Advance Publication INDUSTRIAL HEALTH Received: June 28, 2020 Accepted: September 15, 2020 J-STAGE Advance Published Date: September 26, 2020 1 Article type: Original 2 Title: Gastric Cancer Mortality Rates by Occupation and Industry among Male and Female 3 Workers Aged 25–64 Years in Japan 4 5 Running title: GASTRIC CANCER MORTALITY BY OCCUPATION IN JAPAN 6 Authors and Affiliations: 7 Yoko YOSHINAGA 8 Graduate School of Medicine, International University of Health and Welfare, Japan 107-8402 9 10 Hirokazu TANAKA 11 Department of Public Health, Erasmus University Medical Center, 3000 CA Rotterdam, The 12 Netherlands 13 14 Koji WADA 15 Graduate School of Medicine, International University of Health and Welfare, Japan 16 17 Shunya IKEDA 18 Graduate School of Medicine, International University of Health and Welfare, Japan 19 20 Corresponding author: Koji WADA 21 Email address:
[email protected] 22 Mailing address: 4-1-26 Akasaka, Minato City, Tokyo, Japan 107-8402 23 Phone number: +81-3-5574-3900 24 Fax number: +81-3-5574-3901 25 26 Number of text pages: 26 1 27 Number of tables: 4 28 Word count: 4704 (including REFERENCES and APPENDICES) 29 30 Received: June 28, 2020 31 Accepted: September 15, 2020 32 Advanced Epub: September 26, 2020 33 34 2 35 Abstract 36 Differences in risk for gastric cancer exist among occupations and industries in Japan. Using a 2015 37 national dataset, we estimated the mortality rates due to gastric cancer in Japanese male and female 38 workers aged 25–64 years. Regression models were used to estimate the mortality rate ratios 39 separately for men and women with adjustment for age.