Yawei Zhang
Biographic Data
| ID | 4320828 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Yawei Zhang |
| GIVEN NAMES | Yawei |
| FAMILY NAME | Zhang |
| SIGNATURE | ZHANG Y |
| AFFILIATIONS | Yale University |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-9762-7752 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 15 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 1 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 15 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2011 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2025 |
| H-INDEX | 1 |
Temporospatial variation in environmental risk factors and related gastric cancer incidence
Background: Gastric cancer is a formidable global heath challenge, especially in China. We aimed to investigate temporal trends and spatial variations of gastric cancer incidence and mortality in Gansu Province, which has the highest incidence rate of gastric cancer in China, and sought to explore the role of various geographic and environmental factors played in the variations of incidence rates of gastric cancer. Methods: We sourced the inciden…
Exploring Features of Pocket Parks That Related to Restorative Effects
To explore the relationship between features of pocket parks and restorative effects, this paper conducted a systematic review and synthesized existing empirical literature. Following the PRISMA guidelines, six databases were searched using keywords related to pocket parks and restorative outcomes. A total of 19 articles were identified. Results indicate that: (1) Research shows distinct regional phases, shifting from Northern European dominance …
Towards a holistic and reflexive assessment of green buildings and technological landscapes in Hong Kong
The selection of sustainable technologies is a critical challenge in the global pursuit of decarbonisation, yet prevailing models often privilege technical and economic metrics at the expense of contextual nuance and stakeholder diversity. This article advances a holistic and reflexive assessment framework for technology selection, foregrounding the integration of technical, economic, environmental, and social criteria, and embedding the perspect…
Geographic disparities in trends of thyroid cancer incidence and mortality from 1990 to 2019 and a projection to 2030 across income-classified countries and territories
Background: The rising incidence of thyroid cancer (TC) has generated growing concern globally; yet there are no studies examining whether this incidence was followed by a rise in related mortality. We aimed to comprehensively quantify current trends and future projections of TC incidence and mortality, and to explore the association between the TC burden and socioeconomic inequality in different income strata. Methods: We obtained incidence and …
Blockchain Technology for Electronic Health Records
Compared with traditional paper-based medical records, electronic health records (EHRs) are widely used because of their efficiency, security, and reducing data redundancy. However, EHRs still manifest poor interoperability and privacy issues are unresolved. As a distributed ledger protocol composed of encrypted blocks of data organized in chains, blockchain represents a potential tool to solve the shortcomings of EHRs in terms of interoperabilit…
Trends in Prescription Opioid Use in Motor Vehicle Crash Injuries in the United States
Motor vehicle crashes (MVC) cause over three million people to be nonfatally injured each year in the United States alone. We investigated trends and patterns in prescription opioid usage among nonfatal MVC injuries in 50 states in the US and the District of Columbia from 2014 to 2018. All emergency department visits for an MVC event ( N = 142,204) were identified from the IBM ® MarketScan ® Databases. Using log-binomial regression models, we inv…
Household Exposure to Secondhand Smoke among Chinese Children
Smoking prevalence stays high among adults in China, which also makes children exposed to secondhand smoke (SHS) in their households. This study aimed to investigate the status of SHS exposure among Chinese children, identify the influencing factors, and determine "co-exposure" to tobacco and other smokes in households. A total of 41,439 children aged 6-17 years were recruited from 30 provinces in Mainland China through the first Chinese Environm…
Folic acid supplementation, dietary folate intake and risk of small for gestational age in China
Objective: To investigate the hypothesis that folic acid supplementation and dietary folate intake before conception and during pregnancy reduce the risk of small for gestational age (SGA) and to examine the joint effect of folic acid supplementation and dietary folate intake on the risk of SGA. Design: Participants were interviewed by trained study interviewers using a standardized and structured questionnaire. Information on birth outcomes and …
