Thorkild I.A. Sørensen

Thorkild I.A. Sørensen

Professor, emeritus


  1. 2023
  2. Published

    Obesity and Mortality

    Sørensen, Thorkild I.A., Brown, J. C. & Jørgensen, Terese Sara Høj, 1 Jan 2023, Handbook of Obesity - Volume 1: Epidemiology, Etiology, and Physiopathology, Fourth Edition. 4 ed. CRC Press, Vol. 1. p. 451-460 10 p.

    Research output: Chapter in Book/Report/Conference proceedingBook chapterResearchpeer-review

  3. Published

    A literature review of evidence for primary prevention of overweight and obesity in healthy weight children and adolescents: A report produced by a working group of the Danish Council on Health and Disease Prevention

    Olsen, N. J., Østergaard, J. N., Bjerregaard, L. G., Høy, T. V., Kierkegaard, L., Michaelsen, Kim F., Sørensen, Thorkild I.A., Grønbæk, M. K., Bruun, J. M. & Heitmann, Berit, 2023, In: Obesity Reviews. 25, 1, 10 p., e13641.

    Research output: Contribution to journalReviewResearchpeer-review

  4. Published

    An adiposity force induces obesity in humans independently of a normal energy balance system-a thought experiment

    Sørensen, Thorkild I.A., 2023, In: Philosophical transactions of the Royal Society of London. Series B, Biological sciences. 378, 1885, 9 p., 20220203.

    Research output: Contribution to journalReviewResearchpeer-review

  5. Published

    Analysis of DNA methylation at birth and in childhood reveals changes associated with season of birth and latitude

    Kadalayil, L., Alam, M. Z., White, C. H., Ghantous, A., Walton, E., Gruzieva, O., Merid, S. K., Kumar, A., Roy, R. P., Solomon, O., Huen, K., Eskenazi, B., Rzehak, P., Grote, V., Langhendries, J. P., Verduci, E., Ferre, N., Gruszfeld, D., Gao, L., Guan, W. & 83 others, Zeng, X., Schisterman, E. F., Dou, J. F., Bakulski, K. M., Feinberg, J. I., Soomro, M. H., Pesce, G., Baiz, N., Isaevska, E., Plusquin, M., Vafeiadi, M., Roumeliotaki, T., Langie, S. A. S., Standaert, A., Allard, C., Perron, P., Bouchard, L., van Meel, E. R., Felix, J. F., Jaddoe, V. W. V., Yousefi, P. D., Ramlau-Hansen, C. H., Relton, C. L., Tobi, E. W., Starling, A. P., Yang, I. V., Llambrich, M., Santorelli, G., Lepeule, J., Salas, L. A., Bustamante, M., Ewart, S. L., Zhang, H., Karmaus, W., Röder, S., Zenclussen, A. C., Jin, J., Nystad, W., Page, C. M., Magnus, M., Jima, D. D., Hoyo, C., Maguire, R. L., Kvist, T., Czamara, D., Räikkönen, K., Gong, T., Ullemar, V., Rifas-Shiman, S. L., Oken, E., Almqvist, C., Karlsson, R., Lahti, J., Murphy, S. K., Håberg, S. E., London, S., Herberth, G., Arshad, H., Sunyer, J., Grazuleviciene, R., Dabelea, D., Steegers-Theunissen, R. P. M., Nohr, E. A., Sørensen, Thorkild I.A., Duijts, L., Hivert, M. F., Nelen, V., Popovic, M., Kogevinas, M., Nawrot, T. S., Herceg, Z., Annesi-Maesano, I., Fallin, M. D., Yeung, E., Breton, C. V., Koletzko, B., Holland, N., Wiemels, J. L., Melén, E., Sharp, G. C., Silver, M. J., Rezwan, F. I. & Holloway, J. W., 2023, In: Clinical Epigenetics. 15, 23 p., 148.

