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Hiroo Kato
Researcher at Radiation Effects Research Foundation
Publications - 81
Citations - 7043
Hiroo Kato is an academic researcher from Radiation Effects Research Foundation. The author has contributed to research in topics: Cancer & Population. The author has an hindex of 40, co-authored 81 publications receiving 6955 citations.
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Epidemiologic studies of coronary heart disease and stroke in Japanese men living in Japan, Hawaii and California: Demographic, physical, dietary and biochemical characteristics
Abraham Kagan,Benedict R. Harris,Warren Winkelstein,Kenneth G. Johnson,Hiroo Kato,S. Leonard Syme,George G. Rhoads,Milton Z. Nichaman,Howard B. Hamilton,Jeanne Tillotson +9 more
TL;DR: In most populations with low cholesterol levels and a low prevalence of coronary heart disease, the intake of fat is low and the fat which is ingested is derived primarily from fish and vegetable oils, and in most populations exhibiting a high serum cholesterol in men, there is also a high prevalence of heart disease.
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Epidemiologic studies of coronary heart disease and stroke in Japanese men living in Japan, Hawaii and California.
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Epidemiologic studies of coronary heart disease and stroke in Japanese men living in Japan, Hawaii and California: Incidence of myocardial infarction and death from coronary heart disease
Thomas L. Robertson,Thomas L. Robertson,Hiroo Kato,George G. Rhoads,Abraham Kagan,Michael Marmot,S. Leonard Syme,Tavia Gordon,Robert M. Worth,Joseph L. Belsky,Donald S. Dock,Michihiro Miyanishi,Sadahisa Kawamoto +12 more
TL;DR: A striking increase in the incidence of myocardial infarction appears to have occurred in the Japanese who migrated to the United States; this increase is more pronounced in California than in Hawaii.
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Epidemiologic studies of coronary heart disease and stroke in japanese men living in japan, hawaii and california: prevalence of coronary and hypertensive heart disease and associated risk factors
TL;DR: At each blood pressure level and at each cholesterol level, the greater prevalence of CHD in California persisted, suggesting that conventional risk factors only partly explain the observed gradient in CHD.
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Studies of the mortality of A-bomb survivors. 7. Mortality, 1950-1978: Part I. Cancer mortality.
Hiroo Kato,William J. Schull +1 more
TL;DR: In this article, the authors extend an earlier study by 4 years, 1975-1978, and find leukemia as a cause of death among survivors has continued to decrease and now differs from the control group only in Hiroshima.