Associate Professor of Occupational and Environmental Health

Department of Occupational and Environmental Health

* yangliangle@sina.cn

Academic Areas

Occupational and Environmental Health / Environmental Epidemiology

Research Interests

Associations of occupational/environmental factors, lifestyle factors with early cardiovascular damage

Gene-environment interaction on major cardiometabolic diseases (CHD, diabetes, et al.)

Courses Taught

Occupational health and occupational medicine

Education

2012-2017  Doctor’s Degree, Department of Occupational and Environmental Medicine, Tongji Medical College, Huazhong University of Science and Technology, Wuhan, China;

2007-2012  Bachelor’s Degree, Health Management, Anhui Medical University, Hefei, China

Professional/working Experience

2017/6-2019/6

Post doctor, Department of Occupational and Environmental Medicine, Tongji Medical College, Huazhong University of Science and Technology, Wuhan, China;

2019/9-present

Lecturer, School of Public Health, Huazhong University of Science and Technology.

Past and ongoing projects, funding, programs

2019-2021  Role of plasma miRNA in arterial stiffness caused by ambient fine particulate matter and its components: a panel study. National Natural Science Foundation of China, (NSFC 81803191). (PI)

2018-2019  Role of mitochondrial DNA copy number in incident diabetes risk caused by polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbons exposure. The China Postdoctoral Science Foundation (2018M632876). (PI).

Select Publications

Journal Article

*Corresponding author

1.       Yang L, Ma L, Guo W, Fang Q, Lai X, Zhang X^*. Interaction of APOA4-APOA5-ZPR1-BUD13 gene cluster and sleep duration on 5-year lipid changes in middle-aged and older Chinese. Sleep, 2019 Aug 1;42(8)

2.      Yang L, Guo W, Zeng D, Ma L, Lai X, Fang Q, Guo H, Zhang X^*. Heart rate variability mediates the association of polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbons exposure on atherosclerotic cardiovascular disease risk in coke oven workers. Chemosphere, 2019, 228:166-173

3.      Yang L^#, Yan K^#, Zeng D, Lai X, Chen X, Fang Q, Guo H, Wu T, Zhang X^*. Association of polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbons metabolites and risk of diabetes in coke oven workers. Environ Pollut. 2017, 223:305-310 (#Co-first author)

4.      Yang L^#, Xu Z^#, He M, Yang H, Li X, Min X, Zhang C, Xu C, Angileri F, Légaré S, Yuan J, Miao X, Guo H, Yao P, Wu T, Zhang X^*. Sleep duration and midday napping with 5-year incidence and reversion of metabolic syndrome in middle-aged and older Chinese. Sleep. 2016, 39(11):1911-1918 (#Co-first author)

5.     Yang L, Yang H, He M, Pan A, Li X, Min X, Zhang C, Xu C, Yuan J, Wei S,Miao X, Hu FB, Wu T, Zhang X^*. Longer sleep duration and midday napping are associated with a higher risk of CHD incidence in middle-aged and older Chinese: The Dongfeng-Tongji Cohort Study. Sleep. 2016, 39(3):645-652

6.      Yang L, Zhou Y, Sun H, Lai H, Liu C, Yan K, Yuan J, Wu T, Chen W, Zhang X*. Dose-response relationship between polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbon metabolites and risk of diabetes in the general Chinese population. Environ Pollut. 2014, 195 C:24-30