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| B L HeitmannSummaryAffiliation: University of Copenhagen Country: Denmark Publications
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Mortality associated with body fat, fat-free mass and body mass index among 60-year-old swedish men-a 22-year follow-up. The study of men born in 1913B L Heitmann
Danish Epidemiology Science Centre at the Institute of Preventive Medicine, Copenhagen University Hospital, Copenhagen, Denmark
Int J Obes Relat Metab Disord 24:33-7. 2000....- Do we eat less fat, or just report so?B L Heitmann
Department of Medicine CF, Glostrup University Hospital, Denmark
Int J Obes Relat Metab Disord 24:435-42. 2000..To examine secular trends in diet reporting error... - Ten-year trends in overweight and obesity among Danish men and women aged 30-60 yearsB L Heitmann
Copenhagen County Centre for Preventive Medicine, Medical Department FC, Glostrup University, Hospital, Denmark
Int J Obes Relat Metab Disord 24:1347-52. 2000..The objective of the study was, therefore, to describe the development over 10 y in moderate and severe overweight in Danish adults aged 30-60 y... - Gender, obesity and healthBerit Lilienthal Heitmann
Unit for Dietary Studies, Copenhagen County Centre of Preventive Medicine, Glostrup University Hospital, Ndr. Ringvej 57, Entrance 8, 7th Floor, DK-2600 Glostrup, Denmark
Sb Lek 103:465-70. 2002 - Dietary patterns and mortality in Danish men and women: a prospective observational studyM Osler
Institute of Public Health, University of Copenhagen, Blegdamsvej 3, 2200 N, Copenhagen, Denmark
Br J Nutr 85:219-25. 2001.... - Waist circumference and body composition in relation to all-cause mortality in middle-aged men and womenJ Bigaard
The Danish Cancer Society, Institute of Cancer Epidemiology, Copenhagen, Denmark
Int J Obes (Lond) 29:778-84. 2005..We investigated the association of waist circumference and body composition (body fat and fat-free mass), mutually adjusted, to all-cause mortality... 
Food intake patterns, self rated health and mortality in Danish men and women. A prospective observational studyM Osler
Institute of Public Health, University of Copenhagen, Blegdamsvej 3, 2200 N, Copenhagen, Denmark
J Epidemiol Community Health 55:399-403. 2001..To examine whether self rated health confounds or modifies the relation between a prudent food intake pattern and mortality and to study whether the prudent food intake pattern predicts subsequent changes in self rated health...
Associations between dietary intake and body fat independent of genetic and familial environmental backgroundA L Hasselbalch
Institute of Preventive Medicine, Copenhagen Capital Region, Copenhagen University Hospitals, Centre for Health and Society, Copenhagen, Denmark
Int J Obes (Lond) 34:892-8. 2010..To determine whether habitual dietary intake was associated with body fat mass and body fat distribution, independently of possible confounding by the genetic and shared environmental background...- OPEN about obesity: recovery biomarkers, dietary reporting errors and BMIL Lissner
Department of Public Health and Community Medicine, Sahlgrenska Academy at Goteborg University, Sweden, and Research Unit for Dietary Studies at Institute of Preventive Medicine, Copenhagen University Hospital, Denmark
Int J Obes (Lond) 31:956-61. 2007..The aim of this paper is to characterize obese and non-obese individuals with respect to reporting errors observed with two common dietary instruments, using energy and protein recovery biomarkers as reference measures... - Assessment of habitual energy and macronutrient intake in adults: comparison of a seven day food record with a dietary history interviewS Høidrup
Copenhagen County Centre for Preventive Medicine, Research Unit for Dietary Studies, Medical Dept M, Glostrup University Hospital, Glostrup, Denmark
Eur J Clin Nutr 56:105-13. 2002.... - Food intake patterns and body mass index in observational studiesP Togo
Centre for Preventive Medicine, Research Unit for Dietary Studies, Glostrup University Hospital, Glostrup, Denmark
Int J Obes Relat Metab Disord 25:1741-51. 2001..To review studies of patterns of food intake, as assessed by diet index, factor analysis or cluster analysis, and their associations with body mass index or obesity (BMI/Ob)... - Combined effects of weight loss and physical activity on all-cause mortality of overweight men and womenJ N Østergaard
National Institute of Public Health, University of Southern Denmark, Copenhagen, Denmark
Int J Obes (Lond) 34:760-9. 2010..To estimate the excess deaths associated with weight loss in combination with leisure time physical activity among overweight or obese people... - Intake of ruminant trans fatty acids in the Danish population aged 1-80 yearsM U Jakobsen
