Xing Xing

About Me

I’m a ScM Student in Biostatistics at Johns Hopkins University. My current research focus on developing statistical models for meta-analysis. Under the guidance of Dr. Jessie Tong and Dr. Lifeng Lin, I am concentrating on IPD meta-regression methods and addressing publication bias. Additionally, my work also involves the epidemiologic analysis of musculoskeletal diseases, under the guidance of Dr. Guoqi Cai.

Outside of academia, I’m a dead hard fan of Juventus and Park Hyatt.

Research Interests

• Meta-analysis
• Publication Bias
• Evidence Synthesis
• Epidemiology

Publications

Conference

• [Nov. 2024.] The Causal Effect of Sex Hormone-related Drugs on the Risk of Osteoarthritis – A Mendelian Randomization Study has been presented on ACR 2024.

• [Apr. 2024.] Predictive validity of machine learning vs a consensus-based MRI definition of osteoarthritis combined with radiographic osteoarthritis for the progression of cartilage loss, knee symptoms and total knee replacement has been presented on OARSI 2024.

Collaboration

• [Sep. 2025] Retiring the term “weighted mean difference” in contemporary evidence synthesis has been published by the Cochrane Evidence Synthesis and Methods.

• [Aug. 2025] Evaluating the properties of the fragility index of meta-analyses has been published by the BMC Medical Research Methodology.

• [Aug. 2025] Prognostic value of the co-stimulatory molecule OX40 expression in Extranodal Natural Killer/T-cell Lymphoma has been published by the Annals of Medicine.

• [June. 2025] Global, Regional, and National Burden and Trends of Soft Tissue and Other Extraosseous Sarcomas From 1990 to 2021 has been published by the Cancer Control.

• [May. 2025] Hormone therapy and oral contraceptives in the risk of knee osteoarthritis: a prospective cohort study has been published by the Menopause.

• [Mar. 2025] Global trends and projections in the burden of malignant neoplasm of bone and articular cartilage has been published by the Discover Public Health.

• [Mar. 2025] The association between endogenous sex hormones and knee osteoarthritis in women: a population-based cohort study has been published by the Osteoarthritis and Cartilage.

• [Jan. 2025] The Role of Double-Zero-Event Studies in Evidence Synthesis: Evaluating Robustness Using the Fragility Index has been published by the Journal of Evaluation in Clinical Practice.

• [Dec. 2024] Causal association between bone mineral density and the risk of joint replacement in patients with osteoarthritis: a Mendelian randomization study has been published by the Clinical Rheumatology.

• [Dec. 2024] Intraoperative Parathyroid Hormone Monitoring Criteria in Primary Hyperparathyroidism: A Network Meta-Analysis of Diagnostic Test Accuracy has been published by the JAMA Otolaryngology–Head & Neck Surgery.

• [Nov. 2024] Association of prognostic nutritional index with the presence and all-cause mortality of rheumatoid arthritis: the National Health and Nutrition Examination Survey 2003–2018 has been published by the BMC Public Health.

• [Sep. 2024] Global, regional, and national burden of Burkitt lymphoma from 1990 to 2021 and predictions to 2030: a systematic analysis for the Global Burden of Disease Study 2021 has been published by the Blood Cancer Journal.

• [Aug. 2024] The relationship between MRI-detected hip abnormalities and hip pain in hip osteoarthritis: a systematic review has been published by the Rheumatology International.

• [Jul. 2024] Association of physical activity trajectories over 8 years and risk of knee replacement: data from the osteoarthritis initiative has been published by the BMC Musculoskeletal Disorders.

• [Jul. 2024] A novel prognostic index for extranodal natural killer/T-cell lymphoma in the era of pegaspargase/L-asparaginase has been published by the Future Oncology.

• [Jun. 2024] Clinicopathological analysis of immunohistochemical CD47 and signal-regulatory protein-α expression in Extranodal Natural killer/T-cell lymphoma has been published by the Annals of Hematology.

• [May. 2024] The global burden of lymphoma: estimates from the Global Burden of Disease 2019 study has been published by the Public Health.

• [May. 2024] Socioeconomic status, individual behaviors and risk for Lymphomas: a Mendelian randomization study has been published by the Journal of Cancer.

• [May. 2024] Association between air pollution and male sexual function: A nationwide observational study in China has been published by the Journal of Hazardous Materials.

• [Feb. 2024] Clinicopathologic features and survival outcomes of CD30 expression in extranodal natural killer/T-cell lymphoma has been published by the American Journal of Clinical Pathology.

• [Oct. 2023] Association of smoking with cartilage loss of knee osteoarthritis: data from two longitudinal cohorts has been published by BMC Musculoskeletal Disorders.

Services

Software

• altmeta (Contributor)
• NMADTA (Creator)

Journal Reviewers

• Research Synthesis Methods
• BMC Medicine
• BMC Public health
• eLife
• European Journal of Medical Research
• Biochemical Genetics
• Mammalian Genome
• Lipids in Health and Disease

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