Haidong Kan

Sep 17, 2024 | nature.com | Jiangdong Liu |Jinlei Qi |Peng Yin |Wei Liu |Ya Gao |Lu Zhou | +3 more

AbstractGlobal warming shifts daytime-only heatwaves to nighttime-only and day–night compound heatwaves. However, evidence on the cause-specific burdens of these heatwaves in a changing climate and ageing population is limited.

Jun 28, 2024 | jamanetwork.com | Ya Gao |Lin Lin |Peng Yin |Haidong Kan

Key PointsQuestion  Do nighttime and daytime heat exposure differ in their association with dementia-related deaths? Findings  In this case-crossover study of 132 573 dementia-related deaths, immediate and significant risk was associated with both nighttime and daytime heat. Stricter thresholds for nighttime heat were associated with a higher burden of dementia-related deaths compared with daytime heat.

Jan 2, 2024 | nature.com | Haidong Kan |Alexandra Schneider |Renjie Chen

AbstractFloods have affected billions worldwide. Yet, the indirect health impacts of floods on vulnerable groups, particularly women in the developing world, remain underexplored. Here, we evaluated the risk of pregnancy loss for women exposed to floods. We analyzed 90,465 individual pregnancy loss records from 33 developing countries, cross-referencing each with spatial-temporal flood databases.