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Cuilin Zhang is affiliated with the National Institutes of Health in the United States and has an extensive research portfolio in the field of medicine, with a primary focus on obstetrics and gynecology. Their work also spans pediatrics, perinatology, child health, public health, environmental and occupational health, molecular biology, and nutrition and dietetics.

Their research topics emphasize gestational diabetes research and management, birth, development, and health, pregnancy and preeclampsia studies, obesity, physical activity, diet, fatty acid research and health, bariatric surgery and outcomes, and nutritional studies and diet.

Recent publications by Cuilin Zhang include:

  • Recreational physical activity before and during pregnancy and placental DNA methylation-an epigenome-wide association study, 2022, HAL (Le Centre pour la Communication Scientifique Directe)
  • Glycaemic status during pregnancy and longitudinal measures of fetal growth in a multi-racial US population: a prospective cohort study, 2020, The Lancet Diabetes & Endocrinology
  • Concentrations of persistent organic pollutants in maternal plasma and epigenome-wide placental DNA methylation, 2020, Clinical Epigenetics
  • Healthy dietary patterns and common pregnancy complications: a prospective and longitudinal study, 2021, American Journal of Clinical Nutrition
  • Lactation Duration and Long-term Risk for Incident Type 2 Diabetes in Women With a History of Gestational Diabetes Mellitus, 2020, Diabetes Care

Cuilin Zhang frequently collaborates with several co-authors including Stefanie N. Hinkle, Katherine L. Grantz, Michael Y. Tsai, Jiaxi Yang, and Jagteshwar Grewal.

Their work has been published in a range of journals, with the most frequent venues being:

  • Current Developments in Nutrition
  • Diabetes Care
  • Diabetes
  • Circulation
  • American Journal of Clinical Nutrition

Best Publications

  • Prevalence of Gestational Diabetes and Risk of Progression to Type 2 Diabetes: a Global Perspective.

    Yeyi Zhu;Cuilin Zhang

  • Gestational diabetes mellitus.

    H. David McIntyre;Patrick Catalano;Cuilin Zhang;Gernot Desoye

  • Abdominal Obesity and the Risk of All-Cause, Cardiovascular, and Cancer Mortality Sixteen Years of Follow-Up in US Women

    Cuilin Zhang;Kathryn M. Rexrode;Rob M. van Dam;Tricia Y. Li

  • Circulating 25-Hydroxy-Vitamin D and Risk of Cardiovascular Disease: A Meta-Analysis of Prospective Studies

    Lu Wang;Yiqing Song;JoAnn E. Manson;Stefan Pilz

  • Genome-wide association scan meta-analysis identifies three Loci influencing adiposity and fat distribution

    Cecilia M. Lindgren;Iris M. Heid;Joshua C. Randall;Claudia Lamina

  • Blood 25-Hydroxy Vitamin D Levels and Incident Type 2 Diabetes A meta-analysis of prospective studies

    Yiqing Song;Lu Wang;Anastassios G. Pittas;Liana C. Del Gobbo

  • Maternal Plasma 25-Hydroxyvitamin D Concentrations and the Risk for Gestational Diabetes Mellitus

    Cuilin Zhang;Chunfang Qiu;Frank B. Hu;Frank B. Hu;Robert M. David

  • Physical Activity Before and During Pregnancy and Risk of Gestational Diabetes Mellitus: A Meta-Analysis

    Deirdre Kay Tobias;Cuilin Zhang;Rob M. van Dam;Katherine Bowers

  • Dietary fiber intake, dietary glycemic load, and the risk for gestational diabetes mellitus.

    Cuilin Zhang;Simin Liu;Caren G. Solomon;Frank B. Hu

  • Racial/ethnic standards for fetal growth: the NICHD Fetal Growth Studies

    Germaine M. Buck Louis;Jagteshwar Grewal;Paul S. Albert;Anthony Sciscione

  • Effect of dietary and lifestyle factors on the risk of gestational diabetes: review of epidemiologic evidence

    Cuilin Zhang;Yi Ning

  • A Prospective Study of Pregravid Physical Activity and Sedentary Behaviors in Relation to the Risk for Gestational Diabetes Mellitus

    Cuilin Zhang;Caren G. Solomon;JoAnn E. Manson;Frank B. Hu

  • A prospective study of dietary patterns, meat intake and the risk of gestational diabetes mellitus

    C. Zhang;C. Zhang;M. B. Schulze;C. G. Solomon;F. B. Hu;F. B. Hu

  • Joint Effects of Common Genetic Variants on the Risk for Type 2 Diabetes in U.S. Men and Women of European Ancestry

    Marilyn C. Cornelis;Lu Qi;Cuilin Zhang;Peter Kraft

  • Genetic variants and the risk of gestational diabetes mellitus: a systematic review

    Cuilin Zhang;Wei Bao;Ying Rong;Huixia Yang

  • Variant of Transcription Factor 7-Like 2 (TCF7L2) Gene and the Risk of Type 2 Diabetes in Large Cohorts of U.S. Women and Men

    Cuilin Zhang;Lu Qi;David J. Hunter;David J. Hunter;James B. Meigs

  • Age at Menarche and Risk of Type 2 Diabetes: Results From 2 Large Prospective Cohort Studies

    Chunyan He;Cuilin Zhang;David J. Hunter;Susan E. Hankinson

  • Total and High-Molecular-Weight Adiponectin and Resistin in Relation to the Risk for Type 2 Diabetes in Women

    Christin Heidemann;Qi Sun;Rob M. van Dam;James B. Meigs

  • Association of History of Gestational Diabetes With Long-term Cardiovascular Disease Risk in a Large Prospective Cohort of US Women.

    Deirdre K. Tobias;Deirdre K. Tobias;Jennifer J. Stuart;Jennifer J. Stuart;Shanshan Li;Jorge Chavarro;Jorge Chavarro

  • Increasing prevalence of gestational diabetes mellitus in Chinese women from 1999 to 2008

    F. Zhang;L. Dong;C.P. Zhang;B. Li

Frequent Co-Authors

Frank B. Hu
Frank B. Hu Harvard University
Jorge E. Chavarro
Jorge E. Chavarro Harvard University
Michael Y. Tsai
Michael Y. Tsai University of Minnesota
Germaine M. Buck Louis
Germaine M. Buck Louis George Mason University
Sjurdur F. Olsen
Sjurdur F. Olsen Statens Serum Institut
Michelle A. Williams
Michelle A. Williams Harvard University
James L. Mills
James L. Mills National Institutes of Health
Lu Qi
Lu Qi Harvard University
Paul S. Albert
Paul S. Albert National Institutes of Health
Liwei Chen
Liwei Chen Shanghai Jiao Tong University

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