Zhongzheng (Jason) Niu
PhD
Research Topics
Maternal and child health; cardiometabolic health; life course; epigenetics; environmental epidemiology; mixture; susceptible window of exposure; DOHaD; vulnerable population; refugee health; telomere; biological aging; early life; endocrine-disrupting chemicals
Selected Publications
- Edwina Yeung, Richard J. Biedrzycki, Laura C Gómez Herrera, Prachand Issarapu, John Dou, Irene Fontes Marques, Sohail Rafik Mansuri, Christian Magnus Page, Justin Harbs, Dennis Khodasevich, Eric Poisel, Niu Z, Catherine Allard, Emma Casey, Fernanda Morales Berstein, Giulia Mancano, Hannah R. Elliott, Rebecca Richmond, Yiyan He, Justiina Ronkainen, Sylvain Sebert, Erin M. Bell, Gemma Sharp, Sunni L. Mumford, Enrique F Schisterman, Giriraj R. Chandak, Caroline HD Fall, Sirazul A. Sahariah, Matt J. Silver, Andrew M. Prentice, Luigi Bouchard, Magnus Domellof, Christina West, Nina Holland, Andres Cardenas, Brenda Eskenazi, Lea Zillich, Stephanie H Witt, Tabea Send, Carrie Breton, Kelly M. Bakulski, M. Daniele Fallin, Rebecca J. Schmidt, Dan J. Stein, Heather J. Zar, Vincent W V Jaddoe, John Wright, Regina Grazuleviciene, Kristine Bjerve Gutzkow, Jordi Sunyer, Anke Huels, Martine Vrijheid, Sophia Harlid, Stephanie London, Marie-France Hivert, Janine Felix, Mariona Bustamante, Weihua Guan. Maternal age is related to offspring DNA methylation: a meta-analysis of results from the PACE consortium. Aging Cell [accepted]
- Niu Z, Habre R, Yang T, Chen X, Vigil M, Barragan K, Lurmann F, Pavlovic NR, Grubbs BH, Toledo-Corral CM, Johnston J. Increased Risk of Gestational Hypertension by Periconceptional Exposure to Ambient Air Pollution and Effect Modification by Prenatal Depression. Hypertension. 2024 Mar 27.
- Zhu K, Shelton J, Li C, Mendola P, Barnabei VM, Myneni AA, Giovino GA, Stevens R, Taylor RN, Niu Z, Mu L. Association between maternal cigarette smoking cessation and risk of preterm birth in Western New York. Paediatric and Perinatal Epidemiology. 2024 April 1; https://doi.org/10.1111/ppe.13075
- Guo F, Chen X, Howland S, Danza P, Niu Z, Gauderman WJ, Habre R, McConnell R, Yan M, Whitfield L, Li Y. Perceived Stress From Childhood to Adulthood and Cardiometabolic End Points in Young Adulthood: An 18‐Year Prospective Study. Journal of the American Heart Association. 2024 Feb 6;13(3):e030741.
- Aris IM, Lin PD, Wu AJ, Dabelea DM, Lester BM, Wright RJ, Karagas MR, Kerver JM, Dunlop AL, Joseph CLM, Camargo Jr CA, Ganiban JM, Schmidt RJ, Strakovsky RS, McEvoy CT, Hipwell AE, O’Shea TM, McCormack LA, Maldonado LE, Niu Z, Ferrara A, Zhu Y, Chehab RF, Kinsey EW, Bush NR, Nguyen RHN, Carroll KN, Barrett ES, Lyall K, Sims-Taylor LM, Trasande L, Biagini JM, Breton CV, Patti MA, Coull B, Amutah-Onukagha N, Hacker MR, James-Todd T, Oken E. Birth Outcomes in Relation to Neighborhood Food Access and Individual Food Insecurity During Pregnancy in the Environmental influences on Child Health Outcomes (ECHO)-Wide Cohort Study. Am J Clin Nutr. 2024 Feb; In press.
- Guo F, Chen X, Howland S, Danza P, Niu Z, Gauderman WJ, Habre R, McConnell R, Yan M, Whitfield L, Li Y. Perceived Stress From Childhood to Adulthood and Cardiometabolic End Points in Young Adulthood: An 18‐Year Prospective Study. Journal of the American Heart Association. 2024 Jan 17:e030741.
- Niu Z, Mu L, Buka SL, Loucks EB, Wang M, Tian L, and Wen X. (2024) Involuntary tobacco smoke exposures from conception to 18 years increase midlife cardiometabolic disease risk: a 40-year longitudinal study. Journal of Developmental Origins of Health and Disease doi: 10.1017/S2040174423000375
- Farzan SF, Niu Z, Guo F, Shahriar M, Kibriya MG, Jasmine F, Sarwar G, Jackson BP, Ahsan H and Argos M. Exposure to metal mixtures and telomere length in Bangladeshi children. American Journal of Epidemiology, in press.
- Choudhary P, Monasso GS, Karhunen V, Ronkainen J, Mancano G, Howe CG, Niu Z, Zeng X, Guan W, Dou J, Feinberg JI. Maternal educational attainment in pregnancy and epigenome-wide DNA methylation changes in the offspring from birth until adolescence. Molecular Psychiatry. 2023 Dec 5:1-1.
- Lewis JV, Knapp EA, Bakre S, Dickerson AS, Bastain TM, Bendixsen C, Bennett DH, Camargo CA, Cassidy-Bushrow AE, Colicino E, D’Sa V…Niu Z., Amii M. Kress. Associations between area-level arsenic exposure and adverse birth outcomes: An Echo-wide cohort analysis. Environmental research. 2023 Nov 1;236:116772.