Wen-Nan Huang

Dec 11, 2023 | onlinelibrary.wiley.com | Der-Yuan Chen |Yi-Hsing Chen |Wen-Nan Huang |Chia-Chu Meng

Corresponding Author Hsin-Hua Chen Division of Allergy, Immunology and Rheumatology, Taichung Veterans General Hospital, Taichung, Taiwan Department of Post-Baccalaureate Medicine, College of Medicine, National Chung Hsing University, Taichung, Taiwan Division of General Medicine, Department of Medicine, Taichung Veterans General Hospital, Taichung, Taiwan Program in Translational Medicine and Rong Hsing Research Center for Translational Medi-cine, National Chung Hsing University, Taichung,...

Oct 5, 2023 | acrjournals.onlinelibrary.wiley.com | Tatsuya Atsumi |Sang-Cheol Bae |Hong Gu |Wen-Nan Huang

INTRODUCTION Pulmonary arterial hypertension (PAH) is a rare, progressive, and severe cardiopulmonary disorder (1). In patients with PAH, the small pulmonary arteries are obstructed because of cellular proliferation, fibrosis, and vascular remodeling, leading to premature death from right-sided heart failure (2-4).

May 6, 2023 | arthritis-research.biomedcentral.com | Chung-Mao Kao |Yi-Ming Chen |Wen-Nan Huang |Yi-Hsing Chen |Hsin-Hua Chen

Study designThis was a nationwide, population-based, nested case–control study. Source of dataThe claims data on AS study subjects were obtained from the NHIRD from January 1, 2003, to December 31, 2013. An obligatory, single-payer NHI programme covering more than 99% of Taiwan’s population was implemented on March 1, 1995 [9], and has facilitated population-based longitudinal epidemiologic studies.