Yu Chen

Yu Chen, MPH, PhD

Associate Professor, Department of Population Health

Associate Professor, Department of Environmental Medicine

Keywords
Epidemiology, Cardiovascular disease, Cancer, Gastric cancer, Arsenic exposure, Environmental epidemiology, Microbiome
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Summary
I am a chronic disease epidemiologist with experience in epidemiologic projects involving multidisciplinary teamwork. My research focuses on how host and environmental factors are related to chronic diseases, including cardiovascular disease and cancer.  I have worked with colleagues from Columbia University and the University of Chicago for the past 17 years to study health effects of arsenic exposure in the Health Effects of Arsenic Longitudinal Study (HEALS) in Bangladesh. I focus on the risk of preclinical and clinical endpoints of cardiovascular disease, as well as the interactions between arsenic exposure with lifestyle, microbiome, and genetic factors in cardiovascular disease-related endpoints. More recently, I am leading a project with colleagues at the Vanderbilt University to investigate the role of gastric and oral microbiome in gastric pre-malignant and malignant lesions.  I also conduct research projects utilizing resources from the New York University Women’s Health Study (NYUWHS) and the Asia Cohort Consortium (ACC).       I am a recipient of the Outstanding New Environmental Scientist Award (ONES) from the National Institute of Environmental Health Sciences (NIEHS). I direct the course on epidemiology methods for graduate students at NYU. I received PhD with distinction in Epidemiology from Columbia University in 2005.  I am an author of 153 journal articles as of May, 2017.
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Phone

212-263-4839

Academic office

650 First Ave

Room 510

New York, NY 10016

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Positions

Associate Professor, Department of Population Health

Associate Professor, Department of Environmental Medicine

Graduate Education

PhD from Columbia University

MPH from Columbia University

Temporal reliability of serum soluble and endogenous secretory receptors for advanced glycation end-products (sRAGE and esRAGE) in healthy women

Wu, Fen; Afanasyeva, Yelena; Zeleniuch-Jacquotte, Anne; Zhang, Jinghua; Schmidt, Ann Marie; Chen, Yu

Cancer causes & control. ccc. 2018 Oct 13; 29(10):901-905

Serological response to Helicobacter pylori proteins associate with risk of colorectal cancer among diverse populations in the United States

Butt, Julia; Varga, Matthew G; Blot, William J; Teras, Lauren; Visvanathan, Kala; Le Marchand, Loïc; Haiman, Christopher; Chen, Yu; Bao, Ying; Sesso, Howard D; Wassertheil-Smoller, Sylvia; Ho, Gloria Y F; Tinker, Lesley E; Peek, Richard M; Potter, John D; Cover, Timothy L; Hendrix, Laura H; Huang, Li-Ching; Hyslop, Terry; Um, Caroline; Grodstein, Francine; Song, Mingyang; Zeleniuch-Jacquotte, Anne; Berndt, Sonja; Hildesheim, Allan; Waterboer, Tim; Pawlita, Michael; Epplein, Meira

Gastroenterology. 2018 Oct 05;

Antibody Responses to <i>Streptococcus Gallolyticus</i> Subspecies <i>Gallolyticus</i> Proteins in a Large Prospective Colorectal Cancer Cohort Consortium

Butt, Julia; Blot, William J; Teras, Lauren R; Visvanathan, Kala; Le Marchand, Loïc; Haiman, Christopher A; Chen, Yu; Bao, Ying; Sesso, Howard D; Wassertheil-Smoller, Sylvia; Ho, Gloria Y; Tinker, Lesley F; Peek, Richard M; Potter, John D; Cover, Timothy L; Hendrix, Laura H; Huang, Li-Ching; Waterboer, Tim; Pawlita, Michael; Epplein, Meira

Cancer epidemiology biomarkers & prevention. 2018 Oct 04; 27(10):1186-1194

Comparison of oral collection methods for studies of microbiota

Vogtmann, Emily; Chen, Jun; Kibriya, Muhammad G; Amir, Amnon; Shi, Jianxin; Chen, Yu; Islam, Tariqul; Eunes, Mahbubul; Ahmed, Alauddin; Naher, Jabun; Rahman, Anisur; Barmon, Bhaswati; Knight, Rob; Chia, Nicholas; Ahsan, Habibul; Abnet, Christian C; Sinha, Rashmi

Cancer epidemiology biomarkers & prevention. 2018 Sep 27;

Association of Body Mass Index and Age With Subsequent Breast Cancer Risk in Premenopausal Women

Schoemaker, Minouk J; Nichols, Hazel B; Wright, Lauren B; Brook, Mark N; Jones, Michael E; O'Brien, Katie M; Adami, Hans-Olov; Baglietto, Laura; Bernstein, Leslie; Bertrand, Kimberly A; Boutron-Ruault, Marie-Christine; Braaten, Tonje; Chen, Yu; Connor, Avonne E; Dorronsoro, Miren; Dossus, Laure; Eliassen, A Heather; Giles, Graham G; Hankinson, Susan E; Kaaks, Rudolf; Key, Timothy J; Kirsh, Victoria A; Kitahara, Cari M; Koh, Woon-Puay; Larsson, Susanna C; Linet, Martha S; Ma, Huiyan; Masala, Giovanna; Merritt, Melissa A; Milne, Roger L; Overvad, Kim; Ozasa, Kotaro; Palmer, Julie R; Peeters, Petra H; Riboli, Elio; Rohan, Thomas E; Sadakane, Atsuko; Sund, Malin; Tamimi, Rulla M; Trichopoulou, Antonia; Ursin, Giske; Vatten, Lars; Visvanathan, Kala; Weiderpass, Elisabete; Willett, Walter C; Wolk, Alicja; Yuan, Jian-Min; Zeleniuch-Jacquotte, Anne; Sandler, Dale P; Swerdlow, Anthony J

JAMA oncology. 2018 Jun 21; e181771-e181771

A New Gastric Cancer Among Us

Blaser, Martin J; Chen, Yu

Journal of the National Cancer Institute. 2018 Jun 01; 110(6):549-550

A dose-response meta-analysis of chronic arsenic exposure and incident cardiovascular disease

Moon, Katherine A; Oberoi, Shilpi; Barchowsky, Aaron; Chen, Yu; Guallar, Eliseo; Nachman, Keeve E; Rahman, Mahfuzar; Sohel, Nazmul; D'Ippoliti, Daniela; Wade, Timothy J; James, Katherine A; Farzan, Shohreh F; Karagas, Margaret R; Ahsan, Habibul; Navas-Acien, Ana

International journal of epidemiology. 2018 Apr 25;

Arsenic Exposure from Drinking Water and Urinary Metabolomics: Associations and Long-Term Reproducibility in Bangladesh Adults

Wu, Fen; Chi, Liang; Ru, Hongyu; Parvez, Faruque; Slavkovich, Vesna; Eunus, Mahbub; Ahmed, Alauddin; Islam, Tariqul; Rakibuz-Zaman, Muhammad; Hasan, Rabiul; Sarwar, Golam; Graziano, Joseph H; Ahsan, Habibul; Lu, Kun; Chen, Yu

Environmental health perspectives. 2018 Jan 12; 126(1):017005-017005

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