Dr Yiping Chen
Yiping Chen
MBBS, DPhil
MRC Study Coordinator and Senior Investigator Scientist
Yiping Chen is a senior research fellow at the CTSU, University of Oxford. She qualified in clinical medicine in 1985 at Shanghai Medical University (now Fudan University) and then worked as junior neurologist in University affiliated teaching hospital, Hua-shan hospital in Shanghai. In 1988 she was awarded Sino-British Friendship Scholarship to study in the UK and gained her PhD at University of Oxford in 1993. She joined CTSU in 1998 and has worked as study coordinator and senior research fellow in several CTSU-led large clinical trials such as COMMIT/CCS2, SHARP, HPS2-THRIVE, REVEAL. She is currently leading a multi-disciplinary team in the China Kadoorie Biobank (CKB) of 0.5 million people, responsible for developing strategies and procedures related to validation of electronically reported clinical events and for conducting disease validation and adjudication in collaboration with clinical specialists in China for CKB. She also plays a leading role in running Oxford-China Fellowship programmes which provides residence training in epidemiology, medical statistics and clinical trials methodology for the clinical doctors, public health workers from China. Her main research interests are in the fields of clinical epidemiology of cardiovascular diseases, major depression, and sleeping disorders.
Recent publications
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Blood pressure and cardiovascular diseases in Chinese adults with type 2 diabetes: a prospective cohort study
Journal article
BRAGG F. et al, (2020), The Lancet Regional Health - Western Pacific
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Associations of Adiposity, Circulating Protein Biomarkers, and Risk of Major Vascular Diseases.
Journal article
Pang Y. et al, (2020), JAMA Cardiol
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Frailty index and all-cause and cause-specific mortality in Chinese adults: a prospective cohort study.
Journal article
Fan J. et al, (2020), Lancet Public Health, 5, e650 - e660
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Characteristics of spicy food consumption and its relation to lifestyle behaviours: results from 0.5 million adults.
Journal article
Wen Q. et al, (2020), Int J Food Sci Nutr, 1 - 8
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Genome-wide association study of intracranial aneurysms identifies 17 risk loci and genetic overlap with clinical risk factors.
Journal article
Bakker MK. et al, (2020), Nat Genet