Research summary:
Lise G. Bjerregaard is currently holding a position as a Senior Researcher in the Section for Epidemiology in Jennifer Baker's group. She received her BSc, MSc and PhD degrees in Public Health Sciences from the University of Copenhagen. Her research has concentrated on life course studies of body weight using population-based data examining causes and consequences of childhood obesity.
The main purpose of her research programme is to study the relationship between infant feeding, infant growth and the risk of cardiovascular diseases and cancer in the mother and child as well as the influence of childhood and adulthood obesity on these associations. Her work is performed using the data resources of the Copenhagen Infant Health Visitor Records, the Copenhagen Perinatal Cohort and the Copenhagen School Health Records Register. Lise serves on several steering groups, and she is former president of the Danish Association for the Study of Obesity.
Publications: Press link for publications in PURE (change search criteria to: Geisler Andersen for earlier publications)
Selected publications:
- Hameiri-Bowen D, Pedersen DC, Jensen BW, Aarestrup J, Rasmussen KM, Baker JL, Bjerregaard LG . The association between being breastfed in infancy and risks of cancer in adulthood—a UK Biobank study. BJC Reports 2024; 2(1): 40.
- Blond K, Jensen BW, Petersen J, Baker JL, Bjerregaard LG. Trajectories of Infant Weight Gain from Birth to 12 Months and Adult-Onset Coronary Heart Disease. J Pediatr 2022; 246: 123-30 e4.
- Bjerregaard LG, Wasenius N, Nedelec R, et al. Possible Modifiers of the Association Between Change in Weight Status From Child Through Adult Ages and Later Risk of Type 2 Diabetes. Diabetes Care 2020; 43(5): 1000-7.
- Bjerregaard LG, Jensen BW, Ängquist L, Osler M, Sørensen TIA, Baker JL. Change in Overweight from Childhood to Early Adulthood and Risk of Type 2 Diabetes. New England Journal of Medicine 2018;378(14):1302-12.
- Bjerregaard LG, Rasmussen KM, Michaelsen KF, Skytthe A, Mortensen EL, Baker JL, Sørensen TIA. Effects of body size and change in body size from infancy through childhood on body mass index in adulthood. Int J Obes (Lond) 2014;38(10):1305-11.
Awards:
- Third price for the best abstract at the Annual Research Day, Bispebjerg and Frederiksberg Hospital, 2021
- High scoring abstract at the International Society for research in human milk and lactation (ISRHML) congress 2021
- EASO Travel Grant, European Congress on Obesity 2018
- Second prize for the best abstract at the annual meeting of the Danish Association for the Study of Obesity, 2017
- First prize for the best poster presentation at the Danish Diabetes Academy Winter School 2017
ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-8471-0832