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Overview

Yanping Li is affiliated with Harvard University in the United States and has contributed extensively to the field of medicine, with a particular focus on public health, environmental and occupational health, molecular biology, physiology, nutrition and dietetics, and cardiology and cardiovascular medicine. Their research reflects a strong interdisciplinary approach, centered on nutritional studies and diet, diet and metabolism studies, obesity, physical activity and diet, cardiovascular health and risk factors, consumer attitudes and food labeling, gut microbiota and health, and agriculture sustainability and environmental impact.

Their recent notable publications include:

  • Healthy lifestyle and life expectancy free of cancer, cardiovascular disease, and type 2 diabetes: prospective cohort study, 2020, BMJ
  • 1-year outcomes in hospital survivors with COVID-19: a longitudinal cohort study, 2021, The Lancet
  • Associations of healthy lifestyle and socioeconomic status with mortality and incident cardiovascular disease: two prospective cohort studies, 2021, BMJ
  • Association Between Healthy Eating Patterns and Risk of Cardiovascular Disease, 2020, JAMA Internal Medicine
  • Fruit and Vegetable Intake and Mortality, 2021, Circulation

Yanping Li frequently collaborates with several researchers, including Frank B. Hu, Walter C. Willett, Eric B. Rimm, Shilpa N Bhupathiraju, and Meir J. Stampfer. These partnerships suggest a robust network within the fields of nutrition, epidemiology, and cardiovascular research.

Their work is regularly published in several scientific venues known for research in nutrition and cardiovascular health. These venues include:

  • Circulation
  • Current Developments in Nutrition
  • American Journal of Clinical Nutrition
  • Journal of Nutrition
  • PubMed

The research topics Yanping Li addresses span a variety of public health concerns. Among them are nutritional studies and diet, diet and metabolism studies, obesity, physical activity, diet-related factors, cardiovascular health and risk factors, consumer attitudes and food labeling, gut microbiota and health, and sustainability issues related to agriculture and environment.

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

  • 6-month consequences of COVID-19 in patients discharged from hospital: a cohort study.

    Chaolin Huang;Lixue Huang;Lixue Huang;Yeming Wang;Xia Li

  • 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 century of trends in adult human height

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

  • 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

  • Impact of Healthy Lifestyle Factors on Life Expectancies in the US Population

    Yanping Li;An Pan;Dong D Wang;Xiaoran Liu

  • Cardiovascular disease, chronic kidney disease, and diabetes mortality burden of cardiometabolic risk factors from 1980 to 2010: a comparative risk assessment.

    Goodarz Danaei;Yuan Lu;Gitanjali M. Singh;Emily Carnahan

  • Saturated Fats Compared With Unsaturated Fats and Sources of Carbohydrates in Relation to Risk of Coronary Heart Disease: A Prospective Cohort Study

    Yanping Li;Adela Hruby;Adam M. Bernstein;Sylvia H. Ley

  • Trends in Dietary Quality Among Adults in the United States, 1999 Through 2010

    Dong D. Wang;Cindy W. Leung;Yanping Li;Eric L. Ding

  • Healthy lifestyle and life expectancy free of cancer, cardiovascular disease, and type 2 diabetes: prospective cohort study

    Yanping Li;Josje Schoufour;Josje Schoufour;Dong D Wang;Klodian Dhana;Klodian Dhana

  • Associations of healthy lifestyle and socioeconomic status with mortality and incident cardiovascular disease: two prospective cohort studies.

    Yan-Bo Zhang;Chen Chen;Chen Chen;Xiong-Fei Pan;Jingyu Guo

  • Association of Specific Dietary Fats With Total and Cause-Specific Mortality

    Dong D. Wang;Yanping Li;Stephanie E. Chiuve;Meir J. Stampfer

  • An Inactivated Enterovirus 71 Vaccine in Healthy Children

    Rongcheng Li;Longding Liu;Zhaojun Mo;Xuanyi Wang

  • Association of Changes in Diet Quality with Total and Cause-Specific Mortality.

    Mercedes Sotos-Prieto;Shilpa N. Bhupathiraju;Josiemer Mattei;Teresa T. Fung

  • Exposure to the Chinese Famine in Early Life and the Risk of Hyperglycemia and Type 2 Diabetes in Adulthood

    Yanping Li;Yuna He;Lu Qi;Vincent W. Jaddoe

  • Transition from metabolic healthy to unhealthy phenotypes and association with cardiovascular disease risk across BMI categories in 90 257 women (the Nurses' Health Study): 30 year follow-up from a prospective cohort study.

    Nathalie Eckel;Yanping Li;Olga Kuxhaus;Norbert Stefan

  • Nut Consumption and Risk of Cardiovascular Disease

    Marta Guasch-Ferré;Xiaoran Liu;Vasanti S. Malik;Qi Sun

Frequent Co-Authors

Frank B. Hu
Frank B. Hu Harvard University
Walter C. Willett
Walter C. Willett Harvard University
Eric B. Rimm
Eric B. Rimm Harvard University
JoAnn E. Manson
JoAnn E. Manson Harvard Medical School
Lu Qi
Lu Qi Harvard University
Meir J. Stampfer
Meir J. Stampfer Harvard University
Qi Sun
Qi Sun Harvard University
Teresa T. Fung
Teresa T. Fung Harvard University
Kathryn M. Rexrode
Kathryn M. Rexrode Brigham and Women's Hospital
Bernard Rosner
Bernard Rosner Harvard University

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