Marleen Lentjes
Position: Senior Lecturer School/office: School of Medical SciencesEmail: maria.lentjes@oru.se
Phone: +46 19 303932
Room: X4305
About Marleen Lentjes
Marleen Lentjes (Maria) started as a nutritional epidemiologist at Örebro University in November 2018. Her role involves working on observational and intervention research where diet/nutrition is considered as an exposure or outcome.
Marleen moved from the UK where she worked as a research nutritionist at the University of Cambridge with the European Prospective Investigation into Cancer, a longitudinal cohort based in Norfolk (EPIC-Norfolk).
Research
Marleen is currently contributing to development of a new birth cohort, for which the first validaton studies regarding dietary assessment are ongoing (more information about "Mat i Sverige" or "Eating in Sweden" can be found here).
Marleen’s research interest is in meal patterns, i.e. the size, frequency and time of meals consumed, and how this relates to health. These aspects of diet have been associated with diet quality and various markers of disease risk such as cholesterol, but also with obesity and heart disease itself. This work connects to what is known as chrono-nutrition and relates to the many bodily functions which follow an approximate 24-hour clock, and which may be disturbed by ‘eating around the clock’ thereby disrupting these carefully orchestrated processes and increasing our risk of becoming overweight and our risk of diseases related to this.
Teaching
Marleen is course coordinator for T6 ("Reproduktion och Utveckling") and basgrupphandledare at the medical programme at Örebro University. Marleen teaches on the courses "Translational Medicine" and “Research Methods in Clinical Epidemiology & Biostatistics” at Örebro University and provides lectures on "Nutritional Epidemiology" at Health Sciences. Marleen advises PhD students and has supervised BSc students.
Collaborations & assignments
Marleen is a participant in the university's Social Impact Lab (more information about her idea of a 'supermarket safari' can be found here). Marleen continues to work on projects using data of the EPIC-Norfolk study and will be collaborating closely with the research teams in Cambridge and Oxford.
Research groups
Publications
Articles in journals
- Vingeliene, S. , Hiyoshi, A. , Lentjes, M. , Brummer, R. J. , Fall, K. & Montgomery, S. (2024). Hospital-treated infections and subsequent Parkinson's disease risk: a register-based sibling comparison study. Brain Communications, 6 (2).
- Vingeliene, S. , Hiyoshi, A. , Lentjes, M. , Fall, K. & Montgomery, S. (2023). Ageing accounts for much of the association between decreasing grip strength and subsequent loneliness: the English Longitudinal Study of Ageing. Journal of Epidemiology and Community Health, 77 (3), 175-181.
- Vingeliene, S. , Hiyoshi, A. , Carlberg, M. , Garcia-Argibay, M. , Lentjes, M. , Fall, K. , von Kobyletzki, L. B. & Montgomery, S. (2023). Atopic dermatitis, systemic inflammation and subsequent dementia risk. JEADV Clinical Practice, 2 (4), 839-848.
- Forsgård, R. A. , Rode, J. , Lobenius Palmér, K. , Kamm, A. , Patil, S. , Tacken, M. G. J. , Lentjes, M. A. H. , Axelsson, J. & et al. (2023). Limosilactobacillus reuteri DSM 17938 supplementation and SARS-CoV-2 specific antibody response in healthy adults: a randomized, triple-blinded, placebo-controlled trial. Gut microbes, 15 (1).
- Shannon, O. M. , Ranson, J. M. , Gregory, S. , Macpherson, H. , Milte, C. , Lentjes, M. , Mulligan, A. , McEvoy, C. & et al. (2023). Mediterranean diet adherence is associated with lower dementia risk, independent of genetic predisposition: findings from the UK Biobank prospective cohort study. BMC Medicine, 21 (1).
- Stuart, K. V. , Luben, R. N. , Warwick, A. N. , Madjedi, K. M. , Patel, P. J. , Biradar, M. I. , Sun, Z. , Chia, M. A. & et al. (2023). The association of alcohol consumption with glaucoma and related traits: findings from the UK Biobank. Ophthalmology Glaucoma, 6 (4), 366-379.
