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Travelling to china for the beijing 2008 olympic and pa  
2007 Nov - Travel medicine and infectious disease
Shaw MT, Leggat PA, Borwein S
Anton Breinl Centre for Public Health and Tropical Medicine, James Cook University, Townsville, Qld, Australia.
The 29th modern Olympic Summer Games, conducted once every 4 years since 1896, will be held in Beijing, China, from 8 to 24 August 2008. There will be approximately 28 major and 302 minor events in 37 venues in the prominent cities of Beijing, Hong Kong and Shanghai, and also in Qingdao...

Patient characteristics for outpatient acupuncture in B  
2004 Jun - Journal of alternative and complementary medicine (New York, N.Y.)
Napadow V, Kaptchuk TJ
Athinoula A. Martinos Center for Biomedical Imaging, Massachusetts General Hospital, Boston, MA 02129, USA. vitaly@nmr.mgh.harvard.edu
... outpatient acupuncture. SETTING/DESIGN: Prospective primary source evidence was gathered at two prominent outpatient acupuncture clinics in Beijing, China (n = 563, n = 233). RESULTS: The most common condition was Bell's palsy, which represented 20.6% and 25.3% of total cases at the two clinics,...

Spatial pattern of impervious surfaces and their impac  
- Journal of environmental sciences (China)
Xiao RB, Ouyang ZY, Zheng H, Li WF, Schienke EW, Wang XK
State Key Lab of Urban and Regional Ecology Environmental Sciences, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing 100085, China. ecoxiaorb@163.com
... significant parameter in urban environmental analysis. This study examined the effect impervious surfaces (IS) spatial patterns have on LST in Beijing, China. A classification and regression tree model (CART) was adopted to estimate IS as a continuous variable using Landsat images from two seasons...

Atmospheric radon levels in Beijing, China.  
2004 Oct 05 - Radiation protection dosimetry
Zhang L, Guo Q, Iida T
Department of Technical Physics, School of Physics, Peking University, Beijing 100871, China.
The results of measurement of atmospheric radon concentration in Beijing, China, are reported. Continuous observation was performed hourly throughout 2003 to provide data on annual average radon concentration as well as the variation of radon concentration. An arithmetic annual mean value...

Risk factors for overweight in 2- to 6-year-old children  
- International journal of pediatric obesity : IJPO : an official journal of the International Association for the Study of Obesity
Jiang J, Rosenqvist U, Wang H, Greiner T, Ma Y, Toschke AM
Department of Child Health Care, National Center for Women's and Children's Health, Beijing 100013, China. jiangjingxiong@chinawch.org.cn
... in five kindergartens were obtained in a cross sectional study. Families were randomly selected from two of all six urban districts in Beijing, China. Information on parental characteristics, dietary habits, lifestyle habits, and feeding practice was collected by parental self-report questionnaires....

Patient characteristics for outpatient acupuncture in B  
2004 Jun - Journal of alternative and complementary medicine (New York, N.Y.)
Napadow V, Kaptchuk TJ
Athinoula A. Martinos Center for Biomedical Imaging, Massachusetts General Hospital, Boston, MA 02129, USA. vitaly@nmr.mgh.harvard.edu
... number of patients seen per hour. While acupuncturists were reported to see 1.2 patients per hour in U. S. clinics, acupuncturists at the two Beijing, China, clinics saw 7.0 and 10.4 patients per hour, respectively. CONCLUSION: The main complaints seen in acupuncture outpatient clinics throughout...

Current status of the occupational health and safety c  
2004 Apr - Industrial health
Gao X, Sun L
Beijing Institute of Occupational Health, Beijing Center of Diseases Control and Prevention, School of Public Health and Family Medicine, Capital University of Medical Sciences, Hepingli Zhongjie No.16, Dongcheng District, Beijing 100013, China.
This paper describes the current status of occupational health and safety countermeasures in Beijing, China. It includes the network and organization of occupational health, occupational health personnel, the refitting of industrial structures, hazardous agents at workplaces, the classification...

Health benefit evaluation of the energy use scenarios  
2007 Mar 15 - The Science of the total environment
Pan X, Yue W, He K, Tong S
Department of Occupational and Environmental Health, Peking University School of Public Health, Beijing, 100083, People's Republic of China. xcpan@bjmu.edu.cn
... pollutants was estimated under the different energy use scenarios by the year 2010, 2020 and 2030, respectively, in the urban area of Beijing, China. The concentration-response functions between air pollutants and the health endpoints were established using meta-analysis and regression...

Current status of research on the left ventricular assist  
1981 Sep - Cardiovascular diseases
Zi-Bin Y, Yan H, Pin ZA, Ji CB, Lin ZR, Lin WX, Jian LZ, Fu SC, Xing LZ, Xiong LM
Institute of Basic Medical Sciences, Beijing.
Our 3-year experience with the left ventricular assist device (LVAD) research in Beijing, China, is based on experimental studies in both sheep and goats. Although testing is still in the preliminary stages, the LVAD has been implanted in seven animals, and results have been encouraging....

Current status of hemodialysis treatment in Beijing, C  
Spring 2006 - Ethnicity & disease
Zuo L, Wang M,
Beijing Hemodialysis Quality Control and Improvement Center, Beijing Health Bureau, Beijing, China. zuolimd@yahoo.com.cn
... was established in 2002, some registration work on hemodialysis (HD) has been done. We report here the current status of HD in Beijing, the capital of China. METHODS: Data collection forms were distributed to all HD centers in Beijing, and data from 2003 and 2004 were collected for analysis...

