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
Breastfeeding and risk of maternal type 2 diabetes: a prospective cohort study of 280 000 women in China.
Journal article
Kaminer J. et al, (2026), BMJ Open, 16
Ambient Air Pollution and Hospital Admissions of AECOPD in 10 Regions of China: A Self-Controlled Study Based on a Cohort.
Journal article
Chen L. et al, (2026), Environ Health (Wash), 4, 1176 - 1184
Trends in 10th Revision of the International Classification of Diseases-Coded CKD Incidence Among Chinese Adults.
Journal article
Zeng Z. et al, (2026), Kidney Int Rep, 11
Liver Aging Index: A Noninvasive Score for Liver Biological Aging and Liver-Related Outcomes in Multicohorts.
Journal article
Wu Z. et al, (2026), Aging Cell, 25
Burden and Correlates of Multiple Chronic Infections and Their Associations With Cancer Incidence in Chinese Adults: A Large Case-Cohort Study.
Journal article
Yang L. et al, (2026), Int J Cancer
