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Overview

Dongfeng Gu is affiliated with Peking Union Medical College Hospital in China. Their research spans multiple disciplines, including medicine and environmental science, with a particular focus on health impacts related to environmental factors and genetics.

Their main fields of study include:

  • Medicine
  • Environmental Science

Within these fields, Dongfeng Gu contributes to several subfields, such as:

  • Health, Toxicology and Mutagenesis
  • Public Health, Environmental and Occupational Health
  • Genetics
  • Cardiology and Cardiovascular Medicine
  • Environmental Engineering

Key research topics covered in their work include:

  • Air Quality and Health Impacts
  • Climate Change and Health Impacts
  • Nutritional Studies and Diet
  • Genetic Associations and Epidemiology
  • Air Quality Monitoring and Forecasting
  • Obesity, Physical Activity, Diet
  • Sodium Intake and Health

Dongfeng Gu has authored several papers, notable among them are:

  • Relationship Between the ABO Blood Group and the Coronavirus Disease 2019 (COVID-19) Susceptibility, 2020, Clinical Infectious Diseases
  • Relationship between the ABO Blood Group and the COVID-19 Susceptibility, 2020, bioRxiv (Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory)
  • Genetic diversity fuels gene discovery for tobacco and alcohol use, 2022, Nature
  • China cardiovascular diseases report 2018: an updated summary., 2020, PubMed
  • Long-Term Exposure to Fine Particulate Matter and Cardiovascular Disease in China, 2020, Journal of the American College of Cardiology

Frequent coauthors working alongside Dongfeng Gu include:

  • Xiangfeng Lu
  • Fangchao Liu
  • Jianxin Li
  • Jianfeng Huang
  • Keyong Huang

Their publications are often found in venues such as:

  • UNC Libraries
  • PubMed
  • Chronic Diseases and Translational Medicine
  • Environment International
  • Hypertension

Best Publications

  • Worldwide trends in body-mass index, underweight, overweight, and obesity from 1975 to 2016: a pooled analysis of 2416 population-based measurement studies in 128·9 million children, adolescents, and adults

    Leandra Abarca-Gómez;Ziad A Abdeen;Zargar Abdul Hamid;Niveen M Abu-Rmeileh

  • Trends in adult body-mass index in 200 countries from 1975 to 2014: A pooled analysis of 1698 population-based measurement studies with 19.2 million participants

    Mariachiara Di Cesare;Mariachiara Di Cesare;James Bentham;Gretchen A Stevens;Bin Zhou

  • Worldwide trends in diabetes since 1980: a pooled analysis of 751 population-based studies with 4.4 million participants

    Bin Zhou;Yuan Lu;Kaveh Hajifathalian;James Bentham

  • Worldwide trends in hypertension prevalence and progress in treatment and control from 1990 to 2019: a pooled analysis of 1201 population-representative studies with 104 million participants

    Bin Zhou;Rodrigo M Carrillo-Larco;Goodarz Danaei;Leanne M Riley

  • Worldwide trends in blood pressure from 1975 to 2015: a pooled analysis of 1479 population-based measurement studies with 19·1 million participants

    Bin Zhou;James Bentham;Mariachiara Di Cesare;Honor Bixby

  • A comprehensive 1000 Genomes–based genome-wide association meta-analysis of coronary artery disease

    M Nikpay;A Goel;Won H-H.;L M Hall

  • Major Causes of Death among Men and Women in China

    Jiang He;Dongfeng Gu;Xigui Wu;Kristi Reynolds

  • A century of trends in adult human height

    James Bentham;Mariachiara Di Cesare;Mariachiara Di Cesare;Gretchen A. Stevens;Bin Zhou

  • Prevalence of the metabolic syndrome and overweight among adults in China

    Dongfeng Gu;Kristi Reynolds;Xigui Wu;Jing Chen

  • Novel genetic associations for blood pressure identified via gene-alcohol interaction in up to 570K individuals across multiple ancestries

    Mary F. Feitosa;Aldi T. Kraja;Daniel I. Chasman;Yun J. Sung

  • Association between Body-Mass Index and Risk of Death in More Than 1 Million Asians

    Wei Zheng;Dale F. McLerran;Betsy Rolland;Xianglan Zhang

  • Prevalence, awareness, treatment, and control of hypertension in china.

    Dongfeng Gu;Kristi Reynolds;Xigui Wu;Jing Chen

  • Rising rural body-mass index is the main driver of the global obesity epidemic in adults

    Honor Bixby;James Bentham;Bin Zhou;Mariachiara Di Cesare

  • A comprehensive 1000 Genomes-based genome-wide association meta-analysis of coronary artery disease

    Majid Nikpay;Anuj Goel;Hong-Hee Won;Leanne M. Hall

  • Association analyses based on false discovery rate implicate new loci for coronary artery disease.

    Christopher P Nelson;Christopher P Nelson;Anuj Goel;Anuj Goel;Adam S Butterworth;Stavroula Kanoni

  • Meta-analysis of genome-wide association studies identifies common variants associated with blood pressure variation in east Asians

    Norihiro Kato;Fumihiko Takeuchi;Yasuharu Tabara;Tanika N. Kelly

  • Effect of mobile phone intervention for diabetes on glycaemic control: a meta-analysis.

    X Liang;Q Wang;X Yang;J Cao

  • Genetic associations at 53 loci highlight cell types and biological pathways relevant for kidney function

    Cristian Pattaro;Alexander Teumer;Mathias Gorski;Audrey Y. Chu

  • Future Cardiovascular Disease in China Markov Model and Risk Factor Scenario Projections From the Coronary Heart Disease Policy Model–China

    Andrew Moran;Dongfeng Gu;Dong Zhao;Pamela Coxson

  • Body mass index and cardiovascular disease in the Asia-Pacific Region: an overview of 33 cohorts involving 310 000 participants.

    C Ni Mhurchu;A Rodgers;W H Pan;D F Gu

Frequent Co-Authors

Jiang He
Jiang He Tulane University
Dabeeru C. Rao
Dabeeru C. Rao Washington University in St. Louis
Tien Yin Wong
Tien Yin Wong Tsinghua University
Treva Rice
Treva Rice Washington University in St. Louis
Paul K. Whelton
Paul K. Whelton Tulane University
Mark Woodward
Mark Woodward Imperial College London
E. Shyong Tai
E. Shyong Tai National University of Singapore
Terho Lehtimäki
Terho Lehtimäki Tampere University
Annette Peters
Annette Peters Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität München
Jost B. Jonas
Jost B. Jonas Heidelberg University

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