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
Cordova, R., Kliemann, N., Huybrechts, I., Rauber, F., Vamos, E. P., Levy, R. B., Wagner, K. H., Viallon, V., Casagrande, C., Nicolas, G., Dahm, C. C., Zhang, J., Halkjær, J., Tjønneland, A., Boutron-Ruault, M. C., Mancini, F. R., Laouali, N., Katzke, V., Srour, B. ... Freisling, H. (2021). Consumption of ultra-processed foods associated with weight gain and obesity in adults: A multi-national cohort study. Clinical Nutrition, 40(9), 5079-5088. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.clnu.2021.08.009
Aleksandrova, K., Reichmann, R., Kaaks, R., Jenab, M., Bueno-de-Mesquita, H. B., Dahm, C. C., Eriksen, A. K., Tjønneland, A., Artaud, F., Boutron-Ruault, M. C., Severi, G., Hüsing, A., Trichopoulou, A., Karakatsani, A., Peppa, E., Panico, S., Masala, G., Grioni, S., Sacerdote, C. ... Gunter, M. J. (2021). Development and validation of a lifestyle-based model for colorectal cancer risk prediction: the LiFeCRC score. BMC Medicine, 19(1), Article 1. https://doi.org/10.1186/s12916-020-01826-0
Steur, M., Johnson, L., Sharp, S. J., Imamura, F., Sluijs, I., Key, T. J., Wood, A., Chowdhury, R., Guevara, M., Jakobsen, M. U., Johansson, I., Koulman, A., Overvad, K., Sánchez, M.-J., van der Schouw, Y. T., Trichopoulou, A., Weiderpass, E., Wennberg, M., Zheng, J.-S. ... Forouhi, N. G. (2021). Dietary Fatty Acids, Macronutrient Substitutions, Food Sources and Incidence of Coronary Heart Disease: Findings From the EPIC-CVD Case-Cohort Study Across Nine European Countries. Journal of the American Heart Association, 10(23), Article e019814. https://doi.org/10.1161/JAHA.120.019814
Aglago, E. K., Murphy, N., Huybrechts, I., Nicolas, G., Casagrande, C., Fedirko, V., Weiderpass, E., Rothwell, J. A., Dahm, C. C., Olsen, A., Tjønneland, A., Kaaks, R., Katzke, V., Schulze, M. B., Masala, G., Agnoli, C., Panico, S., Tumino, R., Sacerdote, C. ... Gunter, M. J. (2021). Dietary intake and plasma phospholipid concentrations of saturated, monounsaturated and trans fatty acids and colorectal cancer risk in the European Prospective Investigation into Cancer and Nutrition cohort. International Journal of Cancer, 149(4), 865-882. https://doi.org/10.1002/ijc.33615
Matta, M., Huybrechts, I., Biessy, C., Casagrande, C., Yammine, S., Fournier, A., Olsen, K. S., Lukic, M., Gram, I. T., Ardanaz, E., Sánchez, M.-J., Dossus, L., Fortner, R. T., Srour, B., Jannasch, F., Schulze, M. B., Amiano, P., Agudo, A., Colorado-Yohar, S. ... Murphy, N. (2021). Dietary intake of trans fatty acids and breast cancer risk in 9 European countries. BMC Medicine, 19(1), Article 81. https://doi.org/10.1186/s12916-021-01952-3
Frederiksen, S. B., Themsen, H. H., Overvad, K. & Dahm, C. C. (2021). Dietary patterns generated by the Treelet Transform and risk of stroke: a Danish cohort study. Public Health Nutrition, 24(1), 84-94. https://doi.org/10.1017/S1368980019004324
Emerging Risk Factors Collaboration/EPIC-CVD/Vitamin D Studies Collaboration (2021). Estimating dose-response relationships for vitamin D with coronary heart disease, stroke, and all-cause mortality: observational and Mendelian randomisation analyses. The Lancet Diabetes & Endocrinology, 9(12), 837-846. https://doi.org/10.1016/S2213-8587(21)00263-1
