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
Cairat, M., Rinaldi, S., Navionis, A. S., Romieu, I., Biessy, C., Viallon, V., Olsen, A., Tjønneland, A., Fournier, A., Severi, G., Kvaskoff, M., Fortner, R. T., Kaaks, R., Aleksandrova, K., Schulze, M. B., Masala, G., Tumino, R., Sieri, S., Grasso, C. ... Dossus, L. (2022). Circulating inflammatory biomarkers, adipokines and breast cancer risk—a case-control study nested within the EPIC cohort. BMC Medicine, 20(1), Article 118. https://doi.org/10.1186/s12916-022-02319-y
Petersen, K. E. N., Halkjær, J., Loft, S., Tjønneland, A. & Olsen, A. (2022). Cohort profile and representativeness of participants in the Diet, Cancer and Health—Next Generations cohort study. European Journal of Epidemiology, 37(1), 117-127. https://doi.org/10.1007/s10654-021-00832-7
Grenville, Z. S., Noor, U., His, M., Viallon, V., Rinaldi, S., Aglago, E. K., Amiano, P., Brunkwall, L., Chirlaque, M. D., Drake, I., Eichelmann, F., Freisling, H., Grioni, S., Heath, A. K., Kaaks, R., Katzke, V., Mayén-Chacon, A.-L., Milani, L., Moreno-Iribas, C. ... Schmidt, J. A. (2022). Diet and BMI Correlate with Metabolite Patterns Associated with Aggressive Prostate Cancer. Nutrients, 14(16), Article 3306. https://doi.org/10.3390/nu14163306
Bondonno, N. P., Parmenter, B. H., Dalgaard, F., Murray, K., Rasmussen, D. B., Kyrø, C., Cassidy, A., Bondonno, C. P., Lewis, J. R., Croft, K. D., Gislason, G., Scalbert, A., Tjønneland, A., Overvad, K., Olsen, A. & Hodgson, J. M. (2022). Flavonoid intakes inversely associate with COPD in smokers. European Respiratory Journal, 60(2), Article 2102604. https://doi.org/10.1183/13993003.02604-2021
Ibsen, D. B. & Dahm, C. C. (2022). Food substitutions revisited. The American Journal of Clinical Nutrition, 116(5), 1195-1198. https://doi.org/10.1093/ajcn/nqac222
Dam, V., Onland-Moret, N. C., Burgess, S., Chirlaque, M.-D., Peters, S. A. E., Schuit, E., Tikk, K., Weiderpass, E., Oliver-Williams, C., Wood, A. M., Tjønneland, A., Dahm, C. C., Overvad, K., Boutron-Ruault, M.-C., Schulze, M. B., Trichopoulou, A., Ferrari, P., Masala, G., Krogh, V. ... van der Schouw, Y. T. (2022). Genetically determined reproductive aging and coronary heart disease: A Bidirectional 2-sample Mendelian Randomization. The Journal of clinical endocrinology and metabolism, 107(7), e2952–e2961. https://doi.org/10.1210/clinem/dgac171
Kohls, M., Freisling, H., Charvat, H., Soerjomataram, I., Viallon, V., Davila-Batista, V., Kaaks, R., Turzanski-Fortner, R., Aleksandrova, K., Schulze, M. B., Dahm, C. C., Tilma Vistisen, H., Rostgaard-Hansen, A. L., Tjønneland, A., Bonet, C., Sánchez, M.-J., Colorado-Yohar, S., Masala, G., Palli, D. ... Arnold, M. (2022). Impact of cumulative body mass index and cardiometabolic diseases on survival among patients with colorectal and breast cancer: a multi-centre cohort study. BMC Cancer, 22(1), Article 546. https://doi.org/10.1186/s12885-022-09589-y
