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Environmental Health Lab
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A lab that uses studies following parents and children to examine the relationship between living environments and children's health.
AboutAbout the lab
Thinking about environment and health, from before birth.
The Environmental Health Lab studies how living environments and environmental chemicals affect human health.
Focusing especially on children, who are more susceptible to environmental effects, the lab conducts cohort studies that follow the health of parents and children over the long term, starting during pregnancy.
Based on the DOHaD theory, which holds that the environment during the fetal period and soon after birth affects disease in adulthood, the lab considers environment and health across the whole life course.
Key terms
- Cohort study
- A method that follows a defined group of people over a long period to examine how environment and lifestyle relate to changes in health
- Birth cohort
- A study that follows children and parents from pregnancy or birth, and the group of participants in it
- DOHaD theory
- The idea that the environment during the fetal period and soon after birth affects susceptibility to disease in adulthood
- Mass spectrometer
- An instrument that separates substances by molecular mass to measure what is contained and how much
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Human health is shaped by both constitution (genetic factors) and lifestyle and living environment (environmental factors). The lab investigates the relationship between environment and health at each stage of a child's growth through birth cohort studies, and also measures environmental chemicals that remain in the body.
*Illustrative imageJapan Environment and Children's Study (Chiba)
As the Chiba Unit Center of the Ministry of the Environment's Japan Environment and Children's Study (JECS), a national survey on children's health and the environment, the lab surveys parents and children in Chiba Prefecture starting during pregnancy.
*Illustrative imageChiba Children's Study (C-MACH)
This is Chiba University's own birth cohort study, which began in 2014. Biological samples such as blood and urine are collected and stored, and analyzed jointly with research institutions in Japan and abroad.
*Illustrative imageChildren's lifestyles and health after COVID-19
The lab examines how children's lifestyle habits, which changed with the spread of COVID-19, relate to their health. With pupils of the Elementary School attached to the Faculty of Education, Chiba University as participants, it regularly conducts questionnaires, measurements of physical activity and bone density, and blood tests.
*Illustrative imageAnalysis of environmental chemicals
Using mass spectrometers, the lab measures environmental chemicals such as PCBs remaining in samples collected in its studies, and analyzes their relationship with health indicators. It also works on comprehensive analysis that measures bioactive substances in the body all at once, investigating how chemicals relate to changes in metabolism in the body.
MembersFaculty
The Environmental Health Lab's members consist of faculty, researchers, and doctoral students.
- LecturerAkifumi Eguchi
- LecturerMidori Yamamoto
- Assistant ProfessorAya Hisada
- Associate ProfessorMasamichi Hanazato
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The top and research theme images are illustrative and were not taken at the lab. They are cropped from Wikimedia Commons images. Cropped CC BY-SA images are provided under the same CC BY-SA license as the original (version shown on each line).
- Top image: “Mother and Child walking down a path ( )” Ian D. Keating / CC BY 2.0 (cropped)
- Japan Environment and Children's Study (Chiba): “Pregnant Woman (Imagicity 187)” Graham Crumb / CC BY-SA 3.0 (cropped)
- Chiba Children's Study (C-MACH): “Checking Blood Sample ( )” National Eye Institute / CC BY 2.0 (cropped)
- Children's lifestyles and health after COVID-19: “Boy wearing a mask during the COVID-19 pandemic in Egypt - Inbound” Eman arab / CC BY-SA 4.0 (cropped)
- Analysis of environmental chemicals: “A two-dimensional gas chromatograph (GCxGC) with a time-of-flight mass spectrometer (TOF), in CAFIA laboratory” Sarka Na kopci / CC BY-SA 4.0 (cropped)
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