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Vol.4, No.9, 570-573 (2012) Health /10.4236/health.2012.49089 The effect of cigarette smoking on flexibility in Japanese 1* 1 1 1,2 1 Kanae Oda , Nobuyuki Miyatake , Noriko Sakano , Takeshi Saito , Akihiko Katayama , Kenji Nishii3, Takeyuki Numata2 1Department of Hygiene, Faculty of Medicine, Kagawa University, Kagawa, Japan; * Corresponding Author: oda@med.kagawa-u.ac.jp 2Okayama Southern Institute of Health, Okayama Health Foundation, Okayama, Japan 3Okayama Health Foundation Hospital, Okayama, Japan Received 19 July 2012; revised 18 August 2012; accepted 31 August 2012 ABSTRACT tween cigarette smoking and flexibility in a large sample of Japanese has not yet been fully discussed. To investigate the link between cigarette smok- Therefore, in this study, we evaluated the effect of ing and flexibility in the Japanese population, cigarette smoking on flexibility in the Japanese. we used data of 4234 men and 9169 women, aged 20 - 79 years, in this cross-sectional in- 2. SUBJECTS AND METHODS vestigation study. Flexibility such as sit and reach were measured. In addition, habits of ciga- 2.1. Subjects rette smoking and exercise were obtained by We used data of 4234 men (43.3 ± 13.9 years) and well-trained medical staff. The effect of cigarette 9169 women (42.4 ± 13.9 years) in a