Published in Clinical reviews in allergy & immunology
In December 2019, the COVID-19 pandemic quickly spread throughout China and beyond, posing enormous global challenges. With prompt, vigorous, and coordinated control measures, mainland China contained the spread of the epidemic within two months and halted the epidemic in three months. Aggressive containment strategy, hierarchical management, ratio...
Published in Journal of racial and ethnic health disparities
A growing body of research has explored the healthcare experiences of African migrants in China. However, within this extant literature, there is a lacuna on the reproductive healthcare experiences of African women within this population. This study adopts semi-structured in-depth interviews in exploring the challenges to reproductive healthcare ac...
Published in Journal of homosexuality
Gay dating apps have become increasingly popular and been intensively used. However, studies that closely examine the effects of gay dating app usage on mental health outcomes are few. This study tackles an unsolved question on whether gay dating apps alleviate or exacerbate loneliness through perceptions of sexuality stigma. A cross-sectional onli...
Published in The Science of the total environment
With the raising awareness of environmental protection, straw burning ban has been implemented to control straw burning phenomenon in China. It has received significant achievement by reducing the fire spots remarkably, but fire spots still cannot be eliminated in farmland. Although considerable papers and reviews on straw burning have been conduct...
Published in Nutrients
Postpartum weight retention contributes to maternal obesity and varies by ethnicity. Despite the well-established benefits of lifestyle intervention on weight management, little is known about how to engage postpartum women effectively, especially among ethnic minority groups. This multi-methods study aimed to explore ethnic differences in women's ...
Published in Journal of environmental management
High levels of fine particulate matter (PM2.5) pose a severe air pollution challenge in China. Both land use changes and anthropogenic emissions can affect PM2.5 concentrations. Only a few studies have addressed the long-term impact of land surface changes on PM2.5 in China. We conducted a comprehensive analysis of PM2.5 trends over China using the...
Published in The Science of the total environment
Evidence of both epidemiological and clinical studies exploring the impact of nitrogen dioxide (NO2) on the systemic lupus erythematosus (SLE) disease activity have been contradictory. To evaluate the association between short-term NO2 exposure and length of hospital stay (LOS) and hospital cost of SLE and estimate the burden of disease attributabl...
Published in Frontiers in Veterinary Science
Background A wide range of bacterial pathogens have been identified in ticks, yet the diversity of viruses in ticks is largely unexplored. Methods Here, we used metagenomic sequencing to characterize the diverse viromes in three principal tick species associated with pathogens, Haemaphysalis concinna, Dermacentor silvarum, and Ixodes persulcatus, i...
