Anne Tjønneland

Biographic Data

ID90255
NAMEAnne Tjønneland
GIVEN NAMESAnne
FAMILY NAMETjønneland
SIGNATURETJØNNELAND A
AFFILIATIONSDanish Cancer Society
ORCID0000-0003-4385-2097
VERIFIEDYes
TOTAL WORKS45
TOTAL CITATIONS0
AUTHOR COUNT45
EDITOR COUNT0
FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR2002
LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR2026
H-INDEX0

  • Does lifestyle explain the relationship between socioeconomic position and multimorbidity of cancer and cardiometabolic diseases? A mediation analysis applied to the European Prospective Investigation…

    Open AccessLuca Manfredi, Federica Buscema et al.ARTICLEJournal of Epidemiology and…2026References: 33

    BACKGROUND: Multimorbidity is socially patterned, with lower socioeconomic position (SEP) linked to higher risk. We examined whether a Healthy Lifestyle Index (HLI) mediates the SEP-multimorbidity association and whether pathways differ by sex. METHODS: We used data from 244 886 participants in the European Prospective Investigation into Cancer and Nutrition study. HLI was derived from smoking, alcohol consumption, physical activity, body mass in…

  • Quantifying the environmental and food biodiversity impacts of ultra-processed foods

    Open AccessJeroen Berden, Giles T Hanley-Cook et al.ARTICLEPublic Health Nutrition2025

    Objective: While associations of ultra-processed food (UPF) consumption with adverse health outcomes are accruing, its environmental and food biodiversity impacts remain underexplored. This study examines associations between UPF consumption and dietary greenhouse gas emissions (GHGe), land use and food biodiversity. Design: Prospective cohort study. Linear mixed models estimated associations between UPF intake (g/d and kcal/d) and GHGe (kg CO 2 …

  • Worldwide trends in underweight and obesity from 1990 to 2022

    Open AccessNowell H Phelps, Rosie Singleton et al.ARTICLEThe Lancet2024

    BACKGROUND: Underweight and obesity are associated with adverse health outcomes throughout the life course. We estimated the individual and combined prevalence of underweight or thinness and obesity, and their changes, from 1990 to 2022 for adults and school-aged children and adolescents in 200 countries and territories. METHODS: ). For school-aged children and adolescents, we report thinness (BMI 2 SD above the median). FINDINGS: From 1990 to 20…

  • Dietary Minerals and Incident Cardiovascular Outcomes among Never-Smokers in a Danish Case–Cohort Study

    Open AccessVictoria Fruh, Tesleem Kayode Babalola et al.ARTICLEInternational Journal of…2024

    Background: Diet is known to impact cardiovascular disease (CVD) risk, but evidence for the essential minerals of magnesium (Mg), calcium (Ca), and potassium (K) is inconsistent. Methods: We conducted a case-cohort study within a non-smoking subgroup of the Danish Diet, Cancer and Health cohort, a prospective study of 50-64-year-olds recruited between 1993-1997. We identified incident heart failure (HF), acute myocardial infarction (AMI) and stro…

  • Organic food consumption is associated with a healthy lifestyle, socio-demographics and dietary habits

    Open AccessJulie Louise Munk Andersen, Kirsten Frederiksen et al.ARTICLEPublic Health Nutrition2022

    Objective: To study the association between organic food consumption and lifestyle, socio-demographics and dietary habits. Design: Cohort participants completed detailed questionnaires about organic food consumption, diet and lifestyle between 1999 and 2002. Polytomous logistic regression models were used to estimate the association between organic food consumption, and lifestyle, socio-demographics, and dietary habits. Setting: This cross-sectio…

  • Worldwide trends in hypertension prevalence and progress in treatment and control from 1990 to 2019

    Open AccessBin Zhou, Rodrigo M Carrillo-Larco et al.ARTICLEThe Lancet2021

    BACKGROUND: Hypertension can be detected at the primary health-care level and low-cost treatments can effectively control hypertension. We aimed to measure the prevalence of hypertension and progress in its detection, treatment, and control from 1990 to 2019 for 200 countries and territories. METHODS: We used data from 1990 to 2019 on people aged 30-79 years from population-representative studies with measurement of blood pressure and data on blo…

  • Height and body-mass index trajectories of school-aged children and adolescents from 1985 to 2019 in 200 countries and territories

    Open AccessAndrea Rodriguez-Martinez, Andrea Rodriguez‐Martinez et al.ARTICLEThe Lancet2020

    BACKGROUND: Comparable global data on health and nutrition of school-aged children and adolescents are scarce. We aimed to estimate age trajectories and time trends in mean height and mean body-mass index (BMI), which measures weight gain beyond what is expected from height gain, for school-aged children and adolescents. METHODS: For this pooled analysis, we used a database of cardiometabolic risk factors collated by the Non-Communicable Disease …

  • Changes and correlations in height from 7 to 69 years of age across the birth years of 1930 to 1989