Research Unit for Dietary Studies and Danish Epidemiology Science Centre, Institute of Preventive Medicine, Copenhagen University Hospital, Copenhagen, Denmark
Eur J Clin Nutr 60:312-8. 2006..To estimate the intake of ruminant trans fatty acids (TFA) in the Danish population aged 1-80 years... - A longitudinal study of food intake patterns and obesity in adult Danish men and womenP Togo
Research Unit for Dietary Studies at the Institute of Preventive Medicine, Copenhagen University Hospital, Copenhagen, Denmark
Int J Obes Relat Metab Disord 28:583-93. 2004..The aim of this study was to test the hypothesis that specific food intake patterns or changes in food intake patterns were related to future changes in body mass index (BMI)... - Prediction of fat-free body mass from bioelectrical impedance among 9- to 11-year-old Swedish childrenB M Nielsen
Research Unit for Dietary Studies, Danish Epidemiology Science Centre, Institute of Preventive Medicine, Copenhagen University Hospital, Copenhagen K, Denmark
Diabetes Obes Metab 9:521-39. 2007.... - Obesity: lessons from evolution and the environmentB L Heitmann
Institute of Preventive Medicine, Centre for Health and Society, Copenhagen University Hospitals, Copenhagen, Denmark
Obes Rev 13:910-22. 2012..At present, the impact of assortative mating on obesity prevalence is unambiguously positive. The complexity that appeared can only be fully appreciated by setting the data into the context of our evolutionary history... - The relation between drinking pattern and body mass index and waist and hip circumferenceJ S Tolstrup
Centre for Alcohol Research, National Institute of Public Health, Copenhagen, Denmark
Int J Obes (Lond) 29:490-7. 2005..To study the association between alcohol drinking pattern and obesity... - Imprecise methods may both obscure and aggravate a relation between fat and breast cancerB L Heitmann
Research Unit for Dietary Studies, Institute of Preventive Medicine, Copenhagen, Denmark
Eur J Clin Nutr 61:925-7. 2007..Whether the net result of the random and non-random bias aggravates or obscures relations depends on the relative magnitude of the two... - Linking definition of childhood and adolescent obesity to current health outcomesA R A Adegboye
Research Unit for Dietary Studies, Institute of Preventive Medicine, Copenhagen University Hospital, Copenhagen, Denmark
Int J Pediatr Obes 5:130-42. 2010..To evaluate the ability of body mass index (BMI) and fat location indices to predict clustering of risk factors for cardiovascular and metabolic disorders in children and adolescents... - Hip Hip Hurrah! Hip size inversely related to heart disease and total mortalityB L Heitmann
Research Unit for Dietary Studies, Institute of Preventive Medicine, Copenhagen University Hospital, Copenhagen K, Denmark
Obes Rev 12:478-81. 2011..In this 'viewpoint', we wish to draw attention to the emerging body of evidence and to encourage researchers to continue collecting measures of lower body size in their surveys... - Endocrine-disrupting chemicals and obesity development in humans: a reviewJ L Tang-Péronard
Research Unit for Dietary Studies, Institute of Preventive Medicine, Centre for Health and Society, Copenhagen, Denmark
Obes Rev 12:622-36. 2011..The study findings suggest that some endocrine disruptors may play a role for the development of the obesity epidemic, in addition to the more commonly perceived putative contributors... - Prevalence of obesity in DenmarkP Due
Department of Social Medicine, Institute of Public Health, Faculty of Health Sciences, University of Copenhagen, Copenhagen, Denmark
Obes Rev 8:187-9. 2007..A close association with birth cohorts indicates a need for further aetiological research, not only into behavioural factors, but also into early life factors that may explain some of this developmental pattern... - Combined influence of leisure-time physical activity and hip circumference on all-cause mortalityJ N Østergaard
Department of Cardiology, Center for Cardiovascular Research, Aalborg Hospital, Aarhus University Hospital, Aalborg, Denmark
Obesity (Silver Spring) 21:E78-85. 2013..Hip circumference has been shown to be inversely associated with mortality. Muscle atrophy in the gluteofemoral region may be a possible explanation and thus physical activity is likely to play an important role... - Night eating and weight change in middle-aged men and womenG S Andersen
Research Unit for Dietary Studies, Institute of Preventive Medicine, Copenhagen University Hospital, DK-1399 Copenhagen K, Denmark
