Huiqi Li

• Master of Science
• PhD student at National University of Singapore

Background: All-cause mortality consisting of several heterogeneous subgroups does not have a well-defined set of risk factors. Despite the well-described role of oral hygiene on mortality, the association between the condition of the existing dentition and mortality remains unclear. Therefore, we embarked on the current study to assess the associa...

Background The prospective association between sleep duration and the development of late-life depressive symptomology is unclear. Aims To investigate sleep duration from midlife to late life in relation to risk of depressive symptoms in late life. Method A total of 14 361 participants from the Singapore Chinese Health Study were included in the...

Background It is unclear if improving diet quality after midlife could reduce the risk of physical frailty at late life. We aimed to associate changes in diet quality after midlife with physical frailty at late life. Methods Diet quality in 12,580 participants from the Singapore Chinese Health Study was assessed with the Dietary Approaches to Stop...

Preclinical and limited epidemiological studies suggest that oxidative stress may be implicated in geriatric depression. Our study investigated the association between midlife dietary total antioxidant capacity (TAC) and depressive symptoms in late life among 13,712 participants in a population-based cohort of Chinese in Singapore. At baseline (199...

Objectives: Our study evaluated the prospective association between the consumption of caffeine-containing beverages at midlife and the risk of physical frailty at late life within a population-based cohort of Chinese adults living in Singapore over a follow-up period of 20 years. Design: Prospective cohort study. Setting and participants: We...

Objectives: The association between gout and risk of cognitive impairment or dementia is not well established. We examined the relationship between having gout at midlife and the risk of developing cognitive impairment later on. Methods: We used data of 16,948 participants from the population-based Singapore Chinese Health Study cohort. Particip...

Background Little is known about the joint associations of multiple lifestyle risk factors including smoking, low body mass index (BMI), physical inactivity, alcohol consumption and low diet quality with risk of active tuberculosis. Methods We analyzed data from the Singapore Chinese Health Study, a prospective cohort study of 63257 Chinese adults...

Introduction Unhealthy lifestyles caused a huge disease burden. Adopting healthy lifestyles is the most cost-effective strategy for preventing non-communicable diseases. The aim was to perform a systematic review and meta-analysis to quantify the relationship of combined lifestyle factors (eg, cigarette smoking, alcohol consumption, physical activi...

Cancer poses a huge disease burden, which could be reduced by adopting healthy lifestyles mainly composed of healthy diet, body weight, physical activity, limited alcohol consumption, and avoidance of smoking. However, no systematic review has summarised the relations of combined lifestyle factors with cancer morbidity and mortality. EMBASE and Pub...

Aims/hypothesis A healthy lifestyle has been widely recommended for the prevention and management of type 2 diabetes. However, no systematic review has summarised the relationship between combined lifestyle factors (including, but not limited to, smoking, alcohol drinking, physical activity, diet and being overweight or obese) and incident type 2 d...