Wei Zheng
Postdoctoral AssociateAbout
Research
Publications
2024
Diabetes Risk Reduction Diet and Risk of Liver Cancer and Chronic Liver Disease Mortality: A Prospective Cohort Study
Chen Y, Zhao L, Jung S, Pichardo M, Lopez-Pentecost M, Rohan T, Saquib N, Sun Y, Tabung F, Zheng T, Wactawski-Wende J, Manson J, Neuhouser M, Zhang X. Diabetes Risk Reduction Diet and Risk of Liver Cancer and Chronic Liver Disease Mortality: A Prospective Cohort Study. Current Developments In Nutrition 2024, 8: 102547. DOI: 10.1016/j.cdnut.2024.102547.Peer-Reviewed Original ResearchIntrauterine chromium exposure and cognitive developmental delay: The modifying effect of genetic predisposition
Jia Z, Zhang H, Lv Y, Yu L, Cui Y, Zhang L, Yang C, Liu H, Zheng T, Xia W, Xu S, Li Y. Intrauterine chromium exposure and cognitive developmental delay: The modifying effect of genetic predisposition. The Science Of The Total Environment 2024, 946: 174350. PMID: 38960203, DOI: 10.1016/j.scitotenv.2024.174350.Peer-Reviewed Original ResearchRisk due to interactionCognitive developmental delayGenetic riskSynergy indexGenetic factorsExcess risk due to interactionDevelopmental delayBayley Scales of Infant DevelopmentProportion due to interactionPolygenic risk scoresHigh-risk factorsEffects of genetic predispositionDose-response relationshipMother-child pairsGenetic backgroundBayley ScalesGenetic predispositionIncreased riskRisk scoreCr exposureLogistic regressionInfant developmentPlasma Cr concentrationIntrauterineAdditive interactionPrenatal arsenic metabolite exposure is associated with increased newborn mitochondrial DNA copy number: evidence from a birth cohort study
Qiu F, Zhang H, Wang X, Jia Z, He Y, Wu Y, Li Z, Zheng T, Xia W, Xu S, Li Y. Prenatal arsenic metabolite exposure is associated with increased newborn mitochondrial DNA copy number: evidence from a birth cohort study. Environmental Science And Pollution Research 2024, 31: 38142-38152. PMID: 38789711, DOI: 10.1007/s11356-024-32933-7.Peer-Reviewed Original ResearchDNA copy numberThird trimesterUrinary arsenic species concentrationsNewborn mitochondrial DNA copy numberMother-newborn pairsDose-response trendMitochondria DNA copy numberReal-time polymerase chain reactionBirth cohort studyMetabolite exposureCopy numberMitochondrial DNA copy numberOne-unit incrementCovariate-adjusted modelsBlood mtDNAcnQuantitative real-time polymerase chain reactionPolymerase chain reactionCohort studyTrimesterMetabolite levelsPotential associationStatistical significanceArsenic metabolitesChain reactionMtDNAcnCorrigendum to “Urinary biomarkers of exposure to organophosphate, pyrethroid, neonicotinoid insecticides and oxidative stress: A repeated measurement analysis among pregnant women” [Sci. Total Environ. volume 912, 2024, 169565]
Wang A, Wan Y, Qi W, Mahai G, Qian X, Zheng T, Li Y, Xu S, Xiao H, Xia W. Corrigendum to “Urinary biomarkers of exposure to organophosphate, pyrethroid, neonicotinoid insecticides and oxidative stress: A repeated measurement analysis among pregnant women” [Sci. Total Environ. volume 912, 2024, 169565]. The Science Of The Total Environment 2024, 926: 172178. PMID: 38582708, DOI: 10.1016/j.scitotenv.2024.172178.Peer-Reviewed Original Research
2023
Urinary biomarkers of exposure to organophosphate, pyrethroid, neonicotinoid insecticides and oxidative stress: A repeated measurement analysis among pregnant women
