{"id":4290,"date":"2019-04-04T12:40:11","date_gmt":"2019-04-04T04:40:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/totobobo.com\/blog\/?p=4290"},"modified":"2021-01-22T11:34:28","modified_gmt":"2021-01-22T03:34:28","slug":"healthy-non-smokers-in-taiwan-are-much-more-likely-to-get-lung-cancer-than-smokers-in-the-usa","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/totobobo.com\/blog\/healthy-non-smokers-in-taiwan-are-much-more-likely-to-get-lung-cancer-than-smokers-in-the-usa\/","title":{"rendered":"Dr. Hewitson&#8217;s advise on air pollution for Taiwanese"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Update 2021-01-20<br>Dr Justin Hewitson just posted a funny and educational youtube about wearing a mask in Taiwan:<br>https:\/\/youtu.be\/7x7t_Jt47Vs<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed is-type-video is-provider-youtube wp-block-embed-youtube wp-embed-aspect-16-9 wp-has-aspect-ratio\"><div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\n<iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"\u4e2d\u6587\u8b1b\u5f97\u6700\u53b2\u5bb3\u53c8\u71b1\u611b\u53f0\u7063\u7684\u5916\u570b\u4eba\u8acb\u4f60\u4e0d\u8981\u4f86\u53f0\u7063\uff0c\u5982\u679c\u2026 #\u597d\u5bb6\u5728\u6211\u5728\u5bb6\" width=\"500\" height=\"281\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/7x7t_Jt47Vs?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe>\n<\/div><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p><br>A recent purchase from Taiwan triggered my curiosity. I ask the customer, <g class=\"gr_ gr_62 gr-alert gr_gramm gr_inline_cards gr_run_anim Punctuation multiReplace\" id=\"62\" data-gr-id=\"62\">Dr.<\/g> Hewitson, why he choose Totobobo mask. His answer surprised me. I didn&#8217;t realise the fact that healthy non-smokers in Taiwan are much more likely to get lung cancer than smokers in the USA! <\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/totobobo.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/04\/Justin-Hewitson-purchase.webp\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-4292\"\/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<blockquote class=\"wp-block-quote is-layout-flow wp-block-quote-is-layout-flow\"><p>&#8220;As I&#8217;m in a research institute here in Taiwan, some of my colleagues have done studies on the effects of air pollution on both the lungs and the brain of mice. <br>As it stands, people in Taiwan who do not smoke are three times more likely to get lung cancer than smokers in the United States. Many Taiwanese are not aware of this. I am constantly educating my students on the dangers of air pollution and actually I recommend your company to them all the time whether or not they purchase, is another question but I have faith in what you guys are doing.&#8221; <\/p><cite>By Dr. Justin Hewitson<\/cite><\/blockquote>\n\n\n\n<h3 class=\"wp-block-heading\">The study:<br><a href=\"https:\/\/topics.amcham.com.tw\/2018\/03\/higher-usual-lung-cancer-incidence-taiwanese-non-smokers\/\">Higher than Usual Lung Cancer Incidence in Taiwanese Non-smokers<\/a> <\/h3>\n\n\n\n<blockquote class=\"wp-block-quote is-layout-flow wp-block-quote-is-layout-flow\"><p>An ongoing study suggests environmental factors in Taiwan are contributing to a rising number of cases in otherwise healthy non-smokers.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n\n\n\n<blockquote class=\"wp-block-quote is-layout-flow wp-block-quote-is-layout-flow\"><p>After four doctors at National Taiwan University Hospital (NTUH) had suddenly collapsed on the job during the previous two years \u00e2\u20ac\u201c with one of them failing to recover \u00e2\u20ac\u201c the hospital in the second half of 2013 ordered all staff physicians 45 years of age and older to take a physical examination. <\/p><p><em>The comprehensive health checks included low-radiation computerized <\/em>topography<br><em> (CT) scans of the lungs. The results were chilling. Of 300 physicians tested, 12 (4%) were found to have a small lung nodule (less than 1 <\/em>centimeter<em>), which subsequent testing confirmed as lung carcinoma.<\/em><\/p><\/blockquote>\n\n\n\n<blockquote class=\"wp-block-quote is-layout-flow wp-block-quote-is-layout-flow\"><p>The study on lung cancer in non-smokers is groundbreaking because it highlights the risk that the disease poses to the wider population. For decades, lung cancer has been associated almost exclusively with cigarette smoking.&nbsp; <\/p><p>In Taiwan, non-smokers may be at a much higher risk of developing lung cancer than in the United States. The ongoing eight-year study has found that non-smokers here are twice as likely to develop the disease than are heavy smokers in the United States and Europe.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Possibly due to air pollution, healthy non-smokers in Taiwan are much more likely to get lung cancer than smokers in the USA. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[1261],"class_list":{"0":"post-4290","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-respirator","7":"tag-non-smoker-cancer"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/totobobo.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4290","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/totobobo.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/totobobo.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/totobobo.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/totobobo.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4290"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/totobobo.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4290\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4828,"href":"https:\/\/totobobo.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4290\/revisions\/4828"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/totobobo.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4290"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/totobobo.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4290"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/totobobo.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4290"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}