Publications

Keep up with the latest research at the Faculty of Health.

The list below presents publications from the Faculty of Health, with the most recent at the top.

Jensen, C. B., Hansen, K. T., Nielsen, C. M., Hansen, S. N., Nielsen, H., Rask, C. U., Fink, P., Dantoft, T. M., Jørgensen, T., Bech, B. H., Thysen, S. M. & Rytter, D. (2025). Cohort profile: The BiCoVac cohort - a nationwide Danish cohort to assess short and long-term symptoms following COVID-19 vaccination. European Journal of Epidemiology, 40(2), 225-233. https://doi.org/10.1007/s10654-025-01204-1

Darbani, B., Brodersen, T., Liljensøe, A., Sørensen, S. B., Olsson-Svendsen, J. B., Buil, A., Kamal, A., Schork, A. J., Poulsen, A., Kjerulff, B. D., Aagaard, B., Lund, B. Ø., Rittig, C. S., Mikkelsen, C., Larsen, D. M., Westergaard, D., Rudbeck-Resdal, D., Mikkelsen, D. H., Randers, E. ... Andersen, V. (2025). Cohort profile: Copenhagen Hospital Biobank-chronic inflammatory disease-inflammatory bowel disease (CHB-CID:IBD) genetic cohort. European Journal of Epidemiology, 40(6), 721-734. https://doi.org/10.1007/s10654-025-01239-4

Horváth-Puhó, E., Pedersen, L., Martiny, S. K., Amdisen, L., Viuff, J. H., Ekholm, O. & Sørensen, H. T. (2025). Cohort Profile: The Danish Venous Thromboembolism Cohort - A Linkage Between Danish National Health Surveys and Health Registers. Clinical epidemiology, 17, 485-495. https://doi.org/10.2147/CLEP.S522468

Sørensen, J. K., Dalsager, L., Andersen, L. L., Bay, H., Garde, A. H., Johnsen, N. F., Larsson, N. P., Madsen, I. E. H., Pedersen, J., Schlünssen, V., Sørensen, K. & Rugulies, R. (2025). Cohort Profile: the Work Environment and Health in Denmark study. International Journal of Epidemiology, 54(3), Article dyaf085. https://doi.org/10.1093/ije/dyaf085

Strandberg-Larsen, K., Cederkvist, L., Aakjær, A., Bjerregaard, A. A., Brix, N., Feenstra, B., Meder, I. K., Nohr, E. A., Olsen, S. F., Tøttenborg, S. S., Ramlau-Hansen, C. H., Vangsted, A. M. & Andersen, A. M. N. (2025). Cohort Profile: The Danish National Birth Cohort from foetal life to young adulthood. International Journal of Epidemiology, 54(4), Article dyaf083. https://doi.org/10.1093/ije/dyaf083

Salum, G. A., De Giusti, C., Souza, L., Juk, J., Costa, R., Sugaya, L., Caye, A., Simioni, A., Rocha, P. B., Manfro, G. G., Ito, L. T., Da Silva, F., Duarte, I., Esper, N., Anés, M., Damiano, R. F., Satterthwaite, T. D., Carvalho, C. M., Bado, P. ... Pan, P. M. (2025). Cohort Profile: Brazilian High-Risk Cohort for Mental Health Conditions (BHRC). International Journal of Epidemiology, 54(6), Article dyaf192. https://doi.org/10.1093/ije/dyaf192

Baier, J. M., Funck, K. L., Vernstrøm, L., Gullaksen, S., Laugesen, E. & Poulsen, P. L. (2025). Colchicine mitigates arterial stiffness in high-risk patients with type 2 diabetes: A randomized placebo-controlled trial. European Journal of Preventive Cardiology, (zwaf143). Advance online publication. https://doi.org/10.1093/eurjpc/zwaf143