Int J Obes Relat Metab Disord 28:1338-43. 2004..CONCLUSION: Night eating was not associated with later weight gain, except among already obese women, suggesting that getting up at night to eat may be a contributor to further weight gain among the obese... - Stigmatization of obese children and adolescents, the importance of genderJ L Tang-Péronard
Research Unit for Dietary Studies, Institute of Preventive Medicine, Centre for Health and Society, Copenhagen, Denmark
Obes Rev 9:522-34. 2008..There is a need to conduct further studies that are specifically designed to evaluate gender differences in stigmatization of overweight children and adolescents, and for studies focusing on preventing this stigmatization... - Intake of calorically sweetened beverages and obesityN J Olsen
Research Unit for Dietary Studies, Institute of Preventive Medicine, Copenhagen, Denmark
Obes Rev 10:68-75. 2009..However, there seems to be no support that the association between intake of calorically sweetened beverages and obesity is mediated via increased energy intake, and alternative biological explanations should be explored... - Waist and hip circumferences and all-cause mortality: usefulness of the waist-to-hip ratio?J Bigaard
Institute of Cancer Epidemiology, The Danish Cancer Society, Copenhagen, Denmark
Int J Obes Relat Metab Disord 28:741-7. 2004..To investigate whether waist and hip circumferences, in addition to body mass index (BMI), are related to all-cause mortality. We studied these associations and tested the usefulness of the waist-to-hip ratio for mortality prediction... - Sexual function and obesityS H Larsen
Research Unit for Dietary Studies, Institute of Preventive Medicine, Copenhagen University Hospital, Centre for Health and Society, Copenhagen, Denmark
Int J Obes (Lond) 31:1189-98. 2007..To review the literature on the relationship between obesity and sexual function... - Remaining teeth, cardiovascular morbidity and death among adult DanesB L Heitmann
Research Unit for Dietary Studies, Institute of Preventive Medicine, Centre for Health and Society, Copenhagen University Hospital, Denmark
Prev Med 47:156-60. 2008..To examine if number of remaining teeth was associated with development of cardiovascular morbidity and mortality over 5-12 years... - Editors' introductionB L Heitmann
Research Unit for Dietary Studies, Institute of Preventive Medicine, Copenhagen University Hospital, Centre for Health and Society, Copenhagen, Denmark
Int J Obes (Lond) 31:S1-2. 2007 - Can adverse effects of dietary fat intake be overestimated as a consequence of dietary fat underreporting?Berit Lilienthal Heitmann
Research Unit for Dietary Studies and Danish Epidemiology Science Centre, Institute of Preventive Medicine, Copenhagen University Hospital, DK 1399 Copenhagen K, Denmark
Public Health Nutr 8:1322-7. 2005..To describe the consequences of systematic reporting bias by the obese for diet-disease relationships... - Glycaemic index and glycaemic load in relation to blood lipids - 6 years of follow-up in adult Danish men and womenAnne Lene Oxlund
Research Unit for Dietary Studies and Danish Epidemiology Science Centre, Institute of Preventive Medicine, Copenhagen University Hospital, , 1357 Copenhagen K, Denmark
Public Health Nutr 9:737-45. 2006..03 and 0.04, respectively). CONCLUSIONS: This is the first study to demonstrate that dietary GI and GL are related to 6-year changes in serum lipid levels. However, associations were weak and generally confined to subgroups... - Waist circumference, BMI, smoking, and mortality in middle-aged men and womenJanne Bigaard
Institute of Cancer Epidemiology, The Danish Cancer Society, Copenhagen, Denmark
Obes Res 11:895-903. 2003..Measurement of waist circumference alone as a proxy of abdominal fat mass has been suggested as a simple clinical alternative to BMI for detecting adults with possible health risks due to obesity... - Composition (lean and fat tissue) of weight changes in adult DanesBerit Lilienthal Heitmann
Institute of Preventive Medicine, Copenhagen, University Hospital, København K, Denmark
Am J Clin Nutr 75:840-7. 2002..Weight loss may be associated with unfavorable changes in body composition not compensated for by subsequent weight gain... - [Prevention of obesity]Thomas Meinert Larsen
Den Kongelige Veterinaer og Landbohøjskole, Institut for Human Ernaering, Levnedsmiddelcenteret, og Enheden for Epidemiologisk Kostforskning, og Center for Epidemiologisk Grundforskning, Frederiksberg C
Ugeskr Laeger 168:155-9. 2006..Despite the lack of documentation, many initiatives are being undertaken, both nationally and internationally, and it is recommended that Denmark also initiate a collaborative official effort...