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
Adiposity and risk of breast cancer in 280 000 Chinese women: a prospective cohort study.
Journal article
Kartsonaki C. et al, (2026), Int J Epidemiol, 55
Body Mass Index and Risks of More Than 40 Cause-Specific Mortality in Chinese Women: A Prospective Cohort Study.
Journal article
Hu J. et al, (2026), J Cachexia Sarcopenia Muscle, 17
Proteomic organ-specific signatures, ageing traits, disease risks and genetic architecture in an East Asian population.
Journal article
Bennett DA. et al, (2026), EBioMedicine, 130
Genetic Associations With Carotid Intima-Media Thickness in the Chinese Population and Shared Genetic Architecture With Cardiometabolic Diseases and Traits.
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Wang W. et al, (2026), Circ Genom Precis Med
Cross-Ancestry Proteogenomic Analyses Identified New Therapeutic Insights for Ischemic Heart Disease.
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Mazidi M. et al, (2026), J Am Coll Cardiol