The cost of reproduction in women
OBJECTIVES: Life history theory predicts a trade-off between female investment in reproduction and somatic maintenance, which can result in accelerated senescence. Oxidative stress has been shown to be a causal physiological mechanism for accelerated aging and a possible contributor to this trade-off. We aimed to test the hypothesis for the existence of significant associations between measures of reproductive effort and the level of oxidative st…
Residential mobility during pregnancy in Urban Gansu, China
Maternal tea consumption and the risk of preterm delivery in urban China
Despite conflicting findings in the previous literature, we saw a significant association with maternal tea drinking and risk of preterm birth in our cohort. More studies are needed both to confirm this finding and to elucidate the mechanism behind this association
Ambient air pollutant PM10 and risk of pregnancy-induced hypertension in urban China
Background : The relationship between air borne particulate matter ≤10 μ m (PM _10 ) exposure and pregnancy-induced hypertension (PIH) is inconclusive. Few studies have been conducted, and fewer were conducted in areas with high levels of PM _10 . Methods : To examine the association between PM _10 and PIH by different exposure time windows during pregnancy, we analyzed data from a birth cohort study conducted in Lanzhou, China including 8 745 pr…
Ambient air pollution and congenital heart defects in Lanzhou, China
Congenital heart defects are the most prevalent type of birth defects. The association of air pollution with congenital heart defects is not well understood. We investigated a cohort of 8,969 singleton live births in Lanzhou, China during 2010-2012. Using inverse distance weighting, maternal exposures to particulate matter with diameter ≤10 μm (PM 10 ), nitrogen dioxide (NO 2 ), and sulfur dioxide (SO 2 ) were estimated as a combination of monito…
Exposure to cooking fuels and birth weight in Lanzhou, China
These findings suggest that exposure to biomass during pregnancy is associated with risk of LBW, and the effect of biomass on LBW may be primarily due to prematurity rather than IUGR
Quality of life among testicular cancer survivors
Exploring Features of Pocket Parks That Related to Restorative Effects
To explore the relationship between features of pocket parks and restorative effects, this paper conducted a systematic review and synthesized existing empirical literature. Following the PRISMA guidelines, six databases were searched using keywords related to pocket parks and restorative outcomes. A total of 19 articles were identified. Results indicate that: (1) Research shows distinct regional phases, shifting from Northern European dominance …
Quality of life among testicular cancer survivors
Ambient air pollutant PM10 and risk of pregnancy-induced hypertension in urban China
Background : The relationship between air borne particulate matter ≤10 μ m (PM _10 ) exposure and pregnancy-induced hypertension (PIH) is inconclusive. Few studies have been conducted, and fewer were conducted in areas with high levels of PM _10 . Methods : To examine the association between PM _10 and PIH by different exposure time windows during pregnancy, we analyzed data from a birth cohort study conducted in Lanzhou, China including 8 745 pr…
Ambient air pollution and congenital heart defects in Lanzhou, China
Congenital heart defects are the most prevalent type of birth defects. The association of air pollution with congenital heart defects is not well understood. We investigated a cohort of 8,969 singleton live births in Lanzhou, China during 2010-2012. Using inverse distance weighting, maternal exposures to particulate matter with diameter ≤10 μm (PM 10 ), nitrogen dioxide (NO 2 ), and sulfur dioxide (SO 2 ) were estimated as a combination of monito…
Exposure to cooking fuels and birth weight in Lanzhou, China
These findings suggest that exposure to biomass during pregnancy is associated with risk of LBW, and the effect of biomass on LBW may be primarily due to prematurity rather than IUGR
Maternal tea consumption and the risk of preterm delivery in urban China
Despite conflicting findings in the previous literature, we saw a significant association with maternal tea drinking and risk of preterm birth in our cohort. More studies are needed both to confirm this finding and to elucidate the mechanism behind this association
The cost of reproduction in women
OBJECTIVES: Life history theory predicts a trade-off between female investment in reproduction and somatic maintenance, which can result in accelerated senescence. Oxidative stress has been shown to be a causal physiological mechanism for accelerated aging and a possible contributor to this trade-off. We aimed to test the hypothesis for the existence of significant associations between measures of reproductive effort and the level of oxidative st…
