Associate Professor Huaidong Du
Huaidong Du
MSc, PhD
Associate Professor
Huaidong Du is an associate professor working on the China Kadoorie Biobank (CKB) study whose researches focuses on diet, physical activity, adiposity, diabetes, eye diseases etc. Since 2013, she has been involved in coordinating the second and third resurveys of the CKB, each involving 25,000 participants from 10 study areas in China.
Huaidong obtained her MD degree in 1994 and had been working as an ophthalmologist for eight years in China. In 2009, she finished her MSc and PhD in Nutritional Epidemiology from the Netherlands and joined the Clinical Trial Service Unit & Epidemiological Studies Unit (CTSU) afterwards.
Recent publications
Type 2 diabetes does not inevitably shorten life expectancy
Journal article
DU H., (2026), Military Medical Research
Dairy Consumption and Risk of Cardiometabolic Diseases: A Prospective Cohort Study of the China Kadoorie Biobank.
Journal article
Kakkoura MG. et al, (2026), J Nutr, 156
Short-term effects of temperature on physical activity and sedentary behavior in Chinese adults: An accelerometer-based analysis.
Journal article
Wei L. et al, (2026), Environ Int, 210
Phenome-Wide Associations of Polygenic Scores for Schizophrenia and Major Depression in 100,000 Chinese Adults.
Journal article
Wang B. et al, (2026), Biol Psychiatry Glob Open Sci, 6
Long-term cardiovascular risk after severe exacerbation of COPD: a population-based cohort study.
Journal article
Ding Y. et al, (2026), ERJ Open Res, 12
