Search Results - "Fung, L. H."

What is the long term impact of voucher scheme on primary care? Findings from a repeated cross sectional study using propensity score matching by Yam, Carrie H K, Wong, Eliza L Y, Fung, Valerie L H, Griffiths, Sian M, Yeoh, Eng-Kiong

“…Vouchers are increasingly used as a demand-side subsidy to reduce financial hardship and improve quality of services. Elderly Healthcare Voucher Scheme has…”
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Environmental variabilities and the distribution of octocorals and black corals in Hong Kong by Yeung, C.W., Cheang, C.C., Lee, M.W., Fung, H.L., Chow, W.K., Ang, P.

“…•Correlation between coral distribution pattern and environmental variabilities was examined.•Salinity gradient, turbidity and nutrient related variables were…”
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Serological response to mRNA and inactivated COVID-19 vaccine in healthcare workers in Hong Kong: decline in antibodies 12 weeks after two doses by Zee, J S T, Lai, K T W, Ho, M K S, Leung, A C P, Fung, L H, Luk, W P, Kwok, L F, Kee, K M, Chan, Q W L, Tang, S F, Ma, E S K, Lee, K H, Lau, C C, Yung, R W H

“…To the Editor—We previously reported serological findings of 302 healthcare workers (HCWs) who completed two doses of mRNA (BNT162b2/Comirnaty; Fosun-BioNTech…”
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Is Gratitude Always Beneficial to Interpersonal Relationships? The Interplay of Grateful Disposition, Grateful Mood, and Grateful Expression Among Married Couples by Leong, Joyce L. T., Chen, Sylvia Xiaohua, Fung, Helene H. L., Bond, Michael Harris, Siu, Nicolson Y. F., Zhu, Jay Yijie

“…A growing body of research has documented positive outcomes of gratitude in personal and interpersonal domains. To uncover the dynamic process of gratitude and…”
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Peanut allergy and oral immunotherapy by Lee, T H, Chan, J K C, Lau, P C, Luk, W P, Fung, L H

“…Peanut allergy is the commonest cause of food-induced anaphylaxis in the world, and it can be fatal. There have been many recent improvements to achieve safe…”
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Age Differences in the Likelihood of Destructive Anger Responses Under Different Relationship Contexts: A Comparison of Mainland and Hong Kong Chinese by Fung, Helene H. L., You, Jin

“…This brief report examined how the likelihood of destructive anger responses varied with age across relationship contexts. Seventy-six older adults and 100…”
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Metabolic activation of sodium nitroprusside to nitric oxide in vascular smooth muscle by Kowaluk, E A, Seth, P, Fung, H L

“…Sodium nitroprusside (SNP) is thought to exert its vasodilating activity, at least in part, by vascular activation to nitric oxide (NO), but the activation…”
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An evaluation of universal vouchers as a demand-side subsidy to change primary care utilization: A retrospective analysis of longitudinal services utilisation and voucher claims data from a survey cohort in Hong Kong by Yeoh, Eng-Kiong, Yam, Carrie H.K., Chong, Ka-Chun, Chow, Tsz-Yu, Fung, Valerie L.H., Wong, Eliza L.Y., Griffiths, Sian M.

“…•Undifferentiated voucher scheme subsidises elderly to visit private primary care providers.•Public services utilisation and voucher-transaction data from a…”
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Spontaneous liberation of nitric oxide cannot account for in vitro vascular relaxation by S-nitrosothiols by Kowaluk, E A, Fung, H L

“…S-nitrosothiols are potent vasodilators in vivo and in vitro, and have recently been proposed as possible endogenous precursors of endothelium-derived nitric…”
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Domestic dog health worsens with socio-economic deprivation of their home communities by Fung, H.L., Calzada, J., Saldaña, A., Santamaria, A.M., Pineda, V., Gonzalez, K., Chaves, L.F., Garner, B., Gottdenker, N.

“…Evaluating relationships between poverty and dog health, we find that dogs in poor communities are sicker and more likely to be infected with zoonotic…”
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Identification of the subcellular site for nitroglycerin metabolism to nitric oxide in bovine coronary smooth muscle cells by Chung, S J, Fung, H L

“…The vasodilating action of nitroglycerin (NTG) is thought to be mediated by its metabolic activation to nitric oxide (NO) in the vascular smooth muscle cell,…”
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Solving the mystery of nitrate tolerance. A new scent on the trail? by Fung, H L

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Nitroglycerin‐inhibited whole blood aggregation is partially mediated by calcitonin gene‐related peptide–a neurogenic mechanism by Booth, Brian P., Nolan, Timothy D., Fung, Ho‐Leung

“…1 The role of the vasculature and calcitonin gene‐related peptide (CGRP) in nitroglycerin (NTG)‐mediated platelet inhibition was studied. 2 In vitro…”
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Differential hemodynamic effects and tolerance properties of nitroglycerin and an S-nitrosothiol in experimental heart failure by Bauer, J A, Fung, H L

“…S-nitrosothiols are potent in vitro vasodilators, but little is known about their in vivo action. In this study, we compared the effects of S-nitroso N-acetyl…”
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Randomized prospective study of the effect of increased dialytic dose on nutritional and clinical outcome in continuous ambulatory peritoneal dialysis patients by Mak, Siu-Ka, Wong, Ping-Nam, Lo, Kin-Yee, Tong, Gensy M.W., Fung, Lewis H., Wong, Andrew K.M.

“…Cohort studies have shown that greater urea (Kt/V) and creatinine clearances (CCr) were associated with better survival in patients on continuous ambulatory…”
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Mechanisms for the pharmacologic interaction of organic nitrates with thiols. Existence of an extracellular pathway for the reversal of nitrate vascular tolerance by N-acetylcysteine by Fung, H L, Chong, S, Kowaluk, E, Hough, K, Kakemi, M

“…Recent reports have shown that the coadministration of N-acetylcysteine (NAC) potentiated the hemodynamic actions of i.v. nitroglycerin (NTG) and reversed NTG…”
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The Making and Melting of the "Iron Rice Bowl" in China 1949 to 1995 by Fung, Ho-lup

“…The socialist regimes are commonly perceived as insensitive to the economic problems of overmanning and inefficiency arising from the iron rice bowl. This…”
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Vascular nitric oxide-generating activities for organic nitrites and organic nitrates are distinct by Kowaluk, E A, Fung, H L

“…Like organic nitrates, the organic nitrites are assumed to undergo vascular metabolic activation to nitric oxide (NO) to produce vasodilating activity, but…”
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Concurrent hydralazine administration prevents nitroglycerin-induced hemodynamic tolerance in experimental heart failure by Bauer, J A, Fung, H L

“…Organic nitrates such as nitroglycerin and isosorbide dinitrate are useful in the treatment of congestive heart failure (CHF), but tolerance develops rapidly…”
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Antianginal effects of intravenous nitroglycerin over 24 hours by ZIMRIN, D, REICHEK, N, BOGIN, K. T, AURIGEMMA, G, DOUGLAS, P, BERKO, B, HO-LEUNG FUNG

“…To determine the constancy of hemodynamic and antianginal effects of the constant infusion of intravenous nitroglycerin (NTG) and their relationship to…”
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