Publications by authors named "Cheng-Hui Zhao"

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  • Perioperative sleep disturbances might increase the risk of delirium in patients undergoing total joint arthroplasty, but their specific role is not fully understood.
  • A study involving older patients focused on the impact of preoperative and postoperative sleep disturbances on delirium risk, using a sleep questionnaire to assess their conditions.
  • Results indicated that significant sleep disturbances after surgery were strong predictors of delirium, particularly if patients had poor sleep on the first night post-operation.
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Many sea-level residents suffer from acute mountain sickness (AMS) when first visiting altitudes above 4,000 m. Exercise tolerance also decreases as altitude increases. We observed exercise capacity at sea level and under a simulated hypobaric hypoxia condition (SHHC) to explore whether the response to exercise intensity represented by physiological variables could predict AMS development in young men.

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Background: Cardiac rehabilitation (CR) has proven beneficial for patients with coronary artery disease. However, adherence to CR programs is the key to the health improvement in those patients. Identifying predictors for adherence, which is very much unknown in China, would be valuable for effective rehabilitation.

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