SASAKI, NAOSUKE, epidemiologist, educator; b.Tokyo, Jan. 17,1921:

s.Tetsusuke and Kane (Watanabe)S.; m.Etsu Toyota; children:Akira,

Osamu, Shigeru.

MD, Keio-Gijuku U., Tokyo, 1943, PhD, 1950. Asst. Keio-Gijuku U., Tokyo,

1946-52, instr., 1952-54, assoc. prof. Hirosaki (Japan) U.,1955-56,

prof.dept.hygiene, 1956-86, prof.emeritus, 1986.

Author: Apple and Health, 1990. Salt and Health, 1993.

With Japanese Navy, 1943-45.

Recipient Hoken-Bunka-Sho award (Japanese Welfare Min.), 1986　

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Recent article

TI: Life style and blood pressure: the protective effect of apple-eating

　　habits on high blood pressure in a high-salt population.

AU: Sasaki-N

SO: Nippon-Eiseigaku-Zasshi. 1990 Dec; 45(5):954-63. (Japanese)

AB: Prospective epidemiological studies of blood pressure in a high-salt

　　population in northeastern Japan were investigated along with

　　dietary habits such as miso soup, rice, apple, fish, milk and sake

　　consumption as well as smoking habits. Blood pressure of the

　　population in 3 villages were determined once or twice a year by

　　mass surveys from 1954, 1957 or 1958 through 1975. The means and

　　transitions of the personal blood pressure were calculated by

　　regression analysis of the data obtained during each entire period.

　　The number of persons was 1127 males and 1369 females and the

　　response rate was 98.7 percent. The average number of times of

　　determination of blood pressure for a person was 12.9. Stepwise

　　multiple regression analyses were run with the means and transitions

　　of systolic and diastolic blood pressure as the dependent variables

　　and the life styles of the population in 1958 as an independent

　　variable bases on data of persons whose blood pressures were

　　determined 5 or more times during the entired period.

　　According to the backward stepwise method this study confirmed

　　the positive relation of age and the sake drinking and the negative

　　relationship of apple eating habits to blood pressure.