Publications by authors named "P-W So"
Article Synopsis
- The study investigates how the COVID-19 pandemic impacted sleep patterns among children and adolescents in Hong Kong, addressing a knowledge gap left by previous studies that focused only on the early months of the pandemic.
- Utilizing a cross-sectional design, researchers recruited a total of 1,233 primary and secondary school students and compared their sleep data before and during the pandemic, accounting for various factors such as age, sex, and household income.
- Findings reveal that students pre-COVID experienced longer sleep latency on both school and nonschool days, with low household income linked to later bedtimes and sleep onset, highlighting the pandemic's ongoing adverse effects on youth sleep health and the role of socioeconomic factors.
Background: The minimum duration of pulselessness required before organ donation after circulatory determination of death has not been well studied.
Methods: We conducted a prospective observational study of the incidence and timing of resumption of cardiac electrical and pulsatile activity in adults who died after planned withdrawal of life-sustaining measures in 20 intensive care units in three countries. Patients were intended to be monitored for 30 minutes after determination of death.
Rationale: Abdominal aortic aneurysms constitute a degenerative process in the aortic wall. Both the miR-29 and miR-15 families have been implicated in regulating the vascular extracellular matrix.
Objective: Our aim was to assess the effect of the miR-15 family on aortic aneurysm development.
Background: There are few data on the comparative epidemiology and virology of the pandemic 2009 influenza A (H1N1) virus and cocirculating seasonal influenza A viruses in community settings.
Methods: We recruited 348 index patients with acute respiratory illness from 14 outpatient clinics in Hong Kong in July and August 2009. We then prospectively followed household members of 99 patients who tested positive for influenza A virus on rapid diagnostic testing.