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
Køster, B., Søndergaard, J., Nielsen, J. B., Allen, M., Olsen, A. & Bentzen, J. (2017). The validated sun exposure questionnaire: association of objective and subjective measures of sun exposure in a Danish population-based sample. British Journal of Dermatology, 176(2), 446-456. https://doi.org/10.1111/bjd.14861
Lerche, L., Olsen, A., Petersen, K. E. N., Rostgaard-Hansen, A. L., Dragsted, L. O., Nordsborg, N. B., Tjønneland, A. & Halkjaer, J. (2017). Validity of physical activity and cardiorespiratory fitness in the Danish cohort "Diet, Cancer and Health-Next Generations". Scandinavian Journal of Medicine & Science in Sports, 27(12), 1864-1872. https://doi.org/10.1111/sms.12873
Byrne, K. S., Castaño, J. M. H., Chirlaque, M.-D., Lilja, H., Agudo, A., Ardanaz, E., Rodríguez-Barranco, M., Boeing, H., Kaaks, R., Khaw, K.-T., Larranaga, N., Navarro, C., Olsen, A., Overvad, K., Perez-Cornago, A., Rohrmann, S., Sánchez, M.-J., Tjønneland, A., Tsilidis, K. ... Travis, R. C. (2017). Vasectomy and Prostate Cancer Risk in the European Prospective Investigation Into Cancer and Nutrition (EPIC). Journal of Clinical Oncology, 35(12), 1297-1303. https://doi.org/10.1200/JCO.2016.70.0062
Dahm, C. C., Chomistek, A. K., Jakobsen, M. U., Mukamal, K. J., Eliassen, A. H., Sesso, H. D., Overvad, K., Willett, W. C., Rimm, E. B. & Chiuve, S. E. (2016). Adolescent Diet Quality and Cardiovascular Disease Risk Factors and Incident Cardiovascular Disease in Middle-Aged Women. Journal of the American Heart Association, 5(12), Article e003583. https://doi.org/10.1161/JAHA.116.003583
Podmore, C., Meidtner, K., Schulze, M. B., Scott, R. A., Ramond, A., Butterworth, A. S., Di Angelantonio, E., Danesh, J., Arriola, L., Barricarte, A., Boeing, H., Clavel-Chapelon, F., Cross, A. J., Dahm, C. C., Fagherazzi, G., Franks, P. W., Gavrila, D., Grioni, S., Gunter, M. J. ... Wareham, N. J. (2016). Association of Multiple Biomarkers of Iron Metabolism and Type 2 Diabetes: The EPIC-InterAct Study. Diabetes Care, 39(4), 572-81. https://doi.org/10.2337/dc15-0257
Assi, N., Moskal, A., Slimani, N., Viallon, V., Chajes, V., Freisling, H., Monni, S., Knueppel, S., Förster, J., Weiderpass, E., Lujan-Barroso, L., Amiano, P., Ardanaz, E., Molina-Montes, E., Salmerón, D., Quirós, J. R., Olsen, A., Tjønneland, A., Dahm, C. C. ... Ferrari, P. (2016). A treelet transform analysis to relate nutrient patterns to the risk of hormonal receptor-defined breast cancer in the European Prospective Investigation into Cancer and Nutrition (EPIC). Public Health Nutrition, 19(2), 242-254. https://doi.org/10.1017/S1368980015000294
Duarte-Salles, T., Misra, S., Stepien, M., Plymoth, A., Muller, D. C., Overvad, K., Olsen, A., Tjonneland, A., Baglietto, L., Severi, G., Boutron-Ruault, M.-C., Turzanski-Fortner, R., Kaaks, R., Boeing, H., Aleksandrova, K., Trichopoulou, A., Lagiou, P., Bamia, C., Pala, V. ... Beretta, L. (2016). Circulating Osteopontin and Prediction of Hepatocellular Carcinoma Development in a Large European Population. Cancer Prevention Research, 9(9), 758-65. https://doi.org/10.1158/1940-6207.CAPR-15-0434
