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Medicine & Public Health
Medicine/Public Health, general
Yi-nam Suen
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Open AccessDevelopment of an individualized risk calculator of treatment resistance in patients with first-episode psychosis (TRipCal) using automated machine learning: a 12-year follow-up study with clozapine prescription as a proxy indicator
About 15–40% of patients with schizophrenia are treatment resistance (TR) and require clozapine. Identifying individuals who have higher risk of development of TR early in the course of illness is important to...
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Open AccessUnveiling common psychological characteristics of proneness to aggression and general psychopathology in a large community youth cohort
Elevated aggression in individuals with psychiatric disorders is frequently reported yet aggressive acts among people with mental illness are often intertwined with proneness to aggression and other risk facto...
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The role of dopamine dysregulation and evidence for the transdiagnostic nature of elevated dopamine synthesis in psychosis: a positron emission tomography (PET) study comparing schizophrenia, delusional disorder, and other psychotic disorders
There have been few studies performed to examine the pathophysiological differences between different types of psychosis, such as between delusional disorder (DD) and schizophrenia (SZ). Notably, despite the d...
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Open AccessComparing different intensities of active referral to smoking cessation services in promoting smoking cessation among community smokers: a study protocol of a cluster randomized controlled trial
Actively referring smokers to smoking cessation (SC) services could increase quitting and is scalable for the population. The objective of this study is to compare 2 different intensities of SC active referral...
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Paternal smoking and maternal protective behaviors at home on infant’s saliva cotinine levels
We investigated the association between paternal smoking, avoidance behaviors and maternal protective actions and smoke-free home rules with infant’s saliva cotinine in Hong Kong.
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Open AccessBrief advice and active referral for smoking cessation services among community smokers: a study protocol for randomized controlled trial
Most smokers do not use smoking cessation (SC) services although it increases successful quits. Passive referral providing SC information to smokers is commonly used in SC studies. Little was known about activ...
