Xiang Gao's research while affiliated with Fudan University and other places

... Calcium deficiency is greater in children in developing countries, affecting between 79% of children aged 10 to 16 years in Bangladesh and 100% in Senegal [93]. However, in the NHANES study from 1999-2000 to 2017-2018 (80,880 people, 2 to 60 years), worrying trends were observed between 2009-2018, with a decrease in dietary Ca intake, being of greatest concern in men, children ages 9 to 18 years, and non-Hispanic Whites [94]. Contrary to expectations, the mean dietary Ca intake in our whole series and by BMI groups was normal, without significant differences. ...

... Similarly, HF and its treatment can result in CKD. 6 In this issue of the journal, Huo et al. 7 report the relationship between the LE8 model and the risk of HF in 16 190 Chinese patients with CKD from the Kailuan study. This study found a strong inverse association between the LE8 cardiovascular health score and the risk of HF among patients with CKD. ...

... It is common for parents of critically ill children to worry about their eating habits and resort to additional supplements in order to meet their child's nutritional needs. Although the human body has efficient homeostatic mechanisms that regulate the absorption and retention of many nutrients, which decreases the likelihood of toxicities, the safety of long-term use of these supplements must not be overlooked [4,27,55]. ...

... These new perspectives facilitate the caramel barley malt inclusion of Diagnosis and Treatment Plan for COVID-19 (trial version 10) in 2023 of National Health Commission of the People's Republic of China [57]. Persian barley water can reduce the length of hospital stay, fever, erythrocyte sedimentation rate, C-reactive protein, and creatinine among hospitalized COVID-19 patients with moderate severity [58,59], such as a treatment protocol approved by Iran's Ministry of Health and Medical Education, consisting of an Iranian regimen, Ficus carica; Vitis vinifera, Safflower, Cicer arietinum, Descurainiasophia seeds, Ziziphus jujuba, chicken soup, barley soup, rose water, saffron, and cinnamon spices, which appears to be effective in the treatment of symptoms as well as inflammatory biomarkers such as C-reactive protein in COVID-19 patients [60]. ...

... Of particular note were the benefits of gardening for mental health and well-being, including potential reductions in anxiety and depression symptoms [16,17] and improved sleep quality [18,19]. We previously reported that people who engaged in gardening had a lower frequency of mental distress and lower odds of diabetes [20], a known risk factor of dementia [21]. Previous cohort studies reported that gardening activity was associated with lower risk of dementia [22][23][24][25], however, those studies were limited by relatively small sample size (< 5000 for all) and they did not control several important covariates, such as demographic characteristics (e.g. ...

... The differences between Western and Asian populations in dietary patterns and nutritional compositions may explain these inconsistencies [28]. Previous studies mainly involved Western populations with higher consumption of high-fat products rich in SFAs, particularly even-chain SFAs, compared to Asian populations [29][30][31]. Furthermore, differences in fatty acid measurement across various blood components may also contribute to inconsistent findings. ...

... According 52 | International Journal of Educational Management and Development Studies, Volume 4 Issue 1 to Dias et al. (2017), physical activity improves the elderly's functioning, cognitive performance, and risk of falling. Physical activities such as bicycling and gardening provide a number of substantial health benefits for individuals (Piatkowski & Bopp, 2021;Grontved et al., 2019;Bopp et al., 2018;Ma et al., 2021;Veldheer et al., 2021). However, Temporelli (2021) underlined the harmful impacts of high occupational physical activity in the workplace. ...

... A meta-analysis suggested that the global prevalence of HTN in children was 4.0%, and the prevalence of HTN was 4.3% among children aged six years in 2015 [79]. In China, the prevalence of HTN was 12.4% in children and adolescents and 7.3% in children ages six to 11 from 2010 to 2011 [80]. In the present study, we found a suspected effect of breastfeeding in preventing HTN in middle childhood. ...