Fooyin University

Value perceptions and implementation priorities for public PHR adoption in Taiwan: an importance–performance analysis with the Chuchiming Index

Abstract Background Value perceptions of personal health record (PHR) components at the pre-adoption stage remain underexplored, despite their critical role in promoting the adoption of public PHRs. Importance–Performance Analysis (IPA) may have limitations in identifying priorit...

Endometrial microbial culture in the era of mNGS: a prospective cohort study of endometrial dysbiosis in women with infertility

Endometrial dysbiosis (ED) and chronic endometritis (CE) have gained increasing attention as potential risk factors for implantation failure and infertility. However, their diagnostic assessment remains heterogeneous, and the clinical roles of microbial culture and metagenomic ne...

Association Between Sugar-Sweetened Beverage Consumption and Psychological Distress: Analysis of the Nutrition and Health Survey in Taiwan

Objective: This study aimed to assess the association between sugar-sweetened beverage (SSB) consumption and psychological distress. Design: This study used a cross-sectional design. Setting: The database from the 2013–2016 Nutrition and Health Survey in Taiwan (NAHSIT) was used...

Combined Mesenchymal Stem Cells and Low-Energy Shock Wave Therapy Significantly Reduced Inflammation, Oxidative Stress and Preserved Podocytes in Diabetic Nephropathy

Diabetic nephropathy (DN) is among the leading microvascular complications of diabetes mellitus and a major cause of end-stage renal disease. Current treatments slow disease progression but do not restore lost podocytes. We tested whether Wharton’s jelly-derived mesenchymal stem...