Hei C Kim
Biographic Data
| ID | 116386 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Hei C Kim |
| GIVEN NAMES | Hei C |
| FAMILY NAME | Kim |
| SIGNATURE | KIM H C |
| AFFILIATIONS | Yonsei University |
| ORCID | 0000-0001-7867-1240 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 17 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 28 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 17 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1977 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2025 |
| H-INDEX | 3 |
Association between perceived exposure to secondhand smoke and depression independent of biomarker-measured exposure
Perceived exposure to secondhand smoke has previously not been distinguished from actual exposure dose when considering the association with depression. This cross-sectional study evaluated whether perceived exposure to secondhand smoke was associated with depression after adjusting for biomarker-based exposure. Adult non-smokers and ex-smokers (N = 16,926) were sampled from the Korea National Health and Nutrition Examination Survey from 2014 to …
Association Between Social Network and Cognitive Function: A Cross-Sectional Assessment From the Cardiovascular and Metabolic Diseases Etiology Research Center Cohort (2013–2018)
There were positive associations between social network properties (i.e., size, intimacy, and frequency of face-to-face meetings) and cognitive function. The degree of association varied according to social network properties, gender, and income level. Overall, among social network properties, social network size was an important factor in the cognition of women, whereas frequency was important in the cognition of men
Worldwide trends in hypertension prevalence and progress in treatment and control from 1990 to 2019: A pooled analysis of 1201 population-representative studies with 104 million participants
BACKGROUND: Hypertension can be detected at the primary health-care level and low-cost treatments can effectively control hypertension. We aimed to measure the prevalence of hypertension and progress in its detection, treatment, and control from 1990 to 2019 for 200 countries and territories. METHODS: We used data from 1990 to 2019 on people aged 30-79 years from population-representative studies with measurement of blood pressure and data on blo…
Gender differences in the longitudinal association between husbands' and wives' depressive symptoms among Korean older adults: The moderating effects of the spousal relationship
Association between social network structure and physical activity in middle-aged Korean adults
Social Activities and Health-Related Quality of Life in Rural Older Adults in South Korea: A 4-Year Longitudinal Analysis
During later life, inadequate social interactions may be associated with worse quality of life in older adults. Rural older adults are prone to developing unhealthy lifestyles related to social activities, which can lead to a poorer quality of life than that enjoyed by older adults living in urban areas. This study aimed to describe longitudinal changes in social activity participation and health-related quality of life among rural older adults, …
Residential Radon Exposure and Cigarette Smoking in Association with Lung Cancer: A Matched Case-Control Study in Korea
Residential radon exposure and cigarette smoking are the two most important risk factors for lung cancer. The combined effects thereof were evaluated in a multi-center matched case-control study in South Korea. A total of 1038 participants were included, comprising 519 non-small cell lung cancer cases and 519 age- and sex- matched community-based controls. Residential radon levels were measured for all participants. Multivariate logistic regressi…
Social network types among older Korean adults: Associations with subjective health
Underweight and mortality
Objective According to most prospective studies, being underweight (BMI 2 ) is associated with significantly higher mortality than being of normal weight, especially among smokers. We aimed to explore in a generally lean population whether being underweight is significantly associated with increased all-cause mortality. Design Prospective cohort study. Setting Korea Medical Insurance Corporation study with 14 years of follow-up. Subjects After ex…
Dietary assessment methods in epidemiologic studies
Diet is a major lifestyle-related risk factor of various chronic diseases. Dietary intake can be assessed by subjective report and objective observation. Subjective assessment is possible using open-ended surveys such as dietary recalls or records, or using closed-ended surveys including food frequency questionnaires. Each method has inherent strengths and limitations. Continued efforts to improve the accuracy of dietary intake assessment and enh…
Association between stressful life events and resting heart rate
Our findings suggest that the experience of a recent SLEs are associated with a lower resting HR in Korean adults. Although further investigation is required, people who have experienced recent SLEs and have a lower HR than usual may need attention for their stress level
Unsecured Consumer Debt and Mental Health Outcomes in Middle-Aged and Older Americans
In middle-aged and older Americans, unsecured debt has negative effects on mental health because of the associated depressive symptoms and decreased psychological well-being. The deleterious effects of unsecured debt on mental health are largely accounted for by perceived control over personal financial circumstances. Interventions enhancing older adults' control over personal financial circumstances may protect against the psychological decremen…
Association of smoking and smoking cessation with major causes of mortality in the Asia Pacific Region: The Asia Pacific Cohort Studies Collaboration
Allowing for the recent uptake of smoking in Asia, its effects are comparable to those observed in ANZ. Stringent tobacco control measures and smoking cessation strategies are urgently required in Asia
International Diversification: Effects on Innovation and Firm Performance in Product-Diversified Firms.
