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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Langmann, F., Prioux, C., Touvier, M., Kesse-Guyot, E., Fezeu, L. K., Baudry, J., Dahm, C. C. & Allès, B. (2025). Plant-based diets, legumes, and prevalence of cardiometabolic risk factors in the NutriNet-Santé cohort. European Journal of Nutrition, 64(5), Article 193. https://doi.org/10.1007/s00394-025-03722-w

Ibsen, D. B. & Zhang, Y. (2025). Potatoes and risk of type 2 diabetes. BMJ, 390, Article r1557. https://doi.org/10.1136/bmj.r1557

Guasch-Ferré, M., Wittenbecher, C., Palmnäs, M., Ben-Yacov, O., Blaak, E. E., Dahm, C. C., Fall, T., Heitmann, B. L., Licht, T. R., Löf, M., Loos, R., Patel, C. J., Quarta, C., Redman, L. M., Segal, E., Segata, N., Snyder, M., Sun, Q., Tobias, D. K. ... Merino, J. (2025). Precision nutrition for cardiometabolic diseases. Nature Medicine, 31(5), 1444-1453. https://doi.org/10.1038/s41591-025-03669-9

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

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