2024
Early-Life Circumstances and Racial Disparities in Cognition Among Older Adults in the US
Lin Z, Ye J, Allore H, Gill T, Chen X. Early-Life Circumstances and Racial Disparities in Cognition Among Older Adults in the US. JAMA Internal Medicine 2024, 184: 904-914. PMID: 38805197, PMCID: PMC11134283, DOI: 10.1001/jamainternmed.2024.1132.Peer-Reviewed Original ResearchEarly-life circumstancesLate-life cognitionRacial disparitiesCross-sectional studyBlack participantsWhite participantsCognitive scoresCognitive impairmentRacial differencesTelephone Interview for Cognitive StatusHealth and Retirement StudyAssociated with racial disparitiesPromote health equityPrevalence of cognitive impairmentIntervention of cognitive impairmentNon-Hispanic blacksSurvey of US adultsNon-Hispanic whitesReduce racial disparitiesPrimary explanatory variableSubstantial racial differencesHealth equityRetirement StudyOlder AdultsUS adults
2020
Linking early life risk factors to frailty in old age: evidence from the China Health and Retirement Longitudinal Study
Li Y, Xue QL, Odden MC, Chen X, Wu C. Linking early life risk factors to frailty in old age: evidence from the China Health and Retirement Longitudinal Study. Age And Ageing 2020, 49: 208-217. PMID: 31957780, PMCID: PMC7047816, DOI: 10.1093/ageing/afz160.Peer-Reviewed Original ResearchConceptsEarly life risk factorsLife risk factorsRisk factorsChildhood health statusRetirement Longitudinal StudyRisk differenceHealth statusChina HealthOlder ageOlder adultsAbsolute risk differenceCross-sectional studyLongitudinal studyUnfavorable socioeconomic statusLate-life frailtyWorse health conditionsChinese older adultsMiddle-income countriesDevelopment of diseaseHigh riskLower riskRepresentative cohortMultinomial regression modelsHealth conditionsFrailty
2018
Air pollution associated with non-suicidal self-injury in Chinese adolescent students: A cross-sectional study
Liu W, Sun H, Zhang X, Chen Q, Xu Y, Chen X, Ding Z. Air pollution associated with non-suicidal self-injury in Chinese adolescent students: A cross-sectional study. Chemosphere 2018, 209: 944-949. PMID: 30114744, PMCID: PMC6100799, DOI: 10.1016/j.chemosphere.2018.06.168.Peer-Reviewed Original Research