Associate Professor Huaidong Du
Huaidong Du
MSc, PhD
Senior Research Fellow
Huaidong Du 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.
Huaidong 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 the Clinical Trial Service Unit & Epidemiological Studies Unit (CTSU) afterwards.
Recent publications
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Prevalence and Risk Factors of Chronic Obstructive Pulmonary Disease among Adults Aged 50 Years and Above—Ten CKB Studies Areas, China, 2020–2021
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CHEN Z. et al, (2024), China CDC Weekly
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Association of autosomal mosaic chromosomal alterations with risk of bladder cancer in Chinese adults: a prospective cohort study.
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Song M. et al, (2024), Cell Death Dis, 15
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DNA Methylation Age Mediates Effect of Metabolic Profile on Cardiovascular and General Aging.
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Si J. et al, (2024), Circ Res
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Milk intake, lactase non-persistence and type 2 diabetes risk in Chinese adults.
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Kakkoura MG. et al, (2024), Nat Metab
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The Role of Active and Passive Smoking in Chronic Obstructive Pulmonary Disease and Systemic Inflammation: A 12-year Prospective Study in China.
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Chen L. et al, (2024), J Epidemiol Glob Health