Hong Wang

..Accordingly, we sought to examine the impact of health insurance benefit design on health care utilization...

..As a result, total health care spending was not significantly reduced. The findings underscore that policy makers should design payment methods carefully to both contain costs and improve quality...

..Our findings offer an integrated view of tumor development relevant to plasma-based strategies to detect and diagnose cancer...

..This approach provides a basis for distinguishing between protein changes in plasma that are cancer-related and those that are part of a non-specific host response...

..Further studies are warranted to examine the role of EGFR and to discover and validate other proteins that could potentially be used for early detection of breast cancer...

..In conclusion, policy recommendations related to the improvement of the benefit distribution of CBI schemes are made based on the results from this study...

..Both peptide and oligosaccharide compositions are revealed by analysis of the ion fragmentation patterns of glycopeptides with an intact glycopeptide analysis pipeline...

..e., Cysteine acrylamide labeling only). In contrast, using same criteria for identification, a total 185 proteins were identified and 174 proteins were quantified using the DSIC labeling technique...

..Our study provides useful policy information on the development of health insurance in developing countries, and also identifies areas where further research is needed...

..The goal of this work is to evaluate the utility of an integrative strategy using these two approaches for biomarker discovery...

..A panel consisting of CEA, MAPRE1, IGFBP2, and LRG1 has predictive value in prediagnostic CRC plasmas...

..Lastly, we identified ECM proteins and peptidases that were directly regulated by miR-200. Taken together, our results reveal how expression of miR-200 alters the tumor microenvironment to inhibit the processes of EMT and metastasis...

..In addition, the decline of the percentages of other consumptions is much larger for households with hospitalization than for households with chronic diseases...

..Approaches for in-depth quantitative proteomic analysis based on isotopic labeling and protein fractionation are presented in this chapter...

..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...

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..These associations are attenuated by the adjustments for conventional risk factors suggesting that inflammation acts in concert with metabolic and clinical risk factors in increasing HF risk...

..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...

..Taken together, these data suggest that decreased mitochondrial content in muscle of IR offspring may be due in part to reductions in LPL expression in skeletal muscle resulting in decreased PPAR-δ activation...

..A cross-sectional study was undertaken to determine the prevalence of axial gout in patients with established gouty arthritis and to analyze clinical, laboratory, and radiological correlations...

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..Unlike developed country, clean air may still be considered as a "luxury" good in China based on the estimation of income elasticity...

..These findings do not support routine use of EEG in patients presenting with acute psychosis...