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
Recent publications
Publications
Laugesen, K., Mengel-From, J., Christensen, K., Olsen, J., Hougaard, D. M., Boding, L., Olsen, A., Erikstrup, C., Hetland, M. L., Høgdall, E., Kjaergaard, A. D., Sørensen, E., Brügmann, A., Petersen, E. R. B., Brandslund, I., Nordestgaard, B. G., Jensen, G. B., Skajaa, N., Troelsen, F. S. ... Sørensen, H. T. (2023). A Review of Major Danish Biobanks: Advantages and Possibilities of Health Research in Denmark. Clinical Epidemiology, 15, 213-239. https://doi.org/10.2147/CLEP.S392416
Gram, M. A., Olsen, A., Andersen, Z. J., Tjønneland, A. & Mellemkjær, L. (2023). Associations of body fat mass and fat-free mass with breast cancer incidence in postmenopausal women: A Danish prospective cohort study. Annals of Epidemiology, 80, 30-36. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.annepidem.2023.01.014
Mahamat-Saleh, Y., Al-Rahmoun, M., Severi, G., Ghiasvand, R., Veierod, M. B., Caini, S., Palli, D., Botteri, E., Sacerdote, C., Ricceri, F., Lukic, M., Sánchez, M. J., Pala, V., Tumino, R., Chiodini, P., Amiano, P., Colorado-Yohar, S., Chirlaque, M.-D., Ardanaz, E. ... Kvaskoff, M. (2023). Baseline and lifetime alcohol consumption and risk of skin cancer in the European Prospective Investigation into Cancer and Nutrition cohort (EPIC). International Journal of Cancer, 152(3), 348-362. https://doi.org/10.1002/ijc.34253
Botteri, E., Peveri, G., Berstad, P., Bagnardi, V., Chen, S. L. F., Sandanger, T. M., Hoff, G., Dahm, C. C., Antoniussen, C. S., Tjønneland, A., Eriksen, A. K., Skeie, G., Perez-Cornago, A., Huerta, J. M., Jakszyn, P., Harlid, S., Sundström, B., Barricarte, A., Monninkhof, E. M. ... Ferrari, P. (2023). Changes in Lifestyle and Risk of Colorectal Cancer in the European Prospective Investigation Into Cancer and Nutrition. The American Journal of Gastroenterology, 118(4), 702-711. https://doi.org/10.14309/ajg.0000000000002065
Rothwell, J. A., Bešević, J., Dimou, N., Breeur, M., Murphy, N., Jenab, M., Wedekind, R., Viallon, V., Ferrari, P., Achaintre, D., Gicquiau, A., Rinaldi, S., Scalbert, A., Huybrechts, I., Prehn, C., Adamski, J., Cross, A. J., Keun, H., Chadeau-Hyam, M. ... Gunter, M. J. (2023). Circulating amino acid levels and colorectal cancer risk in the European Prospective Investigation into Cancer and Nutrition and UK Biobank cohorts. BMC Medicine, 21(1), Article 80. https://doi.org/10.1186/s12916-023-02739-4
Watts, E. L., Perez-Cornago, A., Fensom, G. K., Smith-Byrne, K., Noor, U., Andrews, C. D., Gunter, M. J., Holmes, M. V., Martin, R. M., Tsilidis, K. K., Albanes, D., Barricarte, A., Bueno-de-Mesquita, H. B., Cohn, B. A., Deschasaux-Tanguy, M., Dimou, N. L., Ferrucci, L., Flicker, L., Freedman, N. D. ... Travis, R. C. (2023). Circulating insulin-like growth factors and risks of overall, aggressive and early-onset prostate cancer: a collaborative analysis of 20 prospective studies and Mendelian randomization analysis. International Journal of Epidemiology, 52(1), 71-86. Article dyac124. https://doi.org/10.1093/ije/dyac124
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. (2023). Corrigendum: 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, 10, Article 1207555. https://doi.org/10.3389/fnut.2023.1207555