Taiwan

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  Subject Areas on Research

  • A clinical clerkship collaborative program in Taiwan: Acquiring core clinical competencies through patient care responsibility. 
  • A comparison of major histocompatibility complex SNPs in Han Chinese residing in Taiwan and Caucasians. 
  • A genome-wide survey of copy number variations in Han Chinese residing in Taiwan. 
  • A large-scale survey of genetic copy number variations among Han Chinese residing in Taiwan. 
  • A multistate model of fecundability and sterility. 
  • A program for eradication of hepatitis B from Taiwan by a 10-year, four-dose vaccination program. 
  • A retrospective, multinational, multicenter study on the natural history of infantile-onset Pompe disease. 
  • A sensitivity analysis of the Bongaarts-Feeney method for adjusting bias in observed period total fertility rates. 
  • A validated translation of a survey for measuring incontinence knowledge in Chinese-speaking American immigrants. 
  • Adherence to quality indicators and survival in patients with breast cancer. 
  • Adjusting period tempo changes with an extension of Ryder's basic translation equation. 
  • Adoption of pharmaceutical innovation and the growth of drug expenditure in Taiwan: is it cost effective? 
  • Age-related macular degeneration: why should stroke physicians care? 
  • Anti-glaucoma agents-induced pseudodendritic keratitis presumed to be herpetic simplex keratitis: a clinical case series. 
  • Apolipoprotein E polymorphism, life stress and self-reported health among older adults. 
  • Aristolochic acids and their derivatives are widely implicated in liver cancers in Taiwan and throughout Asia. 
  • Assessment of water quality management with a systematic qualitative uncertainty analysis. 
  • Association of a Bundled-Payment Program With Cost and Outcomes in Full-Cycle Breast Cancer Care. 
  • Association study of genetic polymorphisms of SLC2A10 gene and type 2 diabetes in the Taiwanese population. 
  • Breast cancer and dietary factors in Taiwanese women. 
  • Carbamazepine-induced toxic effects and HLA-B*1502 screening in Taiwan. 
  • Characterization of heart failure patients with preserved ejection fraction: a comparison between ADHERE-US registry and ADHERE-International registry. 
  • Clinical, 18F-dopa PET, and genetic analysis of an ethnic Chinese kindred with early-onset parkinsonism and parkin gene mutations. 
  • Common risk allele in aromatic antiepileptic-drug induced Stevens-Johnson syndrome and toxic epidermal necrolysis in Han Chinese. 
  • Comparison of the Revised Air Quality Index with the PSI and AQI indices. 
  • Constituents from the root and stem of Aristolochia elegans. 
  • Cross-national comparison of social support structures between Taiwan and the United States. 
  • Depression in Taiwanese patients with Alzheimer's disease determined by the National Institutes of Mental Health Provisional Criteria. 
  • Dietary intakes consistent with the DASH dietary pattern reduce blood pressure increase with age and risk for stroke in a Chinese population. 
  • Early detection of Pompe disease by newborn screening is feasible: results from the Taiwan screening program. 
  • Evolution of the Prevalence of Myopia among Taiwanese Schoolchildren: A Review of Survey Data from 1983 through 2017. 
  • Exposure to stressors and trajectories of perceived stress among older adults. 
  • Full and partial PTSD among earthquake survivors in rural Taiwan. 
  • Genetic polymorphisms of metabolic enzymes and the pharmacokinetics of indapamide in Taiwanese subjects. 
  • Genome-wide association study of treatment refractory schizophrenia in Han Chinese. 
  • Genome-wide association study of young-onset hypertension in the Han Chinese population of Taiwan. 
  • Han Chinese cell and genome bank in Taiwan: purpose, design and ethical considerations. 
  • Heavy metal nephropathy: considerations for exposure analysis. 
  • Impact of caring for grandchildren on the health of grandparents in Taiwan. 
  • Incidence and risk of attention-deficit hyperactivity disorder in children with amblyopia: A nationwide cohort study. 
  • Integrated modeling of clinical and gene expression information for personalized prediction of disease outcomes. 
  • Interactions between life stress factors and carrying the APOE4 allele adversely impact self-reported health in old adults. 
  • International Differences in Treatment and Clinical Outcomes for High Grade Glioma. 
