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 traditional cardiovascular risk factors with 15-year blood pressure change and trajectories in Chinese adults: a prospective cohort study.
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Zhang Y. et al, (2024), J Hypertens, 42, 1340 - 1349
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One-size-fits-all versus risk-category-based screening interval strategies for cardiovascular disease prevention in Chinese adults: a prospective cohort study
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Sun Z. et al, (2024), The Lancet Regional Health - Western Pacific, 49
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Causal relevance of different blood pressure traits on risk of cardiovascular diseases: GWAS and Mendelian randomisation in 100,000 Chinese adults.
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Pozarickij A. et al, (2024), Nature communications, 15
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Early adulthood BMI and cardiovascular disease: a prospective cohort study from the China Kadoorie Biobank.
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Chen Y. et al, (2024), Lancet Public Health
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Development and evaluation of a risk prediction tool for risk-adapted screening of colorectal cancer in China.
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Hang D. et al, (2024), Cancer Lett