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
Lopes, E. W., Chan, S. S. M., Song, M., Ludvigsson, J. F., Håkansson, N., Lochhead, P., Clark, A., Burke, K. E., Ananthakrishnan, A. N., Cross, A. J., Palli, D., Bergmann, M. M., Richter, J. M., Chan, A. T., Olén, O., Wolk, A., Khalili, H. & EPIC-IBD investigators (Anja Viendahl Olsen, Kim Overvad; members) (2023). Lifestyle factors for the prevention of inflammatory bowel disease. Gut, 72(6), 1093-1100. https://doi.org/10.1136/gutjnl-2022-328174
Zhang, J., Clayton, G. L., Hansen, S. N., Olsen, A., Lawlor, D. A. & Dahm, C. C. (2023). Maternal Pre-Pregnancy BMI, Offspring Adiposity in Late Childhood, and Age of Weaning: A Causal Mediation Analysis. Nutrients, 15(13), Article 2970. https://doi.org/10.3390/nu15132970
Macciotta, A., Catalano, A., Giraudo, M. T., Weiderpass, E., Ferrari, P., Freisling, H., Colorado-Yohar, S. M., Santiuste, C., Amiano, P., Heath, A. K., Ward, H. A., Christakoudi, S., Vineis, P., Singh, D., Vaccarella, S., Schulze, M. B., Hiensch, A. E., Monninkhof, E. M., Katzke, V. ... Ricceri, F. (2023). Mediating Role of Lifestyle Behaviors in the Association between Education and Cancer: Results from the European Prospective Investigation into Cancer and Nutrition. Cancer epidemiology, biomarkers & prevention : a publication of the American Association for Cancer Research, cosponsored by the American Society of Preventive Oncology, 32(1), 132-140. https://doi.org/10.1158/1055-9965.EPI-22-0777
Hermansen, K., Andersen, S. S., Damgaard, C. T., Dragsted, L. O., Holm, L., Krogholm, K. S., Olsen, A., Tetens, I. & Tjønneland, A. (2023). Nordisk kost har potentiale som forebyggelse og behandling af hjerte-kar-sygdomme. Ugeskrift for Læger, 185(13), Article V05220304.
Andersen, J. L. M., Frederiksen, K., Hansen, J., Kyrø, C., Overvad, K., Tjønneland, A., Olsen, A. & Raaschou-Nielsen, O. (2023). Organic food consumption and the incidence of cancer in the Danish diet, cancer and health cohort. European Journal of Epidemiology, 38(1), 59-69. https://doi.org/10.1007/s10654-022-00951-9
L M Andersen, J., Frederiksen, K., Kyrø, C., Hansen, J., Raaschou-Nielsen, O., Overvad, K., Tjønneland, A. & Olsen, A. (2023). Organic food consumption and the incidence of type 2 diabetes mellitus in the Danish Diet, Cancer and Health cohort. Diabetes Research and Clinical Practice, 205, Article 110972. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.diabres.2023.110972
Hughes, D. J., Schomburg, L., Jenab, M., Biessy, C., Méplan, C., Moskal, A., Sun, Q., Demircan, K., Fedirko, V., Weiderpass, E., Mukhtar, M., Olsen, A., Tjønneland, A., Overvad, K., Schulze, M., Nøst, T. H., Skeie, G., Olsen, K. S., Ricceri, F. ... Dossus, L. (2023). Prediagnostic selenium status, selenoprotein gene variants and association with breast cancer risk in a european cohort study. Free Radical Biology & Medicine, 209(Part 2), 381-393. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.freeradbiomed.2023.10.401