Hirotaka Watada
Juntendo University
562 Papers
2.6K Citations
Hirotaka Watada is an academic researcher from Juntendo University. The author has contributed to research in topics: Diabetes mellitus & Medicine. The author has an hindex of 67, co-authored 460 publications. Previous affiliations of Hirotaka Watada include Osaka University & University of California, San Francisco.
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Papers
Hepatocellular carcinoma development in diabetic patients: a nationwide survey in Japan
Ryosuke Tateishi,Takeshi Matsumura,Takeshi Okanoue,Toshihide Shima,Koji Uchino,Naoto Fujiwara,Takafumi Senokuchi,Kazuyoshi Kon,Takayoshi Sasako,Makiko Taniai,Takumi Kawaguchi,Hiroshi Inoue,Hirotaka Watada,Naoto Kubota,Hitoshi Shimano,Shuichi Kaneko,Etsuko Hashimoto,Sumio Watanabe,Goshi Shiota,Kohjiro Ueki,Kosuke Kashiwabara,Yutaka Matsuyama,Hideo Tanaka,Masato Kasuga,Eiichi Araki,Kazuhiko Koike,Lucid study investigators +26 more
TL;DR: In this paper, the authors investigated the risk factors for hepatocellular carcinoma (HCC) in type 2 diabetes mellitus (T2DM) patients and determined the best criteria to identify surveillance candidates.
The Arg192 isoform of paraoxonase with low sarin-hydrolyzing activity is dominant in the Japanese
TL;DR: The dominance of the Arg192 allele in the Japanese population probably worsened the tragedy of March 1995 in the Tokyo subway, and there seems to be a racial difference in vulnerability to toxic nerve agents, such as sarin.
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Neuroimaging findings related to glymphatic system alterations in older adults with metabolic syndrome
Christina Andica,Koji Kamagata,K. Takabayashi,Junko Kikuta,Hideyoshi Kaga,Yuki Someya,Yoshifumi Tamura,Ryuzo Kawamori,Hirotaka Watada,Toshiaki Taoka,Shinji Naganawa,Shigeki Aoki +11 more
TL;DR: In this article , the authors used diffusion MRI-based measures of water diffusivity in the glymphatic compartments, including the brain interstitial space and perivascular spaces around the deep medullary vein.
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Genetic variants at CDC123/CAMK1D and SPRY2 are associated with susceptibility to type 2 diabetes in the Japanese population
Minako Imamura,Minoru Iwata,Hiroshi Maegawa,Hirotaka Watada,Hiroshi Hirose,Yasushi Tanaka,Kazuyuki Tobe,Kohei Kaku,Atsunori Kashiwagi,Ryuzo Kawamori,Yusuke Nakamura,Shiro Maeda +11 more
TL;DR: The SNPs rs10906115 A and rs1359790 C are significantly associated with susceptibility to type 2 diabetes in the Japanese population, confirming that these alleles are common susceptibility variants for type 1 diabetes in East Asian populations.