Epidemiology and Health

Article	Citations
Effect modification of consecutive high concentration days on the association between fine particulate matter and mortality: a multi-city study in Korea	60
Chronic obstructive pulmonary disease mortality trends in Spain, 1980-2020	45
Cohort profile: investigating SARS-CoV-2 infection and the health and psychosocial impact of the COVID-19 pandemic in the Canadian CHILD Cohort	43
Effective vaccination strategies to control COVID-19 in Korea: a modeling study	35
Trends in socioeconomic inequalities in obesity among Korean adolescents: the Korea Youth Risk Behavior Web-based Survey (KYRBS) 2006 to 2020	35
Association of insomnia and daytime napping with metabolic syndrome and its components in a Korean population: an analysis of data from the Korean Genome and Epidemiology Study	30
Regional disparities in major cancer incidence in Korea, 1999-2018	28
Limiting the spillover of zoonotic pathogens from traditional food markets in developing countries and a new market design for risk-proofing	27
Decentralized pandemic response and health equity: an analysis of socioeconomic disparities in COVID-19 mortality in Japan	26
Comparison of HIV characteristics across 3 datasets: the Korea HIV/AIDS Cohort Study prospective, retrospective, and national reporting system	25
Elder abuse/mistreatment and associated covariates in India: results from the Longitudinal Aging Study in India wave 1, 2017-2018	24
Exploring cognitive trajectories and their association with physical performance: evidence from the China Health and Retirement Longitudinal Study	22
Risk of lymphadenopathy from SARS-CoV-2 vaccination in Korea: a self-controlled case series analysis	21
Dietary mercury intake, the IL23R rs10889677 polymorphism, and the risk of gastric cancer in a Korean population: a hospital-based case-control study	21
The bounds of meta-analytics and an alternative method	19
Prediction of the 10-year risk of atherosclerotic cardiovascular disease in the Korean population	19
Identification of acute myocardial infarction and stroke events using the National Health Insurance Service database in Korea	18
Meta-analysis of diagnostic test accuracy studies with multiple thresholds for data integration	18
Association between secondhand smoke exposure and incidence of metabolic syndrome: analyses of Korean Genome and Epidemiology Study (KoGES) data	17
Health literacy in Korea: findings from the 2023 Korea National Health and Nutrition Examination Survey	17
Study protocol for the Korean Human Exposure Safety Survey (KoHESS): a national biomonitoring program for food and consumer product safety	17
Levels of exposure markers among residents in environmentally vulnerable areas in Korea, the general population in Korea, and Asians in the United States	16
Dental implant removal rates and related factors in older adults in Korea: a cross-sectional study using National Health Insurance Sharing Service database	16
Regional differences in the associations of diet quality, obesity, and possible sarcopenia using the seventh Korea National Health and Nutrition Examination Survey (2016-2018)	16
Changes in proteinuria and the associated risks of ischemic heart disease, acute myocardial infarction, and angina pectoris in Korean population	15

Erratum: Trends in gastrointestinal infections before and during non-pharmaceutical interventions in Korea in comparison with the United States	15
The associations of obesity phenotypes with the risk of hypertension and its transitions among middle-aged and older Chinese adults	15
Identifying pregnancy episodes and estimating the last menstrual period using an administrative database in Korea: an application to patients with systemic lupus erythematosus	14
The uneven playing field: provider participation and regional disparities in oral health examination rates in Korea	12
The physical activity paradox in relation to work ability and health-related productivity loss in Korea	12
Identifying factors associated with mental health status following climate-related disasters: a nationwide longitudinal panel study in Korea	12
Genetic associations and parent-of-origin effects of PVRL1 in non-syndromic cleft lip with or without cleft palate across multiple ethnic populations	12
The associations of job strain and leisure-time physical activity with the risk of hypertension: the population-based Midlife in the United States cohort study	11
Age-period-cohort analysis of dietary sodium, potassium, and sodium-to-potassium ratio in Korea	11
Clinical symptom profile of hospitalized COVID-19 Brazilian patients according to SARS-CoV-2 variants	11
Associations between adverse childhood experiences and diabetes among middle-aged and older Chinese: a social-ecological perspective	11
Inequitable distribution of excess mortality during the COVID-19 pandemic in Korea, 2020	11
Association of the dietary inflammatory index with phenotypic age in the United States adults	10
Occurrence rate and estimated economic burden of pulp and periapical disease treatment among Korean older adults: a national population-based retrospective study	10
