Diet, lifestyle and genetic susceptibility
Every day, each Dane consumes an average of 3 kilograms of food and fluids, which amounts to a ton each year. Food consumption habits have both health and environmental consequences. In the research group, we study associations between diet, lifestyle and health. The main outcomes we focus on are obesity, cardiovascular disease and cancer, both in one generation and across generations in families. Increasingly, we also study the interplay between food consumption, environmental impact, and health.
Research areas
- Applying novel methods to assess associations between diet and health
- Modelled substitution of foods
- Socioeconomic determinants of food and drink habits
- Associations between diet, lifestyle and obesity exposures in one generation, and health outcomes in the next
- Environmentally sustainable foods or dietary habits and health
- The interplay between genetic variation, diet, and health
Recent publications
Publications
Peruchet-Noray, L., Dimou, N., Cordova, R., Fontvieille, E., Jansana, A., Gan, Q., Breeur, M., Baurecht, H., Bohmann, P., Konzok, J., Stein, M. J., Dahm, C. C., Zilhão, N. R., Mellemkjær, L., Tjønneland, A., Kaaks, R., Katzke, V., Inan-Eroglu, E., Schulze, M. B. ... Carreras-Torres, R. (2025). Nature or nurture: genetic and environmental predictors of adiposity gain in adults. EBioMedicine, 111, Article 105510. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.ebiom.2024.105510
Grenville, Z. S., Noor, U., Rinaldi, S., Gunter, M. J., Ferrari, P., Agnoli, C., Amiano, P., Catalano, A., Chirlaque, M. D., Christakoudi, S., Guevara, M., Johansson, M., Kaaks, R., Katzke, V., Masala, G., Olsen, A., Papier, K., Sánchez, M.-J., Schulze, M. B. ... Travis, R. C. (2025). Perturbations in the blood metabolome up to a decade before prostate cancer diagnosis in 4387 matched case-control sets from the European Prospective Investigation into Cancer and Nutrition. International Journal of Cancer, 156(5), 943-952. https://doi.org/10.1002/ijc.35208
Vestergaard, S. B., Valentin, J. B., Dahm, C. C., Gottrup, H., Johnsen, S. P., Andersen, G. & Mortensen, J. K. (2025). Socioeconomic Disparities in Rate of Poststroke Dementia: A Nationwide Cohort Study. Stroke, 56(1). https://doi.org/10.1161/STROKEAHA.124.048380
Antoniussen, C. S., Proust-Lima, C., Ibsen, D. B., Olsen, A., Overvad, K., Tjønneland, A., Ferrari, P. & Dahm, C. C. (2024). Alcohol consumption trajectories and risk of breast cancer among postmenopausal women: a Danish cohort study. European Journal of Epidemiology, 39(12). https://doi.org/10.1007/s10654-024-01179-5
Harewood, R., Rothwell, J. A., Bešević, J., Viallon, V., Achaintre, D., Gicquiau, A., Rinaldi, S., Wedekind, R., Prehn, C., Adamski, J., Schmidt, J. A., Jacobs, I., Tjønneland, A., Olsen, A., Severi, G., Kaaks, R., Katzke, V., Schulze, M. B., Prada, M. ... Gunter, M. J. (2024). Association between pre-diagnostic circulating lipid metabolites and colorectal cancer risk: a nested case-control study in the European Prospective Investigation into Cancer and Nutrition (EPIC). EBioMedicine, 101, Article 105024. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.ebiom.2024.105024
González-Gil, E. M., Peruchet-Noray, L., Sedlmeier, A. M., Christakoudi, S., Biessy, C., Navionis, A.-S., Mahamat-Saleh, Y., Jaafar, R. F., Baurecht, H., Guevara, M., Etxezarreta, P. A., Verschuren, W. M. M., Boer, J. M. A., Olsen, A., Tjønneland, A., Simeon, V., Castro-Espin, C., Aune, D., Heath, A. K. ... Dossus, L. (2024). Association of body shape phenotypes and body fat distribution indexes with inflammatory biomarkers in the European Prospective Investigation into Cancer and Nutrition (EPIC) and UK Biobank. BMC Medicine, 22(1), Article 334. https://doi.org/10.1186/s12916-024-03544-3
Huybrechts, I., Jacobs, I., Biessy, C., Aglago, E. K., Jenab, M., Claeys, L., Zavadil, J., Casagrande, C., Nicolas, G., Scelo, G., Altieri, A., Fervers, B., Oswald, I. P., Vignard, J., Chimera, B., de Magistris, M. S., Masala, G., Palli, D., Padroni, L. ... De Boevre, M. (2024). Associations between dietary mycotoxins exposures and risk of hepatocellular carcinoma in a European cohort. PLOS ONE, 19(12), Article e0315561. https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0315561
