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2024

• Park J, Kim A, Kim Y, Choi M, Yoon TH, Kang C, Kang HJ, Oh J, Bell ML, Kim H, Lee W. Association between heat and hospitalizations in persons with disabilities: a nationwide longitudinal cohort study. The Lancet Planetary Health 2024:8(4):e217-e224. [Full text]  

• Kim Y*, Antikainen H, Watanabe H, Hashizume M, Kim H, Jaakkola J, Ryti N.  A nationwide epidemiological study on the associations between ambient particulate matter and suicide in Finland. Nature Mental Health 2024:2:426-434. [Full text]

• Yamasaki L, Kamada T, Ng CFS, Takane Y, Nakajima K, Yamaguchi K, Oka K, Honda Y, Kim Y, Hashizume M. Heat-related mortality and ambulance transport after a power outage in the Tokyo metropolitan area. Environmental Epidemiology 2024:8:e292.  [Full text]

• Tobias A, Kim Y, Madaniyazi L. Time-stratified case-crossover studies for aggregated data in environmental epidemiology: a tutorial. International Journal of Epidemiology 2024:53(2):dyae020. [Full text]  

• Htay ZW, Ng CFS, Kim Y, Lim Y-H, Iwagami M, Hashizume M. Associations between short-term exposure to ambient temperature and renal disease mortality in Japan during 1979-2019: a time-stratified case-crossover analysis. Environmental Epidemiology 2024:8:e293. [Full text] 

• Park J, Moon J, Kwon D, Ji JS, Kim H*, Kim Y*. A protective role of urban greenspace on the association between night-time heat and suicide in Seoul, South Korea. Environmental Research: Health 2024:2:015005. [Full text] 

• Chang T, Min K-D, Cho S-i*, Kim Y*. Associations of meteorological factors and dynamics of scrub typhus incidence in South Korea: A nationwide time-series study. Environmental Research 2024:245:117994. [Full text] 

• Min J, Kang D-H, Kang C, Bell ML, Kim H, Yang J, Gasparrini A, Lavigne E, Hashizume M, Kim Y, Ng CFS, Honda Y, Pereira S, Madureira J, Guo YL, Pan S-C, Armstrong B, Sera F, Masselot P, Schwartz J, Lee W. Fluctuating risk of acute kidney injury-related mortality for four weeks after exposure to air pollution: a multi-country time-series study in 6 countries. Environment International 2024:183:108367. [Full text]  

• Wu Y and MCC Collaborative Research Network. Temperature frequency and mortality: Assessing adaptation to local temperature. Environment International 2024:108691. [Full text]

• Wen B and MCC Collaborative Research Network. Comparison for the effects of different components of temperature variability on mortality: A multi-country time-series study. Environment International 2024:108712. [Full text] 

• Gao Y and MCC Collaborative Research Network. Global, regional, and national burden of mortality associated with cold spells during 2000–19: a three-stage modelling study. The Lancet Planetary Health 2024:8:e108-e116. [Full text]

• Madaniyazi L and MCC Collaborative Research Network. Seasonality of mortality under climate change: a multicountry projection study. The Lancet Planetary Health 2024:8(2):e86-e94. [Full text] 

2023

• Pillay MT, Minakawa N, Kim Y, Kgalane N, Ratnam JV, Behera SK, Hashizume M, Sweijd N. Utilizing a novel high-resolution malaria dataset for climate-informed predictions with a deep learning transformer model. Scientific Reports 2023:13:23091. [Full text] 

• Sugeno M, Kawazu EC, Kim Hyun, Banouvong V, Pehlivan N, Gilfillan D, Kim Ho*, Kim Y*. Association between environmental factors and dengue incidence in the Lao People’s Democratic Republic: a nationwide time-series study. BMC Public Health 2023:23:2348. [Full text]

• Thawonmas R, Hashizume M, Kim Y*. Projections of temperature-related suicide under climate change scenarios in Japan. Environmental Health Perspectives 2023:131(11):117012. [Full text]

