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

Recent publications

Publications

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Butt, J., Jenab, M., Werner, J., Fedirko, V., Weiderpass, E., Dahm, C. C., Tjønneland, A., Olsen, A., Boutron-Ruault, M.-C., Rothwell, J. A., Severi, G., Kaaks, R., Turzanski-Fortner, R., Aleksandrova, K., Schulze, M., Palli, D., Pala, V., Panico, S., Tumino, R. ... Hughes, D. J. (2021). Association of Pre-diagnostic Antibody Responses to Escherichia coli and Bacteroides fragilis Toxin Proteins with Colorectal Cancer in a European Cohort. Gut Microbes, 13(1), 1-14. https://doi.org/10.1080/19490976.2021.1903825
Ibsen, D. B., Overvad, K., Laursen, A. S. D., Halkjær, J., Tjønneland, A., Kilpeläinen, T. O., Parner, E. T. & Jakobsen, M. U. (2021). Changes in intake of dairy product subgroups and risk of type 2 diabetes: modelling specified food substitutions in the Danish Diet, Cancer and Health cohort. European Journal of Nutrition, 60(6), 3449-3459. https://doi.org/10.1007/s00394-021-02524-0
Wang, F., Yu, J., Zhang, L., Zhang, Y., Zhang, J., Liu, B. & Yang, X. (2021). Clinical relevance of glomerular IgM deposition in patients with lupus nephritis. BMC Immunology, 22(1), Article 75. https://doi.org/10.1186/s12865-021-00467-z
Laine, J. E., Huybrechts, I., Gunter, M. J., Ferrari, P., Weiderpass, E., Tsilidis, K., Aune, D., Schulze, M. B., Bergmann, M., Temme, E. H. M., Boer, J. M. A., Agnoli, C., Ericson, U., Stubbendorff, A., Ibsen, D. B., Dahm, C. C., Deschasaux, M., Touvier, M., Kesse-Guyot, E. ... Vineis, P. (2021). Co-benefits from sustainable dietary shifts for population and environmental health: an assessment from a large European cohort study. The Lancet Planetary Health, 5(11), e786-e796. https://doi.org/10.1016/S2542-5196(21)00250-3
Cordova, R., Kliemann, N., Huybrechts, I., Rauber, F., Vamos, E. P., Levy, R. B., Wagner, K. H., Viallon, V., Casagrande, C., Nicolas, G., Dahm, C. C., Zhang, J., Halkjær, J., Tjønneland, A., Boutron-Ruault, M. C., Mancini, F. R., Laouali, N., Katzke, V., Srour, B. ... Freisling, H. (2021). Consumption of ultra-processed foods associated with weight gain and obesity in adults: A multi-national cohort study. Clinical Nutrition, 40(9), 5079-5088. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.clnu.2021.08.009
Aleksandrova, K., Reichmann, R., Kaaks, R., Jenab, M., Bueno-de-Mesquita, H. B., Dahm, C. C., Eriksen, A. K., Tjønneland, A., Artaud, F., Boutron-Ruault, M. C., Severi, G., Hüsing, A., Trichopoulou, A., Karakatsani, A., Peppa, E., Panico, S., Masala, G., Grioni, S., Sacerdote, C. ... Gunter, M. J. (2021). Development and validation of a lifestyle-based model for colorectal cancer risk prediction: the LiFeCRC score. BMC Medicine, 19(1), Article 1. https://doi.org/10.1186/s12916-020-01826-0
Steur, M., Johnson, L., Sharp, S. J., Imamura, F., Sluijs, I., Key, T. J., Wood, A., Chowdhury, R., Guevara, M., Jakobsen, M. U., Johansson, I., Koulman, A., Overvad, K., Sánchez, M.-J., van der Schouw, Y. T., Trichopoulou, A., Weiderpass, E., Wennberg, M., Zheng, J.-S. ... Forouhi, N. G. (2021). Dietary Fatty Acids, Macronutrient Substitutions, Food Sources and Incidence of Coronary Heart Disease: Findings From the EPIC-CVD Case-Cohort Study Across Nine European Countries. Journal of the American Heart Association, 10(23), Article e019814. https://doi.org/10.1161/JAHA.120.019814

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