Search Results - "Zengchang Pang"
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The metabolic signature of blood lipids: a causal inference study using twins
Published in Journal of lipid research (01-09-2024)“…Dyslipidemia is one of the cardiometabolic risk factors that influences mortality globally. Unraveling the causality between blood lipids and metabolites and…”
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Heritability of the Effective Connectivity in the Resting-State Default Mode Network
Published in Cerebral cortex (New York, N.Y. 1991) (01-12-2017)“…The default mode network (DMN) is thought to reflect endogenous neural activity, which is considered as one of the most intriguing phenomena in cognitive…”
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Performance of an A1C and Fasting Capillary Blood Glucose Test for Screening Newly Diagnosed Diabetes and Pre-Diabetes Defined by an Oral Glucose Tolerance Test in Qingdao, China
Published in Diabetes care (01-03-2010)“…OBJECTIVE: The study's goal was to evaluate the performance of A1C and fasting capillary blood glucose (FCG) tests as mass screening tools for diabetes and…”
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Nonlaboratory-Based Risk Assessment Algorithm for Undiagnosed Type 2 Diabetes Developed on a Nation-Wide Diabetes Survey
Published in Diabetes care (01-12-2013)“…To develop a New Chinese Diabetes Risk Score for screening undiagnosed type 2 diabetes in China. Data from the China National Diabetes and Metabolic Disorders…”
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Minimal improvement in coronary artery disease risk prediction in Chinese population using polygenic risk scores: Evidence from the China Kadoorie Biobank
Published in Chinese medical journal (20-10-2023)“…Several studies have reported that polygenic risk scores (PRSs) can enhance risk prediction of coronary artery disease (CAD) in European populations. However,…”
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Five years of change in adult twins: longitudinal changes of genetic and environmental influence on epigenetic clocks
Published in BMC medicine (10-07-2024)“…Epigenetic clocks were known as promising biomarkers of aging, including original clocks trained by individual CpG sites and principal component (PC) clocks…”
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Famine exposure in early life and type 2 diabetes in adulthood: findings from prospective studies in China
Published in Nutrition research and practice (01-08-2023)“…This study examined the relationship between famine exposure in early life and the risk of type 2 diabetes in adulthood during the 1959-1961 Chinese Famine. A…”
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Inferior frontal white matter asymmetry correlates with executive control of attention
Published in Human brain mapping (01-04-2013)“…White matter (WM) asymmetries of the human brain have been well documented using diffusion tensor imaging (DTI). However, the relationship between WM asymmetry…”
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Determination of Zygosity in Adult Chinese Twins Using the 450K Methylation Array versus Questionnaire Data
Published in PloS one (30-04-2015)“…Previous studies have shown that both single nucleotide polymorphisms (SNPs) and questionnaires-based method can be used for twin zygosity determination, but…”
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Genetics of Obesity Traits: A Bivariate Genome-Wide Association Analysis
Published in Frontiers in genetics (16-05-2018)“…Previous genome-wide association studies on anthropometric measurements have identified more than 100 related loci, but only a small portion of heritability in…”
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The Prospective Associations of Egg Consumption with the Risk of Total Cerebrovascular Disease Morbidity among Chinese Adults
Published in Nutrients (01-04-2023)“…Studies investigating the relationship between egg consumption and the risk of cerebrovascular disease (CED) have yielded inconsistent results. This study…”
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Cardiometabolic Traits in Adult Twins: Heritability and BMI Impact with Age
Published in Nutrients (29-12-2022)“…Background: The prevalence of obesity and cardiometabolic diseases continues to rise globally and obesity is a significant risk factor for cardiometabolic…”
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Associations of Body Composition Measurements with Serum Lipid, Glucose and Insulin Profile: A Chinese Twin Study
Published in PloS one (10-11-2015)“…To quantitate and compare the associations of various body composition measurements with serum metabolites and to what degree genetic or environmental factors…”
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Association between dairy consumption and ischemic heart disease among Chinese adults: a prospective study in Qingdao
Published in Nutrition & metabolism (19-02-2022)“…Previous studies linking dairy consumption with ischemic heart disease (IHD) are almost from western countries, with little from China. The present study was…”
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Fiber pathways of attention subnetworks revealed with tract-based spatial statistics (TBSS) and probabilistic tractography
Published in PloS one (04-11-2013)“…It has been widely accepted that attention can be divided into three subnetworks - alerting, orienting and executive control (EC), and the subnetworks of…”
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Longitudinal Investigation into Genetics in the Conservation of Metabolic Phenotypes in Danish and Chinese Twins
Published in PloS one (12-09-2016)“…Longitudinal twin studies on long term conservation of individual metabolic phenotypes can help to explore the genetic and environmental basis in maintaining…”
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Heritability of tea drinking and its relationship with cigarette smoking in the Chinese male adult twins
Published in Addiction biology (01-03-2022)“…The aims of this study are to estimate the contributions of genetic factors to the variation of tea drinking and cigarette smoking, to examine the roles of…”
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Physical activity attenuates genetic effects on BMI: Results from a study of Chinese adult twins
Published in Obesity (Silver Spring, Md.) (01-03-2016)“…Objective This study aimed to examine the gene–environment interaction of physical activity and body mass index (BMI) using the Chinese National Twin Registry…”
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The association of cigarette smoking and alcohol drinking with body mass index: a cross-sectional, population-based study among Chinese adult male twins
Published in BMC public health (11-04-2016)“…Obesity is a multifactorial abnormality which has an underlying genetic control but requires environmental influences to trigger. Numerous epidemiological…”
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Association of serum uric acid level with muscle strength and cognitive function among Chinese aged 50-74 years
Published in Geriatrics & gerontology international (01-07-2013)“…Aim Previous studies have shown that uric acid (UA) has strong anti‐oxidant properties, and that high circulating levels of UA are prospectively associated…”
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