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Hua Lu
Researcher at Centers for Disease Control and Prevention
Publications - 50
Citations - 3114
Hua Lu is an academic researcher from Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. The author has contributed to research in topics: Behavioral Risk Factor Surveillance System & Population. The author has an hindex of 21, co-authored 42 publications receiving 2138 citations.
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Prevalence of Healthy Sleep Duration among Adults — United States, 2014
TL;DR: There is an ongoing need for public awareness and public education about sleep health; worksite shift policies that ensure healthy sleep duration for shift workers, particularly medical professionals, emergency response personnel, and transportation industry personnel; and opportunities for health care providers to discuss the importance ofhealthy sleep duration with patients and address reasons for poor sleep health.
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Vital Signs: Racial Disparities in Age-Specific Mortality Among Blacks or African Americans - United States, 1999-2015
TL;DR: There is an ongoing need for universal and targeted interventions that address the leading causes of deaths among blacks (especially cardiovascular disease and cancer and their risk factors) across the life span and create equal opportunities for health.
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Health-related behaviors by urban-rural county classification — United States, 2013
Kevin A. Matthews,Janet B. Croft,Yong Liu,Hua Lu,Dafna Kanny,Anne G. Wheaton,Timothy J. Cunningham,Laura Kettel Khan,Ralph S. Caraballo,James B. Holt,Paul I. Eke,Wayne H. Giles +11 more
TL;DR: These findings suggest an ongoing need to increase public awareness and public education, particularly in rural counties where prevalence of these health-related behaviors is lowest, and evidence-based strategies to improve health- related behaviors in the population of the United States can be used to reach the Healthy People 2020 objectives.
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Modeling spatial accessibility to parks: a national study
TL;DR: The PWD to parks provides a consistent platform for evaluating spatial equity of park access and linking with population health outcomes and could be an informative evaluation tool for health professionals and policy makers.
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Periodontitis prevalence in adults ≥ 65 years of age, in the USA.
Paul I. Eke,Liang Wei,Wenche S. Borgnakke,Gina Thornton-Evans,Xingyou Zhang,Hua Lu,Lisa C. McGuire,Robert J. Genco +7 more
TL;DR: Overall, periodontitis is highly prevalent in this subpopulation, with two-thirds of dentate older adults affected at any geographic level, and how the overall health-care management of older adults should consider the improvement of their oral health conditions is determined.