Borre, M., Harsløf, T., Harvald, G. B., Hvas, C. L., Pedersen, J. S., Riis, L. B. & Wildt, S. (2025). Cøliaki: diagnostik, behandling og kontrol. Dansk Selskab for Gastroenterologi og Hepatologi. https://dsgh.dk/wp-content/uploads/2025/05/CD-guide2025_godkendt20feb2025.pdf

Reaz, F., Huang, Z., Pinto, M., Bortfeldt, J., Bassler, N. & Parodi, K. (2025). Collimated and non-collimated proton minibeam irradiation using SIRMIO: a simulation study. Acta Oncologica, 64, 1506-1514. https://doi.org/10.2340/1651-226X.2025.44031

COLOFIT Research Group (2025). COLOFIT: Development and Internal-External Validation of Models Using Age, Sex, Faecal Immunochemical and Blood Tests to Optimise Diagnosis of Colorectal Cancer in Symptomatic Patients. Alimentary Pharmacology and Therapeutics, 61(5), 852-864. https://doi.org/10.1111/apt.18459

Dalby, H. R., Erichsen, R., Gotschalck, K. A. & Emmertsen, K. J. (2025). Colonic resection and stoma formation due to chronic diverticular disease: nationwide population-based cohort study. BJS Open, 9(2), Article zraf008. https://doi.org/10.1093/bjsopen/zraf008

Larsen, P. T., Jorgensen, S. F., Rasmussen, M., Andersen, B., Cross, A. J. & Njor, S. H. (2025). Colorectal cancer incidence following a negative colonoscopy in fecal immunochemical test-based screening: a nationwide cohort study after 8 years of screening in Denmark. Endoscopy, 57(8), 864-873. https://doi.org/10.1055/a-2551-1471

Pop, P. R., Larsen, G. S., Thomsen, M. K., Johansen, C., Zachariae, R. & Rafn, B. S. (2025). Colorectal cancer mortality in persons with severe mental illness: a scoping review with meta-analyses of observational studies. Acta Oncologica, 64, 358-373. https://doi.org/10.2340/1651-226X.2025.42260

Møller, P., Ahadova, A., Kloor, M., Seppälä, T. T., Burn, J., Haupt, S., Macrae, F., Dominguez-Valentin, M., Möslein, G., Lindblom, A., sunde, L., Winship, I., Capella, G., Monahan, K., Buchanan, D. D., Evans, D. G., Hovig, E. & Sampson, J. R. (2025). Colorectal carcinogenesis in the Lynch syndromes and familial adenomatous polyposis: trigger events and downstream consequences. Hereditary Cancer in Clinical Practice, 23(1), Article 3. https://doi.org/10.1186/s13053-025-00305-y

Petersen, M. E., Khamas, A. B., Østergaard, L. J., Jørgensen, N. P. & Meyer, R. L. (2025). Combination therapy delays antimicrobial resistance after adaptive laboratory evolution of Staphylococcus aureus. Antimicrobial Agents and Chemotherapy, 69(4), Article e01483-24. https://doi.org/10.1128/aac.01483-24

Hochreuter, K. (2025). Combined Deep Learning and Advanced Imaging for Improved Individualized Radiotherapy Target Definition in Glioblastoma Patients. A National DNOG Study. [PhD thesis, Aarhus University]. https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.15661886

Stewart, C. B., Sathyanarayana, S., Foster, V. K., Iredale, R., Galley, D., Pasquini, J., Anderson, K. N., Pavese, N. & Ledingham, D. (2025). Combined Effects of Depression, Fatigue and Cardiovascular Dysfunction on Functional Dependence Over Seven Years in Early Parkinson's Disease. Movement Disorders Clinical Practice. Advance online publication. https://doi.org/10.1002/mdc3.70291

Haglund, A., Stankovic, J., Christensen, T. D., Kristensen, L. & Lausch, K. R. (2025). Combined intracavitary, systemic antifungal and surgical treatment of Chronic Pulmonary Aspergillosis: experience from an immunocompromised patient. Medical Mycology Case Reports, 50, Article 100743. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.mmcr.2025.100743

