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Ignatius Tak-sun Yu
Researcher at The Chinese University of Hong Kong
Publications - 135
Citations - 5922
Ignatius Tak-sun Yu is an academic researcher from The Chinese University of Hong Kong. The author has contributed to research in topics: Population & Lung cancer. The author has an hindex of 37, co-authored 134 publications receiving 5156 citations. Previous affiliations of Ignatius Tak-sun Yu include Chinese Center for Disease Control and Prevention.
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Association of occupational stress and social support with health-related behaviors among chinese offshore oil workers.
TL;DR: The findings suggest that psychosocial factors of occupational stress and social support at offshore oil work might affect workers' health‐related behaviors in different ways.
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Children's perceptions of parental attitude affecting breakfast skipping in primary sixth-grade students.
TL;DR: It is suggested that breakfast consumption habits could stem from the students' beliefs and perceptions, and working with students, parents, and schools to build up positive knowledge and beliefs about breakfast consumption might be useful.
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Consumption of salted meat and its interactions with alcohol drinking and tobacco smoking on esophageal squamous-cell carcinoma.
Sihao Lin,Xiaorong Wang,Chengyu Huang,Xudong Liu,Jin Zhao,Ignatius Tak-sun Yu,David C. Christiani +6 more
TL;DR: Salted meat Intake is strongly associated with ESCC and its interactions with alcohol drinking and/or smoking highlights the significance of reducing salted meat intake among smokers and drinkers with respect to ESCC prevention.
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Welding and Lung Cancer in a Pooled Analysis of Case-Control Studies
Benjamin Kendzia,Thomas Behrens,Karl-Heinz Jöckel,Jack Siemiatycki,Hans Kromhout,Roel Vermeulen,Susan Peters,Rainer Van Gelder,Ann Olsson,Irene Brüske,H.-Erich Wichmann,Isabelle Stücker,Florence Guida,Adonina Tardón,Franco Merletti,Dario Mirabelli,Lorenzo Richiardi,Hermann Pohlabeln,Wolfgang Ahrens,Maria Teresa Landi,Neil E. Caporaso,Dario Consonni,David Zaridze,Neonila Szeszenia-Dabrowska,Jolanta Lissowska,Per Gustavsson,Michael W. Marcus,Eleonora Fabianova,Andrea 't Mannetje,Neil Pearce,Lap Ah Tse,Ignatius Tak-sun Yu,Peter Rudnai,Vladimir Bencko,Vladimir Janout,Dana Mates,Lenka Foretova,Francesco Forastiere,John R. McLaughlin,Paul A. Demers,Bas Bueno-de-Mesquita,Paolo Boffetta,Joachim Schüz,Kurt Straif,Beate Pesch,Thomas Brüning +45 more
TL;DR: The findings lend further support to the hypothesis that welding is associated with an increased risk of lung cancer, with odds ratios somewhat higher for squamous and small cell lung cancers than for adenocarcinoma.
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Cause‐specific mortality in a Chinese chrysotile textile worker cohort
TL;DR: Significant excess mortality from mesothelioma in either gender, lung and larynx cancers in males, and ovarian cancer in females is confirmed, and a gender difference in mortality from lung cancer and all cancers could be mainly due to the discrepancies in age, exposure duration and smoking between the male and female workers.