High masticatory ability attenuates psychosocial stress: A cross-sectional study

• Ayako Hashimoto ,

  Contributed equally to this work with: Ayako Hashimoto, Aya Nozaki

  Roles Data curation, Formal analysis, Investigation, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Department of Food and Nutrition, Faculty of Home Economics, Kyoto Women’s University, Kyoto, Japan

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• Aya Nozaki ,

  Contributed equally to this work with: Ayako Hashimoto, Aya Nozaki

  Roles Data curation, Formal analysis, Investigation, Writing – original draft

  Affiliation Graduate School of Integrated Pharmaceutical and Nutritional Sciences, University of Shizuoka, Shizuoka, Japan

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• Hiroko Inoue,

  Roles Data curation, Formal analysis, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Department of Nutrition and Health Sciences, Faculty of Food and Nutritional Sciences, Toyo University, Gunma, Japan

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• Toshiko Kuwano

  Roles Conceptualization, Data curation, Formal analysis, Funding acquisition, Investigation, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

  * E-mail: kuwano@u-shizuoka-ken.ac.jp

  Affiliations Graduate School of Integrated Pharmaceutical and Nutritional Sciences, University of Shizuoka, Shizuoka, Japan, School of Food and Nutritional Sciences, University of Shizuoka, Shizuoka, Japan

  https://orcid.org/0000-0003-0535-3975

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