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
Danesh, J., Saracci, R., Berglund, G., Feskens, E., Overvad, K., Panico, S., Thompson, S., Fournier, A., Clavel-Chapelon, F., Canonico, M., Kaaks, R., Linseisen, J., Boeing, H., Pischon, T., Weikert, C., Olsen, A. V., Tjønneland, A., Johnsen, S. P., Jensen, MK. ... Riboli, E. (2007). EPIC-Heart: The cardiovascular component of a prospective study of nutritional, lifestyle and biological factors in 520 000 middle-aged participants from 10 European countries. European Journal of Epidemiology, 22(2), 129-41.
Linseisen, J., Rohrmann, S., Miller, A. B., Bueno-de-Mesquita, H. B., Buchner, F. L., Vineis, P., Agudo, A., Gram, I. T., Janson, L., Krogh, V., Overvad, K., Rasmuson, T., Schulz, M., Pischon, T., Kaaks, R., Nielsen, A., Allen, N. E., Key, T. J., Bingham, S. ... Riboli, E. (2007). Fruit and vegetable consumption and lung cancer risk: Updated information from the European Prospective Investigation into Cancer and Nutrition (EPIC). International Journal of Cancer, 121, 1103-14.
M Sinilnikova, O., D mckay, J., tavtigan, S. V., Canzian, F., DeSilva, D., Biessy, C., Monnier, S., Dossus, L., Boillot, C., Gioia, L., Hughes, D. J., Jensen, M. K., Overvad, K., tjønneland, A., Olsen, A. V., Clavel-Chapelon, F., Chajes, V., Joulin, V., Linseisen, J. ... Kaaks, R. (2007). Haplotype-based analysis of common variation in the acetyl-CoA carboxyiase alpha gene and breast cancer risk: A case-control study nested within the European prospective investigation into cancer and nutrition. Cancer Epidemiology, Biomarkers & Prevention, 16(3), 409-415.
Ferrari, P., Jenab, M., Norat, T., Moskal, A., Slimani, N., Olsen, A. V., Tjønneland, A., Overvad, K., Jensen, M. K., Boutron-Ruault, M. C., Clavel-Chapelon, F., Morois, S., Rohrmann, S., Linseisen, J., Boeing, H., Bergmann, M., Kontopoulou, D., Trichopoulou, A., Kassapa, C. ... Riboli, E. (2007). Lifetime and baseline alcohol intake and risk of colon and rectal cancers in the European prospective investigation into cancer and nutrition (EPIC). International Journal of Cancer, 121(9), 2065-72.
Egeberg, R., Olsen, A. V., Autrup, H., Christensen, J., Stripp, C., Overvad, K. & Tjønneland, A. (2007). Meat consumption, N-acetyl transferase 1 and 2 polymorphism, and risk of breast cancer in Danish postmenopausal women. Journal of Nutrition, 137(1), 282.
Cust, A. E., Kaaks, R., Friedenreich, C., Bonnet, F., Laville, M., Tjønneland, A., Olsen, A., Overvad, K., Jakobsen, M. U., Chajès, V., Clavel-Chapelon, F., Boutron-Ruault, M.-C., Linseisen, J., Lukanova, A., Boeing, H., Pischon, T., Trichopoulou, A., Christina, B., Trichopoulos, D. ... Riboli, E. (2007). Metabolic syndrome, plasma lipid, lipoprotein and glucose levels, and endometrial cancer risk in the European Prospective Investigation into Cancer and Nutrition (EPIC). Endocrine - Related Cancer, 14(3), 755-67. https://doi.org/10.1677/ERC-07-0132
Schulz, M., Nothlings, U., Allen, N., Onland-Moret, N. C., Agnoli, C., Engeset, D., Galasso, R., Wirfalt, E., Tjønneland, A., Olsen, A. V., Overvad, K., Boutron-Ruault, M. C., Chajes, V., Clavel-Chapelon, F., Ray, J., Hoffmann, K., Chang-Claude, J., Kaaks, R., Trichopoulos, D. ... Riboli, E. (2007). No association of consumption of animal foods with risk of ovarian cancer. Cancer Epidemiology, Biomarkers, and Prevention, 16, 852-5.