  • Lack of evidence for an association between alpha-adducin and blood pressure regulation in Asian populations. 
  • Large-scale assessment of consistency in sleep stage scoring rules among multiple sleep centers using an interpretable machine learning algorithm. 
  • Learning from Taiwan: experience with universal health insurance. 
  • Long contiguous stretches of homozygosity in the human genome. 
  • Long-term survival of nasopharyngeal carcinoma following concomitant radiotherapy and chemotherapy. 
  • Lumican and muscarinic acetylcholine receptor 1 gene polymorphisms associated with high myopia. 
  • Migraine and increased risk of developing open angle glaucoma: a population-based cohort study. 
  • Modification effects of coping on post-traumatic morbidity among earthquake rescuers. 
  • Molecular profile and copy number analysis of sporadic colorectal cancer in Taiwan. 
  • Multidimensional Pain Inventory-Screening Chinese version (MPI-sC): psychometric testing in terminal cancer patients in Taiwan. 
  • Novel DNA sequence variations of cytochrome P450 genes in the Han Chinese population. 
  • Novel susceptibility gene for nonfamilial hypokalemic periodic paralysis. 
  • Outbreak of bronchiolitis obliterans associated with consumption of Sauropus androgynus in Taiwan. 
  • PSORS2 is due to mutations in CARD14. 
  • Pompe disease in infants: improving the prognosis by newborn screening and early treatment. 
  • Posttraumatic distress and coping strategies among rescue workers after an earthquake. 
  • Predictors of posttraumatic outcomes following the 1999 Taiwan earthquake. 
  • Preoperative concurrent chemotherapy and radiotherapy in rectal cancer patients. 
  • Prevalence of and reasons for women's, family members', and health professionals' preferences for cesarean section in China: A mixed-methods systematic review. 
  • Prognostic accuracy of Acute Physiology and Chronic Health Evaluation II scores in critically ill cancer patients. 
  • Recombinant human acid [alpha]-glucosidase: major clinical benefits in infantile-onset Pompe disease. 
  • Relationship between pain-specific beliefs and adherence to analgesic regimens in Taiwanese cancer patients: a preliminary study. 
  • Replication and meta-analysis of GWAS identified susceptibility loci in Kawasaki disease confirm the importance of B lymphoid tyrosine kinase (BLK) in disease susceptibility. 
  • Risk factors for depressive symptoms in glaucoma patients: a nationwide case-control study. 
  • Seasonal variation in Klebsiella pneumoniae bloodstream infection on 4 continents. 
  • Sex Differences in the Association between Traditional Vascular Risk Factors and Subclinical Carotid Atherosclerosis in Taiwan. 
  • Stability and change in the perceived social support of older Taiwanese adults. 
  • Stress and Quality of Life for Taiwanese Women Who Underwent Infertility Treatment. 
  • Survey of methadone-drug interactions among patients of methadone maintenance treatment program in Taiwan. 
  • Symptom distress, catastrophic thinking, and hope in nasopharyngeal carcinoma patients. 
  • Symptoms of neurasthenia following earthquake trauma: re-examination of a discarded syndrome. 
  • The Effects of Lighting Problems on Eye Symptoms among Cleanroom Microscope Workers. 
  • The association of suicide risk with negative life events and social support according to gender in Asian patients with major depressive disorder. 
  • The correlation between pulse diagnosis and constitution identification in traditional Chinese medicine. 
  • The effect of tracheostomy delay time on outcome of patients with prolonged mechanical ventilation: A STROBE-compliant retrospective cohort study. 
  • Traditional Chinese medicine use is associated with lower end-stage renal disease and mortality rates among patients with diabetic nephropathy: a population-based cohort study. 
  • Two new susceptibility loci for Kawasaki disease identified through genome-wide association analysis. 
  • Use of HLA-B*58:01 genotyping to prevent allopurinol induced severe cutaneous adverse reactions in Taiwan: national prospective cohort study. 
  • [Participation of midwives in family planning in the Republic of China]. 
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  Keywords of People

  • O'Connor, Christopher Michael, Adjunct Professor in the Department of Medicine, Medicine, Clinical Pharmacology
  • Wu, Li-Tzy, Professor in Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences, Medicine, General Internal Medicine