Residential mobility during pregnancy in Urban Gansu, China
Household Exposure to Secondhand Smoke among Chinese Children
Smoking prevalence stays high among adults in China, which also makes children exposed to secondhand smoke (SHS) in their households. This study aimed to investigate the status of SHS exposure among Chinese children, identify the influencing factors, and determine "co-exposure" to tobacco and other smokes in households. A total of 41,439 children aged 6-17 years were recruited from 30 provinces in Mainland China through the first Chinese Environm…
Folic acid supplementation, dietary folate intake and risk of small for gestational age in China
Objective: To investigate the hypothesis that folic acid supplementation and dietary folate intake before conception and during pregnancy reduce the risk of small for gestational age (SGA) and to examine the joint effect of folic acid supplementation and dietary folate intake on the risk of SGA. Design: Participants were interviewed by trained study interviewers using a standardized and structured questionnaire. Information on birth outcomes and …
Blockchain Technology for Electronic Health Records
Compared with traditional paper-based medical records, electronic health records (EHRs) are widely used because of their efficiency, security, and reducing data redundancy. However, EHRs still manifest poor interoperability and privacy issues are unresolved. As a distributed ledger protocol composed of encrypted blocks of data organized in chains, blockchain represents a potential tool to solve the shortcomings of EHRs in terms of interoperabilit…
Trends in Prescription Opioid Use in Motor Vehicle Crash Injuries in the United States
Motor vehicle crashes (MVC) cause over three million people to be nonfatally injured each year in the United States alone. We investigated trends and patterns in prescription opioid usage among nonfatal MVC injuries in 50 states in the US and the District of Columbia from 2014 to 2018. All emergency department visits for an MVC event ( N = 142,204) were identified from the IBM ® MarketScan ® Databases. Using log-binomial regression models, we inv…
Geographic disparities in trends of thyroid cancer incidence and mortality from 1990 to 2019 and a projection to 2030 across income-classified countries and territories
Background: The rising incidence of thyroid cancer (TC) has generated growing concern globally; yet there are no studies examining whether this incidence was followed by a rise in related mortality. We aimed to comprehensively quantify current trends and future projections of TC incidence and mortality, and to explore the association between the TC burden and socioeconomic inequality in different income strata. Methods: We obtained incidence and …
Temporospatial variation in environmental risk factors and related gastric cancer incidence
Background: Gastric cancer is a formidable global heath challenge, especially in China. We aimed to investigate temporal trends and spatial variations of gastric cancer incidence and mortality in Gansu Province, which has the highest incidence rate of gastric cancer in China, and sought to explore the role of various geographic and environmental factors played in the variations of incidence rates of gastric cancer. Methods: We sourced the inciden…
Exploring Features of Pocket Parks That Related to Restorative Effects
To explore the relationship between features of pocket parks and restorative effects, this paper conducted a systematic review and synthesized existing empirical literature. Following the PRISMA guidelines, six databases were searched using keywords related to pocket parks and restorative outcomes. A total of 19 articles were identified. Results indicate that: (1) Research shows distinct regional phases, shifting from Northern European dominance …
Towards a holistic and reflexive assessment of green buildings and technological landscapes in Hong Kong
The selection of sustainable technologies is a critical challenge in the global pursuit of decarbonisation, yet prevailing models often privilege technical and economic metrics at the expense of contextual nuance and stakeholder diversity. This article advances a holistic and reflexive assessment framework for technology selection, foregrounding the integration of technical, economic, environmental, and social criteria, and embedding the perspect…
Medicine (11 works) · Environmental health (9 works) · Demography (8 works) · Geography (7 works) · Internal Medicine (6 works) · Air Quality and Health Impacts (5 works) · China (5 works) · Demography (5 works) · Population (5 works) · Pregnancy (5 works)