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
Lacoppidan, S. A., Kyrø, C., Loft, S., Helnæs, A., Christensen, J., Hansen, C. P., Dahm, C. C., Overvad, K., Tjønneland, A. & Olsen, A. (2015). Adherence to a Healthy Nordic Food Index Is Associated with a Lower Risk of Type-2 Diabetes-The Danish Diet, Cancer and Health Cohort Study. Nutrients, 7(10), 8633-44. https://doi.org/10.3390/nu7105418
Roswall, N., Sandin, S., Löf, M., Skeie, G., Olsen, A., Adami, H. O. & Weiderpass, E. (2015). Adherence to the healthy Nordic food index and total and cause-specific mortality among Swedish women. European Journal of Epidemiology, 30(6), 509-517. https://doi.org/10.1007/s10654-015-0021-x
Roswall, N., Eriksson, U., Sandin, S., Löf, M., Olsen, A., Skeie, G., Adami, H. O. & Weiderpass, E. (2015). Adherence to the healthy Nordic food index, dietary composition, and lifestyle among Swedish women. Food and Nutrition Research, 59, Article 26336. https://doi.org/10.3402/fnr.v59.26336
Wozniak, M. B., Brennan, P., Brenner, D. R., Overvad, K., Olsen, A., Tjønneland, A., Boutron-Ruault, M.-C., Clavel-Chapelon, F., Fagherazzi, G., Katzke, V., Kühn, T., Boeing, H., Bergmann, M. M., Steffen, A., Naska, A., Trichopoulou, A., Trichopoulos, D., Saieva, C., Grioni, S. ... Scelo, G. (2015). Alcohol consumption and the risk of renal cancers in the European prospective investigation into cancer and nutrition (EPIC). International Journal of Cancer, 137(8), 1953-66. https://doi.org/10.1002/ijc.29559
Romieu, I., Scoccianti, C., Chajes, V., de Batlle, J., Biessy, C., Dossus, L., Baglietto, L., Clavel-Chapelon, F., Overvad, K., Olsen, A., Tjønneland, A., Kaaks, R., Lukanova, A., Boeing, H., Trichopoulou, A., Lagiou, P., Trichopoulos, D., Palli, D., Sieri, S. ... Riboli, E. (2015). Alcohol intake and breast cancer in the European Prospective investigation into Cancer and Nutrition. International Journal of Cancer, 137(8), 1921-1930. https://doi.org/10.1002/ijc.29469
Durup, D., Jørgensen, H. L., Christensen, J., Tjønneland, A., Olsen, A., Halkjær, J., Lind, B., Heegaard, A. M. & Schwarz, P. (2015). A reverse J-shaped association between serum 25-hydroxyvitamin D and cardiovascular disease mortality: The CopD study. Journal of Clinical Endocrinology and Metabolism, 100(6), 2339-2346. https://doi.org/10.1210/jc.2014-4551
Sen, A., Tsilidis, K. K., Allen, N. E., Rinaldi, S., Appleby, P. N., Almquist, M., Schmidt, J. A., Dahm, C. C., Overvad, K., Tjønneland, A., Rostgaard-Hansen, A. L., Clavel-Chapelon, F., Baglietto, L., Boutron-Ruault, M.-C., Kühn, T., Katze, V. A., Boeing, H., Trichopoulou, A., Tsironis, C. ... Franceschi, S. (2015). Baseline and lifetime alcohol consumption and risk of differentiated thyroid carcinoma in the EPIC study. B J C, 113(5), 840-7. https://doi.org/10.1038/bjc.2015.280
