Publications by authors named "C L Choy"
Objectives: To describe sleep duration, adherence to sleep recommendations, and behavioral and sociodemographic correlates of sleep among Samoan children.
Methods: In a longitudinal cohort study of Samoan children aged 2-9years (n = 481; 50% female), primary caregivers reported usual number of hours of nighttime sleep during 2015, 2017/2018, and 2019/2020 data collection waves. Associations between behavioral and sociodemographic characteristics and sleep duration were assessed using generalized linear and mixed effect regressions.
Asian American (AA) and Native Hawaiian and Pacific Islander (NHPI) people are often aggregated into a monolithic group, but when they are disaggregated into ethnic groups (e.g., Chinese), inequities can be identified.
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- Optimizing oncolytic viruses for cancer treatment involves removing harmful genes and adding new ones to improve their ability to replicate and stimulate immune responses.
- The complex nature of viral genomes and the difficulty of creating modified viruses have slowed progress in developing these therapies.
- Researchers used a novel strategy involving antibiotics, transposon systems, and advanced sequencing to efficiently engineer safer and more effective oncolytic viruses by identifying useful genetic changes.
Background/objective: Pacific children are at high obesity risk, yet the behavioral and environmental factors that contribute to obesity development in this setting remain poorly understood. We assessed associations between childhood risk factors for obesity with body mass index (BMI) trajectories between ages 2-9 years in Samoa.
Subjects/methods: In a prospective cohort of 485 children from 'Upolu, we measured weight and height at ages 2-4 (2015), 3.