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Jingbo Niu is affiliated with Boston University in the United States. Their research primarily spans the field of medicine, with particular expertise in nephrology, surgery, pulmonary and respiratory medicine, economics and econometrics, and cardiology and cardiovascular medicine.

The main topics of their work include dialysis and renal disease management, health systems, economic evaluations, and quality of life, central venous catheters and hemodialysis, organ donation and transplantation, organ transplantation techniques and outcomes, heart failure treatment and management, and healthcare policy and management.

Niu has published extensively on these subjects, with frequent publications appearing in journals such as:

  • Journal of the American Society of Nephrology
  • Clinical Journal of the American Society of Nephrology
  • American Journal of Kidney Diseases
  • Kidney Medicine
  • Nephrology Dialysis Transplantation

Among the recent papers contributed by Niu are:

  • Hydroxychloroquine Dose and Risk for Incident Retinopathy, 2023, Annals of Internal Medicine
  • Potential Mechanisms Involved in Chronic Kidney Disease of Unclear Etiology, 2022, Clinical Journal of the American Society of Nephrology
  • The relation of peripheral and central sensitization to muscle co-contraction: the MOST study, 2020, Osteoarthritis and Cartilage
  • A Comparison of US Medicare Expenditures for Hemodialysis and Peritoneal Dialysis, 2022, Journal of the American Society of Nephrology
  • Hip Fracture Risk among Hemodialysis-Dependent Patients Prescribed Opioids and Gabapentinoids, 2020, Journal of the American Society of Nephrology

Niu has collaborated frequently with several co-authors, including:

  • Wolfgang C. Winkelmayer
  • Kevin F. Erickson
  • Sankar D. Navaneethan
  • Pascale Khairallah
  • L. Parker Gregg

Best Publications

  • Prevalence of Symptomatic Hand Osteoarthritis and Its Impact on Functional Status among the Elderly: The Framingham Study

    Yuqing Zhang;Jingbo Niu;Margaret Kelly-Hayes;Christine E. Chaisson

  • Increasing prevalence of knee pain and symptomatic knee osteoarthritis: survey and cohort data.

    Uyen Sa D T Nguyen;Yuqing Zhang;Yanyan Zhu;Jingbo Niu

  • Synovitis detected on magnetic resonance imaging and its relation to pain and cartilage loss in knee osteoarthritis

    Catherine L Hill;David J Hunter;Jingbo Niu;Margaret Clancy

  • The association of meniscal pathologic changes with cartilage loss in symptomatic knee osteoarthritis.

    D. J. Hunter;Y. Q. Zhang;J. B. Niu;X. Tu

  • Prevalence of abnormalities in knees detected by MRI in adults without knee osteoarthritis: population based observational study (Framingham Osteoarthritis Study)

    Ali Guermazi;Jingbo Niu;Daichi Hayashi;Frank W Roemer;Frank W Roemer

  • Association between radiographic features of knee osteoarthritis and pain: results from two cohort studies

    Tuhina Neogi;David T Felson;Jingbo Niu;Michael Nevitt

  • Prevalence, incidence and progression of hand osteoarthritis in the general population: the Framingham Osteoarthritis Study

    Ida K Haugen;Martin Englund;Piran Aliabadi;Jingbo Niu

  • Increase in bone marrow lesions associated with cartilage loss: a longitudinal magnetic resonance imaging study of knee osteoarthritis

    David J. Hunter;Yuqing Zhang;Jingbo Niu;Joyce Goggins

  • Correlation of the development of knee pain with enlarging bone marrow lesions on magnetic resonance imaging

    David T. Felson;Jingbo Niu;Ali Guermazi;Frank Roemer

  • Greater Trochanteric Pain Syndrome: Epidemiology and Associated Factors

    Neil A. Segal;David T. Felson;James C. Torner;Yanyan Zhu

  • The effect of body weight on progression of knee osteoarthritis is dependent on alignment.

    David T. Felson;Joyce Goggins;Jingbo Niu;Yuqing Zhang

  • The Prevalence of Symptomatic Knee Osteoarthritis in China: Results From the China Health and Retirement Longitudinal Study.

    Xu Tang;Shengfeng Wang;Siyan Zhan;Jingbo Niu

  • Presence of MRI-detected joint effusion and synovitis increases the risk of cartilage loss in knees without osteoarthritis at 30-month follow-up: the MOST study

    Frank W Roemer;Ali Guermazi;David T Felson;Jingbo Niu

  • Fluctuation of knee pain and changes in bone marrow lesions, effusions, and synovitis on magnetic resonance imaging

    Yuqing Zhang;Michael Nevitt;Jingbo Niu;Cora Lewis

  • Quadriceps Strength and the Risk of Cartilage Loss and Symptom Progression in Knee Osteoarthritis

    Shreyasee Amin;Kristin Baker;Jingbo Niu;Margaret Clancy

  • Relation of synovitis to knee pain using contrast-enhanced MRIs

    Kristin Baker;A. Grainger;J. Niu;M. Clancy

  • Change in joint space width: Hyaline articular cartilage loss or alteration in meniscus?

    D. J. Hunter;Y. Q. Zhang;X. Tu;M. LaValley

  • Change in MRI-detected subchondral bone marrow lesions is associated with cartilage loss: the MOST Study. A longitudinal multicentre study of knee osteoarthritis

    F W Roemer;A Guermazi;M K Javaid;J A Lynch

  • Is obesity a risk factor for progressive radiographic knee osteoarthritis

    J. Niu;Y. Q. Zhang;J. Torner;M. Nevitt

  • Valgus malalignment is a risk factor for lateral knee osteoarthritis incidence and progression: Findings from the multicenter osteoarthritis study and the osteoarthritis initiative

    David T. Felson;David T. Felson;Jingbo Niu;K. Douglas Gross;K. Douglas Gross;Martin Englund;Martin Englund

Frequent Co-Authors

David T. Felson
David T. Felson Boston University
Yuqing Zhang
Yuqing Zhang Harvard University
Frank W. Roemer
Frank W. Roemer University of Erlangen-Nuremberg
Ali Guermazi
Ali Guermazi Boston University
Michael C. Nevitt
Michael C. Nevitt University of California, San Francisco
David J. Hunter
David J. Hunter Harvard University
Tuhina Neogi
Tuhina Neogi Boston University
Cora E. Lewis
Cora E. Lewis University of Alabama at Birmingham
John A. Lynch
John A. Lynch University of California, San Francisco
Martin Englund
Martin Englund Lund University

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