Rui Zhang

Smoking‐Related Distortion of Haemoglobin Concentration May Alter Anaemia Classification and Population Burden Estimates

ABSTRACT Introduction Cigarette smoking can alter interpretation of measured haemoglobin near anaemia thresholds. We quantified the consequences of applying the World Health Organization (WHO) smoking adjustment. Methods We analysed National Health and Nutrition Examination Surve...

Secondhand smoke exposure in never-smokers

Chronic kidney disease (CKD) is a major global health burden, yet the association of secondhand smoke (SHS) exposure with CKD among never-smokers remains incompletely characterized. This cross-sectional and prospective cohort study analyzed 13,276 never-smoking adults from the Na...

Eating-timing patterns derived from K-means clustering and mortality risk in US adults with chronic diseases: a cohort study

Abstract Whether joint eating-timing configurations show comparable mortality associations across chronic diseases is uncertain. We analysed 26 712 adults aged 20 years or older from the National Health and Nutrition Examination Survey (NHANES) 2005–2016 who had two reliable 24-h...