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

Sort by: Date | Author | Title

Roswall, N., Olsen, A. V., Boll, K., Christensen, J., Halkjær, J., Sørensen, T. I. A., Dahm, C. C., Overvad, K., Clavel-Chapelon, F., Boutron-Ruault, M. C., Cottet, V., Teucher, B., Kaaks, R., Boeing, H., von Ruesten, A., Trichopoulou, A., Oikonomou, E., Vasilopoulou, E., Pala, V. ... Tjønneland, A. (2014). Consumption of predefined 'Nordic' dietary items in ten European countries - an investigation in the European Prospective Investigation into Cancer and Nutrition (EPIC) cohort. Public Health Nutrition, 17(12), 2650-9. https://doi.org/10.1017/S1368980014000159

Obón-Santacana, M., Kaaks, R., Slimani, N., Lujan-Barroso, L., Freisling, H., Ferrari, P., Dossus, L., Chabbert-Buffet, N., Baglietto, L., Fortner, R. T., Boeing, H., Tjønneland, A., Olsen, A., Overvad, K., Menéndez, V., Molina-Montes, E., Larrañaga, N., Chirlaque, M.-D., Ardanaz, E. ... Duell, E. J. (2014). Dietary intake of acrylamide and endometrial cancer risk in the European Prospective Investigation into Cancer and Nutrition cohort. B J C, 111(5), 987-997. https://doi.org/10.1038/bjc.2014.328

Lujan-Barroso, L., González, C. A., Slimani, N., Obón-Santacana, M., Ferrari, P., Freisling, H., Overvad, K., Clavel-Chapelon, F., Boutron-Ruault, M.-C., Racine, A., Katzke, V., Kühn, T., Tjønneland, A., Olsen, A. V., Quirós, J. R., Sánchez-Cantalejo, E., Amiano, P., Navarro, C., Barricarte, A. ... Duell, E. J. (2014). Dietary intake of acrylamide and esophageal cancer risk in the European Prospective Investigation into Cancer and Nutrition cohort. Cancer Causes & Control, 25(5), 639-46. https://doi.org/10.1007/s10552-014-0359-5

Saberi Hosnijeh, F., Peeters, P., Romieu, I., Kelly, R., Riboli, E., Olsen, A., Tjønneland, A., Fagherazzi, G., Clavel-Chapelon, F., Dossus, L., Nieters, A., Teucher, B., Trichopoulou, A., Naska, A., Valanou, E., Mattiello, A., Sieri, S., Parr, C. L., Engeset, D. ... Vermeulen, R. (2014). Dietary intakes and risk of lymphoid and myeloid leukemia in the european prospective investigation into cancer and nutrition (EPIC). Nutrition and Cancer, 66(1), 14-28. https://doi.org/10.1080/01635581.2014.847471

Pot, G. K., Stephen, A. M., Dahm, C. C., Key, T. J., Cairns, B. J., Burley, V. J., Cade, J. E., Greenwood, D. C., Keogh, R. H., Bhaniani, A., McTaggart, A., Lentjes, M. A. H., Mishra, G., Brunner, E. J. & Khaw, K. T. (2014). Dietary patterns derived with multiple methods from food diaries and breast cancer risk in the UK Dietary Cohort Consortium. European Journal of Clinical Nutrition, 68, 1353–1358. https://doi.org/10.1038/ejcn.2014.135

Leenders, M., Boshuizen, H. C., Ferrari, P., Siersema, P. D., Overvad, K., Tjønneland, A., Olsen, A., Boutron-Ruault, M.-C., Dossus, L., Dartois, L., Kaaks, R., Li, K., Boeing, H., Bergmann, M. M., Trichopoulou, A., Lagiou, P., Trichopoulos, D., Palli, D., Krogh, V. ... Bueno-de-Mesquita, H. B. (2014). Fruit and vegetable intake and cause-specific mortality in the EPIC study. European Journal of Epidemiology, 29(9), 639-52. https://doi.org/10.1007/s10654-014-9945-9

Holm, M., Olsen, A., Kroman, N. & Tjønneland, A. (2014). Lifestyle influences on the association between pre-diagnostic hormone replacement therapy and breast cancer prognosis - Results from the Danish 'Diet, Cancer and Health' prospective cohort. Maturitas, 79(4), 442-448. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.maturitas.2014.09.004

Displaying results 407 to 413 out of 678

Search the department's publications

Group members

Contact

Revised 22.01.2026

Web team at Health