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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Arildsen, M. M., Glenting, S. B., Fedder, A. M., Jørgensen, B., Ellermann-Eriksen, S., Thomsen, M. K., Dahm, C. C. & Pedersen, M. (2022). A Comparison of Pharyngeal Swabs and Tracheal Secretions for the Diagnosing of COVID-19. Biomedicines, 10(2), Article 488. https://doi.org/10.3390/biomedicines10020488

Ibsen, D. B., Christiansen, A. H., Olsen, A., Tjønneland, A., Overvad, K., Wolk, A., Mortensen, J. K. & Dahm, C. C. (2022). Adherence to the EAT-Lancet Diet and Risk of Stroke and Stroke Subtypes: A Cohort Study. Stroke, 53(1), 154-163. https://doi.org/10.1161/STROKEAHA.121.036738

Mayén, A. L., Viallon, V., Botteri, E., Proust-Lima, C., Bagnardi, V., Batista, V., Cross, A. J., Laouali, N., MacDonald, C. J., Severi, G., Katzke, V., Bergmann, M. M., Schulze, M. B., Tjønneland, A., Eriksen, A. K., Dahm, C. C., Antoniussen, C. S., Jakszyn, P., Sánchez, M. J. ... Ferrari, P. (2022). A longitudinal evaluation of alcohol intake throughout adulthood and colorectal cancer risk. European Journal of Epidemiology, 37(9), 915-929. https://doi.org/10.1007/s10654-022-00900-6

Papadimitriou, N., Bouras, E., van den Brandt, P. A., Muller, D. C., Papadopoulou, A., Heath, A. K., Critselis, E., Gunter, M. J., Vineis, P., Ferrari, P., Weiderpass, E., Boeing, H., Bastide, N., Merritt, M. A., Lopez, D. S., Bergmann, M. M., Perez-Cornago, A., Schulze, M., Skeie, G. ... Tsilidis, K. K. (2022). A Prospective Diet-Wide Association Study for Risk of Colorectal Cancer in EPIC. Clinical Gastroenterology and Hepatology, 20(4), 864-873.e13. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.cgh.2021.04.028

Charalampous, P., Gorasso, V., Plass, D., Pires, S. M., von der Lippe, E., Mereke, A., Idavain, J., Kissimova-Skarbek, K., Morgado, J. N., Ngwa, C. H., Noguer, I., Padron-Monedero, A., Santi-Cano, M. J., Sarmiento, R., Devleesschauwer, B., Haagsma, J. A. & COST Action CA18218 participants (2022). Burden of non-communicable disease studies in Europe: a systematic review of data sources and methodological choices. European Journal of Public Health, 32(2), 289–296. https://doi.org/10.1093/eurpub/ckab218

Huybrechts, I., Rauber, F., Nicolas, G., Casagrande, C., Kliemann, N., Wedekind, R., Biessy, C., Scalbert, A., Touvier, M., Aleksandrova, K., Jakszyn, P., Skeie, G., Bajracharya, R., Boer, J. M. A., Borné, Y., Chajes, V., Dahm, C. C., Dansero, L., Guevara, M. ... Levy, R. B. (2022). Characterization of the degree of food processing in the European Prospective Investigation into Cancer and Nutrition: Application of the Nova classification and validation using selected biomarkers of food processing. Frontiers in nutrition, 9, Article 1035580. https://doi.org/10.3389/fnut.2022.1035580

Dimou, N., Omiyale, W., Biessy, C., Viallon, V., Kaaks, R., O'Mara, T. A., Aglago, E. K., Ardanaz, E., Bergmann, M. M., Bondonno, N. P., Braaten, T., Colorado-Yohar, S. M., Crous-Bou, M., Dahm, C. C., Fortner, R. T., Gram, I. T., Harlid, S., Heath, A. K., Idahl, A. ... Dossus, L. (2022). Cigarette Smoking and Endometrial Cancer Risk: Observational and Mendelian Randomization Analyses. Cancer Epidemiology, Biomarkers & Prevention, 31(9), 1839-1848. https://doi.org/10.1158/1055-9965.EPI-21-1176

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