Institution
Hebei Provincial Center for Disease Control and Prevention
Recent research
- Climate & EnvironmentOpen access
Effects of metallic components in ambient PM₂.₅ on pediatric respiratory diseases in Shijiazhuang
Considerable attention has been paid to the short-term association between ambient PM 2.5 exposure and children’s respiratory health, yet evidence on individual and combined exposure to its metal components remains limited, especially in typical industrial cities. Based on daily...
- Climate & EnvironmentOpen access
Background/Objectives: Antimicrobial resistance has renewed interest in bacteriophage cocktails as antibacterial and adjunctive agents, but the global research landscape and the bacterial determinants that constrain cocktail performance have not been mapped within a single framew...
- Health & MedicineOpen access
Background: Maternal nutritional status before pregnancy may influence offspring long-term health; however, the association between pre-pregnancy dietary patterns and body composition in preschool children remains unclear. Methods: This study used data from the Taicang and Wuqian...
- Health & MedicineOpen access
Prevalence of Keshan disease at the township level in China: a cross-sectional study
Keshan disease (KD), an endemic myocardiopathy with unclear etiology, lacks primary preventive measures. This study aimed to assess the prevalence of KD at the township level using spatial epidemiology, elucidate its distribution characteristics for further precision classificati...
- Health & MedicineOpen access
Abstract Osteogenic differentiation of vascular smooth muscle cells (VSMCs) is recognized as a core pathological process underlying vascular calcification (VC). The inflammatory response contributes to the development of phenotypic switch, yet there is a lack of therapeutic strat...