[PDF] Top 20 Chronic Exposure to Particulate Matter and Risk of Cardiovascular Mortality: Cohort Study from Taiwan

... a cohort study on the association between fine particulate matter (PM ...) and cardiovascular mortality using 43,227 individuals in a civil servants health service in ... See full document

... opportunity to explore the association between the risk of newly diagnosed AD and long-term cumulative ...first study of its kind to be conducted among an Asian ...this ... See full document

... counts and finally the development of anemia (13, 18, ...the risk of non-CVD death. Some limitations of this study merit ...mild risk difference and interaction ... See full document

... this study may suffer from the limitations of mortality studies based on the registration data: (1) The follow-up time may be too short to observe occupationally-related cancers; (2) ... See full document

... This study is based in part on data from the Taiwan National Health Insurance Research Data- base, which is provided by the National Health Insurance Administration, Ministry of Health ... See full document

... conclude to cause a hypertensive case ...damage to susceptible subjects, such as patients with cardiovascular ...noise exposure was found to raise higher ambulatory blood pressure among ... See full document

... status and age at menopausal status, duration of lifetime lactation, use of lactation suppression hormones, and use of oral contraceptives are documented risk factors for breast ... See full document

... 1. Exposure-response relationships of carbon monoxide (CO; A), nitrogen dioxide (NO 2 ; B), and particulate matter with an aerodynamic diameter ...disease, chronic kidney ... See full document

... cold and heat events, it is important to bear in mind that these results depend greatly on the definition of cold and heat events used in our ...attempted to explore the geographical ... See full document

... need to conduct a systematic comprehensiveness survey network for assessing the health effects of fine suspended particles (PM ...respiratory and cardiovascular diseases, including short-term ... See full document

... limitations to this study. First, the study sample was limited to the middle-aged and older populations in the community, and the high prevalence and incidence rates ... See full document

... population study in Shanghai [19, 20], our group may provide more reliable and updated estimates of incidence and mortality rates in patients with ethnic Chinese T1DM patients due ... See full document

... predictor of mortality for adults, including elderly ...Consumption of alcohol is another lifestyle factor that has been associated with ...Light to moderate drinking was found to be ... See full document

... compared to domestic kidney recipients despite the same quality of post-transplant medical care available for both groups in ...rates of infectious and surgical complications were observed in ... See full document

... 90-day mortality from severe ...southern and eastern Taiwan) and Charlson’s comorbidity index (continuous variable), which is a weighted summary measure of clinically important ... See full document

... twin study may restrict inferences to general population because clusters themselves may not be ...social and behavioral development experience because they grow up with a co-twin, while twins reared ... See full document

... addition to rehabilitation, our study also revealed a number of significant predictors for mortality in patients with stroke, including an older age, male gender, lower income, longer LOS for ... See full document

... found to be an important factor associated with the severity of CPDs in this ...The risk of CAO severity is the highest in the oldest ...CAD, and P&I are the most common comorbidities ... See full document

... quarterly to enhance the validity of the claims ...validity of the data from the NHI ...admission and outpatient care visits from 2002 to 2011 in this ...in Taiwan ... See full document

... MSc, and Chia-Hung Kao, MD INTRODUCTION A ccording to a World Health Organization study of 245,400 patients with chronic physical diseases in 60 countries, 1 the 1-year prevalence ... See full document