Wei Xia
Professor
School of Public Health
Huazhong University of Science and Technology
China
Biography
Dr. Wei Xia is associate Professor of Environmental Health, Tongji Medical College, Huazhong University of Science & Technology (HUST), and Principal Investigator (PI) of a program supported by The National Natural Science Foundation of China. She graduated with a major in Preventive Medicine in 2006 and received her PhD in 2011 from Tongji Medical College, HUST. Dr. Xia’s research is mainly focused on the effects of environmental exposures on children development and health (especially metabolic diseases and neurodevelopment disorders) and the corresponding mechanisms. Currently she is a main investigator of the Healthy Baby Cohort study in Hubei Province. She has published over 20 original papers in SCI-collected journals including Environ Health Perspect, Environ Int, Biosensor Bioelectron.
Research Interest
effects of environmental exposures on children development and health (especially metabolic diseases and neurodevelopment disorders) and the corresponding mechanisms.
Publications
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Wei Xia#, Xiaofu Du#, Bin Zhang, Yuanyuan Li, Bryan A. Bassig, Aifen Zhou, Youjie Wang, Chao Xiong, Zhengkuan Li, Yuanxiang Yao, Jie Hu, Yanqiu Zhou, Qi Wang, Juan Liu, Weiyan Xue, Yue Ma, Xinyun Pan, Yang Peng, Tongzhang Zheng, and Shunqing Xu*. A Case–Control Study of Prenatal Thallium Exposure and Low Birth Weight in China. Environ Health Perspect, 2016, 124(1):164-9.
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Wei Xia#, Jie Hu#, Bin Zhang, Yuanyuan Li, John Pierce Wise Sr., Bryan A. Bassig, Aifen Zhou, David A. Savitz, Chao Xiong, Jinzhu Zhao, Xiaofu Du, Yanqiu Zhou, Xinyun Pan, Jie Yang, Chuansha Wu, Minmin Jiang, Yang Peng, Zhengmin Qian, Tongzhang Zheng, Shunqing Xu*. A case-control study of maternal exposure to chromium and infant low birth weight in China. Chemosphere, 2016, 144:1484-1489.
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Wei Xia#*, Yanqiu Zhou#, Tongzhang Zheng, Bin Zhang, Bryan A. Bassig, Yuanyuan Li, John Pierce WiseSr., Aifen Zhou, Yanjian Wan, Youjie Wang, Chao Xiong, Jinzhu Zhao, Zhengkuan Li, Yuanxiang Yao, Jie Hu, Xinyun Pan and Shunqing Xu*. Maternal urinary manganese and risk of low birth weight: a case–control study. BMC Public Health, 2016, DOI: 10.1186/s12889-016-2816-4
