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
Zhang, J., Clayton, G. L., Overvad, K., Olsen, A., Lawlor, D. A. & Dahm, C. C. (2024). Body mass index in parents and their adult offspring: A systematic review and meta-analysis. Obesity Reviews, 25(1), Article e13644. https://doi.org/10.1111/obr.13644
Tong, T. Y. N., Clarke, R., Schmidt, J. A., Huybrechts, I., Noor, U., Forouhi, N. G., Imamura, F., Travis, R. C., Weiderpass, E., Aleksandrova, K., Dahm, C. C., van der Schouw, Y. T., Overvad, K., Kyrø, C., Tjønneland, A., Kaaks, R., Katzke, V., Schiborn, C., Schulze, M. B. ... Key, T. J. (2024). Dietary amino acids and risk of stroke subtypes: a prospective analysis of 356,000 participants in seven European countries. European Journal of Nutrition, 63(1), 209-220. https://doi.org/10.1007/s00394-023-03251-4
Schultz, C., Dalgaard, F., Bellinge, J. W., Murray, K., Sim, M., Connolly, E., Blekkenhorst, L. C., Bondonno, C. P., Lewis, J. R., Gislason, G., Tjønneland, A., Overvad, K., Hodgson, J. M. & Bondonno, N. P. (2024). Dietary Vitamin K1 Intake and Incident Aortic Valve Stenosis. Arteriosclerosis, Thrombosis, and Vascular Biology, 44(2), 513-521. https://doi.org/10.1161/ATVBAHA.123.320271
Frederiksen, T. C., Krogh Christiansen, M., Benjamin, E. J., Overvad, K., Olsen, A., Dahm, C. C. & Kjærulf Jensen, H. (2024). Five-year Changes in Weight and Risk of Atrial Fibrillation in the Danish Diet, Cancer, and Health Cohort. European Journal of Preventive Cardiology, 31(2), 244-249. https://doi.org/10.1093/eurjpc/zwad300
Enget Jensen, T. M., Braaten, T., Jacobsen, B. K., Ibsen, D. B. & Skeie, G. (2024). Replacing red and processed meat with lean or fatty fish and all-cause and cause-specific mortality in Norwegian women. The Norwegian Women and Cancer Study (NOWAC): a prospective cohort study. The British Journal of Nutrition, 131(3), 531-543. https://doi.org/10.1017/S0007114523002040
Erichsen, D. W., Pokharel, P., Kyrø, C., Schullehner, J., Zhong, L., Bondonno, C. P., Dalgaard, F., Fjeldstad Hendriksen, P., Sigsgaard, T., Hodgson, J. M., Olsen, A., Tjønneland, A. & Bondonno, N. P. (2024). Source-specific nitrate and nitrite intakes and associations with sociodemographic factors in the Danish Diet Cancer and Health cohort. Frontiers in nutrition, 11, Article 1326991. https://doi.org/10.3389/fnut.2024.1326991
NCD Risk Factor Collaboration (NCD-RisC) (2024). Worldwide trends in underweight and obesity from 1990 to 2022: a pooled analysis of 3663 population-representative studies with 222 million children, adolescents, and adults. Lancet, 403(10431), 1027-1050. https://doi.org/10.1016/S0140-6736(23)02750-2
