Tong Xia

Biography

Awards and Honors

• American Heart Association Maxwell Hanrahan Early Career Fellowship, 2026
• American Society for Nutrition Top Reviewer, 2026
• Society for Epidemiologic Research (SER) Annual Meeting Best Poster Award, 2025
• NIH T32 postdoctoral training award, 2025
• Department of Epidemiology Award, 2023
• University Fellowship, 2022
• CDC Pilot Project Research Training Grant , 2022
• HEALRISE Scholarship, 2021
• University Fellowship, 2019
• National Student Innovation Training Project (Project Leader), 2016
• National Scholarship, 2013
• First Scholarship to Excellent Students, 2013

Publications

• Optimal Dietary Patterns for Lower Weight Gain and Risk of Obesity Surrounding Menopause.

  Xia T, Haslam DE, Eliassen AH, Manson JE, Sun Q, Willett WC, Bhupathiraju SN, Zhang C, Hu FB. JAMA Netw Open 2026 May 01

  PMID: 42160056

• Optimal measures of carbohydrate quality to lower the risk of type 2 diabetes: findings from 3 prospective cohort studies.

  AlEssa HB, Xia T, Mousavi SM, Sawicki C, Willett WC, Bhupathiraju SN, Hu FB. Am J Clin Nutr 2026 Apr 30

  PMID: 42069223

• Racial and ethnic disparities in type 2 diabetes: does visceral fat play a role? Evidence from the MESA study.

  Xia T, Nianogo RA, Yu Q, Horwich T, Srikanthan P, Inoue K, Allison M, Zhang ZF, Szklo M, Watson KE, Chen L. Int J Obes (Lond) 2026 Apr 08

  PMID: 41951781

• Long-term prognosis of cardiometabolic diseases among U.S. workers: The contribution of shift work to mortality.

  Li X, Xia T, Landsbergis P, Wong I, Li J. Am J Prev Cardiol 2026

  PMID: 41509671

• Multi-fluid, multi-omics signatures of insulin resistance and incident type 2 diabetes among Puerto Rican adults.

  Xia T, Wang Z, Lakamraju T, Haslam DE, Thangarajan S, Wong DTW, Liang L, Joshipura K, Stampfer MJ, Hu FB, Lee KH, Bhupathiraju SN. Front Endocrinol (Lausanne) 2026

  PMID: 41427039