PhD defence: Children’s diet and cardiometabolic health: Insights from the Generation Healthy Kids study
Frederik Holmegaard Jensen
Risk factors for cardiometabolic diseases may emerge early in life and track into adulthood, increasing the future risk of disease. Adopting a healthy dietary pattern is an important part of maintaining a favourable cardiometabolic risk marker profile already in childhood.
The Generation Healthy Kids study was a 2-schoolyear, multi-setting, multi-component randomised trial with the overall aim of promoting healthy weight development among Danish children aged 6-11 years. The intervention targeted four health domains: diet, physical activity, sleep, and screen media use.
This PhD thesis assessed Danish children's dietary intake, adherence to dietary recommendations and sociodemographic disparities, investigated the effects of the Generation Healthy Kids intervention on children's cardiometabolic markers, and explored longitudinal associations between children's dietary intake and cardiometabolic markers.
Assessment Committee
Professor Inge Tetens (chair), Department of Nutrition, Exercise and Sports, University of Copenhagen, Denmark.
Professor, Head of Nutritional Epidemiology Ute Nöthlings, University of Bonn, Institute of Nutritional and Food Sciences, Nutritional Epidemiology, Friedrich-Hirzebruch-Allee 7, 53115 Bonn.
Senior Lecturer in Pediatrics & Senior Consultant (Lars) Torbjörn Edmund Lind, Department of Paediatrics, Umeå University Hospital.
Supervisors
Associate Professor Camilla Trab Damsgaard, Department of Nutrition, Exercise and Sports, University of Copenhagen, Denmark.
Professor Lotte Lauritzen, Department of Nutrition, Exercise and Sports, University of Copenhagen, Denmark.
Professor Christian Mølgaard, Department of Nutrition, Exercise and Sports, University of Copenhagen, Denmark.
Place
Building: 1-01, Room: A1.01.01 Festauditoriet, Bülowsvej 17, 1870 Frederiksberg C.
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