Ongoing projects
Reserachers |
Organisation |
Project |
Susanna Larsson/Shuai Yuan |
Uppsala University/Karolinska Institutet |
Modifiable risk factors for peripheral arterial disease and venous thromboembolism |
Mikael Karlsson/Liisa Byberg |
Uppsala University |
Sarcopenia and diet in old women |
Karl Michaëlsson |
Uppsala University |
How much vitamin D is needed for optimal health? |
Agneta Åkesson/Andrei Pyko |
Karolinska Institutet |
Environmental factors and cardiovascular disease in a cohort of Swedish women – An exposome approach |
Emily Sonestedt/Susanne Janzi |
Lunds University |
Association between added sugar intake and risk of cardiovascular diseases |
Agneta Åkesson/Charlotta Eriksson/Andrei Pyko/Emelie Helte |
Karolinska Institutet |
NordSOUND - the impact of air pollution, noise and greenness on cancer, heart failure, atrial fibrillation and BMI |
Eva Warensjö-Lemming/Liisa Byberg/ Susanna Larsson/Karl Michaëlsson |
Uppsala University |
Fatty acids, osteoporosis and incident hip fractures in women and men. A validation and follow-up study |
Susanna Larsson/Olga Titova/ Sabine van Oort/Shuai Yuan |
Uppsala University/Karolinska Institutet |
Protein biomarkers (proteomics) in relation to risk of cardiovascular diseases |
Agneta Åkesson/Jonas Tägt/Emelie Helte |
Karolinska Institutet |
Cadmium in urine and cardiovascular disease and mortality: A Swedish prospective population-based cohort study of postmenopausal women |
Ingegerd Johansson/Simon Haworth |
Umeå University |
Understanding causes and consequences of dental diseases through population-based genetic epidemiology and biobank data - the extended GLIDE consortium |
Niklas Hammar/ Karin Leander/Maria Feycthing/Sofia Carlsson/Göran Walldius |
Karolinska Institutet |
Metabolicdisorders andinflammation related to to cronical diseases,mainly CVD, kidney disease, cancer, dementia and auto immune diseases |
Tanja Stocks/Christel Häggström |
Lunds University |
Obesity and weight chagnes in conjuction withdisease and mortality: a big pooled Swedish study |
Alicja Wolk/ Daniel Borch Ibsen/Katalin Gemés |
Karolinska Institutet |
Environment – Diet – Health, delprojekt Nexus |
Adam Mitchell/Liisa Byberg |
Uppsala University |
Change in bone mineral density and bone area in Swedish men and women with type 2 diabetes |
Adam Mitchell/Liisa Byberg |
Uppsala University |
The effect of glycemic traits on bone mineral density and bone area: A Mendelian randomization study |
Erika Olsson/Jonas Höijer/Liisa Byberg, Susanna Larsson (PI) |
Uppsala University |
The significance of food and vitamin D for Alzhemer and Parkinson disease |
Johan Sundström (PI) |
Uppsala University |
Stroke |
Karl Michaëlsson (PI) |
Uppsala University |
Calcium intake and risk of fractures |
Karl Michaëlsson |
Uppsala University |
Metabolomic biomarkers of dietary patterns and bone phenotypes in a Swedish female population |
Karl Michaëlsson |
Uppsala University |
Body mass index and Mediterranean diet in relation to mortality rates in women and men |
Liisa Byberg (PI) |
Uppsala University |
Diet, diabetes and risk of fractures |
Liisa Byberg (PI) |
Uppsala University |
Milka nad dairy products effect on our health |
Liisa Byberg |
Uppsala University |
Milk and dairy product intake and proteomics |
Susanna Larsson/Karl Michaëlsson |
Uppsala University |
Dietary and supplemental B vitamin intake and genetically predicted circulating B vitamin levels in relation to bone mineral density and fracture: Observational and Mendelian randomization analyses |
Olga Titova/Susanna Larsson |
Uppsala University |
Modifiable risk factors and cardiovascular disease |
Alicja Wolk (PI) |
Karolinska Institutet |
Diet lifestyle, heart failure and arota anuerysm in the abdomen |
Anit inflammatory diet and health |
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Diet, genes, cancer diagnosis and survival |
