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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Kyrø, C., Hansen, L., Frederiksen, K., Nørskov, N., Knudsen, K. E. B., Eriksen, A. K., Holm, M., Tjønneland, A. & Olsen, A. V. (2018). Pre-diagnostic plasma enterolactone concentrations and breast cancer prognosis among postmenopausal Danish women – The Danish Diet, Cancer and Health cohort. Clinical Nutrition, 37(6), 2217-2225. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.clnu.2017.10.023

Opstelten, J. L., Chan, S. S. M., Hart, A. R., van Schaik, F. D. M., Siersema, P. D., Lentjes, E. G. W. M., Khaw, K.-T., Luben, R., Key, T. J., Boeing, H., Bergmann, M. M., Overvad, K., Palli, D., Masala, G., Racine, A., Carbonnel, F., Boutron-Ruault, M.-C., Tjønneland, A., Olsen, A. ... Oldenburg, B. (2018). Prediagnostic Serum Vitamin D Levels and the Risk of Crohn's Disease and Ulcerative Colitis in European Populations: A Nested Case-Control Study. Inflammatory Bowel Diseases, 24(3), 633-640. https://doi.org/10.1093/ibd/izx050

Sarink, D., Schock, H., Johnson, T., Chang-Claude, J., Overvad, K., Olsen, A., Tjønneland, A., Arveux, P., Fournier, A., Kvaskoff, M., Boeing, H., Karakatsani, A., Trichopoulou, A., La Vecchia, C., Masala, G., Agnoli, C., Panico, S., Tumino, R., Sacerdote, C. ... Fortner, R. T. (2018). Receptor activator of nuclear factor kB ligand, osteoprotegerin, and risk of death following a breast cancer diagnosis: results from the EPIC cohort. BMC Cancer, 18(1), 1010. Article 1010. https://doi.org/10.1186/s12885-018-4887-3

Køster, B., Søndergaard, J., Nielsen, J. B., Olsen, A. & Bentzen, J. (2018). Reliability and consistency of a validated sun exposure questionnaire in a population-based Danish sample. Preventive Medicine Reports, 10, 43-48. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.pmedr.2018.02.002

Li, K., Anderson, G., Viallon, V., Arveux, P., Kvaskoff, M., Fournier, A., Krogh, V., Tumino, R., Sánchez, M.-J., Ardanaz, E., Chirlaque, M.-D., Agudo, A., Muller, D. C., Smith, T., Tzoulaki, I., Key, T. J., Bueno-de-Mesquita, B., Trichopoulou, A., Bamia, C. ... Ferrari, P. (2018). Risk prediction for estrogen receptor-specific breast cancers in two large prospective cohorts. Breast Cancer Research, 20(1), 147. Article 147. https://doi.org/10.1186/s13058-018-1073-0

Emerging Risk Factors Collaboration/EPIC-CVD/UK Biobank Alcohol Study Group (Christina C. Dahm, Kim Overvad; members) (2018). Risk thresholds for alcohol consumption: combined analysis of individual-participant data for 599 912 current drinkers in 83 prospective studies. Lancet, 391(10129), 1513-1523. https://doi.org/10.1016/S0140-6736(18)30134-X

Gleerup, H. B., Dahm, C. C., Thim, T., Jensen, S. E., Jensen, L. O., Kristensen, S. D., Bøtker, H. E. & Maeng, M. (2018). Smoking is the dominating modifiable risk factor in younger patients with STEMI. European Heart Journal: Acute Cardiovascular Care, 2048872618810414. https://doi.org/10.1177/2048872618810414

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