Overweight is an independent risk factor for cardiovascular disease in Chinese populations

B Zhou, Y Wu, J Yang, Y Li, H Zhang, L Zhao - Obesity reviews, 2002 - Wiley Online Library
In the last decade of the 20th century, cardiovascular disease was the leading cause of
death in China, accounting for one‐third of the total deaths. In comparison with western …

Human metabolic phenotype diversity and its association with diet and blood pressure

E Holmes, RL Loo, J Stamler, M Bictash, IKS Yap… - Nature, 2008 - nature.com
Metabolic phenotypes are the products of interactions among a variety of factors—dietary,
other lifestyle/environmental, gut microbial and genetic,,. We use a large-scale exploratory …

Quinoxaline-based conjugated polymers for polymer solar cells

M Liu, Y Gao, Y Zhang, Z Liu, L Zhao - Polymer Chemistry, 2017 - pubs.rsc.org
Bulk heterojunction (BHJ) polymer solar cells (PSCs), as a promising alternative to
conventional silicon-based solar cells, have achieved rapid development in recent years. In …

Effects of metformin on blood pressure in nondiabetic patients: a meta-analysis of randomized controlled trials

L Zhou, H Liu, X Wen, Y Peng, Y Tian… - Journal of …, 2017 - journals.lww.com
Objective: To evaluate the effects of metformin on systolic blood pressure (SBP) and
diastolic blood pressure (DBP) in nondiabetic patients. Methods: In this meta-analysis, we …

Dietary sources of sodium in China, Japan, the United Kingdom, and the United States, women and men aged 40 to 59 years: the INTERMAP study

CAM Anderson, LJ Appel, N Okuda, IJ Brown… - Journal of the American …, 2010 - Elsevier
Public health campaigns in several countries encourage population-wide reduced sodium
(salt) intake, but excessive intake remains a major problem. Excessive sodium intake is …

Nutrient intakes of middle-aged men and women in China, Japan, United Kingdom, and United States in the late 1990s: the INTERMAP study

BF Zhou, J Stamler, B Dennis… - Journal of human …, 2003 - nature.com
The purpose of the study was to compare nutrient intakes among Chinese, Japanese, UK,
and US INTERMAP samples, and assess possible relationships of dietary patterns to …

Predicting the 10-year risks of atherosclerotic cardiovascular disease in Chinese population: the China-PAR project (prediction for ASCVD risk in China)

X Yang, J Li, D Hu, J Chen, Y Li, J Huang, X Liu, F Liu… - Circulation, 2016 - Am Heart Assoc
Background: The accurate assessment of individual risk can be of great value to guiding and
facilitating the prevention of atherosclerotic cardiovascular disease (ASCVD). However …

Genome-wide association study in Han Chinese identifies four new susceptibility loci for coronary artery disease

X Lu, L Wang, S Chen, L He, X Yang, Y Shi, J Cheng… - Nature …, 2012 - nature.com
We performed a meta-analysis of 2 genome-wide association studies of coronary artery
disease comprising 1,515 cases and 5,019 controls followed by replication studies in 15,460 …

Estimation of 10-year risk of fatal and nonfatal ischemic cardiovascular diseases in Chinese adults

Y Wu, X Liu, X Li, Y Li, L Zhao, Z Chen, Y Li, X Rao… - Circulation, 2006 - Am Heart Assoc
Background—Stroke is much more prevalent than coronary heart disease in China; thus,
any risk prediction model only for coronary heart disease may not be appropriate in …

Sugar-sweetened beverage, sugar intake of individuals, and their blood pressure: international study of macro/micronutrients and blood pressure

IJ Brown, J Stamler, L Van Horn, CE Robertson… - …, 2011 - Am Heart Assoc
The obesity epidemic has focused attention on relationships of sugars and sugar-sweetened
beverages (SSBs) to cardiovascular risk factors. Here we report cross-sectional associations …