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
Frederiksen, T. C., Nadarajah, R., Christiansen, M. K., Wu, J., Gale, C. P., Benjamin, E. J., Olsen, A., Andersen, M. K., Hansen, T., Grarup, N., Dahm, C. C. & Jensen, H. K. (2026). Interaction between clinical and genetic risk of atrial fibrillation in the danish diet, cancer and health cohort. Open Heart, 13(1), Article e004078. https://doi.org/10.1136/openhrt-2026-004078
Li, S. X., Imamura, F., Sharp, S. J., Schulze, M. B., Zheng, J. S., Amiano, P., Ardanaz, E., Bergmann, M. M., Chirlaque, M. D., Fagherazzi, G., Franks, P. W., Grioni, S., Ibsen, D. B., Jakszyn, P., Johansson, I., Katzke, V. A., Laouali, N., Mancini, F. R., Overvad, O. K. ... Wareham, N. J. (2026). Interactions between genetic predisposition to obesity, insulin resistance and type 2 diabetes risk, and food or beverage intake for incident type 2 diabetes: European Prospective Investigation into Cancer and Nutrition (EPIC) InterAct case–cohort study. American Journal of Clinical Nutrition, 123(3), Article 101198. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.ajcnut.2026.101198
Bonet, C., Rizzolo-Brime, L., Montañés, S., Hajji, M., Marques, C., Severi, G., B Schulze, M., Dahm, C. C., Tjønneland, A., Olsen, A., De Magistris, M. S., Pala, V., Catalano, A., Skeie, G., Brustad, M., Jensen, T. E., Sánchez, M. J., Guevara, M., Castro, N. C. ... Jakszyn, P. (2026). Meat Intake and Risk of Gastric and Esophageal Adenocarcinoma in the European Prospective Investigation Into Cancer and Nutrition (EPIC) Study. International Journal of Cancer, 159(5), 1176-1187. https://doi.org/10.1002/ijc.70486
Ibsen, D. B., Dahm, C. C. & Fridén, M. (2026). (Mis)interpreting substitution models in nutritional epidemiology: why the effect of NOVA 1 foods cannot be understood without NOVA 4. The Lancet. Planetary Health, 10(1), 101413. Article 101413. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.lanplh.2025.101413
Stubbendorff, A., Ericson, U., Hallström, E., Samuelsson, J., Sonestedt, E. & Ibsen, D. B. (2026). Nutritional adequacy of the EAT-Lancet diet: a Swedish population-based cohort study. The Lancet Planetary Health, 10(2), Article 101416. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.lanplh.2025.101416
NCD Risk Factor Collaboration (NCD-RisC) (2026). Obesity rise plateaus in developed nations and accelerates in developing nations. Nature, 653(8114), 510-518. https://doi.org/10.1038/s41586-026-10383-0
Gálvez-Navas, J. M., Peruchet-Noray, L., Molina-Montes, E., Rodríguez-Barranco, M., Biessy, C., Antoniussen, C. S., Dahm, C. C., Kyrø, C., Dahl, C., Sugier, P. E., Asgari, Y., Truong, T., Nicolas, G., Turzanski-Fortner, R., le Cornet, C., Schulze, M. B., Milani, L., Masala, G., Quartiroli, M. ... Sánchez, M. J. (2026). One-carbon metabolism nutrients and polygenic risk scores in relation to breast cancer risk: a nested case-control study within the European Prospective Investigation into Cancer and Nutrition (EPIC) cohort. American Journal of Clinical Nutrition, 124(4), Article 101456. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.ajcnut.2026.101456