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

[Association between height loss and calcaneus bone mineral density in Chinese adults].
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Shen ZW. et al, (2020), Zhonghua Liu Xing Bing Xue Za Zhi, 41, 813 - 818
Publisher Correction: Systemic inflammation is associated with incident stroke and heart disease in East Asians.
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Karim MA. et al, (2020), Sci Rep, 10
Weight loss since early adulthood, later life risk of fracture hospitalizations, and bone mineral density: a prospective cohort study of 0.5 million Chinese adults.
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Shen Z. et al, (2020), Arch Osteoporos, 15
Red meat, poultry and fish consumption and risk of diabetes: a 9 year prospective cohort study of the China Kadoorie Biobank.
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Du H. et al, (2020), Diabetologia, 63, 767 - 779
Systemic inflammation is associated with incident stroke and heart disease in East Asians
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WALTERS R. et al, (2020), Scientific Reports

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