Department of Public Health

 Department of Public Health Research Research areas Disease Etiology and Research Methodology Epidemiology Diet, lifestyle and genetic susceptibility

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

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Travis, R. C., Spencer, E. A., Allen, N. E., Appleby, P. N., Roddam, A. W., Overvad, K., Johnsen, N. F., Olsen, A., Kaaks, R., Linseisen, J., Boeing, H., Nöthlings, U., Bueno-de-Mesquita, H. B., Ros, M. M., Sacerdote, C., Palli, D., Tumino, R., Berrino, F., Trichopoulou, A. ... Key, T. J. (2009). Plasma phyto-oestrogens and prostate cancer in the European Prospective Investigation into Cancer and Nutrition. British Journal of Cancer, 100(11), 1817-23. https://doi.org/10.1038/sj.bjc.6605073
Travis, R. C., Perez-Cornago, A., Appleby, P. N., Albanes, D., Joshu, C. E., Lutsey, P. L., Mondul, A. M., Platz, E. A., Weinstein, S. J., Layne, T. M., Helzlsouer, K. J., Visvanathan, K., Palli, D., Peeters, P. H., Bueno-de-Mesquita, B., Trichopoulou, A., Gunter, M. J., Tsilidis, K. K., Sánchez, M.-J. ... Allen, N. E. (2019). A Collaborative Analysis of Individual Participant Data from 19 Prospective Studies Assesses Circulating Vitamin D and Prostate Cancer Risk. Cancer Research, 79(1), 274-285. https://doi.org/10.1158/0008-5472.CAN-18-2318
Travis, R. C., Crowe, F. L., Allen, N. E., Appleby, P. N., Roddam, A. W., Tjønneland, A., Olsen, A., Linseisen, J., Kaaks, R., Boeing, H., Kröger, J., Trichopoulou, A., Dilis, V., Trichopoulos, D., Vineis, P., Palli, D., Tumino, R., Sieri, S., Bueno-De-Mesquita, H. B. ... Key, T. J. (2009). Serum vitamin d and risk of prostate cancer in a case-control analysis nested within the european prospective investigation into cancer and nutrition (EPIC). American Journal of Epidemiology, 169(10), 1223-1232. https://doi.org/10.1093/aje/kwp022
Tram, L., Krogh Venø, S., Dahm, C. C., H Thomsen, B., Berg Johansen, M., Overvad, K. & Schmidt, E. B. (2018). Adipose Tissue Lipophilic Index and Risk of Ischemic Stroke-A Danish Case-Cohort Study. Nutrients, 10(11), 1570. https://doi.org/10.3390/nu10111570
Torres-Laiton, L., Luján-Barroso, L., Nadal-Zaragoza, N., Castro-Espin, C., Jakszyn, P., Panico, C., Le Cornet, C., Dahm, C. C., Petrova, D., Rodríguez-Palacios, D. Á., Jannasch, F., Masala, G., Dossus, L., Padroni, L., Guevara, M., Schulze, M. B., Fortner, R. T., Tumino, R. & Crous-Bou, M. (2025). Diabetes-Related Dietary Patterns and Endometrial Cancer Risk and Survival in the European Prospective Investigation into Cancer and Nutrition Study. Nutrients, 17(10), Article 1645. https://doi.org/10.3390/nu17101645
Tong, T. Y. N., Appleby, P. N., Key, T. J., Dahm, C. C., Overvad, K., Olsen, A., Tjønneland, A., Katzke, V., Kühn, T., Boeing, H., Karakatsani, A., Peppa, E., Trichopoulou, A., Weiderpass, E., Masala, G., Grioni, S., Panico, S., Tumino, R., Boer, J. M. A. ... Perez-Cornago, A. (2020). The associations of major foods and fibre with risks of ischaemic and haemorrhagic stroke: a prospective study of 418 329 participants in the EPIC cohort across nine European countries. European Heart Journal, 41(28), 2632-2640. Article ehaa007. https://doi.org/10.1093/eurheartj/ehaa007
Tong, T. Y. N., Clarke, R., Schmidt, J. A., Huybrechts, I., Noor, U., Forouhi, N. G., Imamura, F., Travis, R. C., Weiderpass, E., Aleksandrova, K., Dahm, C. C., van der Schouw, Y. T., Overvad, K., Kyrø, C., Tjønneland, A., Kaaks, R., Katzke, V., Schiborn, C., Schulze, M. B. ... Key, T. J. (2024). Dietary amino acids and risk of stroke subtypes: a prospective analysis of 356,000 participants in seven European countries. European Journal of Nutrition, 63(1), 209-220. https://doi.org/10.1007/s00394-023-03251-4

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