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
Papadimitriou, N., Bouras, E., van den Brandt, P. A., Muller, D. C., Papadopoulou, A., Heath, A. K., Critselis, E., Gunter, M. J., Vineis, P., Ferrari, P., Weiderpass, E., Boeing, H., Bastide, N., Merritt, M. A., Lopez, D. S., Bergmann, M. M., Perez-Cornago, A., Schulze, M., Skeie, G. ... Tsilidis, K. K. (2022). A Prospective Diet-Wide Association Study for Risk of Colorectal Cancer in EPIC. Clinical Gastroenterology and Hepatology, 20(4), 864-873.e13. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.cgh.2021.04.028
Charalampous, P., Gorasso, V., Plass, D., Pires, S. M., von der Lippe, E., Mereke, A., Idavain, J., Kissimova-Skarbek, K., Morgado, J. N., Ngwa, C. H., Noguer, I., Padron-Monedero, A., Santi-Cano, M. J., Sarmiento, R., Devleesschauwer, B., Haagsma, J. A. & COST Action CA18218 participants (2022). Burden of non-communicable disease studies in Europe: a systematic review of data sources and methodological choices. European Journal of Public Health, 32(2), 289–296. https://doi.org/10.1093/eurpub/ckab218
Huybrechts, I., Rauber, F., Nicolas, G., Casagrande, C., Kliemann, N., Wedekind, R., Biessy, C., Scalbert, A., Touvier, M., Aleksandrova, K., Jakszyn, P., Skeie, G., Bajracharya, R., Boer, J. M. A., Borné, Y., Chajes, V., Dahm, C. C., Dansero, L., Guevara, M. ... Levy, R. B. (2022). Characterization of the degree of food processing in the European Prospective Investigation into Cancer and Nutrition: Application of the Nova classification and validation using selected biomarkers of food processing. Frontiers in nutrition, 9, Article 1035580. https://doi.org/10.3389/fnut.2022.1035580
Dimou, N., Omiyale, W., Biessy, C., Viallon, V., Kaaks, R., O'Mara, T. A., Aglago, E. K., Ardanaz, E., Bergmann, M. M., Bondonno, N. P., Braaten, T., Colorado-Yohar, S. M., Crous-Bou, M., Dahm, C. C., Fortner, R. T., Gram, I. T., Harlid, S., Heath, A. K., Idahl, A. ... Dossus, L. (2022). Cigarette Smoking and Endometrial Cancer Risk: Observational and Mendelian Randomization Analyses. Cancer Epidemiology, Biomarkers & Prevention, 31(9), 1839-1848. https://doi.org/10.1158/1055-9965.EPI-21-1176
Cairat, M., Rinaldi, S., Navionis, A. S., Romieu, I., Biessy, C., Viallon, V., Olsen, A., Tjønneland, A., Fournier, A., Severi, G., Kvaskoff, M., Fortner, R. T., Kaaks, R., Aleksandrova, K., Schulze, M. B., Masala, G., Tumino, R., Sieri, S., Grasso, C. ... Dossus, L. (2022). Circulating inflammatory biomarkers, adipokines and breast cancer risk—a case-control study nested within the EPIC cohort. BMC Medicine, 20(1), Article 118. https://doi.org/10.1186/s12916-022-02319-y
Petersen, K. E. N., Halkjær, J., Loft, S., Tjønneland, A. & Olsen, A. (2022). Cohort profile and representativeness of participants in the Diet, Cancer and Health—Next Generations cohort study. European Journal of Epidemiology, 37(1), 117-127. https://doi.org/10.1007/s10654-021-00832-7
Grenville, Z. S., Noor, U., His, M., Viallon, V., Rinaldi, S., Aglago, E. K., Amiano, P., Brunkwall, L., Chirlaque, M. D., Drake, I., Eichelmann, F., Freisling, H., Grioni, S., Heath, A. K., Kaaks, R., Katzke, V., Mayén-Chacon, A.-L., Milani, L., Moreno-Iribas, C. ... Schmidt, J. A. (2022). Diet and BMI Correlate with Metabolite Patterns Associated with Aggressive Prostate Cancer. Nutrients, 14(16), Article 3306. https://doi.org/10.3390/nu14163306