Theory suggests and results show that firm performance is initially positive but eventually levels off and becomes negative as international diversification increases. Product diversification moder...
The Concept of Human Nature in East Asia: Etic and Emic Characteristics
Adopting a constructivist approach, individual constructions of the concept of human nature were investigated by using an 'adulthood interview' and culturally adapted dilemma stories. Subjects were young adults with higher education, including university students and individuals already in work from the US, Indonesia, Japan and Korea. The central hypothesis that subjects from different cultures conceptualize similar structures of understanding hu…
Childhood in China
The Relationship of Protestant Ethic Beliefs and Values to Achievement
Weber's Protestant ethic thesis is more concerned with a person's beliefs and values than his affiliation per se. To test the thesis, an index of Calvinist beliefs and values was constructed and administered to a randomly selected sample of 252 males in a midwestern rural city. The index was found to correlate positively with both occupational status and educational achievement. But when religious affiliation was used as an independent variable, …
The Concept of Human Nature in East Asia: Etic and Emic Characteristics
Adopting a constructivist approach, individual constructions of the concept of human nature were investigated by using an 'adulthood interview' and culturally adapted dilemma stories. Subjects were young adults with higher education, including university students and individuals already in work from the US, Indonesia, Japan and Korea. The central hypothesis that subjects from different cultures conceptualize similar structures of understanding hu…
Unsecured Consumer Debt and Mental Health Outcomes in Middle-Aged and Older Americans
In middle-aged and older Americans, unsecured debt has negative effects on mental health because of the associated depressive symptoms and decreased psychological well-being. The deleterious effects of unsecured debt on mental health are largely accounted for by perceived control over personal financial circumstances. Interventions enhancing older adults' control over personal financial circumstances may protect against the psychological decremen…
Social network types among older Korean adults: Associations with subjective health
The Relationship of Protestant Ethic Beliefs and Values to Achievement
Weber's Protestant ethic thesis is more concerned with a person's beliefs and values than his affiliation per se. To test the thesis, an index of Calvinist beliefs and values was constructed and administered to a randomly selected sample of 252 males in a midwestern rural city. The index was found to correlate positively with both occupational status and educational achievement. But when religious affiliation was used as an independent variable, …
Childhood in China
The Relationship of Protestant Ethic Beliefs and Values to Achievement
Weber's Protestant ethic thesis is more concerned with a person's beliefs and values than his affiliation per se. To test the thesis, an index of Calvinist beliefs and values was constructed and administered to a randomly selected sample of 252 males in a midwestern rural city. The index was found to correlate positively with both occupational status and educational achievement. But when religious affiliation was used as an independent variable, …
The Concept of Human Nature in East Asia: Etic and Emic Characteristics
Adopting a constructivist approach, individual constructions of the concept of human nature were investigated by using an 'adulthood interview' and culturally adapted dilemma stories. Subjects were young adults with higher education, including university students and individuals already in work from the US, Indonesia, Japan and Korea. The central hypothesis that subjects from different cultures conceptualize similar structures of understanding hu…
International Diversification: Effects on Innovation and Firm Performance in Product-Diversified Firms.
Theory suggests and results show that firm performance is initially positive but eventually levels off and becomes negative as international diversification increases. Product diversification moder...
