Thorkild I.A. Sørensen

Professor of metabolic epidemiology

University of Copenhagen

Denmark

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Thorkild I.A. Sørensen is a Professor of Metabolic Epidemiology at the University of Copenhagen, Denmark. His research focuses on metabolic health, obesity, and the effects of dietary factors on weight and body composition, as evidenced by his recent publications on processed meat intake and obesity pathogenesis. He also investigates the role of food insecurity and its impact on health outcomes, including type 2 diabetes and maternal obesity implications.

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Jan Żylicz

Group Leader/Associate Professor

University of Copenhagen

DENMARK

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Articles (20)

Food insecurity promotes adiposity in mice

Processed Meat Intake and Changes in Weight, Waist, Body Mass Index, and Fat Mass: Systematic Literature Review, Meta-Analysis, and GRADE Assessment of Cohort Studies of Adults

The Anti-Lipolytic Effect of Insulin in Adipocytes Associates with the Magnitude of Dietary Induced Loss in Body Weight and Fat Mass: A Longitudinal Study

Food noise: definition, measurement, and future research directions

Trapped fat: Obesity pathogenesis as an intrinsic disorder in metabolic fuel partitioning

On the pathogenesis of obesity: causal models and missing pieces of the puzzle

Maternal obesity, interpregnancy weight changes and congenital heart defects in the offspring

Childhood adversity trajectories and weight status in young adult men: a register-based study including 359,783 Danish men

The impact of surgery and oncological treatment on risk of type 2 diabetes onset in patients with colorectal cancer: nationwide cohort study in Denmark

The impact of surgery and oncological treatment on risk of type 2 diabetes onset in patients with colorectal cancer: nationwide cohort study in Denmark

Gestational age at birth and body size from infancy through adolescence: An individual participant data meta-analysis on 253,810 singletons in 16 birth cohort studies

Birth weight, childhood body mass index, and risk of diverticular disease in adulthood

Emergence of the obesity epidemic preceding the presumed obesogenic transformation of the society

An adiposity force induces obesity in humans independently of a normal energy balance system—a thought experiment

Preface: causes of obesity, theories, conjectures and evidence

Early childhood adversity and body mass index in childhood and adolescence: linking registry data on adversities with school health records of 53,401 children from Copenhagen

Mendelian randomization suggests a bidirectional, causal relationship between physical inactivity and adiposity

Do gene–environment interactions have implications for the precision prevention of type 2 diabetes?

An integrated model of obesity pathogenesis that revisits causal direction

Non-linear interaction between physical activity and polygenic risk score of body mass index in Danish and Russian populations

Collaborators (27)

Jan Żylicz

Christoffer Clemmensen

Padmaja Subbarao2,3,4

Naja Hulvej Rod

Ruth Loos

Anne Sofie Dam Laursen

Stuart Turvey

Jens Lund

Katrine Strandberg-Larsen

John R. Speakman

Britt Wang Jensen

Faidon Magkos

Angela Pinot de Moira

J. L. Baker

Theresia Schnurr

Anne-Marie Nybo Andersen

Cláudia Gil

Germán Darío Carrasquilla

Mina Nicole Händel

Lone Krebs

Maja Popovic

Tim Cadman

Claus Thorn Ekstrøm

Anja Bosy‐Westphal

Tove Fall

David B. Allison

Tuomas Kilpeläinen

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