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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Huybrechts, I., Jacobs, I., Biessy, C., Aglago, E. K., Jenab, M., Claeys, L., Zavadil, J., Casagrande, C., Nicolas, G., Scelo, G., Altieri, A., Fervers, B., Oswald, I. P., Vignard, J., Chimera, B., de Magistris, M. S., Masala, G., Palli, D., Padroni, L. ... De Boevre, M. (2024). Associations between dietary mycotoxins exposures and risk of hepatocellular carcinoma in a European cohort. PLoS One, 19(12), Article e0315561. https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0315561

Stubbendorff, A., Stern, D., Ericson, U., Sonestedt, E., Hallström, E., Borné, Y., Lajous, M., Forouhi, N. G., Olsen, A., Dahm, C. C. & Ibsen, D. B. (2024). A systematic evaluation of seven different scores representing the EAT-Lancet reference diet and mortality, stroke, and greenhouse gas emissions in three cohorts. The Lancet Planetary Health, 8(6), e391-e401. https://doi.org/10.1016/S2542-5196(24)00094-9

Frederiksen, T. C., Benjamin, E. J., Trinquart, L., Lin, H., Dahm, C. C., Christiansen, M. K., Jensen, H. K., Preis, S. R. & Kornej, J. (2024). Bidirectional Association Between Atrial Fibrillation and Myocardial Infarction, and Relation to Mortality in the Framingham Heart Study. Journal of the American Heart Association, 13(11), e032226. Article e032226. https://doi.org/10.1161/JAHA.123.032226

Zhang, J., Clayton, G. L., Overvad, K., Olsen, A., Lawlor, D. A. & Dahm, C. C. (2024). Body mass index in parents and their adult offspring: A systematic review and meta-analysis. Obesity Reviews, 25(1), Article e13644. https://doi.org/10.1111/obr.13644

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

Zheng, J.-S., Steur, M., Imamura, F., Freisling, H., Johnson, L., van der Schouw, Y. T., Tong, T. Y. N., Weiderpass, E., Bajracharya, R., Crous-Bou, M., Dahm, C. C., Heath, A. K., Ibsen, D. B., Jannasch, F., Katzke, V., Masala, G., Moreno-Iribas, C., Sacerdote, C., Schulze, M. B. ... Forouhi, N. G. (2024). Dietary intake of plant- and animal-derived protein and incident cardiovascular diseases: the pan-European EPIC-CVD case-cohort study. The American Journal of Clinical Nutrition, 119(5), 1164-1174. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.ajcnut.2024.03.006

Agbaje, A. O., Saner, C., Zhang, J., Henderson, M. & Tuomainen, T.-P. (2024). DXA-based Fat Mass With Risk of Worsening Insulin Resistance in Adolescents: A 9-Year Temporal and Mediation Study. Journal of Clinical Endocrinology and Metabolism, 109(9), e1708–e1719. https://doi.org/10.1210/clinem/dgae004

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