Sang Lee
Biographic Data
| ID | 3937244 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Sang Lee |
| GIVEN NAMES | Sang |
| FAMILY NAME | Lee |
| SIGNATURE | LEE S |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of San Carlos |
| ORCID | 0000-0001-6552-214X |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 28 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 22 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 28 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2010 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 2 |
Digital trajectories of acculturation: Social media practices among a sample of African female domestic workers
Globalization and cross-cultural migration have intensified the movement of individuals across national and cultural boundaries, particularly among migrants employed in feminized labor sectors. Within these contexts, acculturation is shaped not only by face-to-face interactions but also by engagement with digital media. This study examines how and why African female domestic workers in the United Arab Emirates (UAE) use social media and how these…
Digital crisis management: How proactive online engagements on patient complaints influence social media users’ perceptions
This study investigates how a pharmaceutical company’s responses to patients’ complaints regarding side effects affect social media users’ evaluation of a paracrisis situation. An online study was conducted by simulating a real-world paracrisis situation in which patients petitioned about the serious side effects of a drug on the pharmaceutical company’s Facebook page. Results showed that users who are actively engaged with social media reacted m…
College Students’ Use and Perceptions of AI Tools in the UAE: Motivations, Ethical Concerns and Institutional Guidelines
This survey study aims to understand how college students use and perceive artificial intelligence (AI) tools in the United Arab Emirates (UAE). It reports students’ use, perceived motivations, and ethical concerns and how these variables are interrelated. Responses (n = 822) were collected from seven universities in five UAE emirates. The findings show widespread use of AI tools (79.6%), with various factors affecting students’ perceptions about…
Intergenerational educational mobility and mental health: Evidence from a Filipino birth cohort
Evidence suggests that associations between educational attainment and mental health may vary according to educational mobility (i.e., changes in educational attainment across generations). This evidence is largely limited to high-income countries. Using data from an ongoing birth cohort (Cebu Longitudinal Health and Nutrition Survey), we assessed the associations with mental health for both own educational attainment and intergenerational educat…
Helicobacter pylori in the Philippines: Social and Ecological Determinants of Seropositivity and Lack of Association With Systemic Inflammation
Helicobacter pylori ( H. pylori ) is a bacterium that infects the stomach and is associated with various gastrointestinal outcomes and increased cardiovascular disease risk. We examined the role of sex in and the social and ecological factors associated with H. pylori seropositivity ( n = 124) and the relationship between seropositivity and systemic inflammation ( n = 116) among adults in Metro Cebu, Philippines. Data were drawn from the Cebu Lon…
Meta‐Analysis of the Heritability of Childhood Height From 560 000 Pairs of Relatives Born Between 1929 and 2004
Genetic and Environmental Contributions to Child Height in Low‐ and Middle‐Income Countries
Background Child height is influenced by genetic and environmental factors. However, it is unclear how these factors vary by geographical region and by study design, particularly in low‐ and middle‐income countries (LMIC), where data is scarce. Understanding these variations will aid the identification of factors that may be hindering growth in specific populations. Methods We analyzed height data of children under 5 years of age from 17 066 twin…
Communicating crisis news amid polarization: How political affiliations influence information processing of a political crisis
Assessing the impact of paternal emigration on children ‘left-behind’—A cohort analysis
Intimate partner violence, depression, and chronic low‐grade inflammation among middle‐aged women in Cebu, Philippines
OBJECTIVES: Recent discussions in human biology have highlighted how local ecological contexts shape the relationship between social stressors and health across populations. Chronic low-grade inflammation has been proposed as a pathway linking social stressors to health, with evidence concentrated in high-income Western contexts. However, it remains unclear whether this is an important pathway in populations where prevalence is lower due to lower…
Association between infectious exposures in infancy and epigenetic age acceleration in young adulthood in metropolitan Cebu, Philippines
