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Zhengming Chen

- Verified email at ndph.ox.ac.uk - Cited by 121240

Zhengming Chen

- Verified email at med.cornell.edu - Cited by 7694

[HTML][HTML] Worldwide trends in body-mass index, underweight, overweight, and obesity from 1975 to 2016: a pooled analysis of 2416 population-based measurement …

…, CJ Chen, F Chen, H Chen, S Chen, Z Chen… - The lancet, 2017 - thelancet.com
Background Underweight, overweight, and obesity in childhood and adolescence are associated
with adverse health consequences throughout the life-course. Our aim was to estimate …

[HTML][HTML] The effects of lowering LDL cholesterol with simvastatin plus ezetimibe in patients with chronic kidney disease (Study of Heart and Renal Protection): a …

…, J Armitage, A Baxter, C Bray, Y Chen, Z Chen… - The Lancet, 2011 - thelancet.com
Background Lowering LDL cholesterol with statin regimens reduces the risk of myocardial
infarction, ischaemic stroke, and the need for coronary revascularisation in people without …

[HTML][HTML] Body-mass index and all-cause mortality: individual-participant-data meta-analysis of 239 prospective studies in four continents

…, L Yang, YD Yun, P Willeit, E Banks, V Beral, Z Chen… - The Lancet, 2016 - thelancet.com
Background Overweight and obesity are increasing worldwide. To help assess their
relevance to mortality in different populations we conducted individual-participant data meta-…

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

…, CJ Chen, F Chen, H Chen, S Chen, Z Chen… - The Lancet, 2017 - thelancet.com
Background Raised blood pressure is an important risk factor for cardiovascular diseases
and chronic kidney disease. We estimated worldwide trends in mean systolic and mean …

Global, regional, and national age-sex specific all-cause and cause-specific mortality for 240 causes of death, 1990-2013: a systematic analysis for the Global Burden …

…, X Che, H Chen, Y Chen, JS Chen, Z Chen… - The Lancet, 2015 - cris.unibo.it
Background Up-to-date evidence on levels and trends for age-sex-specifi c all-cause and
cause-specifi c mortality is essential for the formation of global, regional, and national health …

Multi-ancestry genetic study of type 2 diabetes highlights the power of diverse populations for discovery and translation

…, ML Chee, J Chen, SH Chen, YT Chen, Z Chen… - Nature …, 2022 - nature.com
We assembled an ancestrally diverse collection of genome-wide association studies (GWAS)
of type 2 diabetes (T2D) in 180,834 affected individuals and 1,159,055 controls (48.9% non…

Stroke in China: advances and challenges in epidemiology, prevention, and management

S Wu, BO Wu, M Liu, Z Chen, W Wang… - The Lancet …, 2019 - thelancet.com
With over 2 million new cases annually, stroke is associated with the highest disability-adjusted
life-years lost of any disease in China. The burden is expected to increase further as a …

China Kadoorie Biobank of 0.5 million people: survey methods, baseline characteristics and long-term follow-up

Z Chen, J Chen, R Collins, Y Guo… - International journal …, 2011 - academic.oup.com
Background Large blood-based prospective studies can provide reliable assessment of the
complex interplay of lifestyle, environmental and genetic factors as determinants of chronic …

Respiratory risks from household air pollution in low and middle income countries

…, MN Bates, PN Breysse, S Buist, Z Chen… - The lancet Respiratory …, 2014 - thelancet.com
A third of the world's population uses solid fuel derived from plant material (biomass) or coal
for cooking, heating, or lighting. These fuels are smoky, often used in an open fire or simple …

[HTML][HTML] Within-sibship genome-wide association analyses decrease bias in estimates of direct genetic effects

…, DI Boomsma, A Campbell, H Campbell, Z Chen… - Nature …, 2022 - nature.com
Estimates from genome-wide association studies (GWAS) of unrelated individuals capture
effects of inherited variation (direct effects), demography (population stratification, assortative …