    Open AccessDorthe C Pedersen, Kathrine Damm Meyle et al.ARTICLEAmerican Journal of Human Biology2020

    OBJECTIVES: The aims of this study were to describe changes in height during childhood and to investigate potential changes in the proportion of children attaining final height in childhood and in correlations between child and adult height across birth cohorts. METHODS: We included 363 059 children (179 906 girls) from the Copenhagen School Health Records Register, who were born between 1930 and 1989, with height measurements at ages 7, 10, or 1…

  • Rising rural body-mass index is the main driver of the global obesity epidemic in adults

    Open AccessNCD Risk Factor Collaboration, Honor Bixby et al.ARTICLENature2019

    Body-mass index (BMI) has increased steadily in most countries in parallel with a rise in the proportion of the population who live in cities 1,2 . This has led to a widely reported view that urbanization is one of the most important drivers of the global rise in obesity 3–6 . Here we use 2,009 population-based studies, with measurements of height and weight in more than 112 million adults, to report national, regional and global trends in mean B…

  • Timing of eating across ten European countries – results from the European Prospective Investigation into Cancer and Nutrition (Epic) calibration study

    Open AccessEna Huseinovic, Anna Winkvist et al.ARTICLEPublic Health Nutrition2019

    Objective To examine timing of eating across ten European countries. Design Cross-sectional analysis of the European Prospective Investigation into Cancer and Nutrition (EPIC) calibration study using standardized 24 h diet recalls collected during 1995–2000. Eleven predefined food consumption occasions were assessed during the recall interview. We present time of consumption of meals and snacks as well as the later:earlier energy intake ratio, wi…

  • Risk thresholds for alcohol consumption

    Open AccessAngela M Wood, Stephen Kaptoge et al.ARTICLEThe Lancet2018

    BACKGROUND: Low-risk limits recommended for alcohol consumption vary substantially across different national guidelines. To define thresholds associated with lowest risk for all-cause mortality and cardiovascular disease, we studied individual-participant data from 599 912 current drinkers without previous cardiovascular disease. METHODS: We did a combined analysis of individual-participant data from three large-scale data sources in 19 high-inco…

  • Predictors of Urinary Arsenic Levels among Postmenopausal Danish Women

    Open AccessNina Roswall, Ulla Arthur Hvidtfeldt et al.ARTICLEInternational Journal of…2018

    Arsenic is a risk factor for several noncommunicable diseases, even at low doses. Urinary arsenic (UAs) concentration is a good biomarker for internal dose, and demographic, dietary, and lifestyle factors are proposed predictors in nonoccupationally exposed populations. However, most predictor studies are limited in terms of size and number of predictors. We investigated demographic, dietary, and lifestyle determinants of UAs concentrations in 74…

  • Adherence to the Danish food-based dietary guidelines and risk of myocardial infarction

    Open AccessCamilla Plambeck Hansen, Kim Overvad et al.ARTICLEPublic Health Nutrition2018

    Objective A direct way to evaluate food-based dietary guidelines is to assess if adherence is associated with development of non-communicable diseases. Thus, the objective was to develop an index to assess adherence to the 2013 Danish food-based dietary guidelines and to investigate the association between adherence to the index and risk of myocardial infarction (MI). Design Population-based cohort study with recruitment of participants in 1993–1…

  • Meat and fiber intake and interaction with pattern recognition receptors (TLR1, TLR2, TLR4, and TLR10) in relation to colorectal cancer in a Danish prospective, case-cohort study

    Open AccessTine Iskov Kopp, Charlotta von Troil et al.ARTICLE2018References: 91

    Our study suggests that meat intake may activate TLRs at the epithelial surface, leading to CRC via inflammation by nuclear transcription factor-κB-initiated transcription of inflammatory genes, whereas intake of fiber may protect against CRC via TLR4-mediated secretion of interleukin-10 and cyclooxygenase-2. Our results should be replicated in other prospective cohorts with well-characterized participants. The trial was registered at www.clinica…

  • Worldwide trends in blood pressure from 1975 to 2015

    Open AccessBin Zhou, James Bentham et al.ARTICLEThe Lancet2017

    BACKGROUND: Raised blood pressure is an important risk factor for cardiovascular diseases and chronic kidney disease. We estimated worldwide trends in mean systolic and mean diastolic blood pressure, and the prevalence of, and number of people with, raised blood pressure, defined as systolic blood pressure of 140 mm Hg or higher or diastolic blood pressure of 90 mm Hg or higher. METHODS: For this analysis, we pooled national, subnational, or comm…

  • Worldwide trends in body-mass index, underweight, overweight, and obesity from 1975 to 2016

    Open AccessLeandra Abarca-Gómez, Ziad Abdeen et al.ARTICLEThe Lancet2017

    BACKGROUND: Underweight, overweight, and obesity in childhood and adolescence are associated with adverse health consequences throughout the life-course. Our aim was to estimate worldwide trends in mean body-mass index (BMI) and a comprehensive set of BMI categories that cover underweight to obesity in children and adolescents, and to compare trends with those of adults. METHODS: We pooled 2416 population-based studies with measurements of height…

