Jeju National University Hospital

Relationships Between Loneliness, Common Mental Disorders, and Lifetime Suicidality in a Korean Adult Population

Objective Loneliness has emerged as a significant public health concern in Korea. Recent studies suggest that loneliness may be closely associated with common mental disorders (CMDs) and suicidal thoughts and behaviors. This study evaluated associations between loneliness, CMDs,...

Criteria-based probable REM sleep behaviour disorder and risk of Lewy body dementia: analyses of a memory clinic cohort and a community cohort

Abstract Background REM sleep behaviour disorder (RBD) is the strongest prodromal marker of alpha-synucleinopathies, but whether a brief questionnaire carries prognostic information for Lewy body dementia is unclear. We tested whether criteria-based probable RBD (pRBD)—a question...

Prevalence and molecular profile of clonal hematopoiesis in a community-based Korean cohort: a cross-sectional analysis of the Jeju Genome Project

Clonal hematopoiesis (CH) increases with age; however, population-based Korean data defined using variant-level driver criteria remain limited. We characterized CH in a large community-based Korean whole-genome sequencing (WGS) cohort within the Jeju Genome Project (JGP). We perf...

Vascular Imaging Features and Time-Specific Recurrence Risk After Craniocervical Artery Dissection

Background and ObjectivesCraniocervical artery dissection (CCAD) is a major cause of stroke in young adults, yet its recurrence risk remains poorly defined because of delayed enrollment in prior research. We aimed to determine the temporal distribution of recurrent ischemic strok...

Changing Clinical Characteristics, Diagnostic Patterns, and Outcomes of Tuberculosis in South Korea: The Korean Tuberculosis Cohort, 2019-2024

BACKGROUND: Tuberculosis (TB) remains a public health concern in South Korea despite declining national notifications. We evaluated temporal changes in clinical characteristics, diagnostic patterns, and treatment outcomes in the Korean Tuberculosis Cohort (KTBC) from 2019 to 2024...

Domain-Specific Cognitive Concordance in Older Married Couples

Importance Spousal similarity in late-life cognition has been reported, but whether concordance differs across cognitive domains remains unclear. Objective To examine whether cognitive concordance among older married couples is domain specific by comparing real couples with demog...