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| Hong WangSummaryAffiliation: Yale University Country: USA Publications
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Willingness to pay for reducing fatal risk by improving air quality: a contingent valuation study in Chongqing, ChinaHong Wang
Global Health Division, Department of Epidemiology and Public Health, Yale University, 60 College Street, Suite 315, P O Box 208034, New Haven, CT 06520 8034, USA
Sci Total Environ 367:50-7. 2006..Unlike developed country, clean air may still be considered as a "luxury" good in China based on the estimation of income elasticity...- Variation in Chinese population health related quality of life: results from a EuroQol study in Beijing, ChinaHong Wang
Global Health Division, Department of Epidemiology and Public Health, Yale University, New Haven, CT, USA
Qual Life Res 14:119-32. 2005..Fourth, Chinese HRQoL has strong association relationship with population socio-economic status (SES), which might imply that issues brought on by the rapid economic transition have both positive and negative impacts on Chinese HRQoL... - Tobacco control in China: the dilemma between economic development and health improvementHong Wang
Yale School of Public Health, New Haven, Connecticut, USA
Salud Publica Mex 48:S140-7. 2006..Although China has already made significant efforts with regard to tobacco control, it is still in the beginning of its "long march" towards improving the population's health status by reducing tobacco consumption in China... - The impact of tobacco expenditure on household consumption patterns in rural ChinaHong Wang
Department of Epidemiology and Public Health, Yale University School of Medicine, 60 College Street, Suite 315, New Haven, CT 06520, USA
Soc Sci Med 62:1414-26. 2006..Smoking expenses can harm other family members by reducing expenditures on basic needs such as foods, utilities, and durable goods consumption. Thus smoking can have important intra-family distributional impacts... - Community-based health insurance in poor rural China: the distribution of net benefitsHong Wang
Global Health Division, Yale University School of Public Health, 60 College Street, Suite 315, New Haven, CT 06520 8034, USA
Health Policy Plan 20:366-74. 2005..In conclusion, policy recommendations related to the improvement of the benefit distribution of CBI schemes are made based on the results from this study... - The impact of rural mutual health care on health status: evaluation of a social experiment in rural ChinaHong Wang
Global Health Division, Yale University School of Public Health, New Haven, CT 06520 8034, USA
Health Econ 18:S65-82. 2009..Our study provides useful policy information on the development of health insurance in developing countries, and also identifies areas where further research is needed... - Adverse selection in a voluntary Rural Mutual Health Care health insurance scheme in ChinaHong Wang
Yale University School of Medicine New Haven, CT 06520, USA
Soc Sci Med 63:1236-45. 2006..Voluntary RMHC will not be financially sustainable if the adverse selection is not fully taken into account... - Ill health and its potential influence on household consumptions in rural ChinaHong Wang
Yale University School of Public Health, Yale School of Medicine, New Haven, CT 06520, USA
Health Policy 78:167-77. 2006..In addition, the decline of the percentages of other consumptions is much larger for households with hospitalization than for households with chronic diseases... - The effect of dystocia and previous cesarean uterine scar on the tensile properties of the lower uterine segmentCatalin S Buhimschi
Department of Obstetrics, Gynecology, and Reproductive Sciences, Yale University, New Haven, CT 06520, USA
Am J Obstet Gynecol 194:873-83. 2006..We hypothesized that the stretching of the lower uterine segment in laboring women with dystocia changes the viscoelastic properties of the uterine wall... - Success of mental health referral among pregnant and postpartum women with psychiatric distressMegan V Smith
Department of Epidemiology and Public Health, Yale University School of Medicine, New Haven, CT 06510, USA
Gen Hosp Psychiatry 31:155-62. 2009..This study measured rates of and determined factors associated with mental health service use among a cohort of 465 pregnant and postpartum women receiving care from publicly funded obstetric clinics... - The prevalence of and potential risk factors for female urinary incontinence in Beijing, ChinaLan Zhu
