This study aimed to investigate the impact of the latest guidelines on the real-world clinical practice of initial lipid-lowering therapy, especially on the use of ezetimibe and proprotein convertase subtilisin/kexin type 9 (PCSK9) inhibitors in China. All adult patients diagnosed with acute myocardial infarction in our hospital between August 31, 2018, and August 31, 2020, were divided into the following 2 groups: those patients treated before the latest guideline release, and those patients treated after the release. A propensity score-matched method was used, and logistic regression was used to assess the association with intensive statin, ezetimibe and PCSK9 inhibitor usage together with treatment results between the 2 groups.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFIn the multifaceted realm of environmental governance, emphasizing public environmental participation as an informal regulatory mechanism, alongside the influence of formal governmental environmental regulation on regional carbon emissions, contributes to providing empirical evidence and policy insights for China's "dual‑carbon target" action plan. Using data from 282 prefecture-level cities in China from 2011 to 2020, this research develops an analytical framework for urban carbon emissions encompassing public environmental concern, environmental regulation, green finance, and industrial agglomeration. And through an amalgamation of theoretical insights and empirical validation, the study elucidates the mechanisms by which public environmental concern impact urban carbon emissions.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFAtmospheric environmental assessment has emerged as a prominent area of research due to global climate change and regional atmospheric pollution issues. Accurate evaluation of atmospheric environmental vulnerability characteristics and understanding driving mechanisms are crucial for effective air pollution monitoring and prevention. This study focuses on the Pearl River Delta (PRD) region and employs the Vulnerability-Scoping-Diagram (VSD) model framework to establish an index system for assessing atmospheric environmental vulnerability based on exposure, sensitivity, and adaptability, combining the entropy value method and adopts Geographic Information System (GIS) for the time change and spatial evolution analysis, and finally utilizing the factor detection and interaction in Geodetector to explore the contribution degree of each driving factor of atmospheric environmental vulnerability and the exchange of influencing factors.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFAudit outgoing officials' natural resource asset management is an institutional innovation in the field of ecological civilization construction to promote the modernization of national governance system and governance capacity. Focusing on the carbon emission reduction effect of this policy, this paper takes the audit pilot as a quasi-natural experiment and constructs a difference-in-difference model and a spatial difference-in-difference model to explore the carbon emission reduction effect and spatial spillover effect of this policy. The results reveal that the audit pilot has a significant negative impact on carbon emission intensity.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFBackground: Evidence suggests that selenium supplementation could be useful in the treatment of Hashimoto thyroiditis (HT), but the available trials are heterogeneous. This study investigates clinically relevant effects of selenium supplementation in patients with HT.
Methods: A systematic search was performed in PubMed, Web of Science, EMBASE, Scopus, and the Cochrane Library.
Int J Environ Res Public Health
September 2022
Reducing the effect of mankind's activities on the climate and improving adaptability to global warming have become urgent matters. The carbon footprint (CF), derived from the concept of ecological footprint, has been used to assess the threat of climate change in recent years. As a "top to bottom" method, input-output analysis (IOA) has become a universally applicable CF assessment tool for tracing the carbon footprint embodied in economic activities.
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September 2022
The planetary boundaries concept has triggered a vast amount of pure and applied scientific research, as well as policy and governance activities globally. Indeed, it has rapidly become a centerpiece of sustainability study. It is crucial to review the scientific state of the planetary boundaries (PB) concept systematically.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFAir quality is a social, economical, and health issue for fast-developing countries such as China. Due to the overuse of nonrenewable energy, industrialization, and the population put pressure on air quality, which seriously threatens public health and economic growth. This study focuses on air quality and also aims to investigate the short-and long-run correlation between foreign direct investment, energy consumption, domestic credit, and financial development.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFChina is the world's largest fossil fuel consumer and carbon emitter country. In September 2020, China pledged to reduce carbon emissions, and achieve carbon neutrality by 2060. Therefore, this study aimed to contribute to the literature and show the pictorial nexus of bioenergy and fossil fuel consumption, carbon emission, and agricultural bioeconomic growth, a new pathway towards carbon neutrality.
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January 2020
is an annual invasive and Cd-hyperaccumulator herb. The complete chloroplast genome sequence of the is 150,542 bp in length, which is composed of a large single-copy region of 83,542 bp, a small single-copy region of 17,624 bp and a pair of inverted repeat regions of 24,688 bp. It encodes a set of 114 genes, consisting of 80 protein coding, 30 tRNA and 4 rRNA genes.
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