• Kim Y*, Oka K, Kawazu EC, Ng CFS, Seposo X, Ueda K, Hashizume M, Honda Y. Enhancing Health Resilience in Japan in a Changing Climate.  The Lancet Regional Health - Western Pacific 2023:100970. [Full text] [The Series] 

• Chua PLC, Takane Y, Ng CFS, Oka K, Honda Y, Kim Y, Hashizume M. Net impact of air conditioning on heat-related mortality in Japanese cities. Environment International 2023:181:108310. [Full text] [Press release] 

• Yang Z and MCC Collaborative Research Network. Mortality risks associated with floods in 761 communities worldwide: time series study. BMJ 2023:383:e075081. [Full text] 

• Okada A, Yamana H, Pan R, Yamaguchi S, Kumazawa R, Matsui H, Fushimi K, Honda Y, Nangaku M, Yamauchi T, Yasunaga H, Kadowaki T, Kim Y*.  Effect modification of the association between temperature variability and hospitalization for cardiovascular disease by comorbid diabetes mellitus: a nationwide time-stratified case-crossover analysis. Diabetes Research and Clinical Practice 2023:202:110771. [Full text] 

• Kim SE, Kim Y, Hashizume M, Honda Y, Kazutaka O, Hijioka Y, Kim H. Positive Association of Aggression with Ambient Temperature. Yale Journal of Biology and Medicine 2023:96(2):189-196. [Full text]

• He Q, Liu L, Zhang H, Chen R, Dong G, Yan LL, Zeng Y, Kim Y*, Ji JS*. Environmental Greenspace, Subjective Well-Being, and All-Cause Mortality in Elderly Chinese: Association and Mediation Study in a Prospective Cohort. Environmental Research 2023:227:115732. [Full text] 

• Pan R, Okada A, Yamana H, Yasunaga H, Kumazawa R, Matsui H, Fushimi K, Honda Y, Kim Y*. Association between ambient temperature and cause-specific cardiovascular disease admissions in Japan: A nationwide study. Environmental Research 2023:225:115610. [Full text] 

• Lin SY, Ng CFS, Kim Y, Htay ZW, Cao AQ, Pan R, Hashizume M. Ambient Temperature and Nervous System Diseases-related Mortality in Japan from 2010 to 2019: A Time-Stratified Case-Crossover Analysis. Science of The Total Environment 2023:867:161464. [Full text] 

• Nishikawa H, Seposo XT, Madaniyazi L, Kim Y, Tobías A, Yamagami M, Kim SE, Takami A, Sugata S, Honda Y, Ueda K, Hashizume M, Ng CFS. Long-term trends in mortality risk associated with short-term exposure to air pollution in 10 Japanese cities between 1977 and 2015. Environmental Research 2023:219:115108. [Full text]

• Phung VLH, Oka K, Honda Y, Hijioka Y, Ueda K, Seposo XT, Sahani M, Mahiyuddin WRW, Kim Y. Daily temperature effects on under-five mortality in a tropical climate country and the role of local characteristics. Environmental Research 2023:218:114988. [Full text]

• Choi HM and MCC Collaborative Research Network. Effect modification of greenness on the association between heat and mortality: A multi-city multi-country study. eBioMedicine 2022:87:104396. [Full text]

2022

• Madaniyazi L, Tobias A, Kim Y, Chung Y, Armstrong B, Hashizume M. Assessing seasonality and the role of its potential drivers in environmental epidemiology: a tutorial. International Journal of Epidemiology 2022:51(5):1677-1686, https://doi.org/10.1093/ije/dyac115 

• Roy A, Alam MA, Kim Y, Hashizume M. Association between Daily Ambient Temperature and Drug Overdose in Tokyo: A Time-Series Study. Environmental Health and Preventive Medicine 2022:27:36. [Full text] 

• Pan R, Honda Y, Minakuchi E, Kim SE, Hashizume M, Kim Y*. Ambient Temperature and External Causes of Death in Japan from 1979 to 2015: A Time-stratified Case-crossover Analysis. Environmental Health Perspectives 2022:130(4):047004. [Full text]

