Breastfeeding in infancy and lipid profile in adolescence

LL Hui, MK Kwok, EAS Nelson, SL Lee, GM Leung… - …, 2019 - publications.aap.org
OBJECTIVES: Breast milk has higher cholesterol than formula. Infants who are breastfed have
different cholesterol synthesis and metabolism in infancy than infants who are formula fed. …

High-κ polymers of intrinsic microporosity: a new class of high temperature and low loss dielectrics for printed electronics

Z Zhang, J Zheng, K Premasiri, MH Kwok, Q Li… - Materials …, 2020 - pubs.rsc.org
High performance polymer dielectrics are a key component for printed electronics. In this
work, organo-soluble polymers of intrinsic microporosity (PIMs) are reported for the first time to …

The association of breastfeeding with insulin resistance at 17 years: Prospective observations from Hong Kong's “C hildren of 1997” birth cohort

LL Hui, MK Kwok, EAS Nelson, SL Lee… - Maternal & child …, 2018 - Wiley Online Library
Breastfeeding has many benefits for mother and infant. Whether breastfeeding also protects
against type 2 diabetes is unclear. To clarify the role of breastfeeding in type 2 diabetes, we …

Does breastfeeding protect against childhood overweight? Hong Kong's 'Children of 1997'birth cohort

MK Kwok, CM Schooling, TH Lam… - International journal of …, 2010 - academic.oup.com
Background Observational studies from mainly Western settings suggest breastfeeding may
protect against childhood adiposity; however, breastfeeding and adiposity share social …

Achieving High Permittivity Paraelectric Behavior in Mesogen-Free Sulfonylated Chiral Polyethers with Smectic C Liquid Crystalline Self-Assembly

MH Kwok, J Huang, G Rui, CA Bohannon, R Li… - …, 2023 - ACS Publications
Ferroelectric liquid crystalline polymers (LCPs) with a high spontaneous polarization (P s )
are of great interest for the fabrication of advanced electronic devices. However, conventional …

Blood pressure and risk of cardiovascular disease in UK biobank: a mendelian randomization study

…, WT Fung, CM Schooling, SL Au Yeung, MK Kwok… - …, 2021 - Am Heart Assoc
This study aims to evaluate the causal association of blood pressure (BP) with cardiovascular
diseases (CVDs). Two-sample Mendelian randomization was performed using a large …

[HTML][HTML] Divergent secular trends in blood pressure and body mass index in children and adolescents in Hong Kong

MK Kwok, GM Leung, TWH Chung, KKY Lee… - Scientific Reports, 2017 - nature.com
Secular trends in blood pressure (BP) and body mass index (BMI) during childhood and
adolescence are sentinels for the future population cardiovascular disease burden. We …

The roles of 27 genera of human gut microbiota in ischemic heart disease, type 2 diabetes mellitus, and their risk factors: a Mendelian randomization study

Q Yang, SL Lin, MK Kwok, GM Leung… - American journal of …, 2018 - academic.oup.com
Manipulation of the gut microbiota presents a new opportunity to combat chronic diseases.
Randomized controlled trials of probiotics suggest some associations with adiposity, lipids, …

Dopamine receptor-mediated binding and cellular uptake of polydopamine-coated nanoparticles

Y Liu, CKK Choi, H Hong, Y Xiao, ML Kwok, H Liu… - ACS …, 2021 - ACS Publications
… after 12 h in serum-free medium (Figure S23) and reveals the strongest reflectance signals
in cells treated with Au 25 @PEG 1000 -DOPA NPs, matching our ICP-MS data (Figure 3C–E

Microgel particles at interfaces: phenomena, principles, and opportunities in food sciences

M Kwok, G Sun, T Ngai - Langmuir, 2019 - ACS Publications
The use of soft microgel particles for stabilizing emulsions has captured increasing attention
across a wide range of disciplines in the past decades. Being soft, the nanoparticles, which …