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
Rohrmann, S., Linseisen, J., Becker, S., Allen, N. E., Schlehofer, B., Overvad, K. K., Olsen, A., Tjonneland, A. A. M., Melin, B., Lund, E., Vineis, P., Grioni, S., Tumino, R., Palli, D., Matiello, A., Bonet, C., Chirlaque, M.-D., Sanchez, M.-J., Rodriguez, L. ... Kaaks, R. (2011). Concentrations of IGF-I and IGFBP3 and brain cancer risk in the European Prospective Investigation into Cancer and Nutrition (EPIC). Cancer Epidemiology, Biomarkers & Prevention, 20(10), 2174-2182. https://doi.org/10.1158/1055-9965.EPI-11-0179
Linseisen, J., Rohrmann, S., Bueno-de-Mesquita, B., Büchner, F. L., Boshuizen, H. C., Agudo, A., Gram, I. T., Dahm, C. C., Overvad, K., Egeberg, R., Tjønneland, A., Boeing, H., Steffen, A., Kaaks, R., Lukanova, A., Berrino, F., Palli, D., Panico, S., Tumino, R. ... Riboli, E. (2011). Consumption of meat and fish and risk of lung cancer: results from the European Prospective Investigation into Cancer and Nutrition. Cancer Causes & Control, 22(6), 909-918. https://doi.org/10.1007/s10552-011-9764-1
Landberg, R., Kamal-Eldin, A., Aman, P., Christensen, J., Overvad, K., Tjønneland, A. & Olsen, A. (2011). Determinants of plasma alkylresorcinol concentration in Danish post-menopausal women. European Journal of Clinical Nutrition, 65(1), 94-101. https://doi.org/10.1038/ejcn.2010.193
Outzen, M., Egeberg, R., Dragsted, L. O., Christensen, J., Olesen, P. T., Frandsen, H., Overvad, K., Tjønneland, A. & Olsen, A. (2011). Dietary determinants for Hb-acrylamide and Hb-glycidamide adducts in Danish non-smoking women. British Journal of Nutrition, 105(9), 1381-1387. https://doi.org/10.1017/S0007114510005003
González, C. A., Travier, N., Lujan, L., Castellsagué, X., Bosch, F. X., Roura, E., Bueno-de-Mesquita, H. B., Palli, D., Boeing, H., Pala, V., Sacerdote, C., Tumino, R., Panico, S., Manjer, J., Dillner, J., Hallmans, G., Kjellberg, L., Sanchez, M.-J., Altzibar, J. M. ... Riboli, E. (2011). Dietary factors and in-situ and invasive cervical cancer risk in the European Prospective Investigation into Cancer and Nutrition (EPIC) study. International Journal of Cancer, 129(2), 449-459. https://doi.org/10.1002/ijc.25679
Key, T. J., Appleby, P. N., Cairns, B. J., Luben, R., Dahm, C. C., Akbaraly, T., Brunner, E. J., Burley, V., Cade, J. E., Greenwood, D. C., Stephen, A. M., Mishra, G., Kuh, D., Keogh, R. H., White, I. R., Bhaniani, A., Borgulya, G., Mulligan, A. A. & Khaw, K. T. (2011). Dietary fat and breast cancer: comparison of results from food diaries and food-frequency questionnaires in the UK Dietary Cohort Consortium. American Journal of Clinical Nutrition, 94(4), 1043-52. https://doi.org/10.3945/ajcn.111.015735
Zamora-Ros, R., Knaze, V., Luján-Barroso, L., Slimani, N., Romieu, I., Touillaud, M., Kaaks, R., Teucher, B., Mattiello, A., Grioni, S., Crowe, F., Boeing, H., Förster, J., Quirós, J. R., Molina, E., Huerta, J. M., Engeset, D., Skeie, G., Trichopoulou, A. ... González, C. A. (2011). Estimation of the intake of anthocyanidins and their food sources in the European Prospective Investigation into Cancer and Nutrition (EPIC) study. British Journal of Nutrition, 106(7), 1090-1099. https://doi.org/10.1017/S0007114511001437
