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
Chajès, V., Jenab, M., Romieu, I., Ferrari, P., Dahm, C. C., Overvad, K., Egeberg, R., Tjønneland, A., Clavel-Chapelon, F., Boutron-Ruault, M.-C., Engel, P., Teucher, B., Kaaks, R., Floegel, A., Boeing, H., Trichopoulou, A., Dilis, V., Karapetyan, T., Mattiello, A. ... González, C. A. (2011). Plasma phospholipid fatty acid concentrations and risk of gastric adenocarcinomas in the European Prospective Investigation into Cancer and Nutrition (EPIC-EURGAST). American Journal of Clinical Nutrition, 94(5), 1304-1313. https://doi.org/10.3945/ajcn.110.005892
James, R. E., Lukanova, A., Dossus, L., Becker, S., Rinaldi, S., Tjonneland, A. A. M., Olsen, A., Overvad, K. K., Mesrine, S., Engel, P., Clavel-Chapelon, F., Chang-Claude, J., Vrieling, A., Boeing, H., Schutze, M., Antonia Trichopoulou, A., Lagiou, P., Trichopoulos, D., Palli, D. ... Kaaks, R. (2011). Postmenopausal serum sex steroids and risk of hormone receptor positive and negative breast cancer: a nested case-control study. Cancer Prevention Research, 4(10), 1626-1635. https://doi.org/10.1158/1940-6207.CAPR-11-0090
Petersen, R. K., Larsen, S. B., Jensen, D. M., Christensen, J., Olsen, A., Loft, S., Nellemann, C. L., Overvad, K., Kristiansen, K., Tjønneland, A. & Vogel, U. B. (2011). PPARgamma-PGC-1alpha activity is determinant of alcohol related breast cancer. Cancer Letters, 315(1), 59-68. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.canlet.2011.10.009
Fedirko, V., Riboli, E., Bueno-de-Mesquita, H. B., Rinaldi, S., Pischon, T., Norat, T., Jansen, E., van Duijnhoven, F., Tjonneland, A. M., Olsen, A., Overvad, K., Boutron-Ruault, M.-C., Clavel-Chapelon, F., Engel, P., Kaaks, R., Teucher, B., Boeing, H., Buijsse, B., Trichopoulou, A. ... Jenab, M. (2011). Pre-diagnostic Circulating Parathyroid Hormone Concentration and Colorectal Cancer in the European Prospective Investigation into Cancer and Nutrition (EPIC) cohort. Cancer Epidemiology, Biomarkers & Prevention, 20(5), 767-778. https://doi.org/10.1158/1055-9965.EPI-10-1212
Olsen, A., Christensen, J., Knudsen, K. E. B., Johnsen, N. F., Overvad, K. & Tjønneland, A. (2011). Prediagnostic plasma enterolactone levels and mortality among women with breast cancer. Breast Cancer Research and Treatment, 128(3), 883-889. https://doi.org/10.1007/s10549-011-1397-2
Schlehofer, B., Siegmund, B., Linseisen, J., Schüz, J., Rohrmann, S., Becker, S., Michaud, D., Melin, B., Bas Bueno-de-Mesquita, H., Peeters, P. H. M., Vineis, P., Tjonneland, A., Olsen, A., Overvad, K., Romieu, I., Boeing, H., Aleksandrova, K., Trichopoulou, A., Bamia, C. ... Wahrendorf, J. (2011). Primary brain tumours and specific serum immunoglobulin E: a case-control study nested in the European Prospective Investigation into Cancer and Nutrition cohort. Allergy: European Journal of Allergy and Clinical Immunology, 66(11), 1434-1441. https://doi.org/10.1111/j.1398-9995.2011.02670.x
Larsen, S. B., Olsen, A., Lynch, J., Christensen, J., Overvad, K., Tjønneland, A., Johansen, C. & Dalton, S. O. (2011). Socioeconomic position and lifestyle in relation to breast cancer incidence among postmenopausal women: A prospective cohort study, Denmark, 1993-2006. Cancer Epidemiology, 35(5), 438-441. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.canep.2010.12.005