Fujita, K., Desmond, P., Blondelle, J., Soták, M., Rajan, M. R., Clark, M., Estève, É., Chan, Y., Gu, Y., Actis Dato, V., Marrocco, V., Dalton, N. D., Ghassemian, M., Do, A., Klos, M., Peterson, K. L., Sheikh, F., Cho, Y., Börgeson, E. & Lange, S. (2025). Combined Loss of Obsc and Obsl1 in Murine Hearts Results in Diastolic Dysfunction, Altered Metabolism, and Deregulated Mitophagy. Circulation. Heart Failure, 18(4), e011867. Article e011867. https://doi.org/10.1161/CIRCHEARTFAILURE.124.011867

Sand, H., Edmund, J., Appelt, A., Wohlfahrt, P., Taasti, V. T., Poulsen, L. Ø., Søndergaard, J. & Nielsen, M. S. (2025). Combined single-and dual-energy CT workflow for dose calculation in radiotherapy. Acta Oncologica, 64, 1079-1086. https://doi.org/10.2340/1651-226X.2025.43827

Sinha, P. (2025). Combining radiation and hyperthermia in pre-clinical models to improve cancer therapy. [PhD thesis, Aarhus University].

Machiulskiene, V., Nyvad, B. & Mendes, F. (2025). Commentary on the Letter to the Editor Titled “Modifying Diagnostic Terminology May Promote Evidence-based Care Caries Research” by Nainar SMH. Caries Research. Advance online publication. https://doi.org/10.1159/000549772

Crenshaw, M. L. & Skakkebæk, A. (2025). Comment From the Guest Editors. American Journal of Medical Genetics, Part C: Seminars in Medical Genetics, 199(1), Article e32141. https://doi.org/10.1002/ajmg.c.32141

Bech Vestergaard, S., Esbensen, B. A., Midtgaard, J., Cromhout, P. F., Aadahl, M., Glintborg, B. & De Thurah, A. (2025). Comment on: Associations between loneliness, disease activity and disease impact in inflammatory arthritis: A nationwide cross-sectional study among more than 12 000 patients: Reply. Rheumatology, 64(7), 4442-4443. https://doi.org/10.1093/rheumatology/keaf105

Sandberg, K. & Overgaard, M. (2025). Comment on 'Criterion placement threatens the construct validity of neural measures of consciousness'. eLife, 14. https://doi.org/10.7554/eLife.106963

Seeck, M., Nascimento, F. A., Benbadis, S., Tatum, W. O., Wirrell, E., Ramantani, G. & Beniczky, S. (2025). Comment on “Incidental interictal epileptiform discharges in infants with nonepileptic events” by Montenegro et al. Epilepsia. Advance online publication. https://doi.org/10.1111/epi.18686

Donskov, A. O., Våben, C. S., Nielsen, E. L., Nielsen, A. W., Hauge, E. M. & Keller, K. K. (2025). Comment on: "Real-world outcomes of a dedicated fast-track polymyalgia rheumatica clinic". Rheumatology, 64(5), 3210-3211. https://doi.org/10.1093/rheumatology/keae633

Crenshaw, M. & Skakkebæk, A. (2025). Comments From the Guest Editors. American Journal of Medical Genetics, Part C: Seminars in Medical Genetics, 199(2), 49-50. https://doi.org/10.1002/ajmg.c.32157

Reaz, F., Traneus, E. & Bassler, N. (2025). Commissioning of a multislit collimator system for experimental pMBRT studies with uniform target dose. Physics in Medicine and Biology, 70(13), Article 135001. https://doi.org/10.1088/1361-6560/ade04b

Nørby, K. D., Melander-Nyboe, P., Pihl-Thingvad, J., Steinmetz, J. & Gehrt, T. B. (2025). Common Mental Health Symptoms in Personnel Working in Helicopter Emergency Medical Services: A Systematic Review. Air Medical Journal, 44(5), 420-428. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.amj.2025.06.019