Clinical traits and systemic risks of familial diabetes mellitus according to age of onset and quantity: an analysis of data from the community-based KoGES cohort study	10
The status quo of systematic reviews published in high-impact journals in Korea: a study focused on protocol registration and GRADE use	10
Association of group-level segregation with cardiovascular health in older adults: an analysis of data from the Korean Social Life, Health, and Aging Project	10
Changes in mental health of Korean adolescents before and during the COVID-19 pandemic: a special report using the Korea Youth Risk Behavior Survey	10
Geospatial analysis of neonatal mortality in north-eastern India: a multilevel Bayesian approach	9
Seasonal impact of diurnal temperature range on intracerebral hemorrhage in middle-aged and elderly people in central China	9
Does the father’s job matter? Parental occupation and preterm birth in Korea	9
Socioeconomic inequality in organized and opportunistic screening for colorectal cancer: results from the Korean National Cancer Screening Survey, 2009-2021	9
Mental health of Korean adults before and during the COVID-19 pandemic: a special report of the 2020 Korea National Health and Nutrition Examination Survey	9
Incidence and case fatality of acute myocardial infarction in Korea, 2011-2020	9
Decreased birth weight after prenatal exposure to wildfires on the eastern coast of Korea in 2000	9
Aedes aegypti container preference for oviposition and its possible implications for dengue vector surveillance in Delhi, India	9
Cohort profile: the Taiwan Initiative for Geriatric Epidemiological Research - a prospective cohort study on cognition	9
Dairy product consumption and type 2 diabetes among Korean adults: a prospective cohort study based on the Health Examinees (HEXA) study	9
Socioeconomic inequality in organized and opportunistic screening for breast cancer: results from the Korean National Cancer Screening Survey, 2009-2021	9
Exploring the relationships between anthropometric indices of adiposity and physical performance in middle-aged and older Brazilian women: a canonical correlation analysis	9
The associations of tobacco use, sexually transmitted infections, HPV vaccination, and screening with the global incidence of cervical cancer: an ecological time series modeling study	9
Data profile: the Korean Workers’ Compensation-National Health Insurance Service (KoWorC-NHIS) cohort	9
Associations of daily diet-related greenhouse gas emissions with the incidence and mortality of chronic diseases: a systematic review and meta-analysis of epidemiological studies	9
The associations of cardiovascular and lifestyle factors with mortality from chronic kidney disease as the underlying cause: the JACC study	9
Gender-specific associations among neck circumference, the rs9939609 FTO gene polymorphism, and the 14-year risk of metabolic syndrome in the Korean adult population	8
Association between the safety climate and occupational injury in the Korean working population: a cross-sectional study	8
Spatial patterns of laboratory-confirmed leptospirosis in north-eastern Peninsular Malaysia, 2016-2023	8
The delayed cancer treatment and economic inequality in Korea: results of common cancers by the time-to-surgery	8
Detecting mpox infection in the early epidemic: an epidemiologic investigation of the third and fourth cases in Korea	8
Maternal pre-pregnancy anemia and childhood anemia in Indonesia: a risk assessment using a population-based prospective longitudinal study	8
Dynamic changes in clinical biomarkers of cardiometabolic diseases by changes in exercise behavior, and network comparisons: a community-based prospective cohort study in Korea	8
Timely access to secondary pediatric services in Korea: a key to reducing child and adolescent mortality	8
The mediating role of atrial fibrillation in causal associations between risk factors and stroke: a Mendelian randomization study	8
Type 2 diabetes mellitus increases the severity of non-fatal injuries, but not the risk of fatal injuries, among driver victims of motor vehicle crashes in Taiwan	8
Cancer incidence among male construction workers in Korea: a standardized incidence ratio analysis, 2009-2015	8
Nationwide trends in the incidence of tuberculosis among people with disabilities in Korea: a nationwide serial cross-sectional study	7
The association between migraine and Parkinson’s disease: a nationwide cohort study in Korea	7
Epidemiology of myocardial infarction in Korea: hospitalization incidence, prevalence, and mortality	7
Safety of combination therapy of azilsartan medoxomil and amlodipine: a population-based cohort study	7
Letter to the Editor: Mediating effect of lower extremity muscle on the relationship between obesity and osteoarthritis in middle-aged and elderly women in Korea: based on the 2009-2011 Korea National	7

Associations of racial and ethnic discrimination with adverse changes in exercise and screen time during the COVID-19 pandemic in the United States	7
Changes in the management of hypertension, diabetes mellitus, and hypercholesterolemia in Korean adults before and during the COVID-19 pandemic: data from the 2010-2020 Korea National Health and Nutri	7