    Research output: Contribution to journalJournal articleResearchpeer-review

  6. Published

    Birth weight, childhood body mass index, and risk of diverticular disease in adulthood

    Laursen, A. S. D., Jensen, B. W., Strate, L. L., Sørensen, Thorkild I.A., Baker, J. L. & Sørensen, H. T., 2023, In: International Journal of Obesity. 47, p. 207–214 8 p.

    Research output: Contribution to journalJournal articleResearchpeer-review

  7. Published

    Changes in adult obesity prevalence in Denmark, 1987-2021: age-period-cohort analysis of nationally representative data

    Schramm, S., Sørensen, Thorkild I.A., Davidsen, M. & Tolstrup, J. S., 2023, In: European Journal of Public Health. 33, 3, p. 463–467 5 p.

    Research output: Contribution to journalJournal articleResearchpeer-review

  8. Published

    Cohort Profile: The Copenhagen Infant Health Nurse Records (CIHNR) cohort

    Bjerregaard, L. G., Wüst, Miriam, Johansen, T. S. D., Sørensen, Thorkild I.A., Dahl, C. M. & Baker, J. L., 2023, In: International Journal of Epidemiology. 52, 6, p. 340–e346 7 p.

    Research output: Contribution to journalJournal articleResearchpeer-review

  9. Published

    Diminishing benefits of urban living for children and adolescents’ growth and development

    Mishra, A., Zhou, B., Rodriguez-Martinez, A., Bixby, H., Baker, J. L., Afzal, S., Allin, K., Andersen, L. B., Ängquist, L., Jørgensen, M. B., Bjerregaard, P., Bojesen, S. E., Christensen, K., Damsgaard, C. T., Dantoft, T. M., Eliasen, M., Eriksen, L., Halkjær, J., Giwercman, A., Jørgensen, T. & 19 others, Kristensen, P. L., Lind, L., Linneberg, Allan René, Madsen, A. L., Michaelsen, Kim F., Møllehave, Line Tang, Mortensen, Erik Lykke, Nordestgaard, Børge, Osler, Merete, Overvad, K., Schmidt, I. M., Schnohr, P., Schramm, S., Sodemann, M., Sørensen, Thorkild I.A., Tjønneland, Anne, Tolstrup, J. S., Wang, Q. & NCD Risk Factor Collaboration (NCD-RisC), N. R. F. C. (., 2023, In: Nature. 615, 7954, p. 874-883 10 p.

    Research output: Contribution to journalJournal articleResearchpeer-review

  10. Published

    Early childhood adversity and body mass index in childhood and adolescence: linking registry data on adversities with school health records of 53,401 children from Copenhagen

    Elsenburg, Leonie K., Rieckmann, Andreas, Bengtsson, J., Lange, Theis, Baker, J. L., Sørensen, Thorkild I.A. & Rod, Naja Hulvej, 2023, In: International Journal of Obesity. p. 1057–1064 8 p.

    Research output: Contribution to journalJournal articleResearchpeer-review

  11. Published

    Emergence of the obesity epidemic preceding the presumed obesogenic transformation of the society

    Pedersen, M. M., Ekstrøm, Claus Thorn & Sørensen, Thorkild I.A., 2023, In: Science Advances. 9, 37, 7 p., eadg6237.

    Research output: Contribution to journalJournal articleResearchpeer-review

  12. Published
  13. Published

    Gestational age at birth and body size from infancy through adolescence: An individual participant data meta-analysis on 253,810 singletons in 16 birth cohort studies

    Vinther, J. L., Cadman, T., Avraam, D., Ekstrøm, C. T., I A Sørensen, T., Elhakeem, A., Santos, A. C., Pinot de Moira, A., Heude, B., Iñiguez, C., Pizzi, C., Simons, E., Voerman, E., Corpeleijn, E., Zariouh, F., Santorelli, G., Inskip, H. M., Barros, H., Carson, J., Harris, J. R. & 27 others, Nader, J. L., Ronkainen, J., Strandberg-Larsen, Katrine, Santa-Marina, L., Calas, L., Kristiansen, Luise Cederkvist, Popovic, M., Charles, M., Welten, M., Vrijheid, M., Azad, M., Subbarao, P., Burton, P., Mandhane, P. J., Huang, R., Wilson, R. C., Haakma, S., Fernández-Barrés, S., Turvey, S., Santos, S., Tough, S. C., Sebert, S., Moraes, T. J., Salika, T., Jaddoe, V. W. V., Lawlor, D. A. & Nybo Andersen, Anne-Marie, 2023, In: PLoS Medicine. 20, 1, 27 p., e1004036.

