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Overview

Anne Tjønneland is affiliated with the University of Copenhagen in Denmark. Their research spans several domains within medicine and biochemistry, genetics, and molecular biology, reflecting a multidisciplinary approach to public health and epidemiology.

The scientist's work focuses prominently on public health, environmental and occupational health, physiology, oncology, molecular biology, and genetics. These subfields demonstrate the scope of their research interests and expertise.

Main topics covered in their research include:

  • Nutritional Studies and Diet
  • Diet and metabolism studies
  • Cancer Risks and Factors
  • Consumer Attitudes and Food Labeling
  • Obesity, Physical Activity, Diet
  • Liver Disease Diagnosis and Treatment
  • Metabolomics and Mass Spectrometry Studies

Anne Tjønneland has contributed to a variety of highly cited research articles. Recent publications include:

  • Lifestyle factors and risk of multimorbidity of cancer and cardiometabolic diseases: a multinational cohort study, 2020, BMC Medicine
  • Long term exposure to low level air pollution and mortality in eight European cohorts within the ELAPSE project: pooled analysis, 2021, BMJ
  • Long-term exposure to low-level ambient air pollution and incidence of stroke and coronary heart disease: a pooled analysis of six European cohorts within the ELAPSE project, 2021, The Lancet Planetary Health
  • Obesity, unfavourable lifestyle and genetic risk of type 2 diabetes: a case-cohort study, 2020, Diabetologia
  • A Body Shape Index (ABSI) achieves better mortality risk stratification than alternative indices of abdominal obesity: results from a large European cohort, 2020, Scientific Reports

Frequent co-authors collaborating with Anne Tjønneland include:

  • Elisabete Weiderpass
  • Matthias B. Schulze
  • Rosario Tumino
  • Marc J. Gunter
  • Kim Overvad

The scientist's work has been published in a number of venues regularly, with frequent contributions to:

  • International Journal of Cancer
  • BMC Medicine
  • European Journal of Nutrition
  • Cancer Epidemiology Biomarkers & Prevention
  • European Journal of Epidemiology

Best Publications

  • Worldwide trends in body-mass index, underweight, overweight, and obesity from 1975 to 2016: a pooled analysis of 2416 population-based measurement studies in 128·9 million children, adolescents, and adults

    Leandra Abarca-Gómez;Ziad A Abdeen;Zargar Abdul Hamid;Niveen M Abu-Rmeileh

  • Trends in adult body-mass index in 200 countries from 1975 to 2014: A pooled analysis of 1698 population-based measurement studies with 19.2 million participants

    Mariachiara Di Cesare;Mariachiara Di Cesare;James Bentham;Gretchen A Stevens;Bin Zhou

  • Worldwide trends in hypertension prevalence and progress in treatment and control from 1990 to 2019: a pooled analysis of 1201 population-representative studies with 104 million participants

    Bin Zhou;Rodrigo M Carrillo-Larco;Goodarz Danaei;Leanne M Riley

  • General and abdominal adiposity and risk of death in Europe.

    T. Pischon;H. Boeing;K. Hoffmann;M. Bergmann

  • Worldwide trends in blood pressure from 1975 to 2015: a pooled analysis of 1479 population-based measurement studies with 19·1 million participants

    Bin Zhou;James Bentham;Mariachiara Di Cesare;Honor Bixby

  • Air pollution and lung cancer incidence in 17 European cohorts : Prospective analyses from the European Study of Cohorts for Air Pollution Effects (ESCAPE)

    Ole Raaschou-Nielsen;Zorana Jovanovic Andersen;Rob Beelen;Evangelia Samoli

  • European prospective investigation into cancer and nutrition (EPIC): study populations and data collection

    E. Riboli;K. J. Hunt;N. Slimani;P. Ferrari

  • A century of trends in adult human height

    James Bentham;Mariachiara Di Cesare;Mariachiara Di Cesare;Gretchen A. Stevens;Bin Zhou

  • An international association between Helicobacter pylori infection and gastric cancer

    D Forman;M Coleman;Gui De Backer;J Eider

  • Meat, Fish, and Colorectal Cancer Risk: The European Prospective Investigation into Cancer and Nutrition

    Teresa Norat;Sheila Bingham;Pietro Ferrari;Nadia Slimani

  • Menarche, menopause, and breast cancer risk: Individual participant meta-analysis, including 118 964 women with breast cancer from 117 epidemiological studies

    N. Hamajima;K. Hirose;K. Tajima;T. Rohan

  • Risk thresholds for alcohol consumption: combined analysis of individual-participant data for 599 912 current drinkers in 83 prospective studies

    Angela M. Wood;Stephen Kaptoge;Adam S. Butterworth;Peter Willeit

  • SCORE2 risk prediction algorithms: new models to estimate 10-year risk of cardiovascular disease in Europe

    Steven Hageman;Lisa Pennells

  • Modified Mediterranean diet and survival: EPIC-elderly prospective cohort study

    Antonia Trichopoulou;Philippos Orfanos;Teresa Norat;Bas Bueno-de-Mesquita

  • Association between alcohol and cardiovascular disease:Mendelian randomisation analysis based on individual participant data

    Michael V Holmes;Michael V Holmes;Caroline E Dale;Luisa Zuccolo;Richard J Silverwood

  • Study design, exposure variables, and socioeconomic determinants of participation in Diet, Cancer and Health: a population-based prospective cohort study of 57,053 men and women in Denmark.

    Anne Tjønneland;Anja Olsen;Katja Boll;Connie Stripp

  • Body size and breast cancer risk: findings from the European Prospective Investigation into Cancer and Nutrition (EPIC).

    Petra H. Lahmann;Kurt Hoffmann;Naomi Allen;Carla H. Van Gils

  • Oxidative DNA damage estimated by 8-hydroxydeoxyguanosine excretion in humans: influence of smoking, gender and body mass index.

    Steffen Loft;Kirsten Vistisen;Marianne Ewertz;Anne Tjønneland

  • Body Size and Risk of Colon and Rectal Cancer in the European Prospective Investigation Into Cancer and Nutrition (EPIC)

    Tobias Pischon;Petra H. Lahmann;Heiner Boeing;Christine Friedenreich

  • A genome-wide association study identifies pancreatic cancer susceptibility loci on chromosomes 13q22.1, 1q32.1 and 5p15.33

    Gloria M. Petersen;Laufey Amundadottir;Charles S. Fuchs;Peter Kraft

Frequent Co-Authors

Kim Overvad
Kim Overvad Aarhus University
Elio Riboli
Elio Riboli Imperial College London
Antonia Trichopoulou
Antonia Trichopoulou National and Kapodistrian University of Athens
Heiner Boeing
Heiner Boeing German Institute of Human Nutrition
Petra H.M. Peeters
Petra H.M. Peeters Utrecht University
Rosario Tumino
Rosario Tumino Provincial Health Authority of Syracuse
Marie-Christine Boutron-Ruault
Marie-Christine Boutron-Ruault University of Paris-Saclay
Kay-Tee Khaw
Kay-Tee Khaw University of Cambridge
Domenico Palli
Domenico Palli Institute for the Study and Prevention of Cancer (Istituto per lo Studio, la Prevenzione e la Rete Oncologica)
Rudolf Kaaks
Rudolf Kaaks German Cancer Research Center

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