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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Ibsen, D. B., Kobayashi, R., Bruun, J. M. & Drouin-Chartier, J. P. (2025). We need to bridge nutritional and pharmacological research for long-term successful implementation of weight loss medication in practice. American Journal of Clinical Nutrition, 122(5), 1524-1525. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.ajcnut.2025.07.040
Antoniussen, C. S., Proust-Lima, C., Ibsen, D. B., Olsen, A., Overvad, K., Tjønneland, A., Ferrari, P. & Dahm, C. C. (2024). Alcohol consumption trajectories and risk of breast cancer among postmenopausal women: a Danish cohort study. European Journal of Epidemiology, 39(12), 1353-1362. https://doi.org/10.1007/s10654-024-01179-5
Harewood, R., Rothwell, J. A., Bešević, J., Viallon, V., Achaintre, D., Gicquiau, A., Rinaldi, S., Wedekind, R., Prehn, C., Adamski, J., Schmidt, J. A., Jacobs, I., Tjønneland, A., Olsen, A., Severi, G., Kaaks, R., Katzke, V., Schulze, M. B., Prada, M. ... Gunter, M. J. (2024). Association between pre-diagnostic circulating lipid metabolites and colorectal cancer risk: a nested case-control study in the European Prospective Investigation into Cancer and Nutrition (EPIC). EBioMedicine, 101, Article 105024. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.ebiom.2024.105024
González-Gil, E. M., Peruchet-Noray, L., Sedlmeier, A. M., Christakoudi, S., Biessy, C., Navionis, A.-S., Mahamat-Saleh, Y., Jaafar, R. F., Baurecht, H., Guevara, M., Etxezarreta, P. A., Verschuren, W. M. M., Boer, J. M. A., Olsen, A., Tjønneland, A., Simeon, V., Castro-Espin, C., Aune, D., Heath, A. K. ... Dossus, L. (2024). Association of body shape phenotypes and body fat distribution indexes with inflammatory biomarkers in the European Prospective Investigation into Cancer and Nutrition (EPIC) and UK Biobank. BMC Medicine, 22(1), Article 334. https://doi.org/10.1186/s12916-024-03544-3
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

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