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
Karavasiloglou, N., Hüsing, A., Masala, G., van Gils, C. H., Turzanski Fortner, R., Chang-Claude, J., Huybrechts, I., Weiderpass, E., Gunter, M., Arveux, P., Fournier, A., Kvaskoff, M., Tjønneland, A., Kyrø, C., Dahm, C. C., Vistisen, H. T., Bakker, M. F., Sánchez, M.-J., Chirlaque López, M. D. ... Kühn, T. (2019). Adherence to the World Cancer Research Fund/American Institute for Cancer Research cancer prevention recommendations and risk of in situ breast cancer in the European Prospective Investigation into Cancer and Nutrition (EPIC) cohort. BMC Medicine, 17(1), Article 221. https://doi.org/10.1186/s12916-019-1444-0
Laursen, A. S. D., Dahm, C. C., Johnsen, S. P., Schmidt, E. B., Overvad, K. & Jakobsen, M. U. (2019). Adipose tissue fatty acids present in dairy fat and risk of stroke: the Danish Diet, Cancer and Health cohort. European Journal of Nutrition, 58(2), 529-539. https://doi.org/10.1007/s00394-018-1608-2
Butt, J., Jenab, M., Pawlita, M., Overvad, K., Tjonneland, A., Olsen, A., Boutron-Ruault, M.-C., Carbonnel, F., Mancini, F. R., Kaaks, R., Kühn, T., Boeing, H., Trichopoulou, A., Karakatsani, A., Palli, D., Pala, V. M., Tumino, R., Sacerdote, C., Panico, S. ... Hughes, D. J. (2019). Antibody Responses to Fusobacterium nucleatum Proteins in Prediagnostic Blood Samples are not Associated with Risk of Developing Colorectal Cancer. Cancer Epidemiology, Biomarkers & Prevention, 28(9), 1552-1555. https://doi.org/10.1158/1055-9965.EPI-19-0313
Hulman, A., Ibsen, D. B., Laursen, A. S. D. & Dahm, C. C. (2019). Body mass index trajectories preceding first report of poor self-rated health: A longitudinal case-control analysis of the English Longitudinal Study of Ageing. PLOS ONE, 14(2), Article e0212862. https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0212862
Honda, K., Katzke, V. A., Hüsing, A., Okaya, S., Shoji, H., Onidani, K., Olsen, A., Tjønneland, A., Overvad, K., Weiderpass, E., Vineis, P., Muller, D., Tsilidis, K. K., Palli, D., Pala, V., Tumino, R., Naccarati, A., Panico, S., Aleksandrova, K. ... Kaaks, R. (2019). CA19-9 and Apolipoprotein-A2 isoforms as detection markers for pancreatic cancer - a prospective evaluation. International Journal of Cancer, 144(8), 1877-1887. https://doi.org/10.1002/ijc.31900
Smith, T., Muller, D. C., Moons, K. G. M., Cross, A. J., Johansson, M., Ferrari, P., Fagherazzi, G., Peeters, P. H. M., Severi, G., Hüsing, A., Kaaks, R., Tjonneland, A., Olsen, A., Overvad, K., Bonet, C., Rodriguez-Barranco, M., Huerta, J. M., Barricarte Gurrea, A., Bradbury, K. E. ... Tzoulaki, I. (2019). Comparison of prognostic models to predict the occurrence of colorectal cancer in asymptomatic individuals: a systematic literature review and external validation in the EPIC and UK Biobank prospective cohort studies. Gut, 68(4), 672-683. https://doi.org/10.1136/gutjnl-2017-315730
Key, T. J., Appleby, P. N., Bradbury, K. E., Sweeting, M., Wood, A., Johansson, I., Kühn, T., Steur, M., Weiderpass, E., Wennberg, M., Würtz, A. M. L., Agudo, A., Andersson, J., Arriola, L., Boeing, H., Boer, J. M. A., Bonnet, F., Boutron-Ruault, M.-C., Cross, A. J. ... Danesh, J. (2019). Consumption of Meat, Fish, Dairy Products, and Eggs and Risk of Ischemic Heart Disease: A Prospective Study of 7198 Incident Cases Among 409,885 Participants in the Pan-European EPIC Cohort. Circulation, 139(25), 2835-2845. https://doi.org/10.1161/CIRCULATIONAHA.118.038813
