Rikke Lund
Biographic Data
| ID | 90260 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Rikke Lund |
| GIVEN NAMES | Rikke |
| FAMILY NAME | Lund |
| SIGNATURE | LUND R |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Copenhagen |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-0381-4291 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 41 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 148 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 41 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2002 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 6 |
Exploring stroke awareness in an ethnic minority population
Our study highlights the need for more socioculturally and linguistically accessible stroke awareness campaigns, to improve early recognition of stroke symptoms and ensure timely intervention
Assessing Mobility-Driven Socio-Economic Impacts on Quality of Life in Small Urban Areas
Mobility is a fundamental catalyst for urban transformation, particularly in smaller urban centres, where enhanced transport can significantly influence socio-economic dynamics. This study investigates the socio-economic and spatial developments associated with the fixed-link transport corridor connecting the Zealand and Funen islands in Denmark. Despite its importance, a gap remains in understanding how this transport corridor has reshaped inter…
Structural changes in a Danish social housing area
Social relations and health in an ethnically diverse social housing area selected for large structural changes compared to municipal levels
This study provides insight to a population that is generally underrepresented in survey studies. In the social housing area, approximately twice as many reported poor SRH compared to the municipality data. In both populations, low contact frequency and low support were associated with poor SRH. Residents with weak social relations and non-Western origin simultaneously were more likely to report poor SRH in the social housing area specifically bu…
They are breaking us into pieces’
Urban regeneration often intends to improve the physical, economic, and social environment of disadvantaged neighborhoods. However, evidence on the consequences of such interventions on place-based social relations is limited in Scandinavia. This study investigates the relationship between urban regeneration and diverse forms of place-based social relations among middle-aged and older social housing residents in Denmark. A longitudinal multi-meth…
Is urban regeneration associated with antidepressants or sedative medication users
BACKGROUND: Area deprivation is associated with adverse mental health outcomes. In Denmark, urban regeneration is being used to dissolve concentrated socio-economic area deprivation and ethnic segregation. However, evidence on how urban regeneration affects mental health of residents is ambiguous partly due to methodological challenges. This study investigates if urban regeneration affects users of antidepressant and sedative medication among res…
Life course partnership history and objectively measured physical functional ability in Danish middle-aged adults
BACKGROUND: Partnership break-up and living alone is associated with several negative health-related outcomes. Little is known about the association with physical functional ability in a life course perspective. The aim of this study is to investigate (1) the association between number of partnership break-ups and years living alone across 26 years of adult life respectively and objectively measured physical capability in midlife, (2) how the joi…
Do partnership dissolutions and living alone affect systemic chronic inflammation? A cohort study of Danish adults
BACKGROUND: Partnership breakups and living alone are associated with several adverse health outcomes. The aim of this study, carried out in Denmark, is to investigate whether accumulated numbers of divorces/partnership breakups or years lived alone across 26 years of adult life are associated with levels of inflammation, and if vulnerability with regards to gender or educational level can be identified. METHODS: 4835 participants from the Copenh…
Associations of loneliness and social isolation with physical and mental health among adolescents and young adults
AIMS: The present study investigates whether loneliness and social isolation are associated with poor physical and mental health among adolescents and young adults, and whether age and gender play a role in the associations of loneliness and social isolation with mental and physical health. METHODS: = 22.6 years). RESULTS: Logistic regression analyses showed that loneliness and social isolation were independently associated with poor physical and…
Changes and correlations in height from 7 to 69 years of age across the birth years of 1930 to 1989
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…
Social Relations, Community Engagement and Potentials
Emerging evidence points towards a lower quality of life, fragile social relations and suboptimal health behavior and status of residents living in social housing areas characterized by ethnic diversity and socioeconomic deprivation. Community-based health promotion interventions developed in collaboration with the target group and adjusted to the local context can affect the acceptance of and engagement in such interventions. However, few studie…
The joint effect of unemployment and cynical hostility on all-cause mortality
Men and women exposed to both unemployment and hostility were at markedly high risk of premature mortality. However, this study did not support the hypothesis that the deleterious health effect of the combination of unemployment and hostility exceeds their individual effects
Life course analysis on income and incident AMI