Wang A, Wan Y, Qi W, Mahai G, Qian X, Zheng T, Li Y, Xu S, Xiao H, Xia W. Urinary biomarkers of exposure to organophosphate, pyrethroid, neonicotinoid insecticides and oxidative stress: A repeated measurement analysis among pregnant women. The Science Of The Total Environment 2023, 912: 169565. PMID: 38145670, DOI: 10.1016/j.scitotenv.2023.169565.Peer-Reviewed Original ResearchOS biomarkersPregnant womenOxidative stressExposure biomarkersInsecticide metabolitesInadequate weight gainUrine samplesChinese pregnant womenHigher urinary levelsMetabolites of pyrethroidsGestational exposureUrinary levelsUrinary biomarkersHNE-MAMixed model analysisMetabolites of organophosphatesPercent changeWeight gainHigher education levelLipid peroxidationElevated levelsVulnerable populationsBiomarkersWomenTrimesterAssociations between maternal urinary rare earth elements during pregnancy and birth weight-for-gestational age: Roles of cord blood vitamin D levels
Fang X, Xie Y, Cao S, Liu J, Shi Y, Yu L, Zheng T, Liu H, Li Y, Xu S, Xia W. Associations between maternal urinary rare earth elements during pregnancy and birth weight-for-gestational age: Roles of cord blood vitamin D levels. The Science Of The Total Environment 2023, 912: 169222. PMID: 38081430, DOI: 10.1016/j.scitotenv.2023.169222.Peer-Reviewed Original ResearchCord blood vitamin D levelsBlood vitamin D levelsCord blood vitamin DVitamin D levelsBlood vitamin DFetal growth restrictionGestational ageD levelsVitamin DPrenatal exposureBirth weightUrinary concentrationsGrowth restrictionLow vitamin D levelsZ-scoreMother-newborn pairsAdverse birth outcomesLower BWAverage urinary concentrationsBirth outcomesFetal growthCord bloodHigher oddsEnvironmental exposuresExposure-mediator interactionAssociations of Trimester-Specific Exposure to Perchlorate, Thiocyanate, and Nitrate with Childhood Neurodevelopment: A Birth Cohort Study in China
Li J, Tu F, Wan Y, Qian X, Mahai G, Wang A, Ma J, Yang Z, Xia W, Xu S, Zheng T, Li Y. Associations of Trimester-Specific Exposure to Perchlorate, Thiocyanate, and Nitrate with Childhood Neurodevelopment: A Birth Cohort Study in China. Environmental Science And Technology 2023, 57: 20480-20493. PMID: 38015815, DOI: 10.1021/acs.est.3c06013.Peer-Reviewed Original ResearchMental Development IndexOffspring neurodevelopmentMaternal exposureQuantile sum regression analysesTrimester-specific analysesTrimester-specific exposureBirth cohort studyRegression analysisBayesian kernel machine regression (BKMR) analysisCohort studyEarly pregnancyFirst trimesterSecond trimesterPrenatal exposureChildhood neurodevelopmentUrinary thiocyanateBirth cohortTrimesterNeurodevelopmentUrine samplesSensitive windowExposureAssociationMixture exposurePoint decreaseA nested case-control study of serum zinc and incident diabetes among Chinese adults: Effect modifications and mediation analysis
Yang J, Cheng Z, Zhang D, Zheng T, Yin C, Liu S, Zhang L, Wang Z, Wang Y, Chen R, Dou Q, Bai Y. A nested case-control study of serum zinc and incident diabetes among Chinese adults: Effect modifications and mediation analysis. The Science Of The Total Environment 2023, 910: 168678. PMID: 37981151, DOI: 10.1016/j.scitotenv.2023.168678.Peer-Reviewed Original ResearchConceptsSerum zinc levelsRisk of diabetesCase-control studySerum zincDiabetes riskEffect modificationZinc levelsMediation proportionBaseline serum zinc concentrationPositive linear dose-response relationshipConditional logistic regression modelsHistory of hypertensionProspective population studyBody mass indexCoronary heart diseasePotential effect modificationSerum zinc concentrationLinear dose-response relationshipPopulation studiesDose-response relationshipLogistic regression modelsIncident diabetesHighest quartileMass indexFourth quartile