Colleges
Collaborators
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Susan Jebb
Professor of Diet and Population Health
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Paul Aveyard
Professor of Behavioural Medicine
Websites
Min GAO
PhD
Researcher
- DPhil supervisor
- Fellow of Wolfson College
Epidemiology, Health Behaviours,Obesity
I am an Epidemiologist and Health Behaviour Scientist with a particular interest in understanding how health behaviours and obesity impact CVD, diabetes, mental health, etc.
I joined the Oxford Health Behaviours team in 2019 and graduated with a PhD from Peking University Health Science Centre (Beijing, China). I am a member of China Health Policy and Management Society and American Psychological Association.
I have much experience in analysing UK Biobank, Qresearch and CPRD datasets and multiple Chinese national cohorts (such as China Health and Nutrition Survey, Chinese Longitudinal Healthy Longevity Survey, China Health and Retirement Longitudinal Stud) across behavioural science, big data and health policy. In the meantime, I have conducted several trials in China to help patients improve their weight and health behaviours through close collaborations with Chinese universities, government officials, hospitals and community health centres.
Key publications
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Associations between body-mass index and COVID-19 severity in 6·9 million people in England: a prospective, community-based, cohort study
Journal article
Gao M. et al, (2021), The Lancet Diabetes and Endocrinology, 9, 350 - 359
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Associations between dietary patterns and the incidence of total and fatal cardiovascular disease and all-cause mortality in 116,806 individuals from the UK Biobank: a prospective cohort study
Journal article
Gao M. et al, (2021), BMC Medicine, 19
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Associations Between Dietary Patterns and Incident Type 2 Diabetes: Prospective Cohort Study of 120,343 UK Biobank Participants
Journal article
Gao M. et al, (2022), Diabetes Care, 45, 1315 - 1325
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Association between pre-existing respiratory disease and its treatment, and severe COVID-19: a population cohort study
Journal article
Aveyard P. et al, (2021), The Lancet Respiratory Medicine
Recent publications
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Association between smoking, e-cigarette use and severe COVID-19: A cohort study
Journal article
Gao M. et al, (2022), International Journal of Epidemiology, 51, 1062 - 1072
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Associations Between Dietary Patterns and Incident Type 2 Diabetes: Prospective Cohort Study of 120,343 UK Biobank Participants
Journal article
Gao M. et al, (2022), Diabetes Care, 45, 1315 - 1325
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Analysis of the status quo of exercise behavior in type 2 diabetic patients and the influencing factors analysis based on the health action process approach model
Journal article
Guo Y. et al, (2022), Chinese Journal of Disease Control and Prevention, 26, 56 - 60
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Associations between body composition, fat distribution and metabolic consequences of excess adiposity with severe COVID-19 outcomes: observational study and Mendelian randomisation analysis
Journal article
Gao M. et al, (2022), International Journal of Obesity
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Associations of BMI with COVID-19 vaccine uptake, vaccine effectiveness, and risk of severe COVID-19 outcomes after vaccination in England: a population-based cohort study
Journal article
Piernas C. et al, (2022), The Lancet Diabetes and Endocrinology