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
Circulating lipid subfractions and the risk of longitudinal adiposity progression: findings from the China Kadoorie Biobank.
Journal article
Wang M. et al, (2026), Int J Obes (Lond)
Young adulthood adiposity in relation to all-cause and cause-specific mortality: a prospective study of 0.5 million Chinese adults.
Journal article
Fan L. et al, (2026), Sci Bull (Beijing), 71, 1760 - 1770
[Observational and genetic epidemiological study on the association of alcohol consumption and chronic obstructive pulmonary disease in adults in 10 areas of China].
Journal article
Zeng ZQ. et al, (2026), Zhonghua Liu Xing Bing Xue Za Zhi, 47, 595 - 602
[Association of non-invasive atherosclerotic indicators with cardiovascular disease risk in adults in 10 areas of China].
Journal article
Gong S. et al, (2026), Zhonghua Liu Xing Bing Xue Za Zhi, 47, 586 - 594
