Mahshid Dehghan, Andrew Mente, Xiaohe Zhang, Sumathi Swaminathan et al.
Background The relationship between macronutrients and cardiovascular disease and mortality is controversial. Most available data are from European and North American populations where nutrition excess is more likely, so their applicability to other populations is unclear. Methods The Prospective Ur...
Victoria Miller, Andrew Mente, Mahshid Dehghan, Sumathy Rangarajan et al.
BACKGROUND The association between intake of fruits, vegetables, and legumes with cardiovascular disease and deaths has been investigated extensively in Europe, the USA, Japan, and China, but little or no data are available from the Middle East, South America, Africa, or south Asia. METHODS We did a...
Gilles R. Dagenais, Hertzel C. Gerstein, Xiaohe Zhang, Matthew McQueen et al.
OBJECTIVE: The goal of this study was to assess whether diabetes prevalence varies by countries at different economic levels and whether this can be explained by known risk factors. RESEARCH DESIGN AND METHODS: The prevalence of diabetes, defined as self-reported or fasting glycemia ≥7 mmol/L, was d...
Scott A. Lear, Koon Teo, Danijela Gašević, Xiaohe Zhang et al.
BACKGROUND: Household devices (e.g., television, car, computer) are common in high income countries, and their use has been linked to obesity and type 2 diabetes mellitus. We hypothesized that device ownership is associated with obesity and diabetes and that these effects are explained through reduc...
MyLinh Duong, Sumathy Rangarajan, Xiaohe Zhang, Kieran J. Killian et al.
BACKGROUND: Bidis are minimally regulated, inexpensive, hand-rolled tobacco products smoked in south Asia. We examined the effects of bidi smoking on baseline respiratory impairment, and prospectively collected data for all-cause mortality and cardiorespiratory events in men from this region. METHOD...
Liuhao Zhu, Xiaohe Zhang, Guanghao Rui, Jun He et al.
In structured light tweezers, it is a challenging technical issue to realize the complete circular motion of the trapped particles parallel to the optical axis. Herein, we propose and generate a novel optical skipping rope via combining beam shaping technology, Fourier shift theorem, and beam grafti...
Fang Ye, Sumit Majumder, Wei Jiang, Xiaohe Li et al.
Throughout human history, deadly infectious diseases emerged occasionally. Even with the present-day advanced healthcare systems, the COVID-19 has caused more than six million deaths worldwide (as of 27 July 2022). Currently, researchers are working to develop tools for better and effective manageme...
Farhana Ahmed, Janet Dzator, James Xiaohe Zhang
The effect of remittances on income inequality and investment on human capital is an arguable issue in the development literature. As Bangladesh is one of the top remittance receiver countries in the world, it is essential to identify the distributional impact of remittances on households in Banglad...
J. Lin, Shuai Hu, Ping Zhang, Linxi Fu et al.
Dong Wang, Wei Huang, Yaping Zhu, Zhiwen Yu et al.
Real-time monitoring of the dynamics of cytosolic RNA-protein condensates, termed stress granules (SGs), is vital for understanding their biological roles in stress response and related disease treatment but is challenging due to the lack of simple and accurate methods. Compared with protein visuali...
Liuhao Zhu, Xiaohe Zhang, Xiang Zang, Guanghao Rui et al.
Structured light is increasingly recognized by researchers as a tool for enhancing the degrees of control freedom and adaptability of optical tweezers. However, the challenge of employing a single beam to navigate different planes and execute varied complex manipulations persists as a pressing conce...
Dong Wang, Rushan Zhao, Wenzhi Li, Wei Huang et al.
Real-time visualization of nucleolar dynamics is essential for elucidating its physiological functions and understanding the mechanisms underlying nucleolus-related stress and diseases. However, this task is technically challenging: super-resolution imaging is required to resolve the organelle’s int...
Yiting Wei, J Chen, Yunpeng Zhang, Ying Liu et al.
Chemotherapy induces cancer cell apoptosis and the release of apoptotic bodies (ABs) that are poorly immunogenic or immunosuppressive, creating a major barrier to the success of co-administered or second-line immunotherapies. Here, we found reduced circulating levels of thymosin alpha-1 (Tα-1), a ke...