Regional disparities in the availability of cancer clinical trials in Korea	7
Depression, anxiety, and stress in Korean general population during the COVID-19 pandemic	7
Epidemiological characteristics and risk factors of suspected and confirmed mpox cases during the 2022-2023 epidemic in the Capital Region, Korea	7
Mediation analysis of leisure activities on the association between cognitive function and mortality: a longitudinal study of 42,942 Chinese adults 65 years and older	7
Cohort profile: a nationwide retrospective cohort of mortality in people living with HIV in Korea, 1985-2020	7
The role of supervisor support in the association between night work and depressive symptoms: a gender-stratified analysis of 22,422 full-time wage workers in Korea	7
Temporal trends in the prevalence, incidence, and mortality of cardiac amyloidosis in Korea over 12 years	7
Association between plant-based diets and the risk of coronary heart disease predicted using the Framingham Risk Score in Korean men: data from the HEXA cohort study	7
The risk of gastric cancer according to changes in smoking status among Korean men	7
Socioeconomic inequality in compliance with precautions and health behavior changes during the COVID-19 outbreak: an analysis of the Korean Community Health Survey 2020	7
Evaluation of the accessibility and its equity of the national public-private mix program for tuberculosis in Korea: a multilevel analysis	7
Risk factors for early-onset lung cancer in Korea: analysis of a nationally representative population-based cohort	7
Influence of practice location on prescribing, diabetes care, and colorectal cancer screening among Czech general practitioners during the COVID-19 pandemic	7
Analysis of the on-ship transmission of the COVID-19 mass outbreak on the Republic of Korea Navy amphibious warfare ship	6
Associations between usual source of care characteristics and health outcomes in diabetes mellitus: a focus on medication adherence and healthy behaviors in Korea	6
The general public’s perspectives on telemedicine during the COVID-19 pandemic in Korea: analysis of a nationwide survey	6
Validation of the Korean Academy of Geriatric Dentistry screening questionnaire and oral frailty diagnostic criteria in community-dwelling older adults	6
A decision tree model for traffic accident prediction among food delivery riders in Thailand	6
The prevalence of functional disability and its impact on older adults in the ASEAN region: a systematic review and meta-analysis	6
Miscarriage, stillbirth, and mortality risk from stroke in women: findings from the PLCO study	6
Forecasting the effects of vaccination on the COVID-19 pandemic in Malaysia using SEIRV compartmental models	6
Contrasting income-based inequalities in incidence and mortality of breast cancer in Korea, 2006-2015	6
Effectiveness of community-based interventions for older adults living alone: a systematic review and meta-analysis	6
Preventable cancer cases and deaths attributable to tobacco smoking in Korea from 2015 to 2030	6
The associations of the national health and productivity management program with corporate profits in Japan	6
Associations of cumulative average dietary total antioxidant capacity and intake of antioxidants with metabolic syndrome risk in Korean adults aged 40 years and older: a prospective cohort study (KoGE	6
Blood lipid levels and all-cause mortality in older adults: the Chinese Longitudinal Healthy Longevity Survey 2008-2018	6
Positive association of unhealthy plant-based diets with the incidence of abdominal obesity in Korea: a comparison of baseline, most recent, and cumulative average diets	6
Validation of self-reported morbidities in the Korean Atomic Bomb Survivor Cohort	6
Epidemiologic Questionnaire (EPI-Q) – a scalable, app-based health survey linked to electronic health record and genotype data	6
Folate, vitamin B12, and homocysteine status in the Korean population: data from the 2013-2015 Korea National Health and Nutrition Examination Survey	6
Causal effect of fasting serum glucose on atherosclerotic cardiovascular disease: a multivariable Mendelian randomization	6
Smoking-attributable mortality among Korean adults in 2019	6
Adverse health effects of climate change and air pollution in people with disabilities: a systematic review	6
Application of a joint latent space item response model to clustering stressful life events and the Beck Depression Inventory-II: results from Korean epidemiological survey data	6
Parents’ employment and non-chromosomal congenital anomalies in Korea: a national population cohort study	6
The Korea National Disability Registration System	6
Salmonellosis outbreaks linked to eggs at 2 gimbap restaurants in Korea	6
Occupational inequalities in mortality in Korea: an analysis using nationally representative mortality follow-up data from the late 2000s and after	6
The prevention and response to infectious diseases in long-term care facilities in Korea: a nationwide survey	6
Genetically determined alcohol consumption and cancer risk in Korea	6
