Ge Cao

Early-life famine exposure and advanced cardiovascular-kidney-metabolic syndrome in Chinese adults: an apparent critical window explained by a birth-cohort gradient

Abstract Background Famine studies repeatedly report window-specific effects on adult disease risk, but because exposure windows are defined by date of birth, window-specific estimates are structurally confounded by birth cohort and by chronological age. We examined whether expos...

Cross-system patterns of physical, psychological and cognitive multimorbidity and 9-year all-cause mortality among middle-aged and older Chinese adults: a prospective cohort study from the China Health and Retirement Longitudinal Study

Cross-system multimorbidity—the co-occurrence of physical, psychological and cognitive disorders—is increasingly recognised as a defining feature of population ageing, yet its relationship with long-term mortality has rarely been examined at the level of specific combinations. Mo...