Department of Obstetrics and Gynecology, Peking Union Medical College Hospital, Beijing, People s Republic of China
Menopause 15:566-9. 2008..To survey and evaluate the prevalence and potential risk factors of female urinary incontinence (UI) in Beijing, China... - Social capital and farmer's willingness-to-join a newly established community-based health insurance in rural ChinaLicheng Zhang
Department of Health Policy and Management, Beijing University School of Public Health, 38 Xue Yuan Road, Hai Dian District, Beijing 100083, China
Health Policy 76:233-42. 2006..Policy recommendations have been made based on those findings... - [Detection of the prevalent mutations of 6-pyruvoyl-tetrahydropterin synthase gene by PCR-RFLP analysis in Chinese patients]Yu-jin Qu
Department of Medical Genetics, Capital Institute of Pediatrics, Beijing, 100020, P. R. China
Zhonghua Yi Xue Yi Chuan Xue Za Zhi 23:680-2. 2006..2)The PTPS gene analysis is very important for all patients with hyperphenylalaninemia, which would be useful for early clinical diagnosis and correct treatment of BH4D patients... - [The study on the prevalence and associated risk factors of female urinary incontinence in Beijing women]Lan Zhu
Department of Obstetrics and Gynecology, Peking Union Medical College Hospital, Peking Union Medical College, Chinese Academy of Medical Science, Beijing 100730, China
Zhonghua Yi Xue Za Zhi 86:728-31. 2006..Old, vaginal delivery, smoking, hypertension, constipation, CPP and higher BMI are potential risk factors for stress urinary incontinence. Cesarean section are protective factors for stress urinary incontinence... - [Variability of vegetation growth season in different latitudinal zones of North China: a monitoring by NOAA NDVI and MSAVI]Hong Wang
Key Laboratory of Environmental Change and Natural Disaster of Education Ministry, College of Resources Science and Technology, Beijing Normal University, Beijing 100875, China
Ying Yong Sheng Tai Xue Bao 17:2236-40. 2006..The length of the growth season was also prolonged, with the prolonging time exceeded 10 days... - Association between plasma BPDE-Alb adduct concentrations and DNA damage of peripheral blood lymphocytes among coke oven workersHong Wang
Institute of Occupational Medicine and The Ministry of Education Key Lab for Environment and Health, School of Public Health, Tongji Medical College, Huazhong University of Science and Technology, Wuhan, China
Occup Environ Med 64:753-8. 2007..However, the relation between these biomarkers for early biological effects is not well documented in coke oven workers... - Pollen morphology of Pedicularis sect. Cyathophora, a group endemic to the Eastern Himalaya-Hengduan Mountains regionWen Bin Yu
Key Laboratory of Biodiversity and Biogeography, Kunming Institute of Botany, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Kunming 650204, China
J Integr Plant Biol 50:244-52. 2008..Comparisons of floral and phyllotaxy characters of the genus Pedicularis, together with the pollen characters of sect. Cyathophora, could help us to better understand the evolutionary trends in Pedicularis... - The prevalence of left ventricular hypertrophy in Chinese hemodialysis patients is higher than that in peritoneal dialysis patientsJun Ping Tian
Division of Cardiology, Beijing Tiantan Hospital, Capital Medical University, Beijing, China
Ren Fail 30:391-400. 2008..We thus performed cardiac ultrasound studies in prevalent dialysis patients receiving either HD or PD and compared LVH... - [Relationships between phosphorus fractions concentrations in Pinus sylvestris var. mongolica needles and soil available phosphorus]Xing Yu Liu
Institute of Applied Ecology, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Shenyang 110016, China
Ying Yong Sheng Tai Xue Bao 19:494-8. 2008..mongolica. The significant correlation between soil available P and needle cPt derived from the significant correlation between cPi and cPt. Compared with cPt, cPi could reflect the level of soil P supply more accurately and directly... - Biomimetic surface modification of poly (L-lactic acid) with gelatin and its effects on articular chondrocytes in vitroYuan Lu Cui
Research Institute of Polymeric Materials, Tianjin University, Tianjin 300072, People's Republic of China
J Biomed Mater Res A 66:770-8. 2003..These results implied that gelatin used to modify the PLLA surface through entrapment and coupling could enhance chondrocyte adhesion, proliferation, and function... - Probable limited person-to-person transmission of highly pathogenic avian influenza A (H5N1) virus in ChinaHua Wang
