Frank Hu

Hu presenting at a meeting of the US Dietary Guidelines Advisory Committee in 2014

Frank B. Hu, or Hu Bingchang (Chinese: 胡丙长) (born in 1966), is a Chinese American nutrition and diabetes researcher. He is a Professor of Nutrition and Epidemiology at the Harvard School of Public Health,[1] and Professor of Medicine at Harvard Medical School.

Hu is also the Director, Harvard Transdisciplinary Research in Energetics and Cancer Center;[2] Director, Boston Obesity Nutrition Research Center Epidemiology and Genetics Core;[3] and Co-Director, Program in Obesity Epidemiology and Prevention[4] at the Harvard School of Public Health.

Education

A native of Hubei Province, China, Hu received his M.D. from Tongji Medical University (now medical school of Huazhong University of Science and Technology) in Wuhan in 1988, and his Ph.D. from the University of Illinois at Chicago in 1996.[5]

Research

Hu is a prolific researcher and he has published 800 original papers and reviews,[6] with more than 100,000 citations.[7] He is the principal author of the textbook on Obesity Epidemiology (Oxford University Press, 2008).[8][9]

His research has focused on epidemiology and prevention of diabetes and cardiovascular disease in both developed and developing countries. Hu is a recipient of the American Heart Association Established Investigator Award.[10]

In 1997, he published a study showing that types of fat are more important than total amount of fat in determining risk of heart disease in the Nurses' Health Study.[11] In 2001, Hu published a study to quantify the preventability of type 2 diabetes through diet and lifestyle,[12] showing that up to 90% of diabetes cases can be prevented by eating a healthy diet, maintaining normal weight, exercising regularly, not smoking, and moderate alcohol consumption. Hu has conducted extensive research on sugar-sweetened beverages (SSBs) and risk of obesity, type 2 diabetes, and cardiovascular disease.[13][14][15][16][17][18][19][20] Hu was also the senior author of a 2014 meta-analysis which found that yogurt consumption was associated with a decreased risk of diabetes.[21][22] Another 2014 study co-authored by Hu along with Walter Willett found that the quality of the United States diet improved from 1999 to 2010, but that the gap between the diets of the rich and those of the poor had widened during this time as well.[23][24]

Hu served on the IOM Committee on Preventing the Global Epidemic of Cardiovascular Disease: Meeting the Challenges in Developing Countries (2009-2010).[25] He served on the NHLBI Obesity Guidelines Expert Panel (2008-2013).[26] He also serves on the 2015 Dietary Guidelines Advisory Committee, USDA/HHS.[27] Hu has received the Kelly West Award for Outstanding Achievement in Epidemiology from the American Diabetes Association in 2010.[28][29]

