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
Overvad, K., Dahm, C. C. & InterAct Consortium (2014). Adherence to predefined dietary patterns and incident type 2 diabetes in European populations: EPIC-InterAct Study. Diabetologia, 57(2), 321-33. https://doi.org/10.1007/s00125-013-3092-9
Hansen, C. P., Berentzen, T. L., Ostergaard, J. N., Dahm, C. C., Hellgren, L. I., Schmidt, E. B., Tjønneland, A., Sørensen, T. I. A., Overvad, K. & Jakobsen, M. U. (2014). Adipose tissue trans-fatty acids and changes in body weight and waist circumference. British Journal of Nutrition, 111(7), 1283-91. https://doi.org/10.1017/S0007114513003747
Ali, A. M. G., Schmidt, M. K., Bolla, M., Wang, Q., Gago-Dominguez, M., Esteban Castelao, J., Carracedo, A., Muñoz Garzón, V., Bojesen, S. E., Nordestgaard, B. G., Flyger, H., Chang-Claude, J., Vrieling, A., Rudolph, A., Seibold, P., Nevanlinna, H., Muranen, T. A., Aaltonen, K., Blomqvist, C. ... Pharoah, P. D. P. (2014). Alcohol Consumption and Survival after a Breast Cancer Diagnosis: A Literature-based Meta-analysis and Collaborative Analysis of Data for 29,239 Cases. Cancer Epidemiology, Biomarkers & Prevention, 23(6), 934-45. https://doi.org/10.1158/1055-9965.EPI-13-0901
Chan, S. S. M., Luben, R., Olsen, A., Tjonneland, A., Kaaks, R., Lindgren, S., Grip, O., Bergmann, M. M., Boeing, H., Hallmans, G., Karling, P., Overvad, K., Venø, S. K., van Schaik, F., Bueno-de-Mesquita, B., Oldenburg, B., Khaw, K.-T., Riboli, E. & Hart, A. R. (2014). Association between high dietary intake of the n-3 polyunsaturated fatty acid docosahexaenoic acid and reduced risk of Crohn's disease. Alimentary Pharmacology and Therapeutics, 39(8), 834-42. https://doi.org/10.1111/apt.12670
Schmidt, J. A., Gorst-Rasmussen, A., Nyström, P. W., Christensen, J. H., Schmidt, E. B., Dethlefsen, C., Tjønneland, A., Overvad, K. & Dahm, C. C. (2014). Baseline patterns of adipose tissue fatty acids and long-term risk of breast cancer: a case-cohort study in the Danish cohort Diet, Cancer and Health. European Journal of Clinical Nutrition, 68(10), 1088-94. https://doi.org/10.1038/ejcn.2014.28
Chan, S. S. M., Luben, R., van Schaik, F., Oldenburg, B., Bueno-de-Mesquita, H. B., Hallmans, G., Karling, P., Lindgren, S., Grip, O., Key, T., Crowe, F. L., Bergmann, M. M., Overvad, K., Palli, D., Masala, G., Khaw, K.-T., Racine, A., Carbonnel, F., Boutron-Ruault, M.-C. ... Hart, A. R. (2014). Carbohydrate intake in the etiology of Crohn's disease and ulcerative colitis. Inflammatory Bowel Diseases, 20(11), 2013-21. https://doi.org/10.1097/MIB.0000000000000168
Muller, D. C., Fanidi, A., Midttun, Ø., Steffen, A., Dossus, L., Boutron-Ruault, M. C., Severi, G., Kühn, T., Katzke, V., De La Torre, R. A., González, C. A., Sánchez, M. J., Dorronsoro, M., Santiuste, C., Barricarte, A., Khaw, K. T., Wareham, N., Travis, R. C., Trichopoulou, A. ... Johansson, M. (2014). Circulating 25-hydroxyvitamin D3 in relation to renal cell carcinoma incidence and survival in the EPIC cohort. American Journal of Epidemiology, 180(8), 810-820. https://doi.org/10.1093/aje/kwu204