Jiangsu Provincial Centre for Disease Control and Prevention, Nanjing, China
Lancet 371:1427-34. 2008..Field and laboratory investigations were implemented immediately by public-health authorities... - Validation of self-report of rheumatoid arthritis and systemic lupus erythematosus: The Women's Health InitiativeBrian T Walitt
Georgetown University, Washington, DC, USA
J Rheumatol 35:811-8. 2008..Our objective was to determine the most effective and efficient means to validate self-reported rheumatoid arthritis (RA) and systemic lupus erythematosus (SLE) in the WHI... - Sequestration of nonylphenol in sediment from Bohai Bay, North ChinaFen Jin
College of Urban and Environmental Sciences, Peking University, Beijing 100871, China
Environ Sci Technol 42:746-51. 2008..94% x a(-1). These results have important implications in understanding the geochemical fate of NP in sediments... - Development and validation of a prognostic index for health outcomes in chronic obstructive pulmonary diseaseAndrew Briggs
Section of Public Health and Health Policy, University of Glasgow, 1 Lilybank Gardens, Glasgow G12 8RZ, Scotland
Arch Intern Med 168:71-9. 2008..The severity of the condition has typically been characterized by a single physiological measurement: forced expiratory volume in 1 second, which has been shown to be prognostic for mortality... - Risk of syphilis in STI clinic patients: a cross-sectional study of 11,500 cases in Guangxi, ChinaSusan P Y Wong
National Center for STD Control, Nanjing, China
Sex Transm Infect 83:351-6. 2007..To measure prevalence of syphilis among the STI clinic population in Guangxi, China, and to assess the socioeconomic and behavioural characteristics associated with the infection... - Genetic diversity of Paris polyphylla var. yunnanensis, a traditional Chinese medicinal herb, detected by ISSR markersJun He
Key Laboratory of Biodiversity and Biogeography, Kunming Institute of Botany, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Kunming, Yunnan, PR China
Planta Med 73:1316-21. 2007..84% of the total variance existed between groups of natural and cultivated populations, while 67.51% of the variance occurred within populations. In the end, some suggestions for conservation of this important herb are proposed... - Phenylketonuria mutations in Northern ChinaFang Song
Department of Medical Genetics, Capital Institute of Pediatrics, Beijing, PR China
Mol Genet Metab 86:S107-18. 2005..The study enables us to construct a national database in China serving as a valuable tool for genetic counseling and prognostic evaluation of future cases of PKU... - [Crop productivity model and its application]Zhongwu Li
Institute of Geographical Sciences and Natural Resources Research, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing 100101
Ying Yong Sheng Tai Xue Bao 13:1174-8. 2002.... - Folic acid supplements during early pregnancy and likelihood of multiple births: a population-based cohort studyZhu Li
The National Centre for Maternal and Infant Health, and the Department of Health Care Epidemiology, Peking University Health Science Centre, Beijing, China
Lancet 361:380-4. 2003..59% and 0.65%, respectively (rate ratio 0.91; 95% CI 0.82-1.00). INTERPRETATION: Our findings suggest that consumption of folic acid supplements during pregnancy is not associated with an increased occurrence of multiple births... - Quantitative characterization of biomolecular assemblies and interactions using atomic force microscopyYong Yang
Department of Chemistry, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill at Chapel Hill, Chapel Hill, NC 27599, USA
Methods 29:175-87. 2003..These developments make AFM a powerful tool for investigating the biomolecular assemblies and interactions that govern gene regulation... - Biomimetic surface modification of poly(L-lactic acid) with chitosan and its effects on articular chondrocytes in vitroYuan Lu Cui
Research Institute of Polymeric Materials, Tianjin University, 300072, Tianjin, People's Republic of China
Biomaterials 24:3859-68. 2003..These results implied that chitosan used to modify PLLA surface through entrapment and coupling could enhance the chondrocyte adhesion, proliferation and function... - Effect of continuous positive airway pressure treatment on elderly Chinese patients with obstructive sleep apnea in the prethrombotic stateXilong Zhang
Department of Respiratory Medicine, First Affiliated Hospital of Nanjing Medical University, Nanjing 210029, China
