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., Jakobsen, M. U., Halkjær, J., Tjønneland, A., Kilpeläinen, T. O., Parner, E. T. & Overvad, K. (2021). Replacing Red Meat with Other Nonmeat Food Sources of Protein is Associated with a Reduced Risk of Type 2 Diabetes in a Danish Cohort of Middle-Aged Adults. The Journal of Nutrition, 151(5), 1241-1248. https://doi.org/10.1093/jn/nxaa448
Singleton, R. K., Heath, A. K., Clasen, J. L., Scelo, G., Johannson, M., Le Calvez-Kelm, F., Weiderpass, E., Liedberg, F., Ljungberg, B., Harbs, J., Olsen, A., Tjonneland, A., Dahm, C. C., Kaaks, R., Fortner, R. T., Panico, S., Tagliabue, G., Masala, G., Tumino, R. ... Muller, D. C. (2021). Risk prediction for renal cell carcinoma: results from the European Prospective Investigation into Cancer and Nutrition (EPIC) prospective cohort study. Cancer Epidemiology, Biomarkers & Prevention, 30(3), 507-512. https://doi.org/10.1158/1055-9965.EPI-20-1438
SCORE2 working group and ESC Cardiovascular risk collaboration (Christina Dahm and Kim Overvad; members) (2021). SCORE2 risk prediction algorithms: new models to estimate 10-year risk of cardiovascular disease in Europe. European Heart Journal, 42(25), 2439-2454. https://doi.org/10.1093/eurheartj/ehab309
Aglago, E. K., Rinaldi, S., Freisling, H., Jiao, L., Hughes, D. J., Fedirko, V., Schalkwijk, C. G., Weiderpass, E., Dahm, C. C., Overvad, K., Eriksen, A. K., Kyrø, C., Boutron-Ruault, M.-C., Rothwell, J. A., Severi, G., Katzke, V., Kühn, T., Schulze, M. B., Aleksandrova, K. ... Jenab, M. (2021). Soluble Receptor for Advanced Glycation End-products (sRAGE) and colorectal cancer risk: a case-control study nested within a European prospective cohort. Cancer Epidemiology, Biomarkers & Prevention, 30(1), 182-192. https://doi.org/10.1158/1055-9965.EPI-20-0855
Guida, F., Tan, V. Y., Corbin, L. J., Smith-Byrne, K., Alcala, K., Langenberg, C., Stewart, I. D., Butterworth, A. S., Surendran, P., Achaintre, D., Adamski, J., Amiano Exezarreta, P., Bergmann, M. M., Bull, C. J., Dahm, C. C., Gicquiau, A., Giles, G. G., Gunter, M. J., Haller, T. ... Johansson, M. (2021). The blood metabolome of incident kidney cancer: A case-control study nested within the MetKid consortium. PLOS Medicine, 18(9), Article e1003786. https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pmed.1003786
Outzen, M., Tjønneland, A., Hughes, D. J., Jenab, M., Frederiksen, K., Schomburg, L., Morris, S., Overvad, K. & Olsen, A. (2021). Toenail selenium, plasma selenoprotein P and risk of advanced prostate cancer: a nested case-control study. International Journal of Cancer, 148(4), 876-883. Article 33267. https://doi.org/10.1002/ijc.33267
Stroomberg, H. V., Vojdeman, F. J., Madsen, C. M., Helgstrand, J. T., Schwarz, P., Heegaard, A.-M., Olsen, A., Tjønneland, A., Struer Lind, B., Brasso, K., Jørgensen, H. L. & Røder, M. A. (2021). Vitamin D levels and the risk of prostate cancer and prostate cancer mortality. Acta Oncologica, 60(3), 316-322. https://doi.org/10.1080/0284186X.2020.1837391