BACKGROUND: Social inequality in ischaemic heart disease has been related to socioeconomic position in childhood, early adulthood and late adulthood. However, the impact of relative level of accumulated income periods across adult life course and the potential gender and age differences have not been investigated. The aim was to investigate the association between relative level of accumulated income across the life course and acute myocardial in…
Mortality Following Trajectories of Mobility Limitations
Objective: How are trajectories of mobility limitations (MLs) among older adults associated with mortality? Do social factors modify these associations? Method: Group-based trajectory modeling was used to identify four trajectories of MLs over a period of 4.5 years among 3,055 older Danes. Mortality analyses were conducted using additive hazard regression models. Results: Compared to older adults without MLs, older adults with high level of MLs w…
Occupational Social Class and Personality Traits in Relation to Leisure-Time Physical Activity Level
Higher occupational social class was associated with lower leisure-time physical activity duration, but higher intensity. Extraversion was positively associated with duration and intensity. Conscientiousness, openness, and neuroticism were positively associated with intensity. Overall, interactions were not consistent
Socioeconomic Position Across the Life Course and Cognitive Ability Later in Life
Objective: Investigate direct and indirect associations between markers of socioeconomic position (SEP) across the life course and midlife cognitive ability while addressing methodological limitations in prior work. Method: Longitudinal data from the Danish Metropolit cohort of men born in 1953 ( N = 2,479) who completed ability tests at age 12, 18, and 56-58 linked to register-based information on paternal occupational class, educational attainm…
Neighborhood perceptions and allostatic load
School education, physical performance in late midlife and allostatic load
BACKGROUND: The mechanisms underlying the social gradient in physical functioning are not fully understood. Cumulative physiological stress may be a pathway. The present study aimed to investigate the association between highest attained school education and physical performance in late midlife, and to determine to what extent cumulative physiological stress mediated these associations. METHODS: The study is based on data from the Copenhagen Agin…
The Relationship Between Cognitive Ability and Demographic Factors in Late Midlife
Late-midlife cognitive ability is associated with a number of demographic factors, and demographic differences may contribute to individual differences in health and early aging. In analyses of cognitive ability, the three CAMB cohorts can be combined provided the relevant demographic variables are included as covariates
Personality in Late Midlife
Robust sex, educational, and social class differences in personality may contribute to late midlife social gradients in health and early aging. Demographic factors did not fully explain correlations between personality and cognitive ability or cohort differences in personality
Content Validity and Reliability of the Copenhagen Social Relations Questionnaire
CSRQ holds satisfactory face and content validity as well as reliability, and is suitable for measuring structure and function of social relations including the negative aspects among middle-aged individuals
Addressing Social Inequality in Aging by the Danish Occupational Social Class Measurement
The DOSC measure was associated with aging-related outcomes in a midlife Danish population, and is, thus, well suited for future epidemiological research on social inequalities in health and aging
Social Class Differences in Physical Functions in Middle-Aged Men and Women
Including measures of vigorous physical functioning may add to the existing knowledge on development of functional limitation and poorer functional health later in life
Social Gradient in Allostatic Load Among Danish Men and Women in Late Midlife
AL may be a potential biomarker for early aging in countries with a strong social welfare system. It is important for intervention studies to be aware of this type of biological vulnerability already present in late midlife
Copenhagen Aging and Midlife Biobank (Camb)
Since the early 1980s, a number of large-scale, population-based, epidemiologic studies have focused on the development of disability, cognitive impairment, dementia, long-term care, and other health issues with particular relevance to older adults. With few exceptions, these health issues have been investigated in older populations, usually defined on the basis of chronological age (e.g., older than 65). Examples are the Established Populations …
Cohabitation and marital status as predictors of mortality-an eight year follow-up study
The Impact of Structural and Functional Characteristics of Social Relations as Determinants of Functional Decline
The results point to the importance of social relations in the prevention of functional decline in older adults
Addressing Social Inequality in Aging by the Danish Occupational Social Class Measurement
The DOSC measure was associated with aging-related outcomes in a midlife Danish population, and is, thus, well suited for future epidemiological research on social inequalities in health and aging
Copenhagen Aging and Midlife Biobank (Camb)
Since the early 1980s, a number of large-scale, population-based, epidemiologic studies have focused on the development of disability, cognitive impairment, dementia, long-term care, and other health issues with particular relevance to older adults. With few exceptions, these health issues have been investigated in older populations, usually defined on the basis of chronological age (e.g., older than 65). Examples are the Established Populations …
Neighborhood perceptions and allostatic load
Interactive effects of social support and disclosure on fertility-related stress
