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  • 2026 - Research.com Medicine in Denmark Leader Award
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  • 2023 - Research.com Medicine in Denmark Leader Award
  • 2022 - Research.com Medicine in Denmark Leader Award

Overview

Kim Overvad is affiliated with Aarhus University in Denmark and has published extensively in the field of medicine, with a particular focus on public health, nutrition, genetics, and molecular biology.

Their research primarily spans the subfields of Public Health, Environmental and Occupational Health, Physiology, Nutrition and Dietetics, Genetics, and Molecular Biology. The main topics addressed in their work include Nutritional Studies and Diet, Diet and Metabolism Studies, Obesity, Physical Activity and Diet, Consumer Attitudes and Food Labeling, Nutrition, Genetics and Disease, Fatty Acid Research and Health, and Cancer Risks and Factors.

Kim Overvad has contributed to publications in several scientific journals. Frequent venues of publication include:

  • European Journal of Nutrition
  • International Journal of Cancer
  • bioRxiv (Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory)
  • American Journal of Clinical Nutrition
  • European Journal of Epidemiology

Notable recent papers include:

  • Lifestyle factors and risk of multimorbidity of cancer and cardiometabolic diseases: a multinational cohort study (2020), published in BMC Medicine
  • Obesity, unfavourable lifestyle and genetic risk of type 2 diabetes: a case-cohort study (2020), published in Diabetologia
  • A Body Shape Index (ABSI) achieves better mortality risk stratification than alternative indices of abdominal obesity: results from a large European cohort (2020), published in Scientific Reports
  • RETRACTED: Estimating dose-response relationships for vitamin D with coronary heart disease, stroke, and all-cause mortality: observational and Mendelian randomisation analyses (2021), published in The Lancet Diabetes & Endocrinology
  • Genome-wide Association Analysis in Humans Links Nucleotide Metabolism to Leukocyte Telomere Length (2020), published in The American Journal of Human Genetics

Collaborations with other researchers have been significant in their career. Frequent co-authors include:

  • Anne Tjønneland
  • Elisabete Weiderpass
  • Rosario Tumino
  • Matthias B. Schulze
  • Christina C. Dahm

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

  • Plasma HDL cholesterol and risk of myocardial infarction: A mendelian randomisation study

    Benjamin F. Voight;Benjamin F. Voight;Benjamin F. Voight;Gina M. Peloso;Gina M. Peloso;Marju Orho-Melander;Ruth Frikke-Schmidt

  • General and Abdominal Adiposity and Risk of Death in Europe

    T. Pischon;H. Boeing;K. Hoffmann

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

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

  • Effects of long-term exposure to air pollution on natural-cause mortality : An analysis of 22 European cohorts within the multicentre ESCAPE project

    Rob Beelen;Ole Raaschou-Nielsen;Massimo Stafoggia;Zorana Jovanovic Andersen

  • Dietary fibre in food and protection against colorectal cancer in the European Prospective Investigation into Cancer and Nutrition (EPIC): an observational study

    Sheila A Bingham;Nicholas E Day;Robert Luben;Pietro Ferrari

  • A century of trends in adult human height

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

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

    Teresa Norat;Sheila Bingham;Pietro Ferrari;Nadia Slimani

  • 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

  • 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

  • Genome-wide association study identifies variants in the ABO locus associated with susceptibility to pancreatic cancer

    Laufey Amundadottir;Peter Kraft;Rachael Z. Stolzenberg-Solomon;Charles S. Fuchs

  • 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

Frequent Co-Authors

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

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