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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Podmore, C., Meidtner, K., Schulze, M. B., Scott, R. A., Ramond, A., Butterworth, A. S., Di Angelantonio, E., Danesh, J., Arriola, L., Barricarte, A., Boeing, H., Clavel-Chapelon, F., Cross, A. J., Dahm, C. C., Fagherazzi, G., Franks, P. W., Gavrila, D., Grioni, S., Gunter, M. J. ... Wareham, N. J. (2016). Association of Multiple Biomarkers of Iron Metabolism and Type 2 Diabetes: The EPIC-InterAct Study. Diabetes Care, 39(4), 572-581. https://doi.org/10.2337/dc15-0257

Assi, N., Moskal, A., Slimani, N., Viallon, V., Chajes, V., Freisling, H., Monni, S., Knueppel, S., Förster, J., Weiderpass, E., Lujan-Barroso, L., Amiano, P., Ardanaz, E., Molina-Montes, E., Salmerón, D., Quirós, J. R., Olsen, A., Tjønneland, A., Dahm, C. C. ... Ferrari, P. (2016). A treelet transform analysis to relate nutrient patterns to the risk of hormonal receptor-defined breast cancer in the European Prospective Investigation into Cancer and Nutrition (EPIC). Public Health Nutrition, 19(2), 242-254. https://doi.org/10.1017/S1368980015000294

Duarte-Salles, T., Misra, S., Stepien, M., Plymoth, A., Muller, D. C., Overvad, K., Olsen, A., Tjonneland, A., Baglietto, L., Severi, G., Boutron-Ruault, M.-C., Turzanski-Fortner, R., Kaaks, R., Boeing, H., Aleksandrova, K., Trichopoulou, A., Lagiou, P., Bamia, C., Pala, V. ... Beretta, L. (2016). Circulating Osteopontin and Prediction of Hepatocellular Carcinoma Development in a Large European Population. Cancer Prevention Research, 9(9), 758-765. https://doi.org/10.1158/1940-6207.CAPR-15-0434

Bakken, T., Braaten, T., Olsen, A., Kyrø, C., Lund, E. & Skeie, G. (2016). Consumption of Whole-Grain Bread and Risk of Colorectal Cancer among Norwegian Women (the NOWAC Study). Nutrients, 8(1), Article E40. https://doi.org/10.3390/nu8010040

Opstelten, J. L., Leenders, M., Dik, V. K., Chan, S. S. M., van Schaik, F. D. M., Khaw, K.-T., Luben, R., Hallmans, G., Karling, P., Lindgren, S., Grip, O., Key, T. J., Crowe, F. L., Boeing, H., Bergmann, M. M., Overvad, K., Palli, D., Masala, G., Racine, A. ... Oldenburg, B. (2016). Dairy Products, Dietary Calcium, and Risk of Inflammatory Bowel Disease: Results From a European Prospective Cohort Investigation. Inflammatory Bowel Diseases, 22(6), 1403-1411. https://doi.org/10.1097/MIB.0000000000000798

Racine, A., Carbonnel, F., Chan, S. S. M., Hart, A. R., Bueno-de-Mesquita, H. B., Oldenburg, B., van Schaik, F. D. M., Tjønneland, A., Olsen, A., Dahm, C. C., Key, T., Luben, R., Khaw, K.-T., Riboli, E., Grip, O., Lindgren, S., Hallmans, G., Karling, P., Clavel-Chapelon, F. ... Boutron-Ruault, M.-C. (2016). Dietary Patterns and Risk of Inflammatory Bowel Disease in Europe: Results from the EPIC Study. Inflammatory Bowel Diseases, 22(2), 345-354. https://doi.org/10.1097/MIB.0000000000000638

Lassale, C., Gunter, M. J., Romaguera, D., Peelen, L. M., Van der Schouw, Y. T., Beulens, J. W. J., Freisling, H., Muller, D. C., Ferrari, P., Huybrechts, I., Fagherazzi, G., Boutron-Ruault, M.-C., Affret, A., Overvad, K., Dahm, C. C., Olsen, A., Roswall, N., Tsilidis, K. K., Katzke, V. A. ... Tzoulaki, I. (2016). Diet Quality Scores and Prediction of All-Cause, Cardiovascular and Cancer Mortality in a Pan-European Cohort Study. PLoS One, 11(7), e0159025. Article e0159025. https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0159025

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