Wei Zheng, Dale McLerran, Betsy Rolland, Xianglan Zhang et al.
BACKGROUND: Most studies that have evaluated the association between the body-mass index (BMI) and the risks of death from any cause and from specific causes have been conducted in populations of European origin. METHODS: We performed pooled analyses to evaluate the association between BMI and the r...
Paolo Boffetta, Dale McLerran, Yu Chen, Manami Inoue et al.
BACKGROUND: The occurrence of diabetes has greatly increased in low- and middle-income countries, particularly in Asia, as has the prevalence of overweight and obesity; in European-derived populations, overweight and obesity are established causes of diabetes. The shape of the association of overwei...
Lijuan Li, Yongqiang Yu, Yanli Tang, Pengfei Lin et al.
Abstract This paper introduces the Flexible Global Ocean‐Atmosphere‐Land System Model: Grid‐Point Version 3 (FGOALS‐g3) and evaluates its basic performance based on some of its participation in the sixth phase of the Coupled Model Intercomparison Project (CMIP6) experiments. Our results show that ma...
Yu Chen, W. K. Copeland, Rajesh Vedanthan, Eric J. Grant et al.
OBJECTIVE: To evaluate the association between body mass index and mortality from overall cardiovascular disease and specific subtypes of cardiovascular disease in east and south Asians. DESIGN: Pooled analyses of 20 prospective cohorts in Asia, including data from 835,082 east Asians and 289,815 so...
Xiaochen Dong, Bing Li, Ang Wei, Xiehong Cao et al.
Weihua Xie, Pinyuan Dai, Yu Qin, Ming Wu et al.
BACKGROUND: Gestational diabetes mellitus (GDM) is now a global health problem. Poor blood glucose control during pregnancy may lead to maternal and neonatal/foetal complications. Recently, the development of information and communication technology has resulted in new technical support for the clin...
Jae Jeong Yang, Danxia Yu, Wanqing Wen, Eiko Saito et al.
Importance: Asia is home to the largest diabetic populations in the world. However, limited studies have quantified the association of diabetes with all-cause and cause-specific mortality in Asian populations. Objectives: To evaluate the association of diabetes with all-cause and cause-specific mort...
Wei Zheng, Dale McLerran, Betsy Rolland, Zhenming Fu et al.
BACKGROUND: Tobacco smoking is a major risk factor for many diseases. We sought to quantify the burden of tobacco-smoking-related deaths in Asia, in parts of which men's smoking prevalence is among the world's highest. METHODS AND FINDINGS: We performed pooled analyses of data from 1,049,929 partici...
Shencun Fang, Huifang Guo, Yusi Cheng, Zewei Zhou et al.
Abstract Excessive proliferation and migration of fibroblasts contribute to pulmonary fibrosis in silicosis, and both epithelial cells and endothelial cells participate in the accumulation of fibroblasts via the epithelial–mesenchymal transition (EMT) and the endothelial–mesenchymal transition (EndM...
Pamela J. Goodwin, Wendy R. Parulekar, Karen A. Gelmon, Lois E. Shepherd et al.
BACKGROUND: Metformin may improve metabolic factors (insulin, glucose, leptin, highly sensitive C-reactive protein [hs-CRP]) associated with poor breast cancer outcomes. The NCIC Clinical Trials Group (NCIC CTG) MA.32 investigates effects of metformin vs placebo on invasive disease-free survival and...
Beibei Liu, Weiyi Gu, Yi Yang, Bufan Lu et al.
China has recently implemented a policy to promote potato as a national staple food and to close its large yield gaps with other countries. The carbon-land-water implications of this policy are examined here by compiling and analysing detailed city-level life-cycle inventories of China's staple crop...
Xin Ge Zhang, Ya Lun Sun, Bingcheng Zhu, Wei Jiang et al.
Signal conversion plays an important role in many applications such as communication, sensing, and imaging. Realizing signal conversion between optical and microwave frequencies is a crucial step to construct hybrid communication systems that combine both optical and microwave wireless technologies ...
Liu Li Liao, Shi Mo, Jinglei Lei, Hong Qun Luo et al.
The use of the cosmetic ingredient cocamidopropylamine oxide (CAO) to inhibit the corrosion of steel in 0.5mol/LHCl is investigated. Electrochemical and weight loss methods were used to evaluate the inhibiting effect of CAO and the influences of inhibitor concentration and temperature were determine...
Jiabin Guo, Bing He, Wenbin Gong, Shuhong Xu et al.
Abstract Amorphous transition metal oxides have attracted significant attention in energy storage devices owing to their potentially desirable electrochemical properties caused by abundant unsaturated dangling bonds. However, the amorphization further amplifies the shortcoming of the poor intrinsic ...
Josephine F. W. Baggen, Pieter van Dokkum, Gabriel Brammer, Anna de Graaff et al.
Abstract Early JWST studies found an apparent population of massive, compact galaxies at redshifts z ≳ 7. Recently three of these galaxies were shown to have prominent Balmer breaks, demonstrating that their light at λ rest ∼ 3500 Å is dominated by a stellar population that is relatively old (∼200 M...