A5026181413- Health disparities and outcomes
- Morphological variations and asymmetry
- Viral Infections and Outbreaks Research
- COVID-19 and Mental Health
- SARS-CoV-2 and COVID-19 Research
- Homelessness and Social Issues
- Infection Control and Ventilation
- Statistical Methods and Inference
- Advanced Neuroimaging Techniques and Applications
- Global Health Care Issues
- COVID-19 Clinical Research Studies
- COVID-19 and healthcare impacts
- Molecular Biology Techniques and Applications
- Influenza Virus Research Studies
- Disaster Response and Management
- Health Systems, Economic Evaluations, Quality of Life
- COVID-19 epidemiological studies
- Health and Wellbeing Research
- Intergenerational Family Dynamics and Caregiving
- Advanced Causal Inference Techniques
- Food Security and Health in Diverse Populations
University of Tennessee Health Science Center
2025
Florida State University
2019-2024
Chungnam National University
2016-2017
ObjectivesTo explore the epidemiological and clinical factors predictive of case fatality rate (CFR) Middle East respiratory syndrome-coronavirus (MERS-CoV) infection in an outbreak Daejeon, Republic Korea.MethodsWe reviewed investigation reports medical records 1 index 25 additional MERS cases hospitals A (14 cases) B (11 cases), conducted in-depth interview with case.ResultsThe CFR hospital was higher than that (63.6% vs. 28.6%, respectively). Higher MERS-CoV exposure conditions were also...
The Middle East Respiratory Syndrome (MERS), which was first reported in Saudi Arabia 2012, is caused by MERS-CoV, a human coronavirus (CoV).Similar to SARS-CoV, causes severe acute respiratory syndrome (SARS), MERS-CoV can cause infections [1].After the confirmation of index case South Korea (hereafter Korea) on May 20, 2015, its outbreak spread 17 hospitals during May-July 2015 [2].As one clusters, 25 nosocomial cases were two located Daejeon Metropolitan City, [3].Among patients infected...
Abstract High-quality RNA is crucial for obtaining reliable sequencing (RNA-seq) data, with metrics like Integrity Number (RIN). However, these metrics, while effective evaluating integrity, do not always correlate RNA-seq data quality, especially at the transcript level. This gap particularly evident in total RNA-seq, where existing measures such as coefficient of variation (CV) read coverage fail to fully capture quality and are influenced by confounding factors depth. To address this, we...
From May through July 2015, a total of 26 cases Middle East Respiratory Syndrome were reported from 2 hospitals in Daejeon, South Korea, including 1 index case and 25 new cases. We examined the epidemiologic features these found an estimated median incubation period 6.1 days (8.8 hospital A 4.6 B). The overall attack rate was 3.7% (4.7% 3.0% B), rates among inpatients caregivers same ward 12.3% 22.5%, respectively. case-fatality 44.0% (28.6% 63.6% use cohort quarantine may have played role...
Objectives The objective of this study is to investigate associations between contextual characteristics and unmet healthcare needs in South Korea after accounting for individual factors. Methods present used data from the 2012 Korean Community Health Survey (KCHS) 228 902 adults residing within 253 municipal districts Korea. A multilevel analysis was conducted how characteristics, defined by variables that describe regional deprivation, degree urbanity, supply, are associated with...
In this study the relationship between neighborhood deprivation and unmet health care needs of elderly individuals (≥ 65 years) was examined. Some previous studies suggested that characteristics affect access to care, yet research on older is limited.Multilevel logistic regression analysis used assess neighborhood-level factors with due costs, adjusting for individual-level factors, in ≥ years 2017 Korean Community Health Survey (n = 63,388).There were 2.6% who experienced costs. Following...
본 연구의 목적은 지역박탈지수와 사회적 자본이 주관적 건강수준에 미치는 영향을 알아봄으로써 주거지역의 특성이 그 지역에 거주하는 인구집단의 건강에 미치는지를 파악해 보고자 함이다. 이를 위해 2011년 지역사회건강조사를 활용하여 전국 253개 지역의 229,186명을 대상으로 다수준 로지스틱 회귀분석을 실시하였다. 대한 5개의 응답범주 중 자신의 건강을 '보통', '좋지 않음', '매우 좋지 않음' 이라고 응답한 인구집단을 첫번째 분석이 이루어 졌으며, '보통'을 제외하고 두번째 이루어졌다. 분석결과 두 번째 분석에서 지역박탈지수가 통계적으로 유의미했던 반면 '보통'이라고 인구집단이 비양호건강 집단에 포함된 첫 그룹에서는 유의미하지 않았다. 자본은 그룹 모두 연구에서 값이 크지는 않지만 맥락효과로서의 설명력을 보였으며 효과는 일부지역에 국한된 것이 아니라 한국 사회 전체에 것을 확인할 수 있었다. 향후 지역적 개입을 통한 건강수준향상을 위한 노력이 경주되어야 함을 알 또한...
Abstract Background: Fresh frozen (FF) and formalin-fixed paraffin-embedded (FFPE) samples are primary resources for archival tissues in cancer studies. Despite the advantages of easy storage cost-effectiveness, FFPE have disadvantage inevitable chemical-induced RNA degradation. Although, mRNA-seq data, 3' bias due to characteristics platform allows measure degradation levels, total RNA-seq samples, there is still no clear Methods: Our study, utilizing The Cancer Genome Atlas (TCGA) pilot...
As a crucial tool in neuroscience, mediation analysis has been developed and widely adopted to elucidate the role of intermediary variables derived from neuroimaging data. Typically, structural equation models (SEMs) are employed investigate influences exposures on outcomes, with model coefficients being interpreted as causal effects. While existing SEMs have proven be effective tools for involving various neuroimaging-related mediators, limited research explored scenarios where these...
Large-scale imaging studies often face challenges stemming from heterogeneity arising differences in geographic location, instrumental setups, image acquisition protocols, study design, and latent variables that remain undisclosed. While numerous regression models have been developed to elucidate the interplay between responses relevant covariates, limited attention has devoted cases where pertain domain of shape. This adds complexity problem heterogeneity, primarily due unique properties...