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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Obón-Santacana, M., Peeters, P. H., Freisling, H., Dossus, L., Clavel-Chapelon, F., Baglietto, L., Schock, H., Fortner, R. T., Boeing, H., Tjonneland, A., Olsen, A., Overvad, K., Menéndez, V., Sanchez, M.-J., Larranaga, N., Huerta Castaño, J. M., Barricarte, A., Khaw, K.-T., Wareham, N. ... Duell, E. J. (2015). Dietary intake of acrylamide and epithelial ovarian cancer risk in the European Prospective Investigation into Cancer and Nutrition (EPIC) cohort. Cancer Epidemiology, Biomarkers & Prevention, 24(1), 291-7. https://doi.org/10.1158/1055-9965.EPI-14-0636

Engeset, D., Hofoss, D., Nilsson, L. M., Olsen, A., Tjønneland, A. & Skeie, G. (2015). Dietary patterns and whole grain cereals in the Scandinavian countries - Differences and similarities. The HELGA project. Public Health Nutrition, 18(5), 905-915. https://doi.org/10.1017/S1368980014001104

Køster, B., Søndergaard, J., Nielsen, J. B., Allen, M., Bjerregaard, M., Olsen, A. & Bentzen, J. (2015). Feasibility of smartphone diaries and personal dosimeters to quantitatively study exposure to ultraviolet radiation in a small national sample. Photodermatology Photoimmunology and Photomedicine, 31(5), 252-260. https://doi.org/10.1111/phpp.12179

Engeset, D., Braaten, T., Teucher, B., Kühn, T., Bueno-de-Mesquita, H. B., Leenders, M., Agudo, A., Bergmann, M. M., Valanou, E., Naska, A., Trichopoulou, A., Key, T. J., Crowe, F. L., Overvad, K., Sonestedt, E., Mattiello, A., Peeters, P. H., Wennberg, M., Jansson, J. H. ... Lund, E. (2015). Fish consumption and mortality in the European Prospective Investigation into Cancer and Nutrition cohort. European Journal of Epidemiology, 30(1), 57-70. https://doi.org/10.1007/s10654-014-9966-4

Bro, R., Kamstrup-Nielsen, M. H., Engelsen, S. B., Savorani, F., Rasmussen, M. A., Hansen, L., Olsen, A., Tjønneland, A. & Dragsted, L. O. (2015). Forecasting individual breast cancer risk using plasma metabolomics and biocontours. Metabolomics, 11(5), 1376-1380. https://doi.org/10.1007/s11306-015-0793-8

Bamia, C., Lagiou, P., Jenab, M., Aleksandrova, K., Fedirko, V., Trichopoulos, D., Overvad, K., Tjønneland, A., Olsen, A., Clavel-Chapelon, F., Boutron-Ruault, M.-C., Kvaskoff, M., Katzke, V. A., Kühn, T., Boeing, H., Nöthlings, U., Palli, D., Sieri, S., Panico, S. ... Trichopoulou, A. (2015). Fruit and vegetable consumption in relation to hepatocellular carcinoma in a multi-centre, European cohort study. British Journal of Cancer, 112, 1273-82. https://doi.org/10.1038/bjc.2014.654

McKenzie, F., Ferrari, P., Freisling, H., Chajès, V., Rinaldi, S., de Batlle, J., Dahm, C. C., Overvad, K., Baglietto, L., Dartois, L., Dossus, L., Lagiou, P., Trichopoulos, D., Trichopoulou, A., Krogh, V., Panico, S., Tumino, R., Rosso, S., de Mesquita, H. B. B. ... Romieu, I. (2015). Healthy lifestyle and risk of breast cancer among postmenopausal women in the European Prospective Investigation into Cancer and Nutrition cohort study. International Journal of Cancer, 136(11), 2640-8. https://doi.org/10.1002/ijc.29315

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