Soonchunhyang University Hospital Bucheon

Perspectives on Community-Based Pediatric Obesity Prevention and Management Programs in South Korea: A Qualitative Interview Study of School and Local Public Health Center Providers

Background: Pediatric obesity has increased globally, and South Korea has reported the highest prevalence in East Asia. Despite national policies addressing children's nutrition and health, fragmented governance and overlapping programs may limit their effectiveness. We compared...

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...

Stereotactic body radiation therapy for hepatocellular carcinoma: 2026 expert consensus-based practical recommendation of the Korean Liver Cancer Association

Stereotactic body radiation therapy (SBRT) is a noninvasive, high-precision radiation technique that delivers a high dose to the tumor in a limited number of fractions, typically five or fewer, and is increasingly used as a curative-intent option for hepatocellular carcinoma (HCC...

Annual Report of the Korean Association of External Quality Assessment Service on General Chemistry (2025)

The 2025 general chemistry proficiency testing program, administered by the Korean Association of External Quality Assessment Service, comprised both routine and urine chemistry surveys covering 29 and 13 analytes, respectively.In 2025, glucose was removed from the general chemis...