Jaekyung Choi

TL;DR: This study presents a brief review of 6 articles published between 2001 and 2014 that examined the prevalence of frailty as defined by the Fried scale in community-dwelling adults representative of the national population, age 65 years and older.

TL;DR: A nationwide, population-based prospective cohort study of older adults living in the community to assess their frailty status and explore transitions between frailty states over time in Korea, finding women tended to exhibit a higher prevalence of frailty than men in all age groups.

TL;DR: Air pollution exposure was positively associated with high concentrations of PM10, NO2, and CO after adjusting for confounding factors and men were at increased risk of stress, poor QoL, and depressiveness from air pollution exposure than were women.

TL;DR: The committee for cervical cancer screening in Korea updated the recommendation statement established in 2002, and the new version of the guideline was developed by the committee using evidence-based methods.

TL;DR: This research was supported by a grant of the Korea Health Technology R&D Project through the Korean Health Industry Development Institute (KHIDI) and the Ministry of Health and Welfare, Republic of Korea.