• Adherence to the Healthy Nordic Food Index in the Norwegian Women and Cancer (NOWAC) cohort 

      Enget, Torill; Braaten, Tonje; Jacobsen, Bjarne K.; Barnung, Runa Borgund; Olsen, Anja; Skeie, Guri (Journal article; Tidsskriftartikkel; Peer reviewed, 2018-09-12)
      <p><i>Background</i>: High adherence to the Healthy Nordic Food Index has been associated with better health outcomes, but the results have not been consistent. The association between high adherence and higher intake of energy and healthy and less healthy foods has been persistent across countries, highlighting the need to examine potential confounding by energy intake.</p> <p><i>Objective</i>: ...
    • Coffee consumption and overall and cause-specific mortality: the Norwegian Women and Cancer Study (NOWAC) 

      Lukic, Marko; Barnung, Runa Borgund; Olsen, Karina Standahl; Skeie, Guri; Braaten, Tonje (Journal article; Tidsskriftartikkel; Peer reviewed, 2020-07-23)
      Coffee consumption has previously been reported to reduce overall and cause-specific mortality. We aimed to further investigate this association by coffee brewing methods and in a population with heavy coffee consumers. The information on total, filtered, instant, and boiled coffee consumption from self-administered questionnaires was available from 117,228 women in the Norwegian Women and Cancer ...
    • High lactose whey cheese consumption and risk of colorectal cancer - The Norwegian Women and Cancer Study 

      Barnung, Runa Borgund; Jareid, Mie; Lukic, Marko; Oyeyemi, Sunday Oluwafemi; Rudolfsen, Jan Håkon; Sovershaeva, Evgeniya; Skeie, Guri (Journal article; Tidsskriftartikkel; Peer reviewed, 2019-01-22)
      The incidence of colorectal cancer (CRC) has increased among Norwegian women, and is among the highest in the world. In order to understand this increase, country specific dietary exposures have been investigated. The aim of this study was to quantify the association between consumption of brown cheese, a common bread topping in Norway, and colorectal, colon, and rectal cancer in the prospective ...