Publications by authors named "Shuangqing Gao"
Psychotropic medications are commonly used for treating mental disorders; however, there is currently no study on how commonly they are used in China. This study reported the trends in psychotropic medications prescriptions in urban China. A national population-based study was conducted using the China Health Insurance Research Association database to estimate the period prescription prevalence of 11 major classes of psychotropic medications annually during 2013-2017.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFThe increasing burden of cardiovascular disease in China has become a major public health problem, and the prevention and treatment of cardiovascular disease is in urgent need. For the reality of integrated Chinese and Western medicine in the Chinese health care system, we can consider the service ability of traditional Chinese medicine. Xueshuan Xinmaining Tablet is a kind of Chinese patent medicine commonly used in the treatment of recovery stage of ischemic stroke and angina pectoris of coronary heart disease.
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- Researchers studied a tiny molecule called miR-4262 in patients with esophageal cancer to see how it affects their health and cancer development.
- They found that lower levels of miR-4262 in cancer samples were linked to worse disease stages and outcomes for patients.
- Increasing miR-4262 in cancer cells helped slow down their growth and caused more of them to die, suggesting it could be important for treating esophageal cancer.
Purpose: To explore treatment patterns among patients with prostate cancer and bone metastasis and to compare clinical outcomes following use of different hormone therapies including combined androgen blockade (CAB), nonsteroidal antiandrogen (NSAA) monotherapy, and castration monotherapy.
Methods: We conducted a population-based cohort study using data from the Urban Employee Basic Medical Insurance database (2011-2014) in Beijing. We identified 475 patients with newly diagnosed bone metastatic prostate cancer with at least one prescription for hormone therapy and described their treatment patterns over a median follow-up of 20.
Introduction: Electronic healthcare databases (EHDs) are used increasingly for post-marketing drug safety surveillance and pharmacoepidemiology in Europe and North America. However, few studies have examined the potential of these data sources in China.
Methods: Three major types of EHDs in China (i.
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- The study looked at how patients in Chinese cities with ankylosing spondylitis (AS) are treated, any complications, and the costs of their medical care.
- Out of 1299 patients, most were given traditional pain medications, but only a few got newer treatments called biologics.
- Biologics had the least complications but also the highest costs, which might be why many patients don’t use them; more research is needed on their long-term benefits.