Summary
Dagfinn Aune is a postdoctoral researcher at the Department of Epidemiology and Biostatistics at the School of Public Health of Imperial College London and an associate professor at Bjørknes University College in Oslo, Norway. He completed his PhD at the Norwegian University of Science and Technology in 2016 and has a MSc in Nutrition from the University of Oslo from 2008. He has since 2010 worked for several years in the Continuous Update Project of the World Cancer Research Fund, updating the systematic reviews and meta-analyses that were the basis for the report Food, Nutrition, Physical Activity and the Risk of Cancer: A Global Perspective that was published in 2007. He has also worked on systematic reviews and meta-analyses within other areas of public health as well as on projects in the EPIC-study, and in South American case-control studies.
Some of his research interests are:
Dietary factors and the risk of chronic diseases and mortality
Adiposity, physical activity and risk of chronic diseases and mortality
Smoking and risk of chronic diseases and mortality
Adiposity, diabetes, physical activity, diet and risk of pregnancy complications
Diabetes and insulin resistance and risk of chronic diseases and mortality
Publications
Journals
dos Santos M, Ferrari G, Lee DH, et al., 2022, Association of the "Weekend Warrior" and Other Leisure-time Physical Activity Patterns With All-Cause and Cause-Specific Mortality A Nationwide Cohort Study, Jama Internal Medicine, ISSN:2168-6106
Kliemann N, Ould Ammar R, Biessy C, et al., 2022, Metabolically-defined body size phenotypes and risk of endometrial cancer in the European prospective investigation into cancer and nutrition (EPIC), Cancer Epidemiology, Biomarkers and Prevention, Vol:31, ISSN:1055-9965, Pages:1359-1367
Jayedi A, Khan TA, Aune D, et al., 2022, Body fat and risk of all-cause mortality: a systematic review and dose-response meta-analysis of prospective cohort studies, International Journal of Obesity, ISSN:0307-0565
Peluso M, Munnia A, Russo V, et al., 2022, Cruciferous Vegetable Intake and Bulky DNA Damage within Non-Smokers and Former Smokers in the Gen-Air Study (EPIC Cohort), Nutrients, Vol:14
Ahmed A, Aune D, Vineis P, et al., 2022, The impact of conditional cash transfers on the control of neglected tropical disease: a systematic review, The Lancet Global Health, Vol:10, ISSN:2214-109X, Pages:e640-e648