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Ageiing, lifestyle, genes and C.elegance model, EU-project |
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Alicja Wolk(PI)/Agneta Åkesson/Ulf Sonesson (Co-PI)/Elinor Hallström/Bojana Bajzelj/Anneli Widenfalk |
Karolinska Institutet/Karolinska Institutet/RISE, Göteborgs University/ RISE, Göteborgs University/Sveriges lantbruksuniversitet, Karolinska Institutet/Swedish Food Agency |
Environment, diet, health - Nexus, an integrated inter disiplinary work process for sustainable food production and consumption |
Marika Berglund/ Agneta Åkesson (PI) |
Karolinska Institutet |
PCB contaminants in the food, PCB biomarkers inthe blood and diseases |
Melle Säve-Söderbergh/Agneta Åkesson (PI) |
Karolinska Institutet |
Drinking water quality,CVD and cancer |
Tessa Schillemans/Agneta Åkesson (PI) |
Karolinska Institutet |
Biomarkers for high fluorinantedsubstances (PFAS) in the blood and CVD |
Emile Helte/Agneta Åkesson (PI) |
Karolinska Institutet |
Exposure to fluorides and bonehealth |
Elsa Tesfamariam/Agneta Åkesson (PI) |
Karolinska Institutet |
PCB in the diet and fractures |
Jenny Nyström/Agneta Åkesson (PI) |
Karolinska Institutet |
Fosphates in the diet, blood, urine and CVD |
Reem Emad/Agneta Åkesson (PI) |
Karolinska Institutet |
Pesticied residues in food and mortality |
Agneta Åkesson |
Karolinska Institutet |
Coronary Heart disease and stroke – is exposure to environmental contaminants an overlooked modifiable risk factor? |
Agneta Åkesson |
Karolinska Institutet |
Drinking water quality and incidence of chronic disease |
Charlotta Eriksson/Jenny Selander/Andrei Pyko/Agneta Åkesson |
Karolinska Institutet |
Effects on cancer and CVD of different components in the exposome such as diet,lifestyle, buller, air pollutants and green areas and exposure to buller and airpollutants in the working environment |
Hamid Khalili (PI)/Alicja Wolk |
Harvard Medical School/Karolinska Institutet |
Gastroenterology, diet and Crohn's disease |
Fei He/Weimin Ye |
Karolinska Institutet |
A Study on Risk Factors for Amyotrophic Lateral Sclerosis based on a Swedish Cohort Consortium |
Katalin Gemés /Miguel Hernan |
Karolinska Institutet |
Comparative effectiveness of dietary interventions on the risk of cardiovascular diseases |
Lin Shi, Karl Michaëlsson, Rikard Landberg (PI) |
Chalmers University of Technologies/Uppsala University/Chalmers University of Technologies |
New plasma proteins, associated with the diet, are early predictors for incidence of diabetes type 2 |
Junmei Miao Jonasson |
Göteborgs University |
Social support and the risk of chronic diseases and mortality in men and women: two prospective cohort studies |
Erik Ingelsson/Stefan Gustafsson/Karl Michaëlsson/Anders Mälarstig |
Stanford University/Uppsala University |
Genetic determinants of circulating protein levels |
International consortia
- Diet and cancer, pooling project – Harvard Medical School, USA
- Lifestyle factors and different cancers – the National Cancer Institute, USA
- Hormones and hormone-related cancers – Oxford University, UK
- Genes and breast cancer, BCAC consortium – Cambridge University, UK
- Genes and prostate cancer, PRACTICAL consortium – the Cancer Institute, London, UK
- Genes and colorectal cancer, CORECT consortium – Southern California University, San Diego, USA
- Genes and ovarian cancer, OCAC consortium – Duke University, USA
- Genes and renal cell cancer, KidRisk consortium – International Agency for Cancer Research /WHO, Lyon, France
- Gastric cancer, StoP project – National Cancer Institute, Milan, Italy
- Diabetes and cancer consortium – Imperial College, London, UK
- CHANCES, Consortium on Health and Ageing – Athens university, Greece
- FIGI, consortium on gene-environment interactions in the etiology of colorectal cancer – Fred Hutchinson’s Cancer Research Centre, USA
- InterConnect, consortium on etiology of diabetes – Cambridge University, UK