OBJECTIVES: The drivers of human life expectancy gains over the past 200 years are not well-established, with a potential role for historical reductions in infectious disease. We investigate whether infectious exposures in infancy predict biological aging using DNA methylation-based markers that forecast patterns of morbidity and mortality later in life. METHODS: N = 1450 participants from the Cebu Longitudinal Health and Nutrition Survey-a prosp…
Gender Roles, Gender Bias, and Cultural Influences: Perceptions of Male and Female UAE Public Relations Professionals
Research into gender dynamics in the Public Relations (PR) industry has suggested that the gendered perceptions of PR roles, gender bias, and cultural norms may contribute to gender-related issues in the field. The current study, framed as an exploratory investigation, examines how PR professionals in the United Arab Emirates (UAE) perceive gender equality issues within their industry. Drawing on survey responses from 152 PR practitioners in the …
Integrative analysis of genomic and exposomic influences on youth mental health
BACKGROUND: Understanding complex influences on mental health problems in young people is needed to inform early prevention strategies. Both genetic and environmental factors are known to influence youth mental health, but a more comprehensive picture of their interplay, including wide-ranging environmental exposures - that is, the exposome - is needed. We perform an integrative analysis of genomic and exposomic data in relation to internalizing …
Health selection on self-rated health and the healthy migrant effect: Baseline and 1-year results from the health of Philippine Emigrants Study
Studies of migration and health focus on a “healthy migrant effect” whereby migrants are healthier than individuals not migrating. Health selection remains the popular explanation of this phenomenon. However, studies are mixed on whether selection occurs and typically examine migrants post-departure. This study used a novel pre-migration dataset to identify which health and social domains differ between migrants and their non-migrant counterparts…
Subjective social status is associated with happiness but not weight status or psychological distress: An analysis of three prospective birth cohorts from low- and middle-income countries
Subjective social status showed small but consistent associations with happiness in birth cohorts independent of life-course SEP
Stunting, IQ, and final school attainment in the Cebu Longitudinal Health and Nutrition Survey birth cohort
School attainment is an important aspect of human capital, and a key determinant of long-term health and well-being. Early life deprivation and poor nutritional status are well known predictors of school entry and progression. We examine the persistence of early life influences and subsequent socioeconomic disadvantage (SED) across the multiple school continuation decisions that lead to final school attainment. Using data from a Philippine birth …
Predictors of maternal‐origin microchimerism in young women in the Philippines
OBJECTIVES: Microchimerism is the presence of a small quantity of cells or DNA from a genetically distinct individual. This phenomenon occurs with bidirectional maternal-fetal exchange during pregnancy. Microchimerism can persist for decades after delivery and have long-term health implications. However, little is known about why microchimerism is detectable at varying levels in different individuals. We examine the variability and the following …
Deflecting resistance to persuasion: Exploring CSR message strategies on consumer evaluations
Awareness of persuasive intent often results in resistance to persuasion. In this study, we investigated conditions under which explicit persuasive intent may not cause resistance to persuasion in CSR message strategies. Specifically, we examined the interplay between persuasive intent and regulatory-framed CSR messages in a marketing communication context. We found that the negative effect of explicit persuasive intent is less pronounced in prom…
Evolutionary life history theory as an organising framework for cohort studies: Insights from the Cebu Longitudinal Health and Nutrition Survey
By tracking a group of individuals through time, cohort studies provide fundamental insights into the developmental time course and causes of health and disease. Evolutionary life history theory seeks to explain patterns of growth, development, reproduction and senescence, and inspires a range of hypotheses that are testable using the longitudinal data from cohort studies. Here we review two decades of life history theory-motivated work conducted…
Early life growth and adult telomere length in a Filipino cohort study
OBJECTIVE: We investigated the relationship between early life growth patterns and blood telomere length (TL) in adulthood using conditional measures of lean and fat mass growth to evaluate potentially sensitive periods of early life growth. METHODS: This study included data from 1562 individuals (53% male; age 20-22 years) participating in the Cebu Longitudinal Health and Nutrition Survey, located in metropolitan Cebu, Philippines. Primary expos…
