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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Eriksen, A. K., Hansen, R. D., Borre, M., Larsen, R. G., Jensen, J. M., Overgaard, K., Borre, M., Kyrø, C., Landberg, R., Olsen, A. & Tjønneland, A. (2017). A lifestyle intervention among elderly men on active surveillance for non-aggressive prostate cancer: a randomised feasibility study with whole-grain rye and exercise. Trials, 18(1), 1-12. Article 20. https://doi.org/10.1186/s13063-016-1734-1
Zheng, J.-S., Sharp, S. J., Imamura, F., Koulman, A., Schulze, M. B., Ye, Z., Griffin, J., Guevara, M., Huerta, J. M., Kröger, J., Sluijs, I., Agudo, A., Barricarte, A., Boeing, H., Colorado-Yohar, S., Dow, C., Dorronsoro, M., Dinesen, P. T., Fagherazzi, G. ... Wareham, N. J. (2017). Association between plasma phospholipid saturated fatty acids and metabolic markers of lipid, hepatic, inflammation and glycaemic pathways in eight European countries: a cross-sectional analysis in the EPIC-InterAct study. B M C Medicine, 15(1), 203. Article 203. https://doi.org/10.1186/s12916-017-0968-4
Gunter, M. J., Murphy, N., Cross, A. J., Dossus, L., Dartois, L., Fagherazzi, G., Kaaks, R., Kühn, T., Boeing, H., Aleksandrova, K., Tjønneland, A., Olsen, A., Overvad, K., Larsen, S. C., Redondo Cornejo, M. L., Agudo, A., Sánchez-Pérez, M.-J., Altzibar, J. M., Navarro, C. ... Riboli, E. (2017). Coffee Drinking and Mortality in 10 European Countries: A Multinational Cohort Study. Annals of Internal Medicine, 167(4), 236-247. https://doi.org/10.7326/M16-2945
Kyrø, C., Kristensen, M., Jakobsen, M. U., Halkjaer, J., Landberg, R., Bueno-de-Mesquita, H. A., Christensen, J., Romieu, I., Tjønneland, A. & Olsen, A. (2017). Dietary intake of whole grains and plasma alkylresorcinol concentrations in relation to changes in anthropometry: the Danish diet, cancer and health cohort study. European Journal of Clinical Nutrition, 71(8), 944-952. https://doi.org/10.1038/ejcn.2016.233
Lu, Y., Zamora-Ros, R., Chan, S., Cross, A. J., Ward, H., Jakszyn, P., Luben, R., Opstelten, J. L., Oldenburg, B., Hallmans, G., Karling, P., Grip, O., Key, T., Bergmann, M. M., Boeing, H., Overvad, K., Palli, D., Masala, G., Khaw, K.-T. ... Hart, A. R. (2017). Dietary Polyphenols in the Aetiology of Crohn's Disease and Ulcerative Colitis-A Multicenter European Prospective Cohort Study (EPIC). Inflammatory Bowel Diseases, 23(12), 2072-2082. https://doi.org/10.1097/MIB.0000000000001108
Fedirko, V., Tran, H. Q., Gewirtz, A. T., Stepien, M., Trichopoulou, A., Aleksandrova, K., Olsen, A., Tjønneland, A., Overvad, K., Carbonnel, F., Boutron-Ruault, M.-C., Severi, G., Kühn, T., Kaaks, R., Boeing, H., Bamia, C., Lagiou, P., Grioni, S., Panico, S. ... Jenab, M. (2017). Exposure to bacterial products lipopolysaccharide and flagellin and hepatocellular carcinoma: a nested case-control study. B M C Medicine, 15(1), 72. Article 72. https://doi.org/10.1186/s12916-017-0830-8
Romieu, I., Ferrari, P., Chajès, V., de Batlle, J., Biessy, C., Scoccianti, C., Dossus, L., Christine Boutron, M., Bastide, N., Overvad, K., Olsen, A., Tjønneland, A., Kaaks, R., Boeing, H., Trichopoulou, A., Lagiou, P., Trichopoulos, D., Palli, D., Sieri, S. ... Riboli, E. (2017). Fiber intake modulates the association of alcohol intake with breast cancer. International Journal of Cancer, 140(2), 316-321. https://doi.org/10.1002/ijc.30415

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