Publications

Danaei G, Finucane MM, Lu Y, Singh GM, Cowan MJ, Paciorek CJ, Lin JK, Farzadfar F, Khang YH, Stevens GA, Rao M, Ali MK, Riley LM, Robinson CA, Ezzati M; Global Burden of Metabolic Risk Factors of Chronic Diseases Collaborating Group (Blood Glucose). National, regional, and global trends in fasting plasma glucose and diabetes prevalence since 1980: systematic analysis of health examination surveys and epidemiological studies with 370 country-years and 2·7 million participants. Lancet. 2011 Jul 2;378(9785):31-40. doi: 10.1016/S0140-6736(11)60679-X. Epub 2011 Jun 24. PMID: 21705069.

 

Global Burden of Metabolic Risk Factors for Chronic Diseases Collaboration. Cardiovascular disease, chronic kidney disease, and diabetes mortality burden of cardiometabolic risk factors from 1980 to 2010: a comparative risk assessment. Lancet Diabetes Endocrinol. 2014 Aug; 2(8):634-47

 

Kassebaum NJ, Bertozzi-Villa A, Coggeshall MS, Shackelford KA, Steiner C, Heuton KR, et al. Global, regional, and national levels and causes of maternal mortality during 1990-2013: a systematic analysis for the Global Burden of Disease Study 2013. Lancet. 2014 Sep; 384(9947):980-1004.

 

Murray CJ, Ortblad KF, Guinovart C, Lim SS, Wolock TM, Roberts DA, et al. Global, regional, and national incidence and mortality for HIV, tuberculosis, and malaria during 1990-2013: a systematic analysis for the Global Burden of Disease Study 2013. Lancet. 2014 Sep; 384(9947):1005-70. 

 

Global Burden of Disease Study 2013 Collaborators. Global, regional, and national incidence, prevalence, and years lived with disability for 301 acute and chronic diseases and injuries in 188 countries, 1990-2013: a systematic analysis for the Global Burden of Disease Study 2013. Lancet. 2015 Jun; pii: S0140-6736(15)60692-4. 

 

Lo WC, Shie RH, Chan CC, Lin HH. Burden of disease attributable to ambient fine particulate matter exposure in Taiwan. Journal of Formosan Medical Association. 2016 Feb; pii: S0929-6646(15)00414-3.

 

Lo WC, Ku CC, Chiou ST, Chan CC, Chen CL, Lai MS, Lin HH. Adult mortality of diseases and injuries attributable to selected metabolic, lifestyle, environmental, and infectious risk factors in Taiwan: a comparative risk assessment. Popul Health Metr. 2017 May 3;15(1):17. doi: 10.1186/s12963-017-0134-4. PMID: 28468625; PMCID: PMC5415794.

 

Chio CP, Lo WC, Tsuang BJ, Hu CC, Ku KC, Chen YJ, Lin HH, Chan CC. Health impact assessment of PM2.5 from a planned coal-fired power plant in Taiwan. J Formos Med Assoc. 2019 Nov;118(11):1494-1503. doi: 10.1016/j.jfma.2019.08.016. Epub 2019 Sep 5. PMID: 31495542.

 

Ng TC, Lo WC, Ku CC, Lu TH, & Lin HH. Improving the use of mortality data in public health: A comparison of garbage code redistribution models. American journal of public health.2020; 110(2), 222-229

 

NCD Risk Factor Collaboration (NCD-RisC). Height and body-mass index trajectories of school-aged children and adolescents from 1985 to 2019 in 200 countries and territories: a pooled analysis of 2181 population-based studies with 65 million participants. Lancet. 2020 Nov 7;396(10261):1511-1524. doi: 10.1016/S0140-6736(20)31859-6. PMID: 33160572; PMCID: PMC7658740.

 

NCD Risk Factor Collaboration (NCD-RisC) (2021) Heterogeneous contributions of change in population distribution of body mass index to change in obesity and underweight eLife 10:e60060.

 

Wu YC, Lo WC, Lu TH, Chang SS, Lin HH, Chan CC. Mortality, morbidity, and risk factors in Taiwan, 1990-2017: findings from the Global Burden of Disease Study 2017. J Formos Med Assoc. 2021 Jun;120(6):1340-1349. doi: 10.1016/j.jfma.2020.11.014. Epub 2020 Dec 10. PMID: 33309080.

 

Shen BJ, Lo WC, Lin HH. Global burden of tuberculosis attributable to cancer in 2019: Global, regional, and national estimates. J Microbiol Immunol Infect. 2021 Mar 8:S1684-1182(21)00048-7. doi: 10.1016/j.jmii.2021.02.005. Epub ahead of print. PMID: 33789827.

 

Chio CP, Lo WC, Tsuang BJ, Hu CC, Ku KC, Wang YS, Chen YJ, Lin HH, Chan CC. County-Wide Mortality Assessments Attributable to PM2.5 Emissions from Coal Consumption in Taiwan. Int J Environ Res Public Health. 2022 Jan 30;19(3):1599. doi: 10.3390/ijerph19031599. PMID: 35162624; PMCID: PMC8835574.

 

Lo WC, Ho CC, Tseng E, Hwang JS, Chan CC, Lin HH. Long-term exposure to ambient fine particulate matter (PM2.5) and associations with cardiopulmonary diseases and lung cancer in Taiwan: a nationwide longitudinal cohort study. Int J Epidemiol. 2022 Aug 10;51(4):1230-1242. doi: 10.1093/ije/dyac082. PMID: 35472171.

 

Lo WC, Hu TH, Hwang JS. Lifetime exposure to PM2.5 air pollution and disability-adjusted life years due to cardiopulmonary disease: A modeling study based on nationwide longitudinal data. Sci Total Environ. 2023 Jan 10;855:158901. doi: 10.1016/j.scitotenv.2022.158901. Epub 2022 Sep 19. PMID: 36176245.

 

Yeh TL, Chen YHR, Hsu HY, Tsai MC, Wu YC, Lo WC, Huang TH, Liu BC, Lin HH, Chien KL. Cardiovascular Disease Burden Attributable to High Body Mass Index in Taiwan. Acta Cardiol Sin. 2023 Jul;39(4):628-642. doi: 10.6515/ACS.202307_39(4).20221219C. PMID: 37456949; PMCID: PMC10346049.

 

Chen YHR, Lee WC, Liu BC, Yang PC, Ho CC, Hwang JS, Huang TH, Lin HH, Lo WC. Quantifying the potential effects of air pollution reduction on population health and health expenditure in Taiwan. Environ Pollut. 2023 Aug 17;336:122405. doi: 10.1016/j.envpol.2023.122405. Epub ahead of print. PMID: 37597736.