Ankle brachial index (ABI) in a cohort of older women in the Philippines: Prevalence of peripheral artery disease and predictors of ABI
The prevalence of PAD is low in Cebu Longitudinal Health and Nutrition Survey participants, and ABI was related to few CVD risk factors. Past reports of lower PAD risk in relation to BMI may reflect confounding by lean mass, which has protective relationships with ABI
How implicit mindset influences consumers’ perception of company engagement with product complaints online
Consumer complaints posted on social media can quickly escalate a problem to become a crisis for a company. Although many companies engage with consumer complaints on various social media platforms, understanding of the mechanisms underlying consumer perceptions of such engagement remains limited. Thus, we examined how company engagement and consumers’ implicit mindset (i.e., implicit beliefs about the nature of human traits) influences consumer …
Reasons for Surgery Cancellation in a General Hospital: A 10-year Study
Background : This study researched related causes that make scheduled surgeries canceled not to be conducted and based on the research it is to derive issues in order to reduce surgery cancellation. Methods : We analyzed the association of surgery cancellation with patient characteristics, surgical characteristics and surgery schedule related characteristics, using electronic medical record (EMR) data on surgeries conducted at a university hospit…
Health of Philippine Emigrants Study (HoPES): Study design and rationale
Migrants enrolled in the study appear to be representative of recent Filipino migrants to the U.S. Additionally, migrant and non-migrant study participants are comparable on several characteristics that we attempted to balance at baseline, including age, gender, and education. HoPES is a unique study that approximates a natural experiment from which to study the effects of immigration on obesity and other health problems. A number of innovative m…
Hidden heritability due to heterogeneity across seven populations
Meta-analyses of genome-wide association studies, which dominate genetic discovery, are based on data from diverse historical time periods and populations. Genetic scores derived from genome-wide association studies explain only a fraction of the heritability estimates obtained from whole-genome studies on single populations, known as the ‘hidden heritability’ puzzle. Using seven sampling populations (n = 35,062), we test whether hidden heritabil…
Hidden heritability due to heterogeneity across seven populations
Meta-analyses of genome-wide association studies, which dominate genetic discovery, are based on data from diverse historical time periods and populations. Genetic scores derived from genome-wide association studies explain only a fraction of the heritability estimates obtained from whole-genome studies on single populations, known as the ‘hidden heritability’ puzzle. Using seven sampling populations (n = 35,062), we test whether hidden heritabil…
Gender Roles, Gender Bias, and Cultural Influences: Perceptions of Male and Female UAE Public Relations Professionals
Research into gender dynamics in the Public Relations (PR) industry has suggested that the gendered perceptions of PR roles, gender bias, and cultural norms may contribute to gender-related issues in the field. The current study, framed as an exploratory investigation, examines how PR professionals in the United Arab Emirates (UAE) perceive gender equality issues within their industry. Drawing on survey responses from 152 PR practitioners in the …
Change in waist circumference over 11 years and current waist circumference independently predict elevated CRP in Filipino women
C‐reactive protein, a marker of chronic, low‐grade inflammation, is strongly associated with current central adiposity, and has been linked to elevated risk of cardiovascular disease. Less is known about the contribution of longitudinal change in waist circumference to current inflammation. We evaluated the extent to which current waist circumference and change over an 11‐year interval contribute independently to low‐grade systemic inflammation m…
Gcta: A Tool for Genome-wide Complex Trait Analysis
GWAS of 126,559 Individuals Identifies Genetic Variants Associated with Educational Attainment
Genetic College Many genomic elements in humans are associated with behavior, including educational attainment. In a genome-wide association study including more than 100,000 samples, Rietveld et al. (p. 1467 , published online 30 May; see the Perspective by Flint and Munafò ) looked for genes related to educational attainment in Caucasians. Small genetic effects at three loci appeared to impact educational attainment.
