Yiqing Song, MD, ScD
Associate Epidemiologist, Brigham and Women's Hospital
Instructor in Medicine, Harvard Medical School
Contact information:
Office address:
Division of Preventive Medicine
Brigham and Women's Hospital
900 Commonwealth Avenue East, 3rd Floor
Boston, Massachusetts 02215
Phone: 617-278-0913
FAX: 617-731-3843
E-mail: ysong3@rics.bwh.harvard.edu
Primary research interests:
My research focuses on the epidemiologic study of the etiology and prevention of type 2 diabetes and cardiovascular disease. My current research activities include: 1) nutritional factors for risk of type 2 diabetes and cardiovascular disease, with particular emphasis on trace elements and antioxidants (e.g. magnesium, vitamin E, and flavonoids); 2) biochemical and genetic biomarkers of endogenous sex hormones and risk of type 2 diabetes; 3) biochemical and genetic biomarkers of adipokines and risk of type 2 diabetes; 4) design, methodology, and conduct of conventional and Bayesian-based meta-analysis for synthesizing evidence from results of case-control and cohort studies, and randomized trials.
Selected publications:
Song Y, Manson JE, Tinker L, Howard B, Kuller L, Nathan L, Rifai N, Liu S. Insulin sensitivity and insulin secretion determined by the Homeostasis Model Assessment (HOMA) and risk of diabetes mellitus in a multi-ethnic cohort of women: The Women's Health Initiative Observational Study. Diabetes Care 2007; 30:1747-1752.
Song Y, Manson JE, Tinker L, Rifai N, Cook NR, Hu FB, Hotamisligil GS, Ridker PM, Rodriguez BL, Margolis KL, Oberman A, Liu S. Circulating levels of endothelial adhesion molecules and risk of diabetes mellitus in an ethnically diverse cohort of women. Diabetes 2007; 56:1998-1904.
Ding EL, Song Y, Malik VS, Liu S. Sex differences of endogenous sex hormones and risk of type 2 diabetes: a systematic review and meta-analysis. JAMA 2006; 295:1288-1299.
Liu S, Lee IM, Song Y, Van Denburgh M, Cook NR, Manson JE, Buring JE. Vitamin E and risk of type 2 diabetes in the Women's Health Study randomized controlled trial. Diabetes 2006; 55:2856-2862.
Song Y, He K. Jovanovic B. Comparisons of Bayesian and conventional meta-analysis methods to combine relative risk from observational cohort studies. J Probability Stat Sci 2006; 4:119-133.
Song Y, Ford ES, Manson JE, Liu S. Relations of magnesium intake with metabolic risk factors and risks of type 2 diabetes, hypertension, and cardiovascular disease: a critical appraisal. Curr Nutr Food Sci 2005; 1:231-243.
Song Y, Manson JE, Buring JE, Sesso HD, Liu S. Associations of dietary flavonoids with risk of type 2 diabetes, and markers of insulin resistance and systemic inflammation in women: a prospective study and cross-sectional analysis. J Am Coll Nutr 2005; 24:376-384.
Song Y, Manson JE, Cook NR, Albert CM, Buring JE, Liu S. Dietary magnesium intake and risk of cardiovascular disease among women. Am J Cardiol 2005; 96:1135-1141.
Song Y, Ridker PM, Manson JE, Cook NR, Buring JE, Liu S. Magnesium intake, C-reactive protein, and the prevalence of metabolic syndrome in middle-aged and older US women. Diabetes Care 2005; 28:1438-1444.
Song Y, Manson JE, Buring JE, Liu S. Dietary magnesium intake in relation to plasma insulin levels and risk of type 2 diabetes in women. Diabetes Care 2004; 27:59-65.
Song Y, Manson JE, Buring JE, Liu S. A prospective study of red meat consumption and type 2 diabetes in middle-aged and elderly women: The Women's Health Study. Diabetes Care 2004; 27:2108-2115.
Song Y, Niu T, Manson JE, Kwiatkowski DJ, Liu S. Are variants in the CAPN10 gene related to risk of type 2 diabetes? A quantitative assessment of population and family-based association studies. Am J Hum Genet 2004; 74:208-222.
Song Y, Stampfer MJ, Liu S. Meta-analysis: APOE genotypes and coronary heart disease. Ann Intern Med 2004; 141:137-147.
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