  • A treelet transform analysis to relate nutrient patterns to the risk of hormonal receptor-defined breast cancer in the European Prospective Investigation into Cancer and Nutrition (Epic)

    Open AccessNada Assi, Aurelie Moskal et al.ARTICLEPublic Health Nutrition2016

    Objective Pattern analysis has emerged as a tool to depict the role of multiple nutrients/foods in relation to health outcomes. The present study aimed at extracting nutrient patterns with respect to breast cancer (BC) aetiology. Design Nutrient patterns were derived with treelet transform (TT) and related to BC risk. TT was applied to twenty-three log-transformed nutrient densities from dietary questionnaires. Hazard ratios (HR) and 95 % confide…

  • Meal patterns across ten European countries – results from the European Prospective Investigation into Cancer and Nutrition (Epic) calibration study

    Open AccessEna Huseinovic, Anna Winkvist et al.ARTICLEPublic Health Nutrition2016

    Objective To characterize meal patterns across ten European countries participating in the European Prospective Investigation into Cancer and Nutrition (EPIC) calibration study. Design Cross-sectional study utilizing dietary data collected through a standardized 24 h diet recall during 1995–2000. Eleven predefined intake occasions across a 24 h period were assessed during the interview. In the present descriptive report, meal patterns were analys…

  • Responses and relationship dynamics of men and their spouses during active surveillance for prostate cancer

    Open AccessLars Kayser, Nete Sloth Hansen-Nord et al.ARTICLEBMC Public Health2015

    Using the HLQ as an interview framework provided insight into the differences within couples and provided new perspectives on their experiences, including their contact with health professionals and the patient-spouse interaction when dealing with prostate cancer. The HLQ used as a dialogue tool may be an adjunct to assist healthcare providers to understand the need for support and information of men with prostate cancer on active surveillance an…

  • Dietary patterns and whole grain cereals in the Scandinavian countries – differences and similarities. The Helga project

    Open AccessDagrun Engeset, Dag Hofo et al.ARTICLEPublic Health Nutrition2015

    Objective To identify dietary patterns with whole grains as a main focus to see if there is a similar whole grain pattern in the three Scandinavian countries; Denmark, Sweden and Norway. Another objective is to see if items suggested for a Nordic Food Index will form a typical Nordic pattern when using factor analysis. Setting The HELGA study population is based on samples of existing cohorts: the Norwegian Women and Cancer Study, the Swedish Väs…

  • Consumption of predefined ‘Nordic’ dietary items in ten European countries – an investigation in the European Prospective Investigation into Cancer and Nutrition (Epic) cohort

    Open AccessNina Roswall, Anja Olsen et al.ARTICLEPublic Health Nutrition2014

    Objective Health-beneficial effects of adhering to a healthy Nordic diet index have been suggested. However, it has not been examined to what extent the included dietary components are exclusively related to the Nordic countries or if they are part of other European diets as well, suggesting a broader preventive potential. The present study describes the intake of seven a priori defined healthy food items (apples/pears, berries, cabbages, dark br…

  • Air pollution and lung cancer incidence in 17 European cohorts

    Open AccessOle Raaschou‐Nielsen, Ole Raaschou-Nielsen et al.ARTICLEThe Lancet Oncology2013

  • The association of education with body mass index and waist circumference in the Epic-Panacea study

    Open AccessSilke Hermann, Sabine Rohrmann et al.ARTICLEBMC Public Health2011

    In this European cohort, there is an inverse association between higher BMI as well as higher WC and lower education level. Public Health Programs that aim to reduce overweight and obesity should primarily focus on the lower educated population

  • Intake of whole grains in Scandinavia is associated with healthy lifestyle, socio-economic and dietary factors

    Open AccessCecilie Kyrø, Guri Skeie et al.ARTICLEPublic Health Nutrition2011

    Objective To identify the dietary, lifestyle and socio-economic factors associated with the intake of whole grains (WG) in Norway, Sweden and Denmark. Design A cross-sectional study. Setting Subsample of the Scandinavian cohort ‘HELGA’ consisting of three prospective cohorts: The Norwegian Women and Cancer Study; The Northern Sweden Health and Disease Study; and the Danish Diet, Cancer and Health Study. Subjects A total of 8702 men and women aged…

  • P1-17 The treelet transform—a novel method for determining patterns in adipose tissue fatty acids

    Christina C Dahm, Jane Nautrup Østergaard et al.ARTICLEJournal of Epidemiology and…2011

    Introduction Dietary fatty acid intake may be associated with risk of obesity and non-communicable disease. Adipose tissue fatty acids are correlated, reflecting shared dietary sources and metabolic processes. To date fatty acids have been investigated individually, or using principal component analysis (PCA), but interpretation of such studies is not trivial. The treelet transform (TT) is a novel method for generating sparse factors that describ…