Shrestha, R., Adhikari, T. B., Khatri, B., Neupane, D., Paudel, S., Nielsen, R. Ø., Skejø, S. D., Vaidya, A. & Kallestrup, P. (2025). Community-based promotion of physical activity in Nepal: study protocol for a cluster-randomized controlled trial. Trials, 26(1), Article 170. https://doi.org/10.1186/s13063-025-08885-9

Cedzyński, M., Vorup-Jensen, T., Okrój, M. & St Swierzko, A. (Eds.) (2025). Community series in the role of complement in health and disease, volume II. Frontiers Media S.A. https://doi.org/10.3389/978-2-8325-6663-3

Hübel, C., Johansson, T., Mundy, J., Lin, Y., Petersen, L. V., Isomaa, R. & Birgegård, A. (2025). Comorbid posttraumatic stress disorder complicates eating disorder treatment: A nationwide study. Psychiatry Research, 351, Article 116563. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.psychres.2025.116563

Bällgren, F., Svane, N., Ginosyan, A., Pedersen, A. B. V., Li, S., Mahajan, J., Nielsen, M. S., Brodin, B. & Loryan, I. (2025). Comparative analysis of the uptake of the H⁺/OC antiporter substrate oxycodone across and into brain endothelial and parenchymal cells with in vitro–in vivo extrapolation. Fluids and Barriers of the CNS, 22(1), Article 109. https://doi.org/10.1186/s12987-025-00726-w

Schwarz, C. W., Rasmussen, M. K., Bertelsen, T., Iversen, L., Skov, L. & Loft, N. (2025). Comparative Cancer Risk in Patients With Psoriasis Treated With Adalimumab, Secukinumab, or Ustekinumab. JAMA Dermatology. Advance online publication. https://doi.org/10.1001/jamadermatol.2025.3928

Keck, M. K., Tietze, A., Bison, B., Avula, S., Engelhardt, J., Faure-Conter, C., Fenouil, T., Figarella-Branger, D., Goebell, E., Gojo, J., Haberler, C., Hakumäki, J., Hayden, JT., Korhonen, LS., Koscielniak, E., Kramm, CM., Kranendonk, ME. G., Lequin, M., Ludlow, LE. ... Jones, DT. W. (2025). Comparative Clinical and Imaging-Based Evaluation of Therapeutic Modalities in CNS Embryonal Tumours With PLAGL Amplification. Neuropathology and Applied Neurobiology, 51(2), Article e70015. https://doi.org/10.1111/nan.70015

Abedi, A. A., Svensson, J. M., Pedersen, A. B., Varnum, C., Nielsen, S. M., Laigaard, J. H., Christensen, R. & Overgaard, S. (2025). Comparative effectiveness of antibiotic prophylaxis for preventing serious adverse events after primary total hip arthroplasty: a systematic review and network meta-analysis of randomized trials. Acta Orthopaedica, 96, 640-649. https://doi.org/10.2340/17453674.2025.44482

Winkel, E. (2025). Comparative Imaging – Adapting imaging tools beyond the clinic: A methodological challenge. [PhD thesis, Aarhus University].

Burau, V. (2025). Comparative Perspectives on Health Governance as Political Practice: A Commentary. HealthcarePapers, 23(2), 24-28. https://doi.org/10.12927/hcpap.2025.27704

Benjaminsen, C. R., Jørgensen, R. M., Vestergaard, E. T. & Bruun, J. M. (2025). Compared to dual-energy X-ray absorptiometry, bioelectrical impedance effectively monitors longitudinal changes in body composition in children and adolescents with obesity during a lifestyle intervention. Nutrition Research, 133, 1-12. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.nutres.2024.11.003

Schmidt, D. C., Martinussen, T., Solebo, A. L., Larsen, D. A., Bach-Holm, D. & Kessel, L. (2025). Comparing glaucoma risk in children receiving low-dose and high-dose glucocorticoid treatment after cataract surgery. Acta Ophthalmologica, 103(1), 43-49. https://doi.org/10.1111/aos.16746