Individuals perceiving high social support tend to perceive better adjustment to infertility. However, it remains unclear whether this benefit is affected by the actual disclosure of the infertility condition. The present study aimed to examine the role of disclosure of fertility status in moderating the relationship between perceived social support and fertility-related stress. The study population ( N = 698) was drawn from a longitudinal cohort…
Influence of marital history over two and three generations on early death. A longitudinal study of Danish men born in 1953
Background: This study examined the effects of marital status over two and three generations on last generation’s mortality, and tested the hypothesis of an effect of the latest status (proximity effect) as well as the hypothesis of an accumulative effect. Methods: The study population covers a random sample of all boys born in the the metropolitan area of Copenhagen with complete data from interviews and registers on two and three generation’s m…
They are breaking us into pieces’
Urban regeneration often intends to improve the physical, economic, and social environment of disadvantaged neighborhoods. However, evidence on the consequences of such interventions on place-based social relations is limited in Scandinavia. This study investigates the relationship between urban regeneration and diverse forms of place-based social relations among middle-aged and older social housing residents in Denmark. A longitudinal multi-meth…
Social Class Differences in Physical Functions in Middle-Aged Men and Women
Including measures of vigorous physical functioning may add to the existing knowledge on development of functional limitation and poorer functional health later in life
Socioeconomic Position Across the Life Course and Cognitive Ability Later in Life
Objective: Investigate direct and indirect associations between markers of socioeconomic position (SEP) across the life course and midlife cognitive ability while addressing methodological limitations in prior work. Method: Longitudinal data from the Danish Metropolit cohort of men born in 1953 ( N = 2,479) who completed ability tests at age 12, 18, and 56-58 linked to register-based information on paternal occupational class, educational attainm…
Stressful social relations and mortality
BACKGROUND: Few studies have examined the relationship between stressful social relations in private life and all-cause mortality. OBJECTIVE: To evaluate the association between stressful social relations (with partner, children, other family, friends and neighbours, respectively) and all-cause mortality in a large population-based study of middle-aged men and women. Further, to investigate the possible modification of this association by labour …
Impact of Social Capital on 8-Year Mortality Among Older People in 34 Danish Municipalities
The measures of social capital used in the present study include key aspects of social capital that are associated to mortality in older populations via physical activity and mobility disability
Do partnership dissolutions and living alone affect systemic chronic inflammation? A cohort study of Danish adults
BACKGROUND: Partnership breakups and living alone are associated with several adverse health outcomes. The aim of this study, carried out in Denmark, is to investigate whether accumulated numbers of divorces/partnership breakups or years lived alone across 26 years of adult life are associated with levels of inflammation, and if vulnerability with regards to gender or educational level can be identified. METHODS: 4835 participants from the Copenh…
Social Gradient in Allostatic Load Among Danish Men and Women in Late Midlife
AL may be a potential biomarker for early aging in countries with a strong social welfare system. It is important for intervention studies to be aware of this type of biological vulnerability already present in late midlife
Reduced probability of smoking cessation in men with increasing number of job losses and partnership breakdowns
BACKGROUND: Unemployment and partnership breakdowns are common stressful life events, but their association with smoking cessation has been investigated in only a few studies. OBJECTIVE: To investigate how history of employment and cohabitation affects the probability of smoking cessation and to study joint exposure to both. METHODS: Birth cohort study of smoking cessation of 6232 Danish men born in 1953 with a follow-up at age 51 (response rate …
Social Inequality in Onset of Mobility Disability Among Older Danes
The negative effects of low financial assets and poor social relations on mobility appear to be independent. More longitudinal studies on possible mediators of the social gradient in mobility among older people are needed
Cohabitation Status and Onset of Disability Among Older Danes
Our results underline the importance of cohabitation/marriage for maintaining a high functional ability among older men
Is urban regeneration associated with antidepressants or sedative medication users
BACKGROUND: Area deprivation is associated with adverse mental health outcomes. In Denmark, urban regeneration is being used to dissolve concentrated socio-economic area deprivation and ethnic segregation. However, evidence on how urban regeneration affects mental health of residents is ambiguous partly due to methodological challenges. This study investigates if urban regeneration affects users of antidepressant and sedative medication among res…
Life course analysis on income and incident AMI
BACKGROUND: Social inequality in ischaemic heart disease has been related to socioeconomic position in childhood, early adulthood and late adulthood. However, the impact of relative level of accumulated income periods across adult life course and the potential gender and age differences have not been investigated. The aim was to investigate the association between relative level of accumulated income across the life course and acute myocardial in…
Occupational Social Class and Personality Traits in Relation to Leisure-Time Physical Activity Level
