Department of Public Health

 Department of Public Health Research Research areas Epidemiology, Environment and Biostatistics 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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Aglago, E. K., Murphy, N., Huybrechts, I., Nicolas, G., Casagrande, C., Fedirko, V., Weiderpass, E., Rothwell, J. A., Dahm, C. C., Olsen, A., Tjønneland, A., Kaaks, R., Katzke, V., Schulze, M. B., Masala, G., Agnoli, C., Panico, S., Tumino, R., Sacerdote, C. ... Gunter, M. J. (2021). Dietary intake and plasma phospholipid concentrations of saturated, monounsaturated and trans fatty acids and colorectal cancer risk in the European Prospective Investigation into Cancer and Nutrition cohort. International Journal of Cancer, 149(4), 865-882. https://doi.org/10.1002/ijc.33615
Matta, M., Huybrechts, I., Biessy, C., Casagrande, C., Yammine, S., Fournier, A., Olsen, K. S., Lukic, M., Gram, I. T., Ardanaz, E., Sánchez, M.-J., Dossus, L., Fortner, R. T., Srour, B., Jannasch, F., Schulze, M. B., Amiano, P., Agudo, A., Colorado-Yohar, S. ... Murphy, N. (2021). Dietary intake of trans fatty acids and breast cancer risk in 9 European countries. BMC Medicine, 19(1), Article 81. https://doi.org/10.1186/s12916-021-01952-3
Frederiksen, S. B., Themsen, H. H., Overvad, K. & Dahm, C. C. (2021). Dietary patterns generated by the Treelet Transform and risk of stroke: a Danish cohort study. Public Health Nutrition, 24(1), 84-94. https://doi.org/10.1017/S1368980019004324
Emerging Risk Factors Collaboration/EPIC-CVD/Vitamin D Studies Collaboration (2021). Estimating dose-response relationships for vitamin D with coronary heart disease, stroke, and all-cause mortality: observational and Mendelian randomisation analyses. The Lancet Diabetes & Endocrinology, 9(12), 837-846. https://doi.org/10.1016/S2213-8587(21)00263-1
Hanley-Cook, G. T., Huybrechts, I., Biessy, C., Remans, R., Kennedy, G., Deschasaux-Tanguy, M., Murray, K. A., Touvier, M., Skeie, G., Kesse-Guyot, E., Argaw, A., Casagrande, C., Nicolas, G., Vineis, P., Millett, C. J., Weiderpass, E., Ferrari, P., Dahm, C. C., Bueno-De-Mesquita, H. B. ... Lachat, C. (2021). Food biodiversity and total and cause-specific mortality in 9 European countries: An analysis of a prospective cohort study . PLOS Medicine, 18(10), Article e1003834. https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pmed.1003834
Ibsen, D. B., Laursen, A. S. D., Würtz, A. M. L., Dahm, C. C., Rimm, E. B., Parner, E. T., Overvad, K. & Jakobsen, M. U. (2021). Food substitution models for nutritional epidemiology. The American Journal of Clinical Nutrition, 113(2), 294-303. Article nqaa315. https://doi.org/10.1093/ajcn/nqaa315
Castro-Espin, C., Agudo, A., Bonet, C., Katzke, V., Turzanski-Fortner, R., Aleksandrova, K., Schulze, M. B., Tjønneland, A., Dahm, C. C., Quirós, J.-R., Sánchez, M.-J., Amiano, P., Chirlaque, M.-D., Ardanaz, E., Masala, G., Sieri, S., Tumino, R., Sacerdote, C., Panico, S. ... Jakszyn, P. (2021). Inflammatory potential of the diet and risk of breast cancer in the European Investigation into Cancer and Nutrition (EPIC) study. European Journal of Epidemiology, 36(9), 953-964. https://doi.org/10.1007/s10654-021-00772-2

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