Hidden heritability due to heterogeneity across seven populations
Meta-analyses of genome-wide association studies, which dominate genetic discovery, are based on data from diverse historical time periods and populations. Genetic scores derived from genome-wide association studies explain only a fraction of the heritability estimates obtained from whole-genome studies on single populations, known as the ‘hidden heritability’ puzzle. Using seven sampling populations (n = 35,062), we test whether hidden heritabil…
Reasons for Surgery Cancellation in a General Hospital: A 10-year Study
Background : This study researched related causes that make scheduled surgeries canceled not to be conducted and based on the research it is to derive issues in order to reduce surgery cancellation. Methods : We analyzed the association of surgery cancellation with patient characteristics, surgical characteristics and surgery schedule related characteristics, using electronic medical record (EMR) data on surgeries conducted at a university hospit…
Health of Philippine Emigrants Study (HoPES): Study design and rationale
Migrants enrolled in the study appear to be representative of recent Filipino migrants to the U.S. Additionally, migrant and non-migrant study participants are comparable on several characteristics that we attempted to balance at baseline, including age, gender, and education. HoPES is a unique study that approximates a natural experiment from which to study the effects of immigration on obesity and other health problems. A number of innovative m…
Early life growth and adult telomere length in a Filipino cohort study
OBJECTIVE: We investigated the relationship between early life growth patterns and blood telomere length (TL) in adulthood using conditional measures of lean and fat mass growth to evaluate potentially sensitive periods of early life growth. METHODS: This study included data from 1562 individuals (53% male; age 20-22 years) participating in the Cebu Longitudinal Health and Nutrition Survey, located in metropolitan Cebu, Philippines. Primary expos…
Ankle brachial index (ABI) in a cohort of older women in the Philippines: Prevalence of peripheral artery disease and predictors of ABI
The prevalence of PAD is low in Cebu Longitudinal Health and Nutrition Survey participants, and ABI was related to few CVD risk factors. Past reports of lower PAD risk in relation to BMI may reflect confounding by lean mass, which has protective relationships with ABI
How implicit mindset influences consumers’ perception of company engagement with product complaints online
Consumer complaints posted on social media can quickly escalate a problem to become a crisis for a company. Although many companies engage with consumer complaints on various social media platforms, understanding of the mechanisms underlying consumer perceptions of such engagement remains limited. Thus, we examined how company engagement and consumers’ implicit mindset (i.e., implicit beliefs about the nature of human traits) influences consumer …
Deflecting resistance to persuasion: Exploring CSR message strategies on consumer evaluations
Awareness of persuasive intent often results in resistance to persuasion. In this study, we investigated conditions under which explicit persuasive intent may not cause resistance to persuasion in CSR message strategies. Specifically, we examined the interplay between persuasive intent and regulatory-framed CSR messages in a marketing communication context. We found that the negative effect of explicit persuasive intent is less pronounced in prom…
Evolutionary life history theory as an organising framework for cohort studies: Insights from the Cebu Longitudinal Health and Nutrition Survey
By tracking a group of individuals through time, cohort studies provide fundamental insights into the developmental time course and causes of health and disease. Evolutionary life history theory seeks to explain patterns of growth, development, reproduction and senescence, and inspires a range of hypotheses that are testable using the longitudinal data from cohort studies. Here we review two decades of life history theory-motivated work conducted…
Stunting, IQ, and final school attainment in the Cebu Longitudinal Health and Nutrition Survey birth cohort
School attainment is an important aspect of human capital, and a key determinant of long-term health and well-being. Early life deprivation and poor nutritional status are well known predictors of school entry and progression. We examine the persistence of early life influences and subsequent socioeconomic disadvantage (SED) across the multiple school continuation decisions that lead to final school attainment. Using data from a Philippine birth …
Predictors of maternal‐origin microchimerism in young women in the Philippines
OBJECTIVES: Microchimerism is the presence of a small quantity of cells or DNA from a genetically distinct individual. This phenomenon occurs with bidirectional maternal-fetal exchange during pregnancy. Microchimerism can persist for decades after delivery and have long-term health implications. However, little is known about why microchimerism is detectable at varying levels in different individuals. We examine the variability and the following …
Integrative analysis of genomic and exposomic influences on youth mental health
BACKGROUND: Understanding complex influences on mental health problems in young people is needed to inform early prevention strategies. Both genetic and environmental factors are known to influence youth mental health, but a more comprehensive picture of their interplay, including wide-ranging environmental exposures - that is, the exposome - is needed. We perform an integrative analysis of genomic and exposomic data in relation to internalizing …
