Association between Social Relationship and Glycemic Control among Older Japanese: JAGES Cross-Sectional Study

• Kenichi Yokobayashi ,

  * E-mail: yokobayashiken@gmail.com

  Affiliations Department of Social and Behavioral Sciences, Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health, Boston, MA, United States of America, Department of General Internal Medicine, Hiroshima University of Medical Science, Hiroshima, Japan

  http://orcid.org/0000-0002-7152-056X

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• Ichiro Kawachi,

  Affiliation Department of Social and Behavioral Sciences, Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health, Boston, MA, United States of America

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• Katsunori Kondo,

  Affiliations Center for Preventive Medical Sciences, Chiba University, Chiba, Japan, Department of Public Health, Chiba University Graduate School of Medicine, Chiba, Japan, Department of Gerontology and Evaluation Study, Center for Gerontology and Social Science, National Center for Geriatrics and Gerontology, Obu city, Aichi, Japan

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• Naoki Kondo,

  Affiliation Department of Health Economics and Epidemiology Research, The University of Tokyo, Tokyo, Japan

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• Yuiko Nagamine,

  Affiliations Department of Public Health, Chiba University Graduate School of Medicine, Chiba, Japan, Department of Epidemiology and Public Health, University College London, London, United Kingdom

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• Yukako Tani,

  Affiliations Department of Global Health Promotion, Tokyo Medical and Dental University, Tokyo, Japan, Research Fellow of Japan Society for the Promotion of Science, Tokyo, Japan

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• Kokoro Shirai,

  Affiliations Department of Social and Behavioral Sciences, Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health, Boston, MA, United States of America, Department of Human Sciences, School of Law and Letters, University of the Ryukyus, Okinawa, Japan

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• Susumu Tazuma,

  Affiliation Department of General Internal Medicine, Hiroshima University of Medical Science, Hiroshima, Japan

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• JAGES group

  ¶Membership of the JAGES group is provided in the Acknowledgments.

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