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  1. Effect of eliminating the sale of duty-free tobacco products: a natural experiment during the COVID-19 pandemic in Taiwan, 2020–2023

    Article • Tobacco Control, October 2025, BMJ

    Dr Wayne Gao

  2. The extraordinarily long lead times of screen-detected lung cancer in never-smokers

    Article • September 2024, Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory Press

    Dr Wayne Gao

  3. Trouble with promoting lung cancer screening in never-smokers

    Article • The Lancet Respiratory Medicine, April 2024, Elsevier

    Dr Wayne Gao

  4. Resting Heart Rate Independent of Cardiovascular Disease Risk Factors Is Associated With End‐Stage Renal Disease: A Cohort Study Based on 476 347 Adults

    Article • Journal of the American Heart Association, December 2023, Wolters Kluwer Health

    Dr Wayne Gao

  5. Body Mass Index Asian populations category and stroke and heart disease in the adult population: a longitudinal study of the Indonesia Family Life Survey (IFLS) 2007 and 2014

    Article • BMC Public Health, November 2023, Springer Science + Business Media

    Dr Wayne Gao

  6. Body Mass Index Asian Populations category and stroke and heart disease in the adult population: A longitudinal study of The Indonesia Family Life Survey (IFLS) 2007 and 2014

    Article • October 2023, Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory Press

    Dr Wayne Gao, Kamaluddin Latief

  7. Impaired lung function and lung cancer risk in 461,183 healthy individuals: a cohort study

    Article • October 2023, Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory Press

    Dr Wayne Gao

  8. The relationship between alcohol consumption and health: J-shaped or less is more?

    Article • BMC Medicine, July 2023, Springer Science + Business Media

    Dr Wayne Gao

  9. Associations of Prolonged Occupational Sitting with the Spectrum of Kidney Disease: Results from a Cohort of a Half-Million Asian Adults

    Article • Sports Medicine - Open, December 2022, Springer Science + Business Media

    Dr Wayne Gao

  10. Should We Screen Never-Smoking Asian Women for Lung Cancer Using Low-Dose Computed Tomography?—Reply

    Article • JAMA Internal Medicine, July 2022, American Medical Association (AMA)

    Dr Wayne Gao

  11. The impact of surgical mask-wearing, contact tracing program, and vaccination on COVID-19 transmission in Taiwan from January 2020 to March 2022: a modelling study

    Article • June 2022, Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory Press

    Dr Wayne Gao

  12. Role of Physical Activity in Lowering Risk of End-Stage Renal Disease

    Article • Mayo Clinic Proceedings, May 2022, Elsevier

    Dr Wayne Gao

  13. A prediction model with lifestyle factors improves the predictive ability for renal replacement therapy: a cohort of 442 714 Asian adults

    Article • Clinical Kidney Journal, April 2022, Oxford University Press (OUP)

    Dr Wayne Gao

  14. Association of Computed Tomographic Screening Promotion With Lung Cancer Overdiagnosis Among Asian Women

    Article • JAMA Internal Medicine, March 2022, American Medical Association (AMA)

    Dr Wayne Gao

  15. CVD risk from prolonged occupational sitting attenuated by additional physical activity – Evidence from a prospective cohort of 481,688 Asian adults

    Article • January 2022, Research Square

    Dr Wayne Gao

  16. Converting health risks into loss of life years - a paradigm shift in clinical risk communication

    Article • Aging, September 2021, Impact Journals, LLC

    Dr Wayne Gao

  17. Investigation of the Efficiency of Mask Wearing, Contact Tracing, and Case Isolation during the COVID-19 Outbreak

    Article • Journal of Clinical Medicine, June 2021, MDPI AG

    Dr Wayne Gao

  18. Examining Population Health During the COVID-19 Pandemic: All-Cause, Pneumonia and Influenza, and Road Traffic Deaths in Taiwan

    Article • Annals of Internal Medicine, June 2021, American College of Physicians

    Dr Wayne Gao

  19. Can weight loss be accelerated if we exercise smarter with wearable devices by subscribing to Personal Activity Intelligence (PAI)?

