Area of research
Biological Psychiatry · Molecular Biology
Research interest
Research topics from publications: Antibiotic exposure and potential risk of depression in the Chinese elderly: a biomonitoring-based population study; Antibiotics biomonitored in urine and obesogenic risk in a community-dwelling elderly population. Representative work: BACKGROUND: Experimental and epidemiological studies have linked antibiotics use to gut dysbiosis-mediated risk of chronic metabolic diseases. However, whether adiposity is linked to antibiotic exposure in elderly remains inadequately understood. OBJECTIVE: To investigate the association between internal exposure of antibiotics and adiposity in elderly by using a biomonitoring method. METHODS: We included 990 participants (≥60 years) from the baseline survey of the Cohort of Elderly Health and Environment Controllable Factors in Lu'an city, China, from June to September 2016. Forty-five antibiotics and two metabolites in urine were monitored through liquid chromatography-electrospray tandem