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Open AccessDoes economic development contribute to sex differences in ischaemic heart disease mortality? Hong Kong as a natural experiment using a case-control study
The male excess risk of premature ischemic heart disease (IHD) mortality may be partially due to an unknown macro-environmental influence associated with economic development. We examined whether excess male r...
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Open AccessAlcohol and cardio-respiratory deaths in Chinese: a population-based case-control study of 32,462 older Hong Kong adults
In observational studies moderate alcohol use reduces cardio-respiratory mortality. However observational studies may be biased by many factors including residual confounding by unmeasured differences between ...
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Open AccessAdolescents' experience of comments about their weight – prevalence, accuracy and effects on weight misperception
Weight comments are commonly received by adolescents, but the accuracy of the comments and their effects on weight misperception are unclear. We assessed the prevalence and accuracy of weight comments received...
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Alcohol sensitivity, alcohol use and hypertension in an older Chinese population: the Guangzhou Biobank Cohort Study
Although the J-shaped association between alcohol consumption and blood pressure (BP) is well known, the effect of alcohol sensitivity on this relationship is less clear. We studied the association of alcohol ...
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Open AccessHealth-related physical fitness and weight status in Hong Kong adolescents
This study was designed to investigate the relation between health-related physical fitness and weight status in Hong Kong adolescents.
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Open AccessFamily structure, parent-child conversation time and substance use among Chinese adolescents
The family plays a vital role in sha** adolescent behaviours. The present study investigated the associations between family structure and substance use among Hong Kong Chinese adolescents.
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Open AccessThree versions of Perceived Stress Scale: validation in a sample of Chinese cardiac patients who smoke
Smoking causes heart disease, the major cause of death in China and Hong Kong. Stress is one major trigger of smoking and relapse, and understanding stress among smoking cardiac patients can therefore help in ...
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Open AccessWho wants a slimmer body? The relationship between body weight status, education level and body shape dissatisfaction among young adults in Hong Kong
Body shape dissatisfaction has been thought to have an indispensable impact on weight control behaviors. We investigated the prevalence of body shape dissatisfaction (BSD) and explored its association with wei...
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Open AccessDevelo** community-based preventive interventions in Hong Kong: a description of the first phase of the family project
This paper describes the development of culturally-appropriate family-based interventions and their relevant measures, to promote family health, happiness and harmony in Hong Kong. Programs were developed in t...
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Open AccessThe alcohol industry lobby and Hong Kong’s zero wine and beer tax policy
Whereas taxation on alcohol is becoming an increasingly common practice in many countries as part of overall public health measures, the Hong Kong Special Administrative Region Government is bucking the trend ...
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Open AccessBringing scientific rigor to community-developed programs in Hong Kong
This paper describes efforts to generate evidence for community-developed programs to enhance family relationships in the Chinese culture of Hong Kong, within the framework of community-based participatory res...
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Mental Health and Asthma in China: the Guangzhou Biobank Cohort Study
There is consistent evidence of the co-occurrence of poor mental health and asthma in Western populations. Since the experience and expression of mental health is partly culturally determined, it is of interes...
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Open AccessSecular trends of salted fish consumption and nasopharyngeal carcinoma: a multi-jurisdiction ecological study in 8 regions from 3 continents
Despite salted fish being a classical risk factor of Nasopharyngeal Carcinoma (NPC), whether secular trends in salted fish consumption worldwide accounted for changes in NPC rates were unknown. The relationshi...
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Open AccessThe illusion of righteousness: corporate social responsibility practices of the alcohol industry
Corporate social responsibility (CSR) has become an integral element of how the alcohol industry promotes itself. The existing analyses of CSR in the alcohol industry point to the misleading nature of these CS...
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Open AccessSex knowledge, attitudes, and high-risk sexual behaviors among unmarried youth in Hong Kong
Little is known about sex knowledge, attitudes, and high-risk sexual behaviors among unmarried youth in Hong Kong. It is of public health importance to investigate this topic to inform sex education, policymak...
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Open AccessEffect of alcohol and aldehyde dehydrogenase gene polymorphisms on alcohol-associated hypertension: the Guangzhou Biobank Cohort Study
The effects of alcohol dehydrogenase (ADH) 2 and aldehyde dehydrogenase (ALDH) 2 genotypes on the alcohol–blood pressure association are unclear. We examined the association of ADH2 or ALDH2 genotypes with blo...
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Open AccessEffectiveness of a parental training programme in enhancing the parent–child relationship and reducing harsh parenting practices and parental stress in preparing children for their transition to primary school: a randomised controlled trial
Entering primary school is an important childhood milestone, marking the beginning of a child’s formal education. Yet the change creates a time of vulnerability for the child, the parents and the parent–child ...
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Open AccessA comparison of risk factors for mortality from heart failure in Asian and non-Asian populations: An overview of individual participant data from 32 prospective cohorts from the Asia-Pacific Region
Most of what is known regarding the epidemiology of mortality from heart failure (HF) comes from studies within Western populations with few data available from the Asia-Pacific region where the burden of hear...
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Open AccessPsychometric Evaluation of the Chinese Version of the Subjective Happiness Scale: Evidence from the Hong Kong FAMILY Cohort
With China’s rapid economic growth in the past few decades, there is currently an emerging focus on happiness. Cross-cultural validity studies have indicated that the four-item Subjective Happiness Scale (SHS)...
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Open AccessSmoking among Hong Kong Chinese women: behavior, attitudes and experience
The numbers of women smoking have risen 72.5% since 1990 with the increasing population – from 56,100 to 96,800 in 2012, reflecting an alarming situation in Hong Kong. The study aimed to describe the smoking b...
