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Overview

Yan Zheng is affiliated with the Southern University of Science and Technology in China and has contributed extensively to the fields of Medicine and Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology. Their research spans over 228 publications in Medicine and 71 in Biochemistry and related areas.

Their work notably covers various subfields, including Molecular Biology, Physiology, Public Health, Environmental and Occupational Health, Cardiology and Cardiovascular Medicine, and Epidemiology. These areas reveal a multidisciplinary approach intersecting molecular mechanisms with population health studies.

Yan Zheng's research topics emphasize diet and metabolism studies, gut microbiota and health, nutritional studies and diet, metabolomics and mass spectrometry studies, liver disease diagnosis and treatment, genetic associations and epidemiology, and dementia and cognitive impairment research. This thematic focus highlights their engagement with nutrition, chronic disease, and molecular and epidemiological investigations.

Frequent publication venues where they have contributed include:

  • bioRxiv (Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory)
  • BMC Medicine
  • Alzheimer's & Dementia
  • American Journal of Clinical Nutrition
  • Phenomics

Yan Zheng often collaborates with a consistent group of coauthors, suggesting long-term research partnerships. These include Changzheng Yuan, Zhonghan Sun, Zhendong Mei, Hui Chen, and Geng Zong.

Selected recent papers authored or coauthored by Yan Zheng feature diverse topics and publication venues:

  • Association of a Healthy Lifestyle With All-Cause and Cause-Specific Mortality Among Individuals With Type 2 Diabetes: A Prospective Study in UK Biobank (2021, Diabetes Care)
  • Dietary Fiber Intake and Gut Microbiota in Human Health (2022, Microorganisms)
  • Gut microbiome alterations and gut barrier dysfunction are associated with host immune homeostasis in COVID-19 patients (2022, BMC Medicine)
  • Association of the Mediterranean Dietary Approaches to Stop Hypertension Intervention for Neurodegenerative Delay (MIND) Diet With the Risk of Dementia (2023, JAMA Psychiatry)
  • Analysis of Changes in Weight, Waist Circumference, or Both, and All-Cause Mortality in Chinese Adults (2022, JAMA Network Open)

Best Publications

  • Water Manganese Exposure and Children's Intellectual Function in Araihazar, Bangladesh

    Gail A. Wasserman;Xinhua Liu;Faruque Parvez;Habibul Ahsan

  • Sixty years of global progress in managed aquifer recharge

    P. Dillon;P. Dillon;P. Stuyfzand;T. Grischek;M. Lluria

  • Authigenic molybdenum formation in marine sediments: A link to pore water sulfide in the Santa Barbara Basin

    Yan Zheng;Yan Zheng;Yan Zheng;Robert F. Anderson;Robert F. Anderson;Alexander van Geen;James Kuwabara

  • Redox control of arsenic mobilization in Bangladesh groundwater

    Y. Zheng;Y. Zheng;M. Stute;M. Stute;A. van Geen;I. Gavrieli

  • Spatial variability of arsenic in 6000 tube wells in a 25 km2 area of Bangladesh

    A. van Geen;Y. Zheng;Y. Zheng;R. Versteeg;M. Stute

  • Arsenic in tube well water in Bangladesh: health and economic impacts and implications for arsenic mitigation

    Sara V Flanagan;Richard B Johnston;Yan Zheng

  • Decoupling of As and Fe release to Bangladesh groundwater under reducing conditions. Part I: Evidence from sediment profiles

    A. Horneman;A. Horneman;A. van Geen;D.V. Kent;D.V. Kent;P.E. Mathe

  • A rapid colorimetric method for measuring arsenic concentrations in groundwater

    R.K. Dhar;R.K. Dhar;R.K. Dhar;Y. Zheng;Y. Zheng;Y. Zheng;J. Rubenstone;A. van Geen

  • Promotion of well-switching to mitigate the current arsenic crisis in Bangladesh

    Alexander van Geen;Habibul Ahsan;Allan H. Horneman;Ratan K. Dhar;Ratan K. Dhar

  • Remobilization of authigenic uranium in marine sediments by bioturbation

    Yan Zheng;Yan Zheng;Robert F. Anderson;Robert F. Anderson;Alexander van Geen;Martin Q. Fleisher

  • Arsenic, fluoride and iodine in groundwater of China

    Dongguang Wen;Fucun Zhang;Eryong Zhang;Eryong Zhang;Cheng Wang

  • Dissolved organic matter sources and consequences for iron and arsenic mobilization in Bangladesh aquifers.

    Natalie Mladenov;Yan Zheng;Matthew P Miller;Diana R Nemergut

  • Associations between drinking water and urinary arsenic levels and skin lesions in Bangladesh.

    Habibul Ahsan;Mary Perrin;Atiqur Rahman;Faruque Parvez

  • Health Effects of Exposure to Natural Arsenic in Groundwater and Coal in China: An Overview of Occurrence

    Guangqian Yu;Dianjun Sun;Yan Zheng;Yan Zheng

  • Microscale AMS 14C Measurement at NOSAMS

    Ann Pearson;Ann P. McNichol;Robert J. Schneider;K. F. Von Reden

  • Rapid multi-element analysis of groundwater by high-resolution inductively coupled plasma mass spectrometry

    Z. Cheng;Y. Zheng;Y. Zheng;R. Mortlock;A. van Geen

  • Preservation of particulate non-lithogenic uranium in marine sediments

    Yan Zheng;Yan Zheng;Robert F. Anderson;Robert F. Anderson;Alexander van Geen;Martin Q. Fleisher

  • Dissolved Organic Matter Quality in a Shallow Aquifer of Bangladesh: Implications for Arsenic Mobility.

    Natalie Mladenov;Yan Zheng;Bailey Simone;Theresa M. Bilinski

  • Long-term variations of CO2 trapped in different mechanisms in deep saline formations: A case study of the Songliao Basin, China

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  • On the preservation of laminated sediments along the western margin of North America

    A. van Geen;Y. Zheng;Y. Zheng;J. M. Bernhard;K. G. Cannariato

  • Enhanced marine productivity off western North America during warm climate intervals of the past 52 k.y.

    J.D. Ortiz;S.B. O'Connell;J. DelViscio;W. Dean

  • Arsenic migration to deep groundwater in Bangladesh influenced by adsorption and water demand

    K. A. Radloff;Y. Zheng;Y. Zheng;H. A. Michael;M. Stute;M. Stute

Frequent Co-Authors

Kazi Matin Ahmed
Kazi Matin Ahmed University of Dhaka
Martin Stute
Martin Stute Lamont-Doherty Earth Observatory
Alexander van Geen
Alexander van Geen Lamont-Doherty Earth Observatory
Peter Schlosser
Peter Schlosser Arizona State University
Benjamin C. Bostick
Benjamin C. Bostick Lamont-Doherty Earth Observatory
Brian J. Mailloux
Brian J. Mailloux Barnard College
Robert F. Anderson
Robert F. Anderson Columbia University
Steven L. Goodbred
Steven L. Goodbred Vanderbilt University
Xiaofei Xie
Xiaofei Xie Nanyang Technological University
Diane M. McKnight
Diane M. McKnight University of Colorado Boulder

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