerebral infarction
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DOI:
10.1111/j.1447-0594.2007.00397.x
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发表时间:
2007-06
影响因子:
3.3
通讯作者:
Y. Fukuoka;Aiko Hatakeyama;A. Satoh;Reiko Hatakeyama;Hisashi Kudo;R. Mita;Hidetada Sasaki
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作者:
Y. Fukuoka;Aiko Hatakeyama;A. Satoh;Reiko Hatakeyama;Hisashi Kudo;R. Mita;Hidetada Sasaki
Stroke mortality has been in a worldwide decline after the 1960s. This decline has been particularly striking in Japan where stroke was the leading cause of death. This rapid downturn of stroke mortality has been attributed to improved treatment and control of hypertension. The notion that the accelerated decline in stroke mortality has resulted from increased use of antihypertensive drug therapy in the general community is certainly plausible. Despite these favorable trends, stroke remains the third leading cause of death in Japan and mortality is an important public health problem. Nutritional change in Japan was also confirmed to be an important factor in the decline of stroke mortality. Departure from the traditional Japanese diet, which was very high in salt and low in fat and protein has been associated with a reduced incidence of stroke. Chronic excess salt consumption is empirically confirmed to be the pathogenesis of essential hypertension. The nutritional conditions of low fat and protein intake as well as excessive salt intake have been reported to be responsible for the high incidence of hypertension and stroke in the Japanese in the 1960s. The differences in food intake between Japan and the US have been suggested to cause a different death rate from stroke between the two. The low intake of salt and high intake of fat and protein in the US is attributed to the low prevalence of stroke in the US compared to that in Japan. Yamori and Horie demonstrated a steeper decline of stroke during 10 years after the introduction of a dietary improvement of low salt and high protein in Shimane prefecture, Japan. Despite an increase in fat and protein and a reduction in the amount of salt in the diet, stroke mortality rates may have reached a plateau since 1990 in Japan. It was well-known that there were regional differences in stroke mortality in Japan, the rates being higher in north-eastern Japan and lower in south-western Japan in the 1960s. It was reported that regional differences of food intake corresponded to the death rate of stroke in Japan. For example, the average salt intake in Hiroshima was 14 g per day and 26 g per day in Akita in the 1960s. In the present study, we wonder if there are still regional differences of food intake and death rate from stroke even in the present day, which might affect the decrease in stroke mortality in recent years. We studied the dietary intake and death rate from stroke in 12 regional districts of Japan. If there are regional differences in high salt consumption and low fat and protein related to regional differences in the death rate from stroke, we might recommend improving dietary intake to reduce the death rate from stroke in these regions. We analyzed epidemiological data published by the Ministry of Health, Labor and Welfare, Japan, with ageadjusted death rates from cerebral infarction and cerebral hemorrhage from the Vital Statistics of Japan and food consumed from the National Nutrition Survey in Japan. Foods consumed were documented in 12 blocks in Japan; Hokkaido, Tohoku, Hokuriku, Kanto I, Kanto II, Tokai, Kinki I, Kinki II, Chugoku, Shikoku, KitaKyushu, and Minami-Kyushu. Food consumed was determined by random sampling of approximately 12 000 people in 1 year and we averaged the data from 1998–2000. Because age-adjusted death rates are published every 5 years, age-adjusted death rates from cerebral infarction and cerebral hemorrhage from 2000 were divided into 12 blocks in the same way as food consumed and were averaged within each block. Average Japanese age-adjusted death rates from cerebral infarction per 100 000 men was the most frequent at 44, cerebral hemorrhage accounted for 20 and subarachnoid hemorrhage for seven, while, in women, cerebral infarction accounted for 25, cerebral hemorrhage for 10 and subarachnoid hemorrhage for eight. We analyzed nutritional factors for cerebral infarction and cerebral hemorrhage and omitted subarachnoid hemorrhage which may be predisposed with congenital vascular malformations. Salt intake varied from 11.8 g/ day in Kinki I district to 14.1 g/day in the Tohoku Geriatr Gerontol Int 2007; 7: 202–204