Dr Yang Peng
Honorary Research Fellow
School of Public Health
Researcher biography
Yang is currently a Honorary Research Fellow in UQ School of Public Health and a Research Fellow in Cancer Epidemiology Division of Cancer Council Victoria. He has extensive experience in analysing large-scale national and international health surveys and hospitalisaiton datasets with complex statistical models. He is interested in answering a couple of research questions in the population level (e.g. the associations between modifiable behaviors and chronic diseases; the inequalities in chronic disease risk).
Journal Articles
Peng, Yang, Bassett, Julie K., Hodge, Allison M., Melaku, Yohannes Adama, Afshar, Nina, Hopper, John L., Maclnnis, Robert J., Lynch, Brigid M., Smith-Warner, Stephanie A., Giles, Graham G., Milne, Roger L. and Jayasekara, Harindra (2023). Adherence to 2018 WCRF/AICR cancer prevention recommendations and risk of cancer: the Melbourne Collaborative Cohort Study. Cancer Epidemiology, Biomarkers and Prevention, 33 (1), 43-54. doi: 10.1158/1055-9965.epi-23-0945
Hariharaputhiran, Saranya, Peng, Yang, Ngo, Linh, Ali, Anna, Hossain, Sadia, Visvanathan, Renuka, Adams, Robert, Chan, Wandy and Ranasinghe, Isuru (2022). Long-term survival and life expectancy following an acute heart failure hospitalisation in Australia and New Zealand. European Journal of Heart Failure, 24 (9), 1519-1528. doi: 10.1002/ejhf.2595
Peng, Yang, Ngo, Linh, Hay, Karen, Alghamry, Alaa, Colebourne, Kathryn and Ranasinghe, Isuru (2022). Long-term survival, stroke recurrence, and life expectancy after an acute stroke in Australia and New Zealand from 2008–2017: a population-wide cohort study. Stroke, 53 (8), 2538-2548. doi: 10.1161/strokeaha.121.038155
Peng, Yang and Baade, Peter (2021). Survival disparities among recently diagnosed Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander cancer patients in Australia remain. Cancer Causes & Control, 32 (11), 1315-1320. doi: 10.1007/s10552-021-01474-6
Liu, Ning, Peng, Yang, Zhong, Xinguang, Ma, Zheng, He, Suiping, Li, Ying, Zhang, Wencui, Gong, Zijun and Yao, Zhenjiang (2021). Effects of exposure to low-dose ionizing radiation on changing platelets: a prospective cohort study. Environmental Health and Preventive Medicine, 26 (1) 14, 1-10. doi: 10.1186/s12199-021-00939-z
Allanson, Emma R., Peng, Yang, Choi, Angela, Hayes, Sandra, Janda, Monika and Obermair, Andreas (2020). A systematic review and meta-analysis of sarcopenia as a prognostic factor in gynecological malignancy. International Journal of Gynecological Cancer, 30 (11), 1791-1797. doi: 10.1136/ijgc-2020-001678
Peng, Yang, Janda, Monika and Obermair, Andreas (2020). Can a symptom checklist improve the triage of patients following successful endometrial cancer treatment?. Gynecologic Oncology Reports, 33 100604, 100604. doi: 10.1016/j.gore.2020.100604
Peng, Yang and Wang, Zhiqiang (2020). Do the 2017 blood pressure cut-offs improve 10-year cardiovascular disease mortality risk prediction?. Nutrition, Metabolism and Cardiovascular Diseases, 30 (11), 2008-2016. doi: 10.1016/j.numecd.2020.06.017
Peng, Yang and Wang, Zhiqiang (2020). Prevalence of three lifestyle factors among Australian adults from 2004 to 2018: an age–period–cohort analysis. European Journal of Public Health, 30 (4), 827-832. doi: 10.1093/eurpub/ckz243
Peng, Yang (2020). The impact of 2017 ACC/AHA guideline on the prevalence of hypertension in Australia. Journal of Human Hypertension, 35 (1), 104-106. doi: 10.1038/s41371-020-0390-9
Peng, Yang and Wang, Zhiqiang (2018). Could cardiovascular health metrics account for age and sex disparities in self-reported ischemic heart disease prevalence?. Journal of Clinical Medicine, 7 (10) 369, 369. doi: 10.3390/jcm7100369
Peng, Y., Cao, S., Yao, Z. and Wang, Z. (2018). Prevalence of the cardiovascular health status in adults: A systematic review and meta-analysis. Nutrition, Metabolism and Cardiovascular Diseases, 28 (12), 1197-1207. doi: 10.1016/j.numecd.2018.08.002
