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

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Davila-Batista, V., Viallon, V., Fontvieille, E., Jansana, A., Kohls, M., Bondonno, N. P., Tjønneland, A., Dahm, C. C., Antoniussen, C. S., Katzke, V., Bajrachaya, R., Schulze, M. B., Agnoli, C., Ricceri, F., Panico, S., Zamora-Ros, R., Rodriguez-Barranco, M., Amiano, P., Chirlaque, M.-D. ... Freisling, H. (2025). Associations between cardiometabolic comorbidities and mortality in adults with cancer: multinational cohort study. BMJ Medicine, 4(1), e000909. Article e000909. https://doi.org/10.1136/bmjmed-2024-000909
González-Gil, E. M., Matta, M., Morales Berstein, F., Cairat, M., Nicolas, G., Blanco, J., Kliemann, N., Bertazzi Levy, R., Rauber, F., Jacobs, I., Al Nahas, A., Cakmak, E. K., Vamos, E. P., Chang, K., Yammine, S. G., Millett, C., Touvier, M., Matias Pinho, M. G., Tsilidis, K. K. ... Huybrechts, I. (2025). Associations between degree of food processing and all-cause and cause-specific mortality: a multicentre prospective cohort analysis in 9 European countries. The Lancet Regional Health - Europe, 50, Article 101208. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.lanepe.2024.101208
Berden, J., Chimera, B., Hanley-Cook, G. T., Cakmak, E. K., Vineis, P., Nicolas, G., Skeie, G., Srour, B., Kesse-Guyot, E., Touvier, M., Baudry, J., Deschasaux-Tanguy, M., Berlivet, J., van der Schouw, Y., Murray, K., Jannasch, F., Tjønneland, A., Kyrø, C., Dahm, C. C. ... Huybrechts, I. (2025). Biodiverse diets present co-benefits for greenhouse gas emissions, land use, mortality rates and nutritional adequacy in Europe. Nature Food, 6(9), 857-867. https://doi.org/10.1038/s43016-025-01214-y
Fontvieille, E., Jansana, A., Peruchet-Noray, L., Córdova, R., Gan, Q., Rinaldi, S., Dossus, L., Mahamat-Saleh, Y., Gunter, M. J., Heath, A., Aune, D., Inan-Eroglu, E., Schulze, M. B., Bock, N., Dahm, C. C., Castro-Espin, C., Sánchez, M.-J., Perez-Cornago, A., Tin, S. T. ... Freisling, H. (2025). Body mass index and breast cancer risk among postmenopausal women with and without cardiometabolic diseases: Findings from two prospective cohort studies in Europe. Cancer, 131(14), Article e35911. https://doi.org/10.1002/cncr.35911
Matta, K., Viallon, V., Chatziioannou, A. C., Robinot, N., Wedekind, R., Dahm, C. C., Rostgaard-Hansen, A. L., Tjønneland, A., Truong, T., Marques, C., Frenoy, P., Kaaks, R., Fortner, R. T., Schulze, M. B., Sieri, S., Fordellone, M., Tumino, R., Ricceri, F., Braaten, T. ... Ferrari, P. (2025). Can serum metabolic signatures inform on the relationship between healthy lifestyle and colon cancer risk? Cancer & metabolism, 13(1), Article 30. https://doi.org/10.1186/s40170-025-00388-0
Chen, J., Sun, Y., Dan, L., Wellens, J., Yuan, S., Yang, H., Tong, T. Y. N., Cross, A. J., Papadimitriou, N., Meyer, A., Dahm, C. C., Larsson, S. C., Wolk, A., Ludvigsson, J. F., Tsilidis, K., Giovannucci, E., Satsangi, J., Wang, X., Theodoratou, E. ... EPIC Investigators (Anja Olsen, member) (2025). Composition of plant-based diets and the incidence and prognosis of inflammatory bowel disease: a multinational retrospective cohort study. The Lancet Regional Health - Europe, 52, Article 101264. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.lanepe.2025.101264
Langmann, F., Jensen, C. F., Mortensen, V. L., Rosendal, L., Bock, N. & Dahm, C. C. (2025). Consumption of Legumes and Risk of Metabolic Dysfunction-Associated Steatotic Liver Disease and Gallstones among Humans Aged 2+ Years: A Scoping Review. Nutrition Reviews, 83(11), 2209-2224. Article nuaf157. https://doi.org/10.1093/nutrit/nuaf157

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