Roger C.M. Ho

TL;DR: The results demonstrated that the newer technological modalities have the potential to acquire data, similar to that of conventional technologies, and suggested that there are acute physical and psychological impacts on the population from an air-pollution crisis.

TL;DR: Smoking cessation campaigns need to specifically target psychological symptoms in smokers and focus more psychoeducation on the risk of cardiovascular disease in the middle-aged population.

TL;DR: Clinicians are offered the practical probability of development of AF in patients who take bisphosphonates for the treatment of bone loss and corticosteroid induced osteoporosis, based on Bayesian meta-analysis with the effect size of observational studies as the prior.

TL;DR: The evidence for the effects of acute and chronic psychological stress on the onset and progression of CAD is consistent and convincing, and potential research areas and implications of early detection of immunological changes and cardiovascular risk in people under high psychological stress are highlighted.

TL;DR: In this paper, the authors explored underlying patterns in suicide risk factors using data mining techniques and found that suicidal attempters had a more complex clinical picture, including symptoms of psychotic illness, borderline personality disorder, and psychosomatic complaints of insomnia and headaches, reports of adverse life events such as unemployment, divorce and quarrels, experience of negative feelings, and usage of alcohol were associated with risk of repeated overdoses with benzodiazepines and paracetamol.