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
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
Fonseca-Nunes, A., Agudo, A., Aranda, N., Arija, V., Cross, A. J., Molina, E., Sanchez, M. J., Bueno-De-Mesquita, H. B., Siersema, P., Weiderpass, E., Krogh, V., Mattiello, A., Tumino, R., Saieva, C., Naccarati, A., Ohlsson, B., Sjöberg, K., Boutron-Ruault, M. C., Cadeau, C. ... Jakszyn, P. (2015). Body iron status and gastric cancer risk in the EURGAST study. International Journal of Cancer, 137(12), 2904-2914. https://doi.org/10.1002/ijc.29669
Hellmann, S. S., Njor, S. H., Lynge, E., von Euler-Chelpin, M., Olsen, A., Tjønneland, A., Vejborg, I. & Andersen, Z. J. (2015). Body mass index and participation in organized mammographic screening: A prospective cohort study. BMC Cancer, 15(1), Article 294. https://doi.org/10.1186/s12885-015-1296-8
Schlesinger, S., Lieb, W., Koch, M., Fedirko, V., Dahm, C. C., Pischon, T., Nöthlings, U., Boeing, H. & Aleksandrova, K. (2015). Body weight gain and risk of colorectal cancer: a systematic review and meta-analysis of observational studies. Obesity Reviews, 16(7), 607-619. https://doi.org/10.1111/obr.12286
Bakken, T., Braaten, T., Olsen, A., Lund, E. & Skeie, G. (2015). Characterization of Norwegian women eating wholegrain bread. Public Health Nutrition, 18(15), 2836-2845. https://doi.org/10.1017/S1368980015000245
Tikk, K., Sookthai, D., Fortner, R. T., Johnson, T., Rinaldi, S., Romieu, I., Tjønneland, A., Olsen, A., Overvad, K., Clavel-Chapelon, F., Baglietto, L., Boeing, H., Trichopoulou, A., Lagiou, P., Trichopoulos, D., Masala, G., Krogh, V., Tumino, R., Ricceri, F. ... Kaaks, R. (2015). Circulating prolactin and in situ breast cancer risk in the European EPIC cohort: a case-control study. Breast Cancer Research, 17(1), 49. https://doi.org/10.1186/s13058-015-0563-6
