Nutrition and Disease
The Nutrition and Disease Group focuses on cardiometabolic diseases, cancer, gastro-intestinal diseases and obesity. Our societal mission is to decrease the risk of (chronic) disease and improve the health of those with a disease through better nutrition. Our scientific mission is to conduct interdisciplinary human observational and experimental research on nutrition in disease aetiology, during treatment and for prognosis.
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We contribute to several bachelor and master programmes.
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Sugar-sweetened beverages, low/no-calorie beverages, fruit juices intake and risks of metabolic syndrome in adults : The SWEET project
Nutrition, Metabolism and Cardiovascular Diseases (2025), Volume: 35, Issue: 2 - ISSN 0939-4753 - p. 103744-103744. -
Circulating tryptophan–kynurenine pathway metabolites are associated with all-cause mortality among patients with stage I–III colorectal cancer
International Journal of Cancer (2025), Volume: 156, Issue: 3 - ISSN 0020-7136 - p. 552-565.