Chin Med J (Engl) 116:1426-8. 2003..To characterize the prethrombotic state (PTS) in elderly Chinese patients with obstructive sleep apnea hypopnea syndrome (OSAHS) and the effect of nasal continuous positive airway pressure (nCPAP) ventilation on their PTS... - The relationship between HBV lamivudine resistance and HBV genotypes or basic core promoter mutationsDong yao Zhou
Department of Clinical Laboratory Medicine, Guangdong Provincial Hospital of Traditional Chinese Medicine TCM, Guangzhou 510120, China
Hepatobiliary Pancreat Dis Int 2:85-9. 2003..To investigate the relationship between HBV lamivudine resistance and HBV genotypes or basic core promoter (BCP) mutations... - Endocrine regulation of cervical ripening in humans--potential roles for gonadal steroids and insulin-like growth factor-IGunvor Ekman-Ordeberg
Department of Woman and Child Health, Divisions for Obstetrics and Gynecology, Karolinska Hospital, SE 171 76 Stockholm, Sweden
Steroids 68:837-47. 2003..Oral administration of RU486 induced a significant increase in ER protein concentration, whereas PGE2 and spontaneous ripening did not. These findings indicate that cervical ripening is related to significant local hormonal changes... - [Sex distribution of neural tube defects and their birth outcome in high- and low-prevalence areas of China]Li-Jun Pei
Institute of Reproductive and Child Health, Peking University, Beijing 100083, China
Zhonghua Yu Fang Yi Xue Za Zhi 37:338-41. 2003..It suggested that proportion of high level SB and anencephalus in females could increase as the prevalence of NTD going up, anencephaly, high- and low-level SB had the different genetic and environmental background... - Acute diarrhea during army field exercise in southern ChinaYang Bai
Department of Digestive Diseases, Nan Fang Hospital, The First Military Medical University, Guangzhou 510515, Guangdong Province, China
World J Gastroenterol 10:127-31. 2004..To evaluate the causes of and risk factors for diarrhea in emergency period, we collected clinical and epidemiological data from the People's Liberation Army (PLA) during field training in southern China... - [Multi-center clinical study on the diagnostic criteria for multiple organ dysfunction syndrome with illness severity score system]Shu-wen Zhang
Department of Infection and Emergency, Beijing Friendship Hospital Affiliated to the Capital University of Medical Sciences, Beijing 100050, China
Zhongguo Wei Zhong Bing Ji Jiu Yi Xue 16:328-32. 2004..The diagnostic criteria for MODS with the illness severity score and the prognostic evaluation system established might have clinical significance and practicability, but further studies with large samples are still needed... - Evaluation of the informed consent process in a randomized controlled trial in China: the Sino-U.S. NTD projectHong Wang
Department of Epidemiology and Health Statistics, School of Public Health, Beijing University
J Clin Ethics 15:61-75. 2004 - [Progress in research on hirudo]Rong-Qing Huang
Institute of Radiation Medicine, Academy of Military Medical Sciences, Beijing 100850, China
Zhong Xi Yi Jie He Xue Bao 2:387-9. 2004 - Screening of 12 SNPs of CYP3A4 in a Chinese population using oligonucleotide microarraySiyuan Wen
Beijing Institute of Radiation Medicine, Beijing 100850, P R China
Genet Test 8:411-6. 2004..The genotyping results of the 18 heterozygous subjects and 12 wild-type subjects were validated by direct sequencing... - [Mutations in exon 7 of the phenylalanine hydroxylase (PAH) gene in chinese patients with phenylketonuria]Fang Song
Capital Institute of Pediatrics, Beijing 100020, China
Yi Chuan 27:53-6. 2005..This study showed the mutation characteristics and their distribution in exon 7 of PAH gene and proved that the exon 7 was the hot region of PAH gene mutation in Chinese PKU population ... - Pairwise multiple comparison adjustment in survival analysisBrent R Logan
Division of Biostatistics, Medical College of Wisconsin, Milwaukee, 53226 0509, USA
Stat Med 24:2509-23. 2005.... - The relaxin gene knockout mouse: a model of progressive sclerodermaChrishan S Samuel
Relaxin Group, Howard Florey Institute of Experimental Physiology and Medicine, The University of Melbourne, Victoria, Australia
J Invest Dermatol 125:692-9. 2005.... - Genetic and environmental risk factors for sagittal craniosynostosisJoanna S Zeiger
Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Hygiene and Public Health, Johns Hopkins School of Medicine, Baltimore, MD, USA
J Craniofac Surg 13:602-6. 2002..Parental education and alcohol consumption were associated with sagittal craniosynostosis in this study...