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

Recent publications

Publications

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Mørch, A. B., Ibsen, D. B., Wolk, A. & Dahm, C. C. (2025). Development of the Nordic Nutrition Recommendations 2023 food-based diet score and its association with all-cause mortality in two Swedish cohorts. The Journal of Nutrition, 155(11), 3747-3756. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.tjnut.2025.06.030
Torres-Laiton, L., Luján-Barroso, L., Nadal-Zaragoza, N., Castro-Espin, C., Jakszyn, P., Panico, C., Le Cornet, C., Dahm, C. C., Petrova, D., Rodríguez-Palacios, D. Á., Jannasch, F., Masala, G., Dossus, L., Padroni, L., Guevara, M., Schulze, M. B., Fortner, R. T., Tumino, R. & Crous-Bou, M. (2025). Diabetes-Related Dietary Patterns and Endometrial Cancer Risk and Survival in the European Prospective Investigation into Cancer and Nutrition Study. Nutrients, 17(10), Article 1645. https://doi.org/10.3390/nu17101645
Rizzolo-Brime, L., Lujan-Barroso, L., Farran-Codina, A., Bou, R., Nicolas, G., Huybrechts, I., Lasheras, C., Montes, E. M., Colorado-Yohar, S., Gasque, A., Dahm, C. C., Bock, N., Olsen, A., Tjønneland, A., Katzke, V., le Cornet, C., Schulze, M. B., Saieva, C., Sieri, S. ... Jakszyn, P. (2026). Dietary nitrosyl-heme from processed meats and its association with colorectal cancer risk: findings from the EPIC cohort study. Nutrition Journal, 25(1), Article 14. Advance online publication. https://doi.org/10.1186/s12937-025-01266-7
Hanley-Cook, G. T., Deygers, J., Daly, A. J., Berden, J., Remans, R., Termote, C., Ibsen, D. B., Baudry, J., Van Damme, P., Kesse-Guyot, E., Vineis, P., Schulze, M. B., Hoang, K. T., Deschasaux-Tanguy, M., Heath, A., Dahm, C. C., van der Schouw, Y. T., Skeie, G., Guevara, M. ... Lachat, C. (2025). Dietary species richness provides a comparable marker for better nutrition and health across contexts. Nature Food, 6(6), 577-586. Article e5656. https://doi.org/10.1038/s43016-025-01147-6
Kyrø, C., Grand, M. K., Bigaard, J., Rossing, M., Knoop, A. S., Kroman, N., Mellemkjær, L., Dahm, C. C., Bidstrup, P. E., Tjønneland, A. & Olsen, A. (2025). Dietary supplement use and life expectancy after breast cancer - The Danish Diet, Cancer and Health cohort. The Journal of Nutrition, 155(12), 4502-4513. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.tjnut.2025.09.035
Pizzato, M., McCormack, V., Dossus, L., Al-Alem, U., Delpierre, C., Lamy, S., Macciotta, A., Ricceri, F., Mellemkjær, L., Tjønneland, A., Dahm, C. C., Antoniussen, C. S., Guénel, P., Fournier, A., Frenoy, P., Schulze, M. B., Kaaks, R., Fortner, R. T., Ferrari, P. ... Vaccarella, S. (2025). Education level and risk of breast cancer by tumor subtype in the EPIC cohort. International Journal of Cancer, 157(4), 672-686. https://doi.org/10.1002/ijc.35413
Macciotta, A., Sacerdote, C., Giachino, C., Di Girolamo, C., Franco, M., van der Schouw, Y. T., Zamora-Ros, R., Weiderpass, E., Domenighetti, C., Elbaz, A., Truong, T., Agnoli, C., Bendinelli, B., Panico, S., Vineis, P., Christakoudi, S., Schulze, M. B., Katzke, V., Bajracharya, R. ... Ricceri, F. (2025). Examining causal relationships between educational attainment and type 2 diabetes using genetic analysis: findings from the EPIC-InterAct study through Mendelian randomisation. Journal of Epidemiology and Community Health, 79(5), 373-379. Article 222734. https://doi.org/10.1136/jech-2024-222734

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