References

  1. ↑ "Frank Hu".
  2. ↑ "Harvard Transdisciplinary Research in Energetics and Cancer Center". Harvard Transdisciplinary Research in Energetics and Cancer Center.
  3. ↑ "Boston Nutrition Obesity Research Center".
  4. ↑ "Obesity Program". Obesity Program.
  5. ↑ Frank Hu
  6. ↑ pubmeddev. "Hu FB[author] - PubMed - NCBI".
  7. ↑ "Frank B. Hu - Google Scholar Citations".
  8. ↑ "Obesity Epidemiology".
  9. ↑ "Obesity Epidemiology".
  10. ↑ Hu, Frank (July 2005). "Protein, body weight, and cardiovascular health". American Journal of Clinical Nutrition 82 (1): 242S–247S.
  11. ↑ Hu, F. B.; Stampfer, M. J.; Manson, J. E.; Rimm, E.; Colditz, G. A.; Rosner, B. A.; Hennekens, C. H.; Willett, W. C. (1997). "Dietary Fat Intake and the Risk of Coronary Heart Disease in Women". New England Journal of Medicine 337 (21): 1491–1499. doi:10.1056/NEJM199711203372102. PMID 9366580.
  12. ↑ Hu, F. B.; Manson, J. E.; Stampfer, M. J.; Colditz, G; Liu, S; Solomon, C. G.; Willett, W. C. (2001). "Diet, lifestyle, and the risk of type 2 diabetes mellitus in women". New England Journal of Medicine 345 (11): 790–7. doi:10.1056/NEJMoa010492. PMID 11556298.
  13. ↑ Schulze, M. B.; Manson, J. E.; Ludwig, D. S.; Colditz, G. A.; Stampfer, M. J.; Willett, W. C.; Hu, F. B. (2004). "Sugar-sweetened beverages, weight gain, and incidence of type 2 diabetes in young and middle-aged women". JAMA 292 (8): 927–34. doi:10.1001/jama.292.8.927. PMID 15328324.
  14. ↑ Malik, V. S.; Schulze, M. B.; Hu, F. B. (2006). "Intake of sugar-sweetened beverages and weight gain: A systematic review". The American journal of clinical nutrition 84 (2): 274–288. PMC 3210834. PMID 16895873.
  15. ↑ Malik, V. S.; Popkin, B. M.; Bray, G. A.; Després, J. P.; Hu, F. B. (2010). "Sugar-sweetened beverages, obesity, type 2 diabetes mellitus, and cardiovascular disease risk". Circulation 121 (11): 1356–64. doi:10.1161/CIRCULATIONAHA.109.876185. PMC 2862465. PMID 20308626.
  16. ↑ Malik, V. S.; Popkin, B. M.; Bray, G. A.; Despres, J. -P.; Willett, W. C.; Hu, F. B. (2010). "Sugar-Sweetened Beverages and Risk of Metabolic Syndrome and Type 2 Diabetes: A meta-analysis". Diabetes Care 33 (11): 2477–2483. doi:10.2337/dc10-1079. PMC 2963518. PMID 20693348.
  17. ↑ De Koning, L; Malik, V. S.; Rimm, E. B.; Willett, W. C.; Hu, F. B. (2011). "Sugar-sweetened and artificially sweetened beverage consumption and risk of type 2 diabetes in men". American Journal of Clinical Nutrition 93 (6): 1321–7. doi:10.3945/ajcn.110.007922. PMC 3095502. PMID 21430119.
  18. ↑ De Koning, L; Malik, V. S.; Kellogg, M. D.; Rimm, E. B.; Willett, W. C.; Hu, F. B. (2012). "Sweetened beverage consumption, incident coronary heart disease, and biomarkers of risk in men". Circulation 125 (14): 1735–41, S1. doi:10.1161/CIRCULATIONAHA.111.067017. PMC 3368965. PMID 22412070.
  19. ↑ Malik, V. S.; Pan, A; Willett, W. C.; Hu, F. B. (2013). "Sugar-sweetened beverages and weight gain in children and adults: A systematic review and meta-analysis". American Journal of Clinical Nutrition 98 (4): 1084–102. doi:10.3945/ajcn.113.058362. PMC 3778861. PMID 23966427.
  20. ↑ Hu, F. B. (2013). "Resolved: There is sufficient scientific evidence that decreasing sugar-sweetened beverage consumption will reduce the prevalence of obesity and obesity-related diseases". Obesity Reviews 14 (8): 606–19. doi:10.1111/obr.12040. PMID 23763695.
  21. ↑ Chen, Mu; Sun, Qi; Giovannucci, Edward; Mozaffarian, Dariush; Manson, JoAnn E; Willett, Walter C; Hu, Frank B (2014). "Dairy consumption and risk of type 2 diabetes: 3 cohorts of US adults and an updated meta-analysis". BMC Medicine 12 (1): 215. doi:10.1186/s12916-014-0215-1.
  22. ↑ Rousewell, Dean (25 November 2014). "A yoghurt a day keeps diabetes away, say scientists". Daily Mirror. Retrieved 28 November 2014.
  23. ↑ Wang, Dong D.; Leung, Cindy W.; Li, Yanping; Ding, Eric L.; Chiuve, Stephanie E.; Hu, Frank B.; Willett, Walter C. (1 October 2014). "Trends in Dietary Quality Among Adults in the United States, 1999 Through 2010". JAMA Internal Medicine 174 (10): 1587. doi:10.1001/jamainternmed.2014.3422.
  24. ↑ Hamblin, James (2 September 2014). "The Food Gap Is Widening". The Atlantic. Retrieved 6 February 2015.
  25. ↑ "Promoting Cardiovascular Health in the Developing World: A Critical Challenge to Achieve Global Health.".
  26. ↑ "Managing Overweight and Obesity in Adults: Systematic Evidence Review from the Obesity Expert Panel.".
  27. ↑ "HHS AND USDA announce the appointment of the 2015 Dietary Guidelines Advisory Committee.".
  28. ↑ "Frank Hu receives award for diabetes epidemiology research.".
  29. ↑ "Kelly M. West Award.".

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