Higher occupational social class was associated with lower leisure-time physical activity duration, but higher intensity. Extraversion was positively associated with duration and intensity. Conscientiousness, openness, and neuroticism were positively associated with intensity. Overall, interactions were not consistent
School education, physical performance in late midlife and allostatic load
BACKGROUND: The mechanisms underlying the social gradient in physical functioning are not fully understood. Cumulative physiological stress may be a pathway. The present study aimed to investigate the association between highest attained school education and physical performance in late midlife, and to determine to what extent cumulative physiological stress mediated these associations. METHODS: The study is based on data from the Copenhagen Agin…
The Relationship Between Cognitive Ability and Demographic Factors in Late Midlife
Late-midlife cognitive ability is associated with a number of demographic factors, and demographic differences may contribute to individual differences in health and early aging. In analyses of cognitive ability, the three CAMB cohorts can be combined provided the relevant demographic variables are included as covariates
Personality in Late Midlife
Robust sex, educational, and social class differences in personality may contribute to late midlife social gradients in health and early aging. Demographic factors did not fully explain correlations between personality and cognitive ability or cohort differences in personality
Content Validity and Reliability of the Copenhagen Social Relations Questionnaire
CSRQ holds satisfactory face and content validity as well as reliability, and is suitable for measuring structure and function of social relations including the negative aspects among middle-aged individuals
Are negative aspects of social relations predictive of angina pectoris? A 6-year follow-up study of middle-aged Danish women and men
BACKGROUND: Social relations have been shown to be protective against ischaemic heart disease (IHD), but little is known about the impact of negative aspects of the social relations on IHD. METHODS: During a 6-year follow-up, the authors aimed to assess if negative aspects of social relations were associated with angina pectoris among 4573 middle-aged Danish men and women free of heart disease at baseline in 2000. RESULTS: Nine per cent experienc…
Cohabitation and marital status as predictors of mortality-an eight year follow-up study
Cynical Hostility, Socioeconomic Position, Health Behaviors, and Symptom Load
OBJECTIVE: To analyze the cross-sectional association between cynical hostility and high symptom load in a Danish population-based study. Furthermore, the aim was to investigate to what extent health risk behaviors mediated this association. METHODS: Data were based on a postal questionnaire in a Danish random sample of 3426 men and 3699 women aged 40 or 50 years. Cynical hostility was measured by the 8-item Cynical Distrust Scale. High symptom l…
The Impact of Structural and Functional Characteristics of Social Relations as Determinants of Functional Decline
The results point to the importance of social relations in the prevention of functional decline in older adults
Influence of marital history over two and three generations on early death. A longitudinal study of Danish men born in 1953
Background: This study examined the effects of marital status over two and three generations on last generation’s mortality, and tested the hypothesis of an effect of the latest status (proximity effect) as well as the hypothesis of an accumulative effect. Methods: The study population covers a random sample of all boys born in the the metropolitan area of Copenhagen with complete data from interviews and registers on two and three generation’s m…
The Overtime Effect of Social Position on Dental Caries Experience in a Group of Old‐Aged Danes Born in 1914
The study identified social inequalities across age among the very old individuals in relation to dental caries experience
Cohabitation Status and Onset of Disability Among Older Danes
Our results underline the importance of cohabitation/marriage for maintaining a high functional ability among older men
Marital Status and Twins’ Health and Behavior
OBJECTIVE: To disentangle the influences on health of selection processes related to genetic and rearing environmental factors from factors related to marriage benefits. We compared health status among same-sex male and female twin pairs who lived together during childhood and were discordant or concordant on adult marital status. METHODS: A cross-sectional survey of a random sample of middle-aged Danish twins was conducted in 1998 to 1999. This …
Social Inequality in Onset of Mobility Disability Among Older Danes
The negative effects of low financial assets and poor social relations on mobility appear to be independent. More longitudinal studies on possible mediators of the social gradient in mobility among older people are needed
How do musculoskeletal pain, avoidant coping and sickness absence relate to each other
Background Musculoskeletal pain is common and causes extensive sickness absence and work disability in many industrialised countries. The prevalence of musculoskeletal morbidity increases by decreasing socio-economic position and it appears that people with a disadvantaged social situation are more vulnerable to the consequences of musculoskeletal disorders. An avoidant coping strategy has been associated with an increased likelihood of sickness …
Reduced probability of smoking cessation in men with increasing number of job losses and partnership breakdowns
BACKGROUND: Unemployment and partnership breakdowns are common stressful life events, but their association with smoking cessation has been investigated in only a few studies. OBJECTIVE: To investigate how history of employment and cohabitation affects the probability of smoking cessation and to study joint exposure to both. METHODS: Birth cohort study of smoking cessation of 6232 Danish men born in 1953 with a follow-up at age 51 (response rate …
