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
Hughes, D. J., Schomburg, L., Jenab, M., Biessy, C., Méplan, C., Moskal, A., Sun, Q., Demircan, K., Fedirko, V., Weiderpass, E., Mukhtar, M., Olsen, A., Tjønneland, A., Overvad, K., Schulze, M., Nøst, T. H., Skeie, G., Olsen, K. S., Ricceri, F. ... Dossus, L. (2023). Prediagnostic selenium status, selenoprotein gene variants and association with breast cancer risk in a european cohort study. Free Radical Biology & Medicine, 209(Part 2), 381-393. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.freeradbiomed.2023.10.401
Karavasiloglou, N., Hughes, D. J., Murphy, N., Schomburg, L., Sun, Q., Seher, V., Rohrmann, S., Weiderpass, E., Tjønneland, A., Olsen, A., Overvad, K., Boutron-Ruault, M.-C., Mancini, F. R., Mahamat-Saleh, Y., Kaaks, R., Kuhn, T., Schulze, M. B., Tumino, R., Panico, S. ... Jenab, M. (2023). Prediagnostic serum calcium concentrations and risk of colorectal cancer development in 2 large European prospective cohorts. The American Journal of Clinical Nutrition, 117(1), 33-45. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.ajcnut.2022.10.004
Nimptsch, K., Aleksandrova, K., Pham, T. T., Papadimitriou, N., Janke, J., Christakoudi, S., Heath, A., Olsen, A., Tjønneland, A., Schulze, M. B., Katzke, V., Kaaks, R., van Guelpen, B., Harbs, J., Palli, D., Macciotta, A., Pasanisi, F., Yohar, S. M. C., Guevara, M. ... Pischon, T. (2023). Prospective and Mendelian randomization analyses on the association of circulating fatty acid binding protein 4 (FABP-4) and risk of colorectal cancer. BMC Medicine, 21(1), Article 391. https://doi.org/10.1186/s12916-023-03104-1
Zhang, J., Olsen, A., Halkjær, J., Petersen, K. E., Tjønneland, A., Overvad, K. & Dahm, C. C. (2023). Self-reported and measured anthropometric variables in association with cardiometabolic markers: A Danish cohort study. PLOS ONE, 18(7 July), Article e0279795. https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0279795
Bonet, C., Crous-Bou, M., Tsilidis, K. K., Gunter, M. J., Kaaks, R., Schulze, M. B., Fortner, R. T., Antoniussen, C. S., Dahm, C. C., Mellemkjær, L., Tjønneland, A., Amiano, P., Ardanaz, E., Colorado-Yohar, S. M., Rodriguez-Barranco, M., Tin Tin, S., Agnoli, C., Masala, G., Panico, S. ... Agudo, A. (2023). The association between body fatness and mortality among breast cancer survivors: results from a prospective cohort study. European Journal of Epidemiology, 38(5), 545-557. https://doi.org/10.1007/s10654-023-00979-5
Frederiksen, T. C., Dahm, C. C., Preis, S. R., Lin, H., Trinquart, L., Benjamin, E. J. & Kornej, J. (2023). The bidirectional association between atrial fibrillation and myocardial infarction. Nature Reviews. Cardiology, 20(9), 631-644. https://doi.org/10.1038/s41569-023-00857-3
Pokharel, P., Kyrø, C., Olsen, A., Tjønneland, A., Murray, K., Blekkenhorst, L. C., Bondonno, C. P., Hodgson, J. M. & Bondonno, N. P. (2023). Vegetable, But Not Potato, Intake is Associated With a Lower Risk of Type 2 Diabetes in the Danish Diet, Cancer and Health Cohort. Diabetes Care, 46(2), 286-296. https://doi.org/10.2337/dc22-0974
