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 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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Mozaffari, H., Imamura, F., Murphy, R. A., Jessri, M., Sharp, S. J., Forouhi, N. G., Wareham, N. J., Ibsen, D. B., Dahm, C. C., Huerta, J. M., Molina-Montes, E., Nickel, D. V., Rolandsson, O., Sacerdote, C., Schulze, M. B., Gonzalez-Martin, J. A., Guevara, M., Nilsson, P. M., Panico, S. ... Conklin, A. I. (2025). Protein diversity, type 2 diabetes, and effect modifiers: a multi-country prospective study. International Journal of Epidemiology, 54(3), Article dyaf057. https://doi.org/10.1093/ije/dyaf057
Berden, J., Hanley-Cook, G. T., Chimera, B., Aune, D., Pinho, M. G. M., Nicolas, G., Srour, B., Millett, C. J., Koc Cakmak, E., Kesse-Guyot, E., González-Gil, E. M., Vamos, E. P., Blanco Lopez, J., Baudry, J., Berlivet, J., Chang, K., Touvier, M., Le Cornet, C., Marques, C. ... Huybrechts, I. (2025). Quantifying the environmental and food biodiversity impacts of ultra-processed foods: Evidence from the European Prospective Investigation into Cancer and Nutrition (EPIC) study. Public Health Nutrition, 28(1), 1-20. Article e164. https://doi.org/10.1017/S1368980025101067
Tschiderer, L., Peters, S. A. E., van der Schouw, Y. T., Burgess, S., Luijken, J., Bijmolt, C., Soliman, H., Butterworth, A. S., Wood, A. M., Tong, T. Y. N., Dahm, C. C., Seekircher, L., Tjønneland, A., Mellemkjær, L., Schulze, M. B., Masala, G., Sieri, S., Panico, S., Sacerdote, C. ... Onland-Moret, N. C. (2025). Reassessing the association between age at menarche and cardiovascular disease: observational and Mendelian randomization analyses. European Journal of Preventive Cardiology, 32(10), 857–866. https://doi.org/10.1093/eurjpc/zwaf051
Langmann, F., Ibsen, D. B., Johnston, L. W., Perez-Cornago, A. & Dahm, C. C. (2025). Replacing red and processed meat, poultry, or fish with legumes and the risk of gallbladder diseases in a large British cohort. European Journal of Nutrition, 64(8), Article 318. https://doi.org/10.1007/s00394-025-03828-1
Vestergaard, S. B., Hedegaard, J. N., Dahm, C. C., Gottrup, H., Johnsen, S. P., Andersen, G. & Mortensen, J. K. (2025). Risk of Poststroke Dementia in Patients With and Without Atrial Fibrillation: A Nationwide Cohort Study. Journal of the American Heart Association, 14(14), 1-11. Article e041183. https://doi.org/10.1161/JAHA.124.041183
Katzke, V. A., Dutta, S., Rasokat, A., Archibugi, L., Capurso, G., Peduzzi, G., Gentiluomo, M., Canzian, F., Eriksen, A. K., Tjønneland, A., Dahm, C. C., Truong, T., Canonico, M., Laouali, N., Schulze, M. B., Tumino, R., Masala, G., Agnoli, C., Dansero, L. ... Kaaks, R. (2025). Sex Disparities and Female Reproductive and Hormonal Factors Associated with Risk of Pancreatic Cancer in the European Prospective Investigation into Cancer and Nutrition (EPIC) Cohort. Cancers, 17(14), Article 2275. https://doi.org/10.3390/cancers17142275
Vestergaard, S. B., Valentin, J. B., Dahm, C. C., Gottrup, H., Johnsen, S. P., Andersen, G. & Mortensen, J. K. (2025). Socioeconomic Disparities in Rate of Poststroke Dementia: A Nationwide Cohort Study. Stroke, 56(1), 65-73. https://doi.org/10.1161/STROKEAHA.124.048380

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