• Kawano A, Kim Y, Meas M, Sokal-Gutierrez K. Association between satellite-detected tropospheric nitrogen dioxide and acute respiratory infections in children under age five in Senegal: Spatio-temporal analysis. BMC Public Health 2022:22:178. [Full text]

• Mistry MN and MCC Collaborative Research Network. Comparison of weather station and climate reanalysis data for modelling temperature-related mortality. Scientific Reports 2022:12:5178. [Full text] 

• Madaniyazi L, Armstrong B, Chung Y, Ng CFS, Seposo X, Kim Y, Tobias A, Guo Y, Sera F, Honda Y, Gasparrini A, Hashizume M, and MCC collaborative research network. Seasonal variation in mortality and the role of temperature: a multi-country multi-city study. International Journal of Epidemiology 2022:51(1):122-133. [Full text] 

2021

• Tobías A, Casals M, Saez M, Kamada M, Kim Y. Impacts of ambient temperature and seasonal changes on sports injuries in Madrid, Spain: a time-series regression analysis. BMJ Open Sport & Exercise Medicine 2021:7:e001205. [Full text] 

• Kim Y, Park EH, Ng CFS, Chung Y, Hashimoto K, Tashiro K, Hasunuma H, Doi M, Tamura K, Moriuchi H, Nishiwaki Y, Kim H, Yi S-M, Kim H, Hashizume M. Respiratory function declines in children with asthma associated with chemical species of fine particulate matter (PM2.5) in Nagasaki, Japan. Environ Health 2021:20:110. [Full text]

• Tobías A, Hashizume M, Honda Y, Sera F, Ng CFS, Kim Y, Roye D, Chung Y, Dang TN, Kim H, Lee W, Íñiguez C, Vicedo-Cabrera A, et al. Geographical Variations of the Minimum Mortality Temperature at a Global Scale: A Multicountry Study. Environmental Epidemiology 2021:5:e169. [Full text] 

• Madaniyazi L, Chung Y, Kim Y, Tobias A, Ng CFS, Seposo X, Guo Y, Honda Y, Gasparrini A, Armstrong B, Hashizume M. Seasonality of mortality under a changing climate: a time-series analysis of mortality in Japan between 1972 and 2015. Environ Health Prev Med. 2021:3:26:69.  [Full text]

• Lee W, Ebi KL, Kim Y, Hashizume M, Honda Y, Hashimoto H, Choi HM, Choi M, Kim H. Heat-mortality risk and the population concentration of metropolitan areas in Japan: a nationwide time-series study. International Journal of Epidemiology 2021:50:602–612. [Full text] 

• Yu J, Park J, Choi T, Hashizume M, Kim Y, Honda Y, Chung Y. Nonparametric Bayesian functional meta-regression: applications in environmental epidemiology. Journal of Agricultural, Biological, and Environmental Statistics 2021:26: 45–70. [Full text] 

2020

• Lee W, Kim Y, Sera F, Gasparrini A, Park R, Choi MH, Prifti K, Bell ML, Abrutzky R, Guo Y, Tong S, Coelho MSZS, Saldiva PHN, Lavigne E, Orru H, Indermitte E, Jaakkola JJK, Ryti NRI, Pascal M, Goodman P, Zeka A, Hashizume M, Honda Y, Diaz M, Valencia CDC, Overcenco A, Nunes B, Teixeira JP, Scovronick N, Acquaotta F, Tobias A, Vicedo-Cabrera AM, Ragettli MS, Guo YL, Chen BY, Li S, Armstrong B, Zanobetti A, Schwartz J, Kim H. Projections of excess mortality related to diurnal temperature range under climate change: A multi-country study. The Lancet Planetary Health  2020:4: e512–21. [Full text] 

• Yu J, Yang D, Kim Y, Hashizume M, Gasparrini A, Armstrong B, Honda Y, Tobias A, Sera F, Vicedo-Cabrera AM, Kim H, Íñiguez C, Lavigne E, Ragettli MS, Scovronick N, Acquaotta F, Chen B, Guo YL, Coelho MSZS, Saldiva PHN, Zanobetti A, Schwartz J, Bell ML, Diaz M, Valencia CDC, Holobâc I, Fratianni S, Chung Y. Seasonality of Suicide: A Multi-Country Multi-Community Observational Study. Epidemiology and Psychiatric Sciences 2020:29: e163. [Full text]