Dong, Bin, Peng, Yang, Wang, Zhiqiang, Adegbija, Odewumi, Hu, Jie, Ma, Jun and Ma, Ying-Hua (2018). Joint association between body fat and its distribution with all-cause mortality: a data linkage cohort study based on NHANES (1988-2011). PLoS One, 13 (2) e0193368, e0193368. doi: 10.1371/journal.pone.0193368
Peng, Yang and Wang, Zhiqiang (2018). Cardiovascular health status among Australian adults. Clinical Epidemiology, 10, 167-178. doi: 10.2147/CLEP.S155783
Lin, Jialing, Peng, Yang, Bai, Chan, Zhang, Ting, Zheng, Haoqu, Wang, Xiaojie, Ye, Jiaping, Ye, Xiaohua, Li, Ying and Yao, Zhenjiang (2017). Prevalence, Influencing Factors, Antibiotic Resistance, Toxin and Molecular Characteristics of Staphylococcus aureus and MRSA Nasal Carriage among Diabetic Population in the United States, 2001-2004. Polish Journal of Microbiology, 66 (4), 439-448. doi: 10.5604/01.3001.0010.7038
Wang, Zhiqiang, Peng, Yang and Liu, Meina (2017). Age variation in the association between obesity and mortality in adults. Obesity, 25 (12), 2137-2141. doi: 10.1002/oby.21976
Peng, Yang, Wang, Zhiqiang, Dong, Bin, Cao, Sifan, Hu, Jie and Odewumi Adegbija (2017). Life’s Simple 7 and ischemic heart disease in the general Australian population. PLoS One, 12 (10) e0187020, e0187020. doi: 10.1371/journal.pone.0187020
Peng, Yang and Wang, Zhiqiang (2017). Association of Life's Simple 7 and presence of cardiovascular disease in general Australians. Open Heart, 4 (2) e000622, e000622. doi: 10.1136/openhrt-2017-000622
Peng, Yang and Wang, Zhiqiang (2017). Red blood cell folate concentrations and coronary heart disease prevalence: a cross-sectional study based on 1999-2012 National Health and Nutrition Examination Survey. Nutrition, Metabolism and Cardiovascular Diseases, 27 (11), 1015-1020. doi: 10.1016/j.numecd.2017.07.007
Wang, Zhiqiang, Peng, Yang and Bin Dong (2017). Is body mass index associated with lowest mortality increasing over time?. International Journal of Obesity, 41 (8), 1171-1175. doi: 10.1038/ijo.2017.107
Ou, Qianting, Peng, Yang, Lin, Dongxin, Bai, Chan, Zhang, Ting, Lin, Jialing, Ye, Xiaohua and Yao, Zhenjiang (2017). A meta-analysis of the global prevalence rates of Staphylococcus aureus and methicillin-resistant S. aureus contamination of different raw meat products. Journal of Food Protection, 80 (5), 763-774. doi: 10.4315/0362-028X.JFP-16-355
Lin, Jialing, Xu, Ping, Peng, Yang, Lin, Dongxin, Ou, Qianting, Zhang, Ting, Bai, Chan, Ye, Xiaohua, Zhou, Junli and Yao, Zhenjiang (2017). Prevalence and characteristics of Staphylococcus aureus and methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus nasal colonization among a community-based diabetes population in Foshan, China. Journal of Diabetes Investigation, 8 (3), 383-391. doi: 10.1111/jdi.12591
Lin, Dongxin, Ou, Qianting, Lin,Jialing, Peng, Yang and Yao, Zhenjiang (2017). A meta-analysis of the rates of Staphylococcus aureus and methicillin-resistant S aureus contamination on the surfaces of environmental objects that health care workers frequently touch. American Journal of Infection Control, 45 (4), 421-429. doi: 10.1016/j.ajic.2016.11.004
Lin, J. L., Peng, Y., Ou, Q. T., Lin, D. X., Li, Y., Ye, X. H., Zhou, J. L. and Yao, Z. J. (2017). A molecular epidemiological study of methicillin-resistant Staphylococci environmental contamination in railway stations and coach stations in Guangzhou of China. Letters in Applied Microbiology, 64 (2), 131-137. doi: 10.1111/lam.12700
Dong, Bin, Arnold, Luke W., Peng, Yang and Wang, Zhiqiang (2016). Ethnic differences in cardiometabolic risk among adolescents across the waist-height ratio spectrum: National Health and Nutrition Examination Surveys (NHANES). International Journal of Cardiology, 222, 622-628. doi: 10.1016/j.ijcard.2016.07.169
Lin, Jialing, Peng, Yang, Wu, Chuanan, Zhang, Ting, Xu, Ping, Ou, Qianting, Lin, Dongxin, Bai, Chan and Yao, Zhenjiang (2016). Epidemiologic and molecular characteristics of methicillin-resistant Staphylococci environmental contamination in outpatient settings of a Chinese megalopolis. Canadian Journal of Infection Control, 31 (3), 175-177.
