Shenzhen Chronic Disease Prevention Center

Associations of smoking cessation duration with all-cause and selected cause-specific mortality among older adults in Shenzhen, China: a prospective cohort study of 501,932 participants

Smoking poses a major global health threat, and although cessation can reduce mortality risk, the health effects of smoking cessation in older adults with long-term smoking history warrant further investigation. The study included Chinese older adults from the Shenzhen Healthy Ag...

Body Composition–Driven Phenotyping Reveals Obesity and Cardiometabolic Heterogeneity in Children Using a Tree-Like Representation

Traditional measures such as BMI do not fully capture obesity-related metabolic risks. Here, we examined DXA-derived body composition patterns in children (n = 11,238) using the discriminative dimensionality reduction tree algorithm, which was validated in an independent cohort (...