Associate Professor Huaidong Du
Huaidong Du
MSc, PhD
Senior Research Fellow
Huaidong Du obtained her MD degree in 1994 and had been working as an ophthalmologist for 8 years in China. In 2009, she finished her MSc and PhD in Nutritional Epidemiology from the Netherlands and joined CTSU afterwards. Currently, she is a senior research fellow working on the China Kadoorie Biobank (CKB) study with main researches focus on diet, physical activity, adiposity, diabetes, eye diseases and etc. Since 2013, she has been involved in coordinating the currently on-going second resurvey of the CKB, which includes 25,000 participants from 10 study areas in China.
Recent publications
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Sleep duration and risk of stroke and coronary heart disease: a 9-year community-based prospective study of 0.5 million Chinese adults.
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Chen Y. et al, (2023), BMC Neurol, 23
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Conventional and genetic associations of adiposity with 1463 proteins in relatively lean Chinese adults.
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Yao P. et al, (2023), Eur J Epidemiol
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Genome-wide polygenic risk score, cardiometabolic risk factors, and type 2 diabetes mellitus in the Chinese population.
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Huang N. et al, (2023), Obesity (Silver Spring)
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Associations of polygenic risk scores with risks of stroke and its subtypes in Chinese.
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Yang S. et al, (2023), Stroke Vasc Neurol
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Association of physical activity with risk of chronic kidney disease in China: A population-based cohort study.
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Shi K. et al, (2023), J Sport Health Sci