Researchers

IMANO Hironori

IMANO Hironori
Professor/Senior Staff
Faculty Department of Medicine / Graduate School of Medical Sciences
Researchmap https://researchmap.jp/ijnbgr

Education and Career

Academic & Professional Experience

  • Apr. 2022 - Today , Kindai University Department of Public Health, Faculty of Medicine Professor and Chairman
  • Feb. 2016 - Mar. 2022 , The University of Osaka Department of Public Health, Graduate School of Medicine 准教授
  • Apr. 2009 - Jan. 2016 , The University of Osaka Department of Public Health, Graduate School of Medicine 助教
  • Apr. 2001 - Mar. 2009 , 大阪府立健康科学センター 健康開発部
  • Jun. 1997 - Mar. 2001 , 大阪府立成人病センター 集団検診第 I 部

Research Activities

Research Areas

  • Life sciences , Hygiene and public health (non-laboratory)
  • Life sciences , Hygiene and public health (laboratory)

Published Papers

  1. Non-fasting and Fasting Triglyceride Levels and the Risk of Diabetes Mellitus: The Circulatory Risk in Communities Study.
    Jiaqi Li; Hironori Imano; Kazumasa Yamagishi; Mari Tanaka; Mina Hayama-Terada; Isao Muraki; Yuji Shimizu; Tetsuya Ohira; Mitsumasa Umesawa; Tomoko Sankai; Takeo Okada; Masahiko Kiyama; Akihiko Kitamura; Takeshi Tanigawa; Hiroyasu Iso
    Journal of atherosclerosis and thrombosis  15, Jul. 2026  , Refereed
  2. Multinational validation of the PREVENT and SCORE2 cardiovascular risk equations across 6.4 million individuals
    Brendon L. Neuen; Rupert W. Major; Morgan E. Grams; Yingying Sang; Josef Coresh; Shoshana H. Ballew; Aditya Surapaneni; Natalia Alencar de Pinho; Johan Ärnlöv; Clare Arnott; Samira Bell; Jarett Berry; Hermann Brenner; Elizabeth Ciemins; Alexander R. Chang; Mary Cushman; James A. de Lemos; Juan Miguel Diaz-Tocados; Alfredo E. Farjat; Robert A. Fletcher; Ron T. Gansevoort; Hiddo J. L. Heerspink; William G. Herrington; Chuan Hong; Edward J. Horwitz; Shih-Jen Hwang; Simerjot K. Jassal; Philip A. Kalra; Ronit Katz; Sadiya S. Khan; Csaba P. Kovesdy; Florian Kronenberg; Jennifer S. Lees; Donald M. Lloyd-Jones; Jose Geraldo Mill; David M. J. Naimark; Chiadi Ndumele; Kevan R. Polkinghorne; Bruce M. Psaty; Patrick Schloemer; Michael G. Shlipak; Prabin Shrestha; Zean Song; Natalie Staplin; Dominik Steubl; Priya Vart; Frank L. J. Visseren; Mark Woodward; Kazumasa Yamagishi; Bessie A. Young; Charumathi Sabanayagam; Jose M. Valdivielso; John Chalmers; Katie Harris; Hiroshi Yatsuya; Yuanying Li; Midori Takada; Steven Chadban; Bruce Neal; Isao Muraki; Hironori Imano; Hiroyasu Iso; Natalia Alencar de Pinho; Ziad Massy; Benedicte Stengel; Marie Metzger; Kenneth W. Mahaffey; Meg Jardine; Vlado Perkovic; Matthew Weir; Jing Chen; James Lash; Panduranga Rao; Colby Ayers; Amit Khera; Parag Joshi; Amil Shah; Michael J. Pencina; Matthew Engelhard; Mu Niu; Haoyuan Wang; Paula Bracco; Maria de Jesus Mendes da Fonseca; Isabela Bensenor; Maria da Conceição Chagas de Almeida; Luana Giatti; Richard Haynes; Parminder Judge; Ulla T. Schultheiss; Wibke Bechtel-Walz; Markus Schneider; Turgay Saritas; Ewan Pearson; Colin Palmer; Shona J. Livingstone; Emilie Lambourg; Serafi Cambray; Marcelino Bermudez-Lopez; Maria Luisa Martin-Conde; Maite Caus; Nigel J. Brunskill; James F. Medcalf; Jaclyn Bergstrom; Joachim Ix; Dena Rifkin; Keiichi Sumida; Orlando Gutierrez; Katharine Cheung; Titi Ilori; Ching Yu Cheng; Cancan Xue; Xiayin Zhang; Crystal Chong; Colin Baigent; Martin Landray; Rajkumar Chinnadurai; Smeeta Sinha; Sharmilee Rengarajan; Ivona Baricevic-Jones; Robin W. M. Vernooij; Simon Benjamin Ascher; Navdeep Tangri; Anders Larsson; Vilmantas Giedraitis
    Nature Medicine  32  (7)  , 2629-2638, Jul. 2026  , Refereed
  3. Longitudinal association between having stress-coping strategy and hypertension in a community-based Japanese study: the Circulatory Risk in Communities Study (CIRCS).
    Ryotaro Matsuo; Manami Kimura; Ai Ikeda; Kazumasa Yamagishi; Isao Muraki; Yuji Shimizu; Tetsuya Ohira; Hironori Imano; Hiroyasu Iso; Takeshi Tanigawa
    Hypertension research : official journal of the Japanese Society of Hypertension  22, May. 2026  , Refereed

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MISC

  1. 日本人一般地域住民における腸内細菌叢と糖尿病有病率との関連 CIRCS , 齋藤 治輝; 長尾 匡則; 白井 こころ; 舟久保 徳美; 江口 依里; 山岸 良匡; 村木 功; 今野 弘規; 磯 博康; 大平 哲也 , 日本循環器病予防学会誌 , 61 , 2 , 129 , 129 , May. 2026
  2. 夜間間欠的低酸素がHbA1c値の縦断的軌跡に与える影響 CIRCS , 池原 健太; 野田 愛; 大貫 慧介; 山岸 良匡; 松村 拓実; シャルヴァ アドリアン; 村木 功; 今野 弘規; 磯 博康; 谷川 武 , 日本循環器病予防学会誌 , 61 , 2 , 129 , 129 , May. 2026
  3. 下肢筋肉量の左右差と1年後の膝痛有症リスク 地域在住中高年者を対象とした前向きコホート研究 , 柿花 宏信; 陣内 裕成; 北村 明彦; 村木 功; 羽山 実奈; 山岸 良匡; 久保 佐智美; 今野 弘規; 木山 昌彦; 磯 博康 , 日本予防理学療法学会学術大会プログラム・抄録集 , 12回 , 22 , 22 , Mar. 2026

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Awards & Honors

  1. Jun. 2012, 秋田県井川町, 秋田県井川町循環器疾患予防対策事業感謝状
  2. Oct. 2009, 日本公衆衛生学会, 第68回日本公衆衛生学会奨励賞

Research Grants & Projects

  1. Japan Society for the Promotion of Science, Grants-in-Aid for Scientific Research, Establishment of Large-Scale Sleep Epidemiological Research Using Sleep Health Screening with Advanced Digital Devices , Juntendo University
  2. Japan Society for the Promotion of Science, Grants-in-Aid for Scientific Research, Pooled analysis of a large-scale cohort to elucidate risk factors for dementia in middle-aged populations , Juntendo University
  3. 日本学術振興会, 科学研究費助成事業, 大規模疫学データベースを用いた加熱式タバコの心血管疾患発症リスクの解明 , 近畿大学

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