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
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Long-term exposure to fine particulate matter interacting with individual conditions increase breast cancer incidence: a large-scale Chinese cohort
Journal article
Sun Y. et al, (2025), Environmental Sciences Europe, 37
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Patterns and correlates of visual impairment and ocular hypertension among older adults in the general Chinese population: results from the CKB Biobank.
Journal article
Shao Z. et al, (2025), Br J Ophthalmol
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Association between tobacco smoking and the need for respiratory support and mortality in patients hospitalized with pneumonia
Journal article
Li S. et al, (2025), Chinese Journal of Epidemiology, 46, 1319 - 1327
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Association of age at menarche, age at menopause, and reproductive lifespan with frailty index in Chinese adult women
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Li P. et al, (2025), Chinese Journal of Epidemiology, 46, 1337 - 1346
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Relationship between ambient air pollution and vitamin D in Chinese adults
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Shi H. et al, (2025), Chinese Journal of Epidemiology, 46, 1328 - 1336