Dr Hui Lai-ling, Connie Assistant Professor

Location Y860
Phone +852 3400 8785
mail connie.hui@polyu.edu.hk

Open Platform for University Scholars
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Education and Academic Qualifications Doctor of Philosophy, The University of Hong Kong
Master of Philosophy, The Chinese University of Hong Kong
Bachelor of Science, The Chinese University of Hong Kong




Research Overview nutritional epidemiology of chronic diseases, assessment of biological age, biobanking and cohort studies, early origin of health and diseases, child growth monitoring, determinants and consequences of breastfeeding, and health economic evaluations.




Research Interests
Nutritional epidemiology
Ageing
Healthspan
Type II diabetes
Cardiovascular disease
MEtabolic syndrome
Breastfeeding
Micronutrients
Dioxins
Human growth
Growth charts
Health economics



Achievements

Representative Publications
Hui LL, Kwok MK, Nelson EAS, Lee SL, Leung GM, Schooling CM. Breastfeeding in Infancy and Lipid Profile in Adolescence. Pediatrics. 2019 May;143(5).
Hui LL, Li AM, Nelson EAS, Leung GM, Lee SL, Schooling CM. In utero exposure to gestational diabetes and adiposity from infancy to adolescence: Does breastfeeding make a difference? International Journal of Obesity 2018. Int J Obes (Lond). 2018 Jul;42(7):1317-1325.
Hui LL, Nelson EAS, Wong MY, Chung TM, Lee KK, Leung GM, Schooling CM. The association of intergenerational mismatch with adiposity and blood pressure in childhood and adolescence. Journal of Adolescent Health. 2018. 62:100-106
Hui LL, Kwok MK, Nelson EAS, Lee SL, Leung GM, Schooling CM. The association of breastfeeding with insulin resistance at 17 years: Prospective observations from Hong Kong’s ‘‘Children of 1997’’ birth cohort. Maternal and Child Nutrition. 2018. 14 (1)
Hui LL, Lam HS, Leung GM, Schooling CM. Duration of puberty in Chinese preterm girls. American Journal of Human Biology. 2017. 29 (4)
Hui LL, Lam HS, Lau EY, Nelson EA, Wong TW, Fielding R. Prenatal dioxin exposure and neurocognitive development in Hong Kong 11-year-old children. Environmental Research 2016. 150:205-12.
Hui LL, Leung GM, Schooling CM. Social patterning in Adiposity in adolescence: Prospective observations from the Chinese birth cohort “Children of 1997”. PLoS One. 2016. 11(1):e0146198.
Hui LL, Chan MH, Lam HS, Chan PH, Kwok KM, Chan IH, Li AM, Fok TF. Impact of fetal and childhood mercury exposure on immune status in children. Environmental Research. 2016. 144:66-72.
Schooling CM, Hui LL, Ho LM, Lam TH, Leung GM. Cohort profile: “Children of 1997”: a Hong Kong Chinese birth cohort. International Journal of Epidemiology. 2012. 41: 611-20.
Hui LL, Schooling CM, Cowling BJ, Leung SS, Lam TH, Leung GM. Are universal standards for optimal infant growth appropriate? Evidence from a Hong Kong Chinese birth cohort. Arch Dis Child. 2007. 162: 515-8.




Research Keywords
Nutritional epidemiology
Ageing
Healthspan
Type II diabetes
Cardiovascular disease
Metabolic syndrome
Breastfeeding
MicronutrientsDioxins
Human growth
Growth charts
Health economics