Association of smoking and smoking cessation with major causes of mortality in the Asia Pacific Region: The Asia Pacific Cohort Studies Collaboration
Allowing for the recent uptake of smoking in Asia, its effects are comparable to those observed in ANZ. Stringent tobacco control measures and smoking cessation strategies are urgently required in Asia
Dietary assessment methods in epidemiologic studies
Diet is a major lifestyle-related risk factor of various chronic diseases. Dietary intake can be assessed by subjective report and objective observation. Subjective assessment is possible using open-ended surveys such as dietary recalls or records, or using closed-ended surveys including food frequency questionnaires. Each method has inherent strengths and limitations. Continued efforts to improve the accuracy of dietary intake assessment and enh…
Association between stressful life events and resting heart rate
Our findings suggest that the experience of a recent SLEs are associated with a lower resting HR in Korean adults. Although further investigation is required, people who have experienced recent SLEs and have a lower HR than usual may need attention for their stress level
Unsecured Consumer Debt and Mental Health Outcomes in Middle-Aged and Older Americans
In middle-aged and older Americans, unsecured debt has negative effects on mental health because of the associated depressive symptoms and decreased psychological well-being. The deleterious effects of unsecured debt on mental health are largely accounted for by perceived control over personal financial circumstances. Interventions enhancing older adults' control over personal financial circumstances may protect against the psychological decremen…
Underweight and mortality
Objective According to most prospective studies, being underweight (BMI 2 ) is associated with significantly higher mortality than being of normal weight, especially among smokers. We aimed to explore in a generally lean population whether being underweight is significantly associated with increased all-cause mortality. Design Prospective cohort study. Setting Korea Medical Insurance Corporation study with 14 years of follow-up. Subjects After ex…
Social network types among older Korean adults: Associations with subjective health
Social Activities and Health-Related Quality of Life in Rural Older Adults in South Korea: A 4-Year Longitudinal Analysis
During later life, inadequate social interactions may be associated with worse quality of life in older adults. Rural older adults are prone to developing unhealthy lifestyles related to social activities, which can lead to a poorer quality of life than that enjoyed by older adults living in urban areas. This study aimed to describe longitudinal changes in social activity participation and health-related quality of life among rural older adults, …
Residential Radon Exposure and Cigarette Smoking in Association with Lung Cancer: A Matched Case-Control Study in Korea
Residential radon exposure and cigarette smoking are the two most important risk factors for lung cancer. The combined effects thereof were evaluated in a multi-center matched case-control study in South Korea. A total of 1038 participants were included, comprising 519 non-small cell lung cancer cases and 519 age- and sex- matched community-based controls. Residential radon levels were measured for all participants. Multivariate logistic regressi…
Worldwide trends in hypertension prevalence and progress in treatment and control from 1990 to 2019: A pooled analysis of 1201 population-representative studies with 104 million participants
BACKGROUND: Hypertension can be detected at the primary health-care level and low-cost treatments can effectively control hypertension. We aimed to measure the prevalence of hypertension and progress in its detection, treatment, and control from 1990 to 2019 for 200 countries and territories. METHODS: We used data from 1990 to 2019 on people aged 30-79 years from population-representative studies with measurement of blood pressure and data on blo…
Gender differences in the longitudinal association between husbands' and wives' depressive symptoms among Korean older adults: The moderating effects of the spousal relationship
Association between social network structure and physical activity in middle-aged Korean adults
Association Between Social Network and Cognitive Function: A Cross-Sectional Assessment From the Cardiovascular and Metabolic Diseases Etiology Research Center Cohort (2013–2018)
There were positive associations between social network properties (i.e., size, intimacy, and frequency of face-to-face meetings) and cognitive function. The degree of association varied according to social network properties, gender, and income level. Overall, among social network properties, social network size was an important factor in the cognition of women, whereas frequency was important in the cognition of men
Association between perceived exposure to secondhand smoke and depression independent of biomarker-measured exposure
Perceived exposure to secondhand smoke has previously not been distinguished from actual exposure dose when considering the association with depression. This cross-sectional study evaluated whether perceived exposure to secondhand smoke was associated with depression after adjusting for biomarker-based exposure. Adult non-smokers and ex-smokers (N = 16,926) were sampled from the Korea National Health and Nutrition Examination Survey from 2014 to …
Medicine (13 works) · Psychology (9 works) · Demography (7 works) · Sociology (7 works) · Demography (6 works) · Environmental health (6 works) · Gerontology (6 works) · Health disparities and outcomes (6 works) · Internal Medicine (6 works) · Social Psychology (6 works)