Endocrinology & Metabolic Syndrome
Open Access

Eiji Oda

Biography

In 2005, I wrote an article entitled “a case-control pilot study on n-3 polyunsaturated fatty acid as a negative risk factor for myocardial infarction” in International Heart Journal. In 2006, I criticized the Japanese Criteria of Metabolic Syndrome in a Letter to the Editor in Circulation Journal and I wrote an article entitled “the optimal cut-off point of C-reactive protein as an optional component of metabolic syndrome in Japan” in Circulation Journal. In 2008, I wrote a review entitled “the metabolic syndrome as a concept of adipose tissue disease” in Hypertension Research. Since 2009, I have written many articles concerning obesity, metabolic syndrome, and risk factors of cardiovascular disease including an editorial entitled “obesity-related cardiovascular risk factors” in Circulation Journal.

Research Interest

My research interest is obesity, diabetes, risk factors of cardiovascular disease, and preventive medicine.