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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Vissers, L. E. T., Sluijs, I., Burgess, S., Forouhi, N. G., Freisling, H., Imamura, F., Nilsson, T. K., Renström, F., Weiderpass, E., Aleksandrova, K., Dahm, C. C., Perez-Cornago, A., Schulze, M. B., Tong, T. Y. N., Aune, D., Bonet, C., Boer, J. M. A., Boeing, H., Chirlaque, M. D. ... van der Schouw, Y. T. (2022). Milk intake and incident stroke and CHD in populations of European descent: a Mendelian randomisation study. The British Journal of Nutrition, 128(9), 1789-1797. https://doi.org/10.1017/S0007114521004244
Chan, S. S. M., Chen, Y., Casey, K., Olen, O., Ludvigsson, J. F., Carbonnel, F., Oldenburg, B., Gunter, M. J., Tjønneland, A., Grip, O., DEFINe-IBD Investigators (Kim Overvad, Anja Olsen; members), Lochhead, P., Chan, A. T., Wolk, A. & Khalili, H. (2022). Obesity is Associated With Increased Risk of Crohn's disease, but not Ulcerative Colitis: A Pooled Analysis of Five Prospective Cohort Studies. Clinical gastroenterology and hepatology : the official clinical practice journal of the American Gastroenterological Association, 20(5), 1048-1058. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.cgh.2021.06.049
Andersen, J. L. M., Frederiksen, K., Raaschou-Nielsen, O., Hansen, J., Kyrø, C., Tjønneland, A. & Olsen, A. (2022). Organic food consumption is associated with a healthy lifestyle, socio-demographics and dietary habits: a cross-sectional study based on the Danish Diet, Cancer and Health cohort. Public Health Nutrition, 25(6), 1543-1551. https://doi.org/10.1017/S1368980021001270
Fortuin-de Smidt, M. C., Sewe, M. O., Lassale, C., Weiderpass, E., Andersson, J., Huerta, J. M., Ekelund, U., Aleksandrova, K., Tong, T. Y., Dahm, C. C., Tjønneland, A., Kyrø, C., Steindorf, K., Schulze, M. B., Katzke, V., Sacerdote, C., Agnoli, C., Masala, G., Tumino, R. ... Wennberg, P. (2022). Physical activity attenuates but does not eliminate coronary heart disease risk amongst adults with risk factors: EPIC-CVD case-cohort study. European Journal of Preventive Cardiology, 29(12), 1618-1629. Article zwac055. https://doi.org/10.1093/eurjpc/zwac055
Nimptsch, K., Aleksandrova, K., Fedirko, V., Jenab, M., Gunter, M. J., Siersema, P. D., Wu, K., Katzke, V., Kaaks, R., Panico, S., Palli, D., May, A. M., Sieri, S., Bueno-de-Mesquita, B., Standahl, K., Sánchez, M. J., Perez-Cornago, A., Olsen, A., Tjønneland, A. ... Pischon, T. (2022). Pre-diagnostic C-reactive protein concentrations, CRP genetic variation and mortality among individuals with colorectal cancer in Western European populations. BMC Cancer, 22(1), Article 695. https://doi.org/10.1186/s12885-022-09778-9
Nie, S., Tian, D., Huang, Y., Zheng, T., Zhang, J., Ding, P., Zhang, B., Shen, H. & Mo, F. (2022). Research on Screening Methods for People Susceptible to Motion Sickness and Fatigue After Long Voyage. In S. Long & B. S. Dhillon (Eds.), Man-Machine-Environment System Engineering: Proceedings of the 21st International Conference on MMESE - Commemorative Conference for the 110th Anniversary of Xuesen Qian’s Birth and the 40th Anniversary of Founding of Man-Machine-Environment System Engineering (pp. 166-170). Springer. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-981-16-5963-8_24
Møller, M., Kjær, S. K., Lindquist, S., Brown Frandsen, C. L., Albieri, V., Viuff, J. H., Nøhr, B., Olsen, A. & Jensen, A. (2022). Risk of colorectal cancer after use of fertility drugs—results from a large Danish population-based cohort of women with infertility. Fertility and Sterility, 118(4), 738-747. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.fertnstert.2022.06.029

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