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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Associations of long-term nitrogen dioxide exposure with a wide spectrum of diseases: a prospective cohort study of 0·5 million Chinese adults.
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Xia X. et al, (2024), Lancet Public Health, 9, e1047 - e1058
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Risk factors for severe COPD exacerbation in Chinese adults.
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Yu W. et al, (2024), Int J Tuberc Lung Dis, 28, 578 - 584
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Risk prediction of ischemic heart disease using plasma proteomics, conventional risk factors and polygenic scores in Chinese and European adults.
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Mazidi M. et al, (2024), Eur J Epidemiol
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Preserved vegetable consumption and gastrointestinal tract cancers: A prospective study.
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Yu W. et al, (2024), J Glob Health, 14
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Prevalence and Risk Factors for Chronic Obstructive Pulmonary Disease Among Adults Aged 50 and Above - 10 CKB Study Areas, China, 2020-2021.
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Yu W. et al, (2024), China CDC Wkly, 6, 1126 - 1131