Dr Huaidong Du
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
Phenome-Wide Associations of Polygenic Scores for Schizophrenia and Major Depression in 100,000 Chinese Adults.
Journal article
Wang B. et al, (2026), Biol Psychiatry Glob Open Sci, 6
Impact of sleep habits on life expectancy free of cardiovascular disease in the Chinese population: a prospective cohort study.
Journal article
Sun Q. et al, (2026), J Gerontol A Biol Sci Med Sci
Sleep Patterns and Blood Pressure Among Chinese Adults in Different Ethnic Groups Across Varied Altitudes.
Journal article
Yang J. et al, (2026), JACC Asia, 6, 178 - 188
Dairy consumption and risk of cardiometabolic diseases: a prospective cohort study of the China Kadoorie Biobank.
Journal article
Kakkoura MG. et al, (2026), J Nutr
[Epidemiological analysis on tuberculosis incidence in population in 10 areas of China].
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Lan YB. et al, (2026), Zhonghua Liu Xing Bing Xue Za Zhi, 47, 21 - 27