Peng, Yang, Dong, Bin and Wang, Zhiqiang (2016). Serum folate concentrations and all-cause, cardiovascular disease and cancer mortality: a cohort study based on 1999–2010 National Health and Nutrition Examination Survey (NHANES). International Journal of Cardiology, 219, 136-142. doi: 10.1016/j.ijcard.2016.06.024
Peng, Yang, Dong, Bin and Wang, Zhiqiang (2016). Overall and gender-specific associations between C-reactive protein and stroke occurrence: a cross-sectional study in US. Journal of Stroke, 18 (3), 355-357. doi: 10.5853/jos.2016.00451
Lin, Jialing, Peng, Yang, Xu, Ping, Zhang, Ting, Bai, Chan, Lin, Dongxin, Ou, Qianting and Yao, Zhenjiang (2016). Methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus nasal colonization in Chinese children: a prevalence meta-analysis and review of influencing factors. PLoS One, 11 (7) e0159728, e0159728.1-e0159728.13. doi: 10.1371/journal.pone.0159728
Ye, Xiaohua, Wang, Xiaolin, Fan, Yanping, Peng, Yang, Li, Ling, Li, Shunming, Huang, Jingya, Yao, Zhenjiang and Chen, Sidong (2016). Genotypic and phenotypic markers of livestock-associated methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus CC9 in humans. Applied and Environmental Microbiology, 82 (13), 3892-3899. doi: 10.1128/AEM.00091-16
Yao, Z., Peng, Y., Bi, J., Xie, C., Chen, X., Li, Y., Ye, X. and Zhou, J. (2016). Application of the multifactor dimensionality reduction method in evaluation of the roles of multiple genes/enzymes in multidrug-resistant acquisition in Pseudomonas aeruginosa strains. Epidemiology and Infection, 144 (4), 856-863. doi: 10.1017/S0950268815001788
Peng, Yang, Ou, Qianting, Lin, Dongxin, Xu, Ping, Li, Ying, Ye, Xiaohua, Zhou, Junli and Yao, Zhenjiang (2015). Metro system in Guangzhou as a hazardous reservoir of methicillin-resistant Staphylococci: findings from a point-prevalence molecular epidemiologic study. Scientific Reports, 5 (16087) 16087, 1-5. doi: 10.1038/srep16087
Yao, Zhenjiang, Peng, Yang, Chen, Xiaofeng, Bi, Jiaqi, Li, Ling, Ye, Xiaohua and Shi, Jing (2015). Healthcare associated infections of methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus: a case-control-control study. PLoS One, 10 (10) e0140604, 1-9. doi: 10.1371/journal.pone.0140604
Peng, Yang, Shi, Jing, Bu, Tao, Li, Ying, Ye, Xiaohua, Chen, Xiaofeng and Yao, Zhenjiang (2015). Alarming and increasing prevalence of multidrug-resistant Pseudomonas aeruginosa among healthcare-associated infections in China: a meta-analysis of cross-sectional studies. Journal of Global Antimicrobial Resistance, 3 (3), 155-160. doi: 10.1016/j.jgar.2015.04.001
Peng, Yang, Bi, Jiaqi, Shi, Jing, Li, Ying, Ye, Xiaohua, Chen, Xiaofeng and Yao, Zhenjiang (2014). Multidrug-resistant Pseudomonas aeruginosa infections pose growing threat to health care-associated infection control in the hospitals of Southern China: a case-control surveillance study. American Journal of Infection Control, 42 (12), 1308-1311. doi: 10.1016/j.ajic.2014.08.006
Bu, Tao, Liu, Li, Sun, Yong, Zhao, Li, Peng, Yang, Zhou, Shudong, Li, Lixia, Chen, Sidong and Gao, Yanhui (2014). XRCC1 Arg399Gln polymorphism confers risk of breast cancer in American population: a meta-analysis of 10846 cases and 11723 controls. PLoS One, 9 (1) ARTN e86086, e86086. doi: 10.1371/journal.pone.0086086
Peng, Yang, Ye, Xiaohua, Li, Ying, Bu, Tao, Chen, Xiaofeng, Bi, Jiaqi, Zhou, Junli and Yao, Zhenjiang (2013). Teicoplanin as an effective alternative to vancomycin for treatment of MRSA infection in Chinese population: a meta-analysis of randomized controlled trials. PLoS One, 8 (11) e79782, 1-8. doi: 10.1371/journal.pone.0079782
Peng, Yang, Chen, Xiao-Feng, Bi, Jia-Qi and Yao, Zhen-Jiang (2013). Linezolid versus teicoplanin for MRSA pneumonia: A meta-analysis. Chinese Journal of Evidence-Based Medicine, 13 (11), 1340-1346. doi: 10.7507/1672-2531.20130230
Thesis
Peng, Yang (2019). Cardiovascular health status and its associations with cardiovascular disease and ischemic heart disease prevalence in Australian adults. PhD Thesis, Faculty of Medicine, The University of Queensland. doi: 10.14264/uql.2019.539