Impact of Social Capital on 8-Year Mortality Among Older People in 34 Danish Municipalities
The measures of social capital used in the present study include key aspects of social capital that are associated to mortality in older populations via physical activity and mobility disability
OP59 Do Demands and Worries from Close Social Relations Increase the Risk of Subsequent Incident IHD Hospitalization? A 7 Year Longitudinal Study of Middle-Aged Danish Men and Women
Background The association between support from social relations and ischemic heart disease is well described, however the possible hazardous effects of negative aspects of social relations on cardiovascular health are less well known. The purpose of the present study was to analyze the possible influence of negative aspects of social relations (NASR) at baseline on the risk of development of ischemic heart disease (IHD) defined as incident hospi…
Are negative aspects of social relations predictive of angina pectoris? A 6-year follow-up study of middle-aged Danish women and men
BACKGROUND: Social relations have been shown to be protective against ischaemic heart disease (IHD), but little is known about the impact of negative aspects of the social relations on IHD. METHODS: During a 6-year follow-up, the authors aimed to assess if negative aspects of social relations were associated with angina pectoris among 4573 middle-aged Danish men and women free of heart disease at baseline in 2000. RESULTS: Nine per cent experienc…
Interactive effects of social support and disclosure on fertility-related stress
Individuals perceiving high social support tend to perceive better adjustment to infertility. However, it remains unclear whether this benefit is affected by the actual disclosure of the infertility condition. The present study aimed to examine the role of disclosure of fertility status in moderating the relationship between perceived social support and fertility-related stress. The study population ( N = 698) was drawn from a longitudinal cohort…
The Relationship Between Cognitive Ability and Demographic Factors in Late Midlife
Late-midlife cognitive ability is associated with a number of demographic factors, and demographic differences may contribute to individual differences in health and early aging. In analyses of cognitive ability, the three CAMB cohorts can be combined provided the relevant demographic variables are included as covariates
Personality in Late Midlife
Robust sex, educational, and social class differences in personality may contribute to late midlife social gradients in health and early aging. Demographic factors did not fully explain correlations between personality and cognitive ability or cohort differences in personality
Content Validity and Reliability of the Copenhagen Social Relations Questionnaire
CSRQ holds satisfactory face and content validity as well as reliability, and is suitable for measuring structure and function of social relations including the negative aspects among middle-aged individuals
Addressing Social Inequality in Aging by the Danish Occupational Social Class Measurement
The DOSC measure was associated with aging-related outcomes in a midlife Danish population, and is, thus, well suited for future epidemiological research on social inequalities in health and aging
Social Class Differences in Physical Functions in Middle-Aged Men and Women
Including measures of vigorous physical functioning may add to the existing knowledge on development of functional limitation and poorer functional health later in life
Social Gradient in Allostatic Load Among Danish Men and Women in Late Midlife
AL may be a potential biomarker for early aging in countries with a strong social welfare system. It is important for intervention studies to be aware of this type of biological vulnerability already present in late midlife
Copenhagen Aging and Midlife Biobank (Camb)
Since the early 1980s, a number of large-scale, population-based, epidemiologic studies have focused on the development of disability, cognitive impairment, dementia, long-term care, and other health issues with particular relevance to older adults. With few exceptions, these health issues have been investigated in older populations, usually defined on the basis of chronological age (e.g., older than 65). Examples are the Established Populations …
Stressful social relations and mortality
BACKGROUND: Few studies have examined the relationship between stressful social relations in private life and all-cause mortality. OBJECTIVE: To evaluate the association between stressful social relations (with partner, children, other family, friends and neighbours, respectively) and all-cause mortality in a large population-based study of middle-aged men and women. Further, to investigate the possible modification of this association by labour …
Mobility decline in old age
BACKGROUND: Mobility-related fatigue and low socioeconomic position predicts mobility limitations and disability in old age, but the interplay between these two factors is unknown. To evaluate whether mobility-related fatigue is a stronger risk factor for mobility limitations in certain socioeconomic groups, the aim of this study was to examine the combined effect of mobility-related fatigue and socioeconomic position on mobility limitations in a…
Neighborhood perceptions and allostatic load
School education, physical performance in late midlife and allostatic load
BACKGROUND: The mechanisms underlying the social gradient in physical functioning are not fully understood. Cumulative physiological stress may be a pathway. The present study aimed to investigate the association between highest attained school education and physical performance in late midlife, and to determine to what extent cumulative physiological stress mediated these associations. METHODS: The study is based on data from the Copenhagen Agin…
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