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• TITLE: Prevalence of Non-Communicable Diseases and Number of Comorbidities According to Differences in Household Income Levels in Japan: Analysis from National Health and Nutrition Survey

  AUTHORS: Chika Horikawa, Nobuko Murayama, Asami Ota, Megumi Tsuruta, Satoshi Matsunaga, Kazuya Fujihara, Osamu Hanyu, Hirohito Sone

  KEYWORDS: Non-Communicable Diseases, Comorbidities, Household Income, National Health and Nutrition Survey, Japan

  JOURNAL NAME: Food and Nutrition Sciences, Vol.8 No.1, December 12, 2016

  ABSTRACT: Though it has been reported that in Western developed countries socioeconomic status is associated with non-communicable diseases (NCD), there are sparse evidence from Japan, midst an income gap that has been pointed out in recent years. Therefore, we examined the presence or absence of NCD and the number of comorbidities according to household income in Japanese, using data from the National Health and Nutrition Survey of 2010. 1287 men and 1659 women aged 20 - 79 years from households at 3 income levels (p p = 0.041), and stroke (5.07 [2.04 - 12.60] p