Health selection on self-rated health and the healthy migrant effect: Baseline and 1-year results from the health of Philippine Emigrants Study
Studies of migration and health focus on a “healthy migrant effect” whereby migrants are healthier than individuals not migrating. Health selection remains the popular explanation of this phenomenon. However, studies are mixed on whether selection occurs and typically examine migrants post-departure. This study used a novel pre-migration dataset to identify which health and social domains differ between migrants and their non-migrant counterparts…
Subjective social status is associated with happiness but not weight status or psychological distress: An analysis of three prospective birth cohorts from low- and middle-income countries
Subjective social status showed small but consistent associations with happiness in birth cohorts independent of life-course SEP
Association between infectious exposures in infancy and epigenetic age acceleration in young adulthood in metropolitan Cebu, Philippines
OBJECTIVES: The drivers of human life expectancy gains over the past 200 years are not well-established, with a potential role for historical reductions in infectious disease. We investigate whether infectious exposures in infancy predict biological aging using DNA methylation-based markers that forecast patterns of morbidity and mortality later in life. METHODS: N = 1450 participants from the Cebu Longitudinal Health and Nutrition Survey-a prosp…
Gender Roles, Gender Bias, and Cultural Influences: Perceptions of Male and Female UAE Public Relations Professionals
Research into gender dynamics in the Public Relations (PR) industry has suggested that the gendered perceptions of PR roles, gender bias, and cultural norms may contribute to gender-related issues in the field. The current study, framed as an exploratory investigation, examines how PR professionals in the United Arab Emirates (UAE) perceive gender equality issues within their industry. Drawing on survey responses from 152 PR practitioners in the …
Intimate partner violence, depression, and chronic low‐grade inflammation among middle‐aged women in Cebu, Philippines
OBJECTIVES: Recent discussions in human biology have highlighted how local ecological contexts shape the relationship between social stressors and health across populations. Chronic low-grade inflammation has been proposed as a pathway linking social stressors to health, with evidence concentrated in high-income Western contexts. However, it remains unclear whether this is an important pathway in populations where prevalence is lower due to lower…
Digital crisis management: How proactive online engagements on patient complaints influence social media users’ perceptions
This study investigates how a pharmaceutical company’s responses to patients’ complaints regarding side effects affect social media users’ evaluation of a paracrisis situation. An online study was conducted by simulating a real-world paracrisis situation in which patients petitioned about the serious side effects of a drug on the pharmaceutical company’s Facebook page. Results showed that users who are actively engaged with social media reacted m…
College Students’ Use and Perceptions of AI Tools in the UAE: Motivations, Ethical Concerns and Institutional Guidelines
This survey study aims to understand how college students use and perceive artificial intelligence (AI) tools in the United Arab Emirates (UAE). It reports students’ use, perceived motivations, and ethical concerns and how these variables are interrelated. Responses (n = 822) were collected from seven universities in five UAE emirates. The findings show widespread use of AI tools (79.6%), with various factors affecting students’ perceptions about…
Intergenerational educational mobility and mental health: Evidence from a Filipino birth cohort
Evidence suggests that associations between educational attainment and mental health may vary according to educational mobility (i.e., changes in educational attainment across generations). This evidence is largely limited to high-income countries. Using data from an ongoing birth cohort (Cebu Longitudinal Health and Nutrition Survey), we assessed the associations with mental health for both own educational attainment and intergenerational educat…
Helicobacter pylori in the Philippines: Social and Ecological Determinants of Seropositivity and Lack of Association With Systemic Inflammation
Helicobacter pylori ( H. pylori ) is a bacterium that infects the stomach and is associated with various gastrointestinal outcomes and increased cardiovascular disease risk. We examined the role of sex in and the social and ecological factors associated with H. pylori seropositivity ( n = 124) and the relationship between seropositivity and systemic inflammation ( n = 116) among adults in Metro Cebu, Philippines. Data were drawn from the Cebu Lon…
Meta‐Analysis of the Heritability of Childhood Height From 560 000 Pairs of Relatives Born Between 1929 and 2004
Genetic and Environmental Contributions to Child Height in Low‐ and Middle‐Income Countries
Background Child height is influenced by genetic and environmental factors. However, it is unclear how these factors vary by geographical region and by study design, particularly in low‐ and middle‐income countries (LMIC), where data is scarce. Understanding these variations will aid the identification of factors that may be hindering growth in specific populations. Methods We analyzed height data of children under 5 years of age from 17 066 twin…
Medicine (18 works) · Psychology (15 works) · Demography (14 works) · Biology (9 works) · Cohort (8 works) · Gerontology (8 works) · Internal Medicine (8 works) · Birth, Development, and Health (7 works) · Cohort study (7 works) · Population (7 works)