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
Ibsen, D. B., Mogensen, L., Corredig, M. & Dahm, C. C. (2022). Legumes in a sustainable healthy diet: (How) to be or not to be, that is the question. International Journal of Food Design, 7(2), 171-185. https://doi.org/10.1386/ijfd_00044_3
Kliemann, N., Ould Ammar, R., Biessy, C., Gicquiau, A., Katzke, V., Kaaks, R., Tjønneland, A., Olsen, A., Sánchez, M.-J., Crous-Bou, M., Pasanisi, F., Tin Tin, S., Perez-Cornago, A., Aune, D., Christakoudi, S., Heath, A. K., Colorado-Yohar, S. M., Grioni, S., Skeie, G. ... Gunter, M. J. (2022). Metabolically Defined Body Size Phenotypes and Risk of Endometrial Cancer in the European Prospective Investigation into Cancer and Nutrition (EPIC). Cancer Epidemiology, Biomarkers & Prevention, 31(7), 1359-1367. https://doi.org/10.1158/1055-9965.EPI-22-0160
Rothwell, J. A., Murphy, N., Bešević, J., Kliemann, N., Jenab, M., Ferrari, P., Achaintre, D., Gicquiau, A., Vozar, B., Scalbert, A., Huybrechts, I., Freisling, H., Prehn, C., Adamski, J., Cross, A. J., Pala, V. M., Boutron-Ruault, M.-C., Dahm, C. C., Overvad, K. ... Gunter, M. J. (2022). Metabolic Signatures of Healthy Lifestyle Patterns and Colorectal Cancer Risk in a European Cohort. Clinical Gastroenterology and Hepatology, 20(5), e1061-e1082. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.cgh.2020.11.045
Vissers, L. E. T., Sluijs, I., Burgess, S., Forouhi, N. G., Freisling, H., Imamura, F., Nilsson, T. K., Renström, F., Weiderpass, E., Aleksandrova, K., Dahm, C. C., Perez-Cornago, A., Schulze, M. B., Tong, T. Y. N., Aune, D., Bonet, C., Boer, J. M. A., Boeing, H., Chirlaque, M. D. ... van der Schouw, Y. T. (2022). Milk intake and incident stroke and CHD in populations of European descent: a Mendelian randomisation study. The British Journal of Nutrition, 128(9), 1789-1797. https://doi.org/10.1017/S0007114521004244
Chan, S. S. M., Chen, Y., Casey, K., Olen, O., Ludvigsson, J. F., Carbonnel, F., Oldenburg, B., Gunter, M. J., Tjønneland, A., Grip, O., DEFINe-IBD Investigators (Kim Overvad, Anja Olsen; members), Lochhead, P., Chan, A. T., Wolk, A. & Khalili, H. (2022). Obesity is Associated With Increased Risk of Crohn's disease, but not Ulcerative Colitis: A Pooled Analysis of Five Prospective Cohort Studies. Clinical gastroenterology and hepatology : the official clinical practice journal of the American Gastroenterological Association, 20(5), 1048-1058. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.cgh.2021.06.049
Andersen, J. L. M., Frederiksen, K., Raaschou-Nielsen, O., Hansen, J., Kyrø, C., Tjønneland, A. & Olsen, A. (2022). Organic food consumption is associated with a healthy lifestyle, socio-demographics and dietary habits: a cross-sectional study based on the Danish Diet, Cancer and Health cohort. Public Health Nutrition, 25(6), 1543-1551. https://doi.org/10.1017/S1368980021001270
Fortuin-de Smidt, M. C., Sewe, M. O., Lassale, C., Weiderpass, E., Andersson, J., Huerta, J. M., Ekelund, U., Aleksandrova, K., Tong, T. Y., Dahm, C. C., Tjønneland, A., Kyrø, C., Steindorf, K., Schulze, M. B., Katzke, V., Sacerdote, C., Agnoli, C., Masala, G., Tumino, R. ... Wennberg, P. (2022). Physical activity attenuates but does not eliminate coronary heart disease risk amongst adults with risk factors: EPIC-CVD case-cohort study. European Journal of Preventive Cardiology, 29(12), 1618-1629. Article zwac055. https://doi.org/10.1093/eurjpc/zwac055