• Lee W, Hwang S-S, Song I, Park C, Kim H, Song I-K, Choi HM, Prifti K, Kwon Y, Kim J, Oh S, Yang J, Cha M, Kim Y, Bell ML, Kim H. COVID-19 in South Korea: epidemiological and spatiotemporal patterns of the spread and the role of aggressive diagnostic tests in the early phase. International Journal of Epidemiology 2020:49:1106–1116. [Full text]

• Hashizume M, Kim Y, Ng CFS, Chung Y, Madaniyazi L, Bell ML, Guo YL, Kan H, Honda Y, Yi SM, Kim H, Nishiwaki Y. Health effects of Asian dust: a systematic review and meta-analysis. Environmental Health Perspectives 2020:128(6): 066001. [Full text] 

• Sim K, Kim Y, Hashizume M, Gasparrini A, Armstrong B, Sera F, Ng CFS, Honda Y, Chung Y. Nonlinear temperature-suicide association in Japan from 1972–2015: its heterogeneity and the role of climate, demographic, and socioeconomic factors. Environment International 2020:142: 105829. [Full text]

2019

• Kim Y*, Kim H, Gasparrini A, Armstrong B, Honda Y, Chung Y, Ng CFS, Tobias A, Íñiguez C, Lavigne E, Sera F, Vicedo-Cabrera AM, Ragettli MS, Scovronick N, Acquaotta F, Chen BY, Guo YLL, Seposo X, Dang TN, Coelho MSZS, Saldiva PHN, Kosheleva A, Zanobetti A, Schwartz J, Bell ML, Hashizume M. Suicide and Ambient Temperature: A Multi-Country Multi-City Study. Environmental Health Perspectives 2019:127(11):117007. [Full text] 

• Kim Y, Ratnam JV, Doi T, Morioka Y, Behera S, Tsuzuki A, Minakawa N, Sweijd N, Kruger P, Maharaj R, Imai CC, Ng CFN, Chung Y, Hashizume M. Malaria predictions based on seasonal climate forecasts in South Africa: A time series distributed lag nonlinear model. Scientific Reports 2019:9:17882. [Full text]

• Matsushita N, Kim Y, Ng CFS, Moriyama M, Igarashi T, Yamamoto K, Otieno W, Minakawa M, Hashizume M. Differences of rainfall-malaria associations in lowland and highland in Western Kenya. International Journal of Environmental Research and Public Health 2019:16:3693.

• Ng CFS, Hashizume M, Obase Y, Doi M, Tamura K, Tomari S, Kawano T, Fukushima C, Matsuse H, Chung Y, Kim Y, Kunimitsu K, Kohno S, Mukae H. Associations of chemical composition and sources of PM2.5 with lung function of severe asthmatic adults in a low air pollution environment of urban Nagasaki, Japan. Environmental Pollution 2019:252:599–606. 

2018

• Lee W, Kim Y, Honda Y, Kim H. Association between diurnal temperature range and mortality modified by temperature in Japan, 1972-2015: investigation of spatial and temporal patterns for 12 cause-specific deaths. Environment International 2018:119:379-387. 

• Chung Y, Yang D-W, Gasparrini A, Vicedo-Cabrera A, Ng CFS, Kim Y, Honda Y, Hashizume M. Changing susceptibility to non-optimum temperatures in Japan, 1972-2012: the role of climate, demographic and socio-economic factors. Environmental Health Perspectives 2018:126(5):057002. [Full text]

• Matsushita N, Ng CFS, Kim Y, Suzuki M, Saito N, Ariyoshi K, Villarama JB, Go WS, Hashizume M. The non-linear and lagged relationship between rainfall and leptospirosis and the intermediate role of floods in the Philippines. PLoS Negl Trop Dis 2018:12(4):e0006331. [Full text]