Environmental degradation and health risks in Beijing,  
Spring 2007 - Archives of environmental & occupational health
Qi J, Yang L, Wang W
Institute of Geographic Sciences and Natural Resources Research, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing, China.
As China's capital city, Beijing is experiencing unprecedented environmental degradation accompanied by complex interactions between urbanization and global environmental change, which places human health at risk on a large spatial and temporal scale. For sustainable development that supports...

Chinese response to allergy and asthma in Olympic at  
2008 Aug - Allergy
Li J, Lu Y, Huang K, Wang C, Lu J, Zhang C, Zhong N
The First Affiliated Hospital of Guangzhou Medical College, Guangzhou Institute of Respiratory Diseases, Guangzhou, China.
... the XXIX Olympiad from 8-24 August 2008 in Beijing. The number of athletes and accompanying individuals expected to arrive at China for the Beijing Olympics is estimated at over 10 000 and among them at least 2 000 (20%) are suspected to suffer from respiratory allergies. It is important...

Seroepidemiology of hepatitis C virus in Beijing, China  
1993 Mar - Clinical and diagnostic virology
Sherlock CH, Zhuo L, Meng XL, Lin XY, Stiver HG
Division of Medical Microbiology, Department of Pathology, University of British Columbia and St. Paul's Hospital, Vancouver, B.C., Canada.
... investigate the seroprevalence of hepatitis C virus (HCV) in China we tested sera from healthy individuals without hepatitis and no history of parenteral blood exposure and from patients admitted to a hepatitis hospital in Beijing. Sera were tested for anti-HCV by first-generation enzyme...

Health risks in travelers to China: the GeoSentinel exp  
2008 Jul - The American journal of tropical medicine and hygiene
Davis XM, MacDonald S, Borwein S, Freedman DO, Kozarsky PE, von Sonnenburg F, Keystone JS, Lim PL, Marano N,
Division of Global Migration and Quarantine, Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, Atlanta, Georgia 30333, USA. xdavis@cdc.gov
Selected data collected for travelers to China from 1998 through November 2007 by the GeoSentinel Surveillance Network were used to provide an evidence base for prioritizing recommendations for Olympic and other future travelers to China. Respiratory illness and injuries were common among...

Concentration and chemical characteristics of PM2.5 i  
2006 Feb 15 - The Science of the total environment
Duan FK, He KB, Ma YL, Yang FM, Yu XC, Cadle SH, Chan T, Mulawa PA
Department of Environmental Science and Engineering, Tsinghua University, Beijing 100084, P.R. China.
... samples were simultaneously collected at a semi-residential (Tsinghua University) and a downtown (Chegongzhuang) site in Beijing from August 2001 through September 2002. The ambient mass concentration and chemical composition of PM2.5 were determined. Analyses including elemental composition,...

Assessment of heavy metal pollution in surface soils o  
2005 Jul - Chemosphere
Chen TB, Zheng YM, Lei M, Huang ZC, Wu HT, Chen H, Fan KK, Yu K, Wu X, Tian QZ
Center for Environmental Remediation, Institute of Geographic Sciences and Natural Resources Research, Chinese Academy of Sciences, 11A Datun Road, Beijing 100101, PR China. chentb@igsnrr.ac.cn
... imperative in order to evaluate the potential risks to residents and tourists. To date, little research on soil pollution in China's urban parks has been conducted. To identify the concentrations and sources of heavy metals, and to assess the soil environmental quality, samples were collected...

Characteristics of carbonaceous aerosols in Beijing, C  
2005 Jul - Chemosphere
Duan F, He K, Ma Y, Jia Y, Yang F, Lei Y, Tanaka S, Okuta T
Department of Environmental Science and Engineering, Tsinghua University, Beijing 100084, PR China. dfk01@mails.tsinghua.edu.cn
Carbonaceous aerosols and PM10 were monitored from September 8 to November 30, 2002, in a semi-urban site (Tsinghua University) in Beijing. Daily concentrations of OC and EC ranged from 7.1 to 65.9 microgCm(-3) and from 1.3 to 26.1 microgCm(-3), with the overall average concentrations...

Polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbon in urban soil from Bei  
- Journal of environmental sciences (China)
Li XH, Ma LL, Liu XF, Fu S, Cheng HX, Xu XB
State Key Laboratory of Environmental Chemistry and Ecotoxicology, Research Center for Eco-Environmental Sciences, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing 100085, China.
Polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbons (EPA-PAHs) in the urban surface soils from Beijing were determined using gas chromatography and mass spectrometry (GC-MS). It is significantly complementary for understanding the PAHs pollution in soil of integrated Beijing city on the basis of the information...

Varicella outbreak among primary school students--B  
2006 Apr 28 - MMWR. Morbidity and mortality weekly report
Ma H, Fontaine R,
Chinese Field Epidemiology Training Program, Chinese Center for Disease Control and Prevention, Beijing, China. huilaima@sohu.com
INTRODUCTION: On June 9, 2004, a varicella outbreak was reported in a Beijing primary school affecting approximately 80% of children in one preschool classroom. An outbreak investigation was initiated to identify factors contributing to the high rate of transmission and to assess the effectiveness...

Dynamic changes of sandy land in northwest of Beijin  
2006 Oct - Environmental monitoring and assessment
Wang J, He T, Guo X, Liu A, Zhou Q
Key Laboratory of Land Use, Ministry of Land and Resources, Beijing 100035, China. wjing0162@yahoo.com
The area northwest of Beijing is one of the most important regions where many organizations invest and pay most attention. The environmental problems in this region affect not only Beijing but also the surrounding area. Based on observation of the characteristics of the change in sandy...