Multimorbidity patterns by health-related quality of life status in older adults: an association rules and network analysis utilizing the Korea National Health and Nutrition Examination Survey	6
Can resident registration expiration statistics due to death be used for near-real-time mortality tracking? A validation study using 2023 data from Korea	5
Effect of trajectory of employment status on all-cause mortality in the late middle-aged and older population: results of the Korea Longitudinal Study of Aging (2006-2020)	5
Personal, community, and societal factors associated with mukbang viewing among adolescents: findings from the Korea Youth Risk Behavior Survey	5
Spatiotemporal trends in severe complicated influenza among the local population in Taiwan region, 2003-2023	5
Association of dietary inflammatory index with mortality risk: a prospective analysis of the Korea National Health and Nutrition Examination Survey	5
Non-cancer health risks in firefighters: a systematic review	5
Interactions between vitamin B2, the MTRR rs1801394 and MTR rs1805087 genetic polymorphisms, and colorectal cancer risk in a Korean population	5
Association of healthy lifestyle factors with the risk of hypertension, dyslipidemia, and their comorbidity in Korea: results from the Korea National Health and Nutrition Examination Survey 2019-2021	5
Age-specific findings on lifestyle and trajectories of cognitive function from the Korean Longitudinal Study of Aging	5
A meta-analysis of the association between adolescent pregnancy and the risk of gynecological cancers	5
The association between metabolic syndrome and heart failure in middle-aged male and female: Korean population-based study of 2 million individuals	5
A large-scale norovirus outbreak associated with kimchi consumption across multiple schools in a Korean city in 2024	5
Development and validation of the Health Literacy Index for the Community for the Korean National Health and Nutrition and Examination Survey	5
Decrease in household secondhand smoking among Korean adolescents associated with smoke-free policies: grade-period-cohort and interrupted time series analyses	5
Changes in food sufficiency among Korean adults in urban and rural areas during the COVID-19 pandemic: an analysis of the 7th and 8th Korea National Health and Nutrition Examination Survey	5
Recent trends in opioid prescriptions in Korea from 2002 to 2015 based on the Korean NHIS-NSC cohort	5
Adherence to the American Cancer Society guidelines on nutrition and physical activity for cancer survivors and biomarkers of inflammation among breast cancer survivors	5
Validation of the Korean version of the Pubertal Development Scale (PDS-K): a non-invasive self-report tool for epidemiological use	5
Clinical severity according to the primary infection variant in patients with suspected SARS-CoV-2 reinfection in Korea	5
Association between cardiac arrhythmia before pregnancy and gestational diabetes: a nationwide population-based study in Korea	5
Physical activity, sedentary behavior, and cardiovascular disease risk in Korea: a trajectory analysis	5
Association between regular dental scaling and stroke risk in patients with periodontal diseases: evidence from a Korean nationwide database	5
Worsening of health disparities across COVID-19 pandemic stages in Korea	5
Smokeless tobacco consumption and its association with tobacco control factors in the Western Pacific Region: results from the Global Youth Tobacco Survey 2015-2019	4
Gastric cancer risk is reduced by a predominance of antioxidant factors in the oxidative balance: a hospital-based case-control study in Korea	4
Integrated evidence supports a causal association between PHMG-P exposure and pneumonitis	4
Associations of the magnesium depletion score and magnesium intake with diabetes among US adults: an analysis of the National Health and Nutrition Examination Survey 2011-2018	4
Obesity, hypertension, diabetes mellitus, and hypercholesterolemia in Korean adults before and during the COVID-19 pandemic: a special report of the 2020 Korea National Health and Nutrition Examinatio	4
Socioeconomic status and adverse pregnancy outcome increase the risk of long-term cardiovascular disease: an analysis using the UK Biobank	4
Analyzing the dynamics of complicated and uncomplicated appendicitis during the COVID-19 pandemic in Seoul, Korea: a multifaceted time series approach	4
Socioeconomic factors affecting breast and cervical cancer screening compliance in Asian National Cancer Centers Alliance countries: a systematic review	4
The relationship between metabolic syndrome and its components with bladder cancer: a systematic review and meta-analysis of cohort studies	4
Trends in gastrointestinal infections before and during non-pharmaceutical interventions in Korea in comparison with the United States	4
Higher energy consumption in the evening is associated with increased odds of obesity and metabolic syndrome: findings from the 2016-2018 Korea National Health and Nutrition Examination Survey (7th KN	4
Evaluation of a telemedicine pilot project for hypertension in Korea: a nationwide real-world data study	4
The vaccination coverage rate in under-5 children in Nasiriyah, Iraq before and during the COVID-19 pandemic	4

