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Achievements of the Koganei Study
Author(s) -
Shibata Hiroshi
Publication year - 2003
Publication title -
geriatrics and gerontology international
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.823
H-Index - 57
eISSN - 1447-0594
pISSN - 1444-1586
DOI - 10.1046/j.1444-1586.2003.00078.x
Subject(s) - medicine , gerontology
The purpose of the present paper was to briefly review longitudinal interdisciplinary studies on aging and cross‐sectional studies for investigating problems in the aged society that were carried out in Koganei city, a suburb of Tokyo between 1976 and 1991. The signifi‐cance of the Koganei Study is emphasized from the viewpoint of pioneering gerontological reseach in Japan.