TY - GEN
T1 - Relationship between indoor temperature in winter and Brain Healthcare Quotient
AU - Matsumoto, Misa
AU - Ikaga, Toshiharu
AU - Yamakawa, Yoshinori
AU - Uchida, Yasufumi
AU - Murakami, Shuzo
AU - Ando, Shintaro
AU - Mitsukura, Yasue
AU - Hayashi, Yukie
N1 - Funding Information:
1 Keio University, Kanagawa, Japan 2 ImPACT Program of Council for Science, Technology and Innovation Government of Japan), Tokyo, Japan 3 Uchida Neurosurgery, Kochi, Japan 4 Institute for Building Environment and Energy Conservation, Tokyo, Japan 5 The University of Kitakyushu, Fukuoka, Japan 6 Japan Society for the Promotion of Science (DC1), Tokyo, Japan
Funding Information:
The authors gratefully acknowledge the contributions of participants of Yusuhara Town who cooperated in the survey, Machiko Takemasa, the staff of Uchida Neurosurgery, and members of Shintaro Ando Laboratory. This study was supported in part by the Cabinet Office, Impulsing Paradigm Change through Disruptive Technologies Program (ImPACT) “Actualize Energetic Life by Creating Brain Information Industries” (Program Manager: Yoshinori Yamakawa), by JSPS KAKENHI Grant Number JP26249083 and by JSPS KAKENHI Grant Number JP17H06151.
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PY - 2018
Y1 - 2018
N2 - In Japan, where the population is aging, it is necessary to maintain mental and physical health over the long term in order to solve social problems such as increasing medical expenses. It has been suggested that exposure to cold adversely affects brain health. Thus, we hypothesized that the brain health of residents in cold houses would be worse than that of residents in warm houses. In the winter season from 2016 to 2017, we measured indoor temperature, conducted brain health tests using MRI examination, and administered questionnaire surveys for 59 residents of a town in northern Japan. The results of multiple regression analysis show that residents who had a cold living room had lower indexes representing the quality of cranial nerve fibers than residents who had a warm living room in winter.
AB - In Japan, where the population is aging, it is necessary to maintain mental and physical health over the long term in order to solve social problems such as increasing medical expenses. It has been suggested that exposure to cold adversely affects brain health. Thus, we hypothesized that the brain health of residents in cold houses would be worse than that of residents in warm houses. In the winter season from 2016 to 2017, we measured indoor temperature, conducted brain health tests using MRI examination, and administered questionnaire surveys for 59 residents of a town in northern Japan. The results of multiple regression analysis show that residents who had a cold living room had lower indexes representing the quality of cranial nerve fibers than residents who had a warm living room in winter.
KW - Brain health
KW - Field survey
KW - Indoor temperature
KW - Magnetic Resonance Imaging examination
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AN - SCOPUS:85105647197
T3 - 15th Conference of the International Society of Indoor Air Quality and Climate, INDOOR AIR 2018
BT - 15th Conference of the International Society of Indoor Air Quality and Climate, INDOOR AIR 2018
PB - International Society of Indoor Air Quality and Climate
T2 - 15th Conference of the International Society of Indoor Air Quality and Climate, INDOOR AIR 2018
Y2 - 22 July 2018 through 27 July 2018
ER -