The association between the socioeconomic deprivation level and ischemic heart disease mortality in Japan: an analysis using municipality-specific data	4
Predictors of COVID-19 booster vaccine hesitancy among fully vaccinated adults in Korea: a nationwide cross-sectional survey	4
Combined effect of anemia and chronic rhinitis on hearing loss in Korean adults: a nationwide observational study	4
COVID-19 infection and severe clinical outcomes in patients with kidney disease by vaccination status: a nationwide cohort study in Korea	4
Predictive ability of the Chinese visceral adiposity index for incident hypertension in working-aged Koreans	4
Characteristics of imported and domestic malaria cases in Gyeonggi Province, Korea	4
Social capital and regional influences: key predictors of unmet dental care needs among older adults in Korea	4
Disease burden of prostate cancer from 2014 to 2019 in the United States: estimation from the Global Burden of Disease Study 2019 and Medical Expenditure Panel Survey	4
Direct indicators of social distancing effectiveness in COVID-19 outbreak stages: a correlational analysis of case contacts and population mobility in Korea	4
Cause-specific mortality in Korea during the first year of the COVID-19 pandemic	4
Performance pressure and mental health among finance workers in Korea: a cross-sectional study	4
Risk of cancer, cardiovascular disease, thromboembolism, and mortality in patients with rheumatoid arthritis receiving Janus kinase inhibitors: a real-world retrospective observational study using Kor	4
Individual- and neighborhood-level factors influencing diet quality: a multilevel analysis using Korea National Health and Nutrition Examination Survey data, 2010-2019	3
Physical and mental health characteristics related to trust in and intention to receive COVID-19 vaccination: results from a Korean community-based longitudinal study	3
Cohort profile: Cardiovascular Metabolic Etiological Research Center COVID-19 Mental Health Survey (CC-MHS)	3
Profiling the socioeconomic characteristics, dietary intake, and health status of Korean older adults for nutrition plan customization: a comparison of principal component, factor, and cluster analyse	3
Cancer risk based on alcohol consumption levels: a comprehensive systematic review and meta-analysis	3
Unraveling trends in schistosomiasis: deep learning insights into national control programs in China	3
Trends in breast cancer screening rates among Korean women: results from the Korean National Cancer Screening Survey, 2005-2020	3
Mediating effect of lower extremity muscle on the relationship between obesity and osteoarthritis in middle-aged and elderly women in Korea: based on the 2009-2011 Korea National Health and Nutrition	3
Association of participation in the Northern Finland Birth Cohort 1986 with mental disorders and suicidal behaviour	3
Risk of new-onset seizures following immunization against COVID-19: a self-controlled case-series study	3
Association of plain water intake with self-reported depression and suicidality among Korean adolescents	3
Barriers to COVID-19 vaccine surveillance: the issue of under-reporting adverse events	3
The Korea National Health and Nutrition Examination Survey data linked Cause of Death data	3
Cohort profile: Singapore’s nationally representative Retirement and Health Study with 5 waves over 10 years	3
Seroprevalence of SARS-CoV-2 antibodies in the community based on participants in the 2020 Korea National Health and Nutrition Examination Survey	3
Association of decreased estimated glomerular filtration rate with lung cancer risk in the Korean population	3
Introduction to the forensic research via omics markers in environmental health vulnerable areas (FROM) study	3
Risk of non-cancer respiratory diseases attributed to humidifier disinfectant exposure in Koreans: age-period-cohort and differences-in-difference analyses	3
Impact of body mass index and waist-to-hip ratio on mortality in middle-aged Koreans: a prospective cohort study based on a Health Examinees study	3
An outbreak of Clostridium perfringens infection on a training ship anchored in Busan, Korea	3
Long working hours and the risk of hypothyroidism in healthy Korean workers: a cohort study	3
Socioeconomic inequality in health-related quality of life among Korean adults with chronic disease: an analysis of the Korean Community Health Survey	3
Association of blood pressure measurements in sitting, supine, and standing positions with the 10-year risk of mortality in Korean adults	3
The impact of COVID-19 on screening for colorectal, gastric, breast, and cervical cancer in Korea	3
Association between smoking status and subclinical coronary atherosclerosis in asymptomatic Korean individuals	3
Cohort profile: the KDCA-Tuberculosis-NHIS cohort linking tuberculosis surveillance and health insurance data in Korea	3
Unequal burdens of COVID-19 infection: a nationwide cohort study of COVID-19-related health inequalities in Korea	3
Adherence to the Korean National Code Against Cancer and mortality: a prospective cohort study from the Health Examinees-Gem study	3