A5080542799- Air Quality and Health Impacts
- Air Quality Monitoring and Forecasting
- Atmospheric chemistry and aerosols
- Climate Change and Health Impacts
- Vehicle emissions and performance
- Noise Effects and Management
- Atmospheric and Environmental Gas Dynamics
- Urban Transport and Accessibility
- Global Health Care Issues
- Odor and Emission Control Technologies
- Water Quality and Pollution Assessment
- Indoor Air Quality and Microbial Exposure
- Water Quality Monitoring and Analysis
- Wind and Air Flow Studies
- COVID-19 impact on air quality
- Photoacoustic and Ultrasonic Imaging
- Heavy metals in environment
- Advanced Chemical Sensor Technologies
- Thermoregulation and physiological responses
- Retinal Diseases and Treatments
- Asthma and respiratory diseases
- Chronic Obstructive Pulmonary Disease (COPD) Research
- Atmospheric Ozone and Climate
- Toxic Organic Pollutants Impact
- Glaucoma and retinal disorders
National Taiwan University
2016-2025
Putian University
2023
National Taipei University
2022
I-Shou University
2021
Academia Sinica
2021
National Taiwan University Hospital
2021
National Health Research Institutes
2018
Southern Medical University
2012
University of Maryland, Baltimore
2012
Environmental Health
2012
BackgroundAlthough studies have provided estimates of premature deaths attributable to either heat or cold in selected countries, none has so far offered a systematic assessment across the whole temperature range populations exposed different climates. We aimed quantify total mortality burden non-optimum ambient temperature, and relative contributions from moderate extreme temperatures.MethodsWe collected data for 384 locations Australia, Brazil, Canada, China, Italy, Japan, South Korea,...
Climate change can directly affect human health by varying exposure to non-optimal outdoor temperature. However, evidence on this direct impact at a global scale is limited, mainly due issues in modelling and projecting complex highly heterogeneous epidemiological relationships across different populations climates.We collected observed daily time series of mean temperature mortality counts for all causes or non-external only, periods ranging from Jan 1, 1984, Dec 31, 2015, various locations...
Background: Studies have examined the effects of temperature on mortality in a single city, country, or region. However, less evidence is available variation associations between and multiple countries, analyzed simultaneously. Methods: We obtained daily data 306 communities from 12 countries/regions (Australia, Brazil, Thailand, China, Taiwan, Korea, Japan, Italy, Spain, United Kingdom, States, Canada). Two-stage analyses were used to assess nonlinear delayed relation mortality. In first...
Background: Few studies have examined variation in the associations between heat waves and mortality an international context. Objectives: We aimed to systematically examine impacts of on with lag effects internationally. Methods: collected daily data temperature from 400 communities 18 countries/regions defined 12 types by combining community-specific mean ≥90th, 92.5th, 95th, 97.5th percentiles duration ≥2, 3, 4 d. used time-series analyses estimate wave–mortality relation over lags 0–10...
The evidence and method are limited for the associations between mortality temperature variability (TV) within or days.We developed a novel to calculate TV investigated TV-mortality using large multicountry data set.We collected daily from 372 locations in 12 countries/regions (Australia, Brazil, Canada, China, Japan, Moldova, South Korea, Spain, Taiwan, Thailand, United Kingdom, States). We calculated standard deviation of minimum maximum temperatures during exposure days. Two-stage...
Exposure to particulate matter (PM) air pollution has been shown exacerbate children's asthma, but the exposure sources and temporal characteristics are still under study. Children's PM is likely involve both combustion-related ambient related a child's activity in various indoor outdoor microenvironments. Among 19 children with 9-17 years of age, we examined relationship changes percent predicted forced expiratory volume 1 sec (FEV1) personal continuous 24-hr average gravimetric mass...
Hemolysis caused by flow-induced mechanical damage to red blood cells is still a problem in medical devices such as ventricular assist (VADs), artificial lungs, and heart valves. A number of different models have been proposed research groups for calculating the hemolysis, these, power law-based (HI(%)=Ct(α)τ(β)) proved most popular because their ease use applicability wide range devices. However, within this law category there are implementations. The aim work was evaluate hemolysis...
The Paris Agreement binds all nations to undertake ambitious efforts combat climate change, with the commitment "hold warming well below 2 °C in global mean temperature (GMT), relative pre-industrial levels, and pursue limit 1.5 °C". constitutes an goal for which greater evidence on its benefits health would help guide policy potentially increase motivation action. Here we contribute this gap assessment potential benefits, terms of reductions temperature-related mortality, derived from...
<h3>Objectives</h3> Several respirable hazards, including smoking and indoor air pollution from biomass, were suggested to increase the risk of tuberculosis. Few studies have been conducted on ambient We investigated association between exposure incidence active <h3>Methods</h3> a cohort study using 106 678 participants community-based screening service in Taiwan, 2005–2012. estimated individual data nearest quality monitoring station road intensity within 500 m buffer zone. The tuberculosis...
BackgroundLimited information is available regarding long-term effects of air pollution on blood pressure (BP) and hypertension.ObjectiveWe studied whether 1-year exposures to particulate matter (PM) nitrogen oxides (NOx) were correlated with BP hypertension in the elderly.MethodsWe analyzed cross-sectional data from 27,752 Taipei City residents > 65 years age who participated a health examination program 2009. Land-use regression models used estimate participants’ aerodynamic diameter ≤...
BACKGROUND: In many places, daily mortality has been shown to increase after days with particularly high or low temperatures, but such timeseries studies cannot identify whether increases reflect substantial life shortening short-term displacement of deaths (harvesting).OBJECTIVES: To clarify this issue, we estimated the association between annual and summaries heat cold in 278 locations from 12 countries.METHODS: Indices were used as predictors regressions each location, allowing for trends...
The effects on heart rate variability (HRV) and arterial stiffness from exposure to ambient particulate matter ozone have not been studied simultaneously. aim of this study was analyze these with refined estimates personal measurements size-resolved mass concentrations. authors recruited 17 mail carriers in a panel Taipei County, Taiwan, during February–March, 2007, each subject followed for 5–6 days. Personal size-fractionated exposures were monitored working hours while delivered outdoors....
// Tsung-Ming Tsao 1 , Ming-Jer Tsai 1, 2 Jing-Shiang Hwang 3 Wen-Fang Cheng 4 Chang-Fu Wu 5 Charles-C.K. Chou 6 and Ta-Chen Su 5, 7 The Experimental Forest, National Taiwan University, Nantou, School of Forestry Resource Conservation, Taipei, Institute Statistical Science, Academia Sinica, Department Obstetrics Gynecology, University Hospital, Occupational Medicine Industrial Hygiene, College Public Health, Research Center for Environmental Changes, Internal Cardiovascular Center,...