Huaidong Du

MSc, PhD

Senior Research Fellow

Clinical Trial Service Unit

Huaidong Du 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 CTSU afterwards. Currently, she 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.

Recent publications

Sex differences in the association between socioeconomic status and diabetes prevalence and incidence in China: cross-sectional and prospective studies of 0.5 million adults.
Journal article

Wu H. et al, (2019), Diabetologia
[Analysis on adulthood weight change in adults in China].
Journal article

Zhou M. et al, (2019), Zhonghua Liu Xing Bing Xue Za Zhi, 40, 510 - 514
Assessment of the Role of Carotid Atherosclerosis in the Association Between Major Cardiovascular Risk Factors and Ischemic Stroke Subtypes.
Journal article

Parish S. et al, (2019), JAMA Netw Open, 2
Causal associations of blood lipids with risk of ischemic stroke and intracerebral hemorrhage in Chinese adults.
Journal article

Sun L. et al, (2019), Nat Med
Patterns and trends of alcohol consumption in rural and urban areas of China: findings from the China Kadoorie Biobank.
Journal article

Im PK. et al, (2019), BMC Public Health, 19

More publications