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
Acar, E., Gürdeniz, G., Savorani, F., Hansen, L., Olsen, A., Tjønneland, A., Dragsted, L. O. & Bro, R. (2017). Forecasting Chronic Diseases Using Data Fusion. Journal of Proteome Research, 16(7), 2435-2444. https://doi.org/10.1021/acs.jproteome.7b00039
Perez-Cornago, A., Travis, R. C., Appleby, P. N., Tsilidis, K., Tjønneland, A., Olsen, A., Overvad, K., Katzke, V., Kühn, T., Trichopoulou, A., Peppa, E., Kritikou, M., Sieri, S., Palli, D., Sacerdote, C., Tumino, R., Bueno-De-Mesquita, B. H., Agudo, A., Larranaga, N. ... Key, T. J. (2017). Fruit and vegetable intake and prostate cancer risk in the European Prospective Investigation into Cancer and Nutrition (EPIC). International Journal of Cancer, 141(2), 287-297. https://doi.org/10.1002/ijc.30741
Nimptsch, K., Song, M., Aleksandrova, K., Katsoulis, M., Freisling, H., Jenab, M., Gunter, M. J., Tsilidis, K., Weiderpass, E., Bueno-de-Mesquita, H. B., Chong, D. Q., Jensen, M. K., Wu, C., Overvad, K., Kühn, T., Barrdahl, M., Melander, O., Jirström, K., Peeters, P. H. ... Pischon, T. (2017). Genetic variation in the ADIPOQ gene, adiponectin concentrations and risk of colorectal cancer: a Mendelian Randomization analysis using data from three large cohort studies. European Journal of Epidemiology, 32(5), 419-430. https://doi.org/10.1007/s10654-017-0262-y
Jakszyn, P., Fonseca-Nunes, A., Lujan-Barroso, L., Aranda, N., Tous, M., Arija, V., Cross, A. J., Bueno-de-Mesquita, HBA., Weiderpass, E., Kühn, T., Kaaks, R., Sjöberg, K., Ohlsson, B., Tumino, R., Palli, D., Ricceri, F., Fasanelli, F., Krogh, V., Mattiello, A. ... Agudo, A. (2017). Hepcidin levels and gastric cancer risk in the EPIC-EurGast study. International Journal of Cancer, 141(5), 945-951. https://doi.org/10.1002/ijc.30797
Huang, J., Zagai, U., Hallmans, G., Nyrén, O., Engstrand, L., Stolzenberg-Solomon, R., Duell, E. J., Overvad, K., Katzke, V. A., Kaaks, R., Jenab, M., Park, J. Y., Murillo, R., Trichopoulou, A., Lagiou, P., Bamia, C., Bradbury, K. E., Riboli, E., Aune, D. ... Ye, W. (2017). Helicobacter pylori infection, chronic corpus atrophic gastritis and pancreatic cancer risk in the European Prospective Investigation into Cancer and Nutrition (EPIC) cohort: a nested case-control study. International Journal of Cancer, 140(8), 1727–1735. https://doi.org/10.1002/ijc.30590
Køster, B., Søndergaard, J., Nielsen, J. B., Christensen, K. B., Allen, M., Olsen, A. & Bentzen, J. (2017). Knowledge deficit, attitude and behavior scales association to objective measures of sun exposure and sunburn in a Danish population based sample. PLOS ONE, 12(5), Article e0178190. https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0178190
Roswall, N., Raaschou-Nielsen, O., Ketzel, M., Gammelmark, A., Overvad, K., Olsen, A. V. & Sørensen, M. (2017). Long-term residential road traffic noise and NO2 exposure in relation to risk of incident myocardial infarction – A Danish cohort study. Environmental Research, 156, 80–86. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.envres.2017.03.019