    Article • The Lancet Regional Health - Europe, June 2021, Elsevier

    Dr Wayne Gao

  20. Smoking and nasopharyngeal cancer: individual data meta-analysis of six prospective studies on 334 935 men

    Article • International Journal of Epidemiology, March 2021, Oxford University Press (OUP)

    Dr Wayne Gao

  21. Geo-temporal distribution of 1,688 Chinese healthcare workers infected with COVID-19 in severe conditions—A secondary data analysis

    Article • PLOS One, May 2020, PLOS

    Dr Wayne Gao

  22. Vaping popularity did not increase smoking rate

    Article • Tobacco Control, March 2020, BMJ

    Dr Wayne Gao, Dr. David T Levy

  23. Geo-temporal distribution of 1,688 Chinese healthcare workers infected with COVID-19 in severe conditions – a secondary data analysis

    Article • March 2020, Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory Press

    Dr Wayne Gao

  24. Examining Population Health During the Global COVID-19 Pandemic: All-Cause, Pneumonia and Influenza, and Road Traffic Deaths in Taiwan

    Article • SSRN Electronic Journal, January 2020, Elsevier

    Dr Wayne Gao

  25. Geo-Temporal Distribution of 1,688 Chinese Healthcare Workers Infected with COVID-19 in Severe Conditions – A Secondary Data Analysis

    Article • SSRN Electronic Journal, January 2020, Elsevier

    Dr Wayne Gao

  26. Air pollution while a public health concern is still a smaller burden than smoking

    Article • Tobacco Control, October 2019, BMJ

    Dr Wayne Gao

  27. Exploiting a low tax system: non-tax-induced cigarette price increases in Taiwan 2011–2016

    Article • Tobacco Control, June 2019, BMJ

    Dr Wayne Gao

  28. Electronic Cigarette Use and Smoking Initiation in Taiwan: Evidence from the First Prospective Study in Asia

    Article • International Journal of Environmental Research and Public Health, March 2019, MDPI AG

    Dr Wayne Gao

  29. Tobacco control within and beyond WHO MPOWER: its long term effectiveness and limitations

    Article • Tobacco Control, November 2018, BMJ

    Dr Wayne Gao

  30. E-cigarette vaping in Taiwan and Asia

    Article • Asia Pacific Journal of Public Health, May 2018, SAGE Publications

    Dr Wayne Gao

  31. China's smoking endemic can be stopped by learning experiences from Hong Kong and Taiwan

    Article • Tobacco Induced Diseases, March 2018, E.U. European Publishing

    Dr Wayne Gao

  32. PM 2.5 is less important than smoking by 10 times in most countries except highly polluted cities

    Article • The Lancet Planetary Health, March 2018, Elsevier

    Dr Wayne Gao

  33. Encouraging physical activity for smokers: benefits beyond expectation

    Article • Tobacco Induced Diseases, March 2018, E.U. European Publishing

    Dr Wayne Gao

  34. Transport injuries and deaths in the Eastern Mediterranean Region: findings from the Global Burden of Disease 2015 Study

    Article • International Journal of Public Health, August 2017, Springer Science + Business Media

    Kathryn H. Jacobsen, Dr Samer Hamidi, Mr Morteza Shamsizadeh, Maysaa El Sayed Zaki, Dr Wayne Gao, Mr Raimundas Lunevicius, Professor Yousef Khader, Rajaa Al-Raddadi, Dr Farshad Pourmalek

  35. diabetes with kidney involvement shorten life

    Article • Kidney International, August 2017, Elsevier

    Dr Wayne Gao

  36. Healthcare Access and Quality Index based on mortality from causes amenable to personal health care in 195 countries and territories, 1990–2015: a novel analysis from the Global Burden of Disease Study 2015

    Article • The Lancet, July 2017, Elsevier

    Dr Yuan-Pang Wang, Dr Shariful Islam, Dr Samer Hamidi, Professor David M. Pereira, Dr Amador Goodridge, Denny John, Maysaa El Sayed Zaki, Professor Erkin Mirrakhimov, Dina Nur Anggraini Ningrum, Professor Mihajlo (Michael) Jakovljevic MD, PhD, MAE, PhD. Carla Sofia FARINHA, Dr Wayne Gao, Dr Azmeraw Amare, Mr Raimundas Lunevicius, Professor Yousef Khader, Dr. Jasvinder A. Singh, Melkamu Merid Mengesha , Professor Andrew Toyin Olagunju, Dr. Bolajoko O. Olusanya, Rajaa Al-Raddadi, Tesfaye Setegn Mengistu

  37. Smoking prevalence and attributable disease burden in 195 countries and territories, 1990–2015: a systematic analysis from the Global Burden of Disease Study 2015

    Article • The Lancet, May 2017, Elsevier

    Maysaa El Sayed Zaki, Dr Wayne Gao, Dr Azmeraw Amare, Professor Yousef Khader, Dr. Jasvinder A. Singh, Professor Alina Rodriguez, Rajaa Al-Raddadi