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

Spicy food consumption and risk of gastrointestinal-tract cancers: findings from the China Kadoorie Biobank.
Journal article

Chan WC. et al, (2021), Int J Epidemiol
Blood pressure and cardiovascular diseases in Chinese adults with type 2 diabetes: a prospective cohort study
Journal article

BRAGG F. et al, (2020), The Lancet Regional Health - Western Pacific
Associations of Coarse Grain Intake with Undiagnosed Hypertension among Chinese Adults: Results from the China Kadoorie Biobank.
Journal article

Liu X. et al, (2020), Nutrients, 12
Planning, Organisation, and Management of Fieldwork in Biobank Studies
Chapter

CHAN KH. et al, (2020), Population Biobank Studies: A Practical Guide, 51 - 75
Frailty index and all-cause and cause-specific mortality in Chinese adults: a prospective cohort study.
Journal article

Fan J. et al, (2020), Lancet Public Health, 5, e650 - e660

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