    Research output: Contribution to journalJournal articleResearchpeer-review

  14. Published

    High Plasma Levels of Soluble Lectin-like Oxidized Low-Density Lipoprotein Receptor-1 Are Associated With Inflammation and Cardiometabolic Risk Profiles in Pediatric Overweight and Obesity

    Stinson, Sara, Jonsson, Anna Elisabet, Lepola, Mette Andersen, Lund, Morten Asp Vonsild, Holm, L. A., Fonvig, Cilius Esmann, Huang, Yun, Stankevic, Evelina, Juel, H. B., Ängquist, Lars, Sørensen, Thorkild I.A., Ongstad, E. L., Gaddipati, R., Grimsby, J., Rhodes, C. J., Pedersen, Oluf Borbye, Christiansen, M., Holm, Jens-Christian & Hansen, Torben, 2023, In: Journal of the American Heart Association. 12, 3, p. 538-544 22 p., e8145.

    Research output: Contribution to journalJournal articleResearchpeer-review

  15. Published

    Maternal obesity, interpregnancy weight changes and congenital heart defects in the offspring

    Hedermann, G., Thagaard, I. N., Hedley, P. L., Krebs, Lone, Hagen, C. M., Sørensen, Thorkild I.A., Christiansen, Michael & Ekelund, Charlotte Kvist, 2023, medRxiv, 20 p.

    Research output: Working paperPreprintResearch

  16. Published

    Overweight, Weight Loss and Self-reported Global Life Satisfaction: The Lolland-Falster Health Study

    Søby, S. F., Sørensen, Thorkild I.A., Jepsen, R. & Køster-Rasmussen, Rasmus, 2023, In: Obesity Facts. 16, 6, p. 567–575 9 p.

    Research output: Contribution to journalJournal articleResearchpeer-review

  17. Published

    Physical Activity and Insulin Sensitivity Independently Attenuate the Effect of FTO rs9939609 on Obesity

    Lepola, Mette Andersen, Ängquist, Lars, Bork-Jensen, J., Jonsson, Anna Elisabet, Stinson, Sara, Sandholt, C. H., Thodberg, Malte, Pikkupeura, Laura Maarit, Ongstad, E. L., Grarup, Niels, Astrup, A., Pedersen, Oluf Borbye, Williams, K., Barrès, Romain, Sørensen, Thorkild I.A., Linneberg, Allan René, Grimsby, J., Rhodes, C. J. & Hansen, Torben, 2023, In: Diabetes Care. 46, 5, p. 985–992 9 p.

    Research output: Contribution to journalJournal articleResearchpeer-review

  18. Published

    Preface: causes of obesity, theories, conjectures and evidence

    Allison, D. B., Sørensen, Thorkild I.A., Hall, K. D. & Speakman, J. R., 2023, In: Philosophical transactions of the Royal Society of London. Series B, Biological sciences. 378, 1885, 2 p., 20220200.

    Research output: Contribution to journalEditorialResearch

  19. Published

    The social origins of obesity within and across generations

    Hemmingsson, E., Nowicka, P., Ulijaszek, S. & Sørensen, Thorkild I.A., 2023, In: Obesity Reviews. 24, 1, 11 p., e13514.

    Research output: Contribution to journalReviewResearchpeer-review

  20. Published

    Unanswered questions about the causes of obesity

    Speakman, J. R., Sørensen, Thorkild I.A., Hall, K. D. & Allison, D. B., 2023, In: Science. 381, 6661, p. 944-946 3 p.

    Research output: Contribution to journalJournal articleResearchpeer-review

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