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Rachel Ngan Yin Chan

- Verified email at cuhk.edu.hk - Cited by 2122

Ngai Yui Chan

- Verified email at ha.org.hk - Cited by 1675

Screening for atrial fibrillation: a report of the AF-SCREEN International Collaboration

B Freedman, J Camm, H Calkins, JS Healey… - Circulation, 2017 - Am Heart Assoc
Approximately 10% of ischemic strokes are associated with atrial fibrillation (AF) first
diagnosed at the time of stroke. Detecting asymptomatic AF would provide an opportunity to …

An integrated assessment framework for climate change and infectious diseases.

NY Chan, KL Ebi, F Smith, TF Wilson… - Environmental health …, 1999 - ehp.niehs.nih.gov
Many potential human health effects have been hypothesized to result either directly or
indirectly from global climate change. Changes in the prevalence and spread of infectious …

Exceptional Tunability of Band Energy in a Compressively Strained Trilayer MoS2 Sheet

YY Hui, X Liu, W Jie, NY Chan, J Hao, YT Hsu, LJ Li… - ACS …, 2013 - ACS Publications
Tuning band energies of semiconductors through strain engineering can significantly
enhance their electronic, photonic, and spintronic performances. Although low-dimensional …

Insomnia, anxiety, and depression during the COVID-19 pandemic: an international collaborative study

CM Morin, B Bjorvatn, F Chung, B Holzinger… - Sleep medicine, 2021 - Elsevier
Importance and study objective The COVID-19 pandemic has produced unprecedented
changes in social, work, and leisure activities, which all have had major impact on sleep and …

[HTML][HTML] Non-pharmacological approaches for management of insomnia

NY Chan, JWY Chan, SX Li, YK Wing - Neurotherapeutics, 2021 - Elsevier
Insomnia is a prevalent sleep problem associated with a constellation of negative health-
related outcomes and significant socioeconomic burden. It commonly co-occurs with …

[HTML][HTML] Associations of timing of physical activity with all-cause and cause-specific mortality in a prospective cohort study

H Feng, L Yang, YY Liang, S Ai, Y Liu, Y Liu… - Nature …, 2023 - nature.com
There is a growing interest in the role of timing of daily behaviors in improving health.
However, little is known about the optimal timing of physical activity to maximize health …

Eveningness and insomnia: independent risk factors of nonremission in major depressive disorder

JWY Chan, SP Lam, SX Li, MWM Yu, NY Chan… - Sleep, 2014 - academic.oup.com
Background: It is unclear whether there is an association between chronotype and
nonremission of depression, and whether the association is related to the confounding effect …

Emergence of sex differences in insomnia symptoms in adolescents: a large-scale school-based study

J Zhang, NY Chan, SP Lam, SX Li, Y Liu, JWY Chan… - Sleep, 2016 - academic.oup.com
Abstract Study Objectives: This study aimed to explore the moderation of pubertal status on
the onset of sex differences in the prevalence of insomnia symptoms and their health …

Eveningness chronotype, insomnia symptoms, and emotional and behavioural problems in adolescents

SX Li, NY Chan, MWM Yu, SP Lam, J Zhang… - Sleep medicine, 2018 - Elsevier
Objective Eveningness tendency and insomnia are common in adolescents, but whether
they have an independent or synergistic effect on the risk of psychopathology have …

Ten-year secular trends in sleep/wake patterns in Shanghai and Hong Kong school-aged children: a tale of two cities

G Wang, J Zhang, SP Lam, SX Li, Y Jiang… - Journal of Clinical …, 2019 - jcsm.aasm.org
Study Objectives: To compare the secular trends of sleep/wake patterns in school-aged
children in Hong Kong and Shanghai, two major metropolitan cities in China with two …