- Kelly, R. K. , Pollard, Z. , Young, H. , Piernas, C. , Lentjes, M. , Mulligan, A. , Huybrechts, I. , Carter, J. L. & et al. (2022). Evaluation of the New Individual Fatty Acid Dataset for UK Biobank: Analysis of Intakes and Sources in 207,997 Participants. Nutrients, 14 (17).
- Lentjes, M. , Oude Griep, L. M. , Mulligan, A. A. , Montgomery, S. , Wareham, N. J. & Khaw, K. (2022). Face Validity of Observed Meal Patterns Reported with 7-Day Diet Diaries in a Large Population-Based Cohort Using Diurnal Variation in Concentration Biomarkers of Dietary Intake. Nutrients, 14 (2).
- Madjedi, K. M. , Stuart, K. V. , Chua, S. Y. L. , Luben, R. N. , Warwick, A. , Pasquale, L. R. , Kang, J. H. , Wiggs, J. L. & et al. (2022). The Association between Serum Lipids and Intraocular Pressure in 2 Large United Kingdom Cohorts. Ophthalmology, 129 (9), 986-996.
- Piernas, C. , Perez-Cornago, A. , Gao, M. , Young, H. , Pollard, Z. , Mulligan, A. , Lentjes, M. , Carter, J. & et al. (2021). Describing a new food group classification system for UK biobank: analysis of food groups and sources of macro- and micronutrients in 208,200 participants. European Journal of Nutrition, 60 (5), 2879-2890.
- Perez-Cornago, A. , Pollard, Z. , Young, H. , van Uden, M. , Andrews, C. , Piernas, C. , Key, T. J. , Mulligan, A. & et al. (2021). Description of the updated nutrition calculation of the Oxford WebQ questionnaire and comparison with the previous version among 207,144 participants in UK Biobank. European Journal of Nutrition, 60 (7), 4019-4030.
- Kim, J. , Aschard, H. , Kang, J. H. , Lentjes, M. , Do, R. , Wiggs, J. L. , Khawaja, A. P. & Pasquale, L. R. (2021). Intraocular pressure, glaucoma and dietary caffeine consumption: a gene-diet interaction study from the UK Biobank. Ophthalmology, 128 (6), 866-876.
- Ottaviani, J. I. , Britten, A. , Lucarelli, D. , Luben, R. , Mulligan, A. A. , Lentjes, M. , Fong, R. , Gray, N. & et al. (2020). Biomarker-estimated flavan-3-ol intake is associated with lower blood pressure in cross-sectional analysis in EPIC Norfolk. Scientific Reports, 10 (1).
- Vingeliene, S. , Hiyoshi, A. , Lentjes, M. , Fall, K. & Montgomery, S. (2019). Longitudinal analysis of loneliness and inflammation at older ages: English longitudinal study of ageing. Psychoneuroendocrinology, 110.
- Shannon, O. M. , Stephan, B. C. M. , Granic, A. , Lentjes, M. , Hayat, S. , Mulligan, A. , Brayne, C. , Khaw, K. & et al. (2019). Mediterranean diet adherence and cognitive function in older UK adults: the European Prospective Investigation into Cancer and Nutrition-Norfolk (EPIC-Norfolk) Study. American Journal of Clinical Nutrition, 110 (4), 938-948.
Conference papers
- Stuart, K. V. , Luben, R. , Warwick, A. , Madjedi, K. , Patel, P. , Lentjes, M. , Foster, P. & Khawaja, A. (2022). Association of alcohol consumption with glaucoma and related traits. In: Investigative Ophthalmology and Visual Science. Paper presented at 2022 ARVO Annual Meeting, Denver, CO, USA, (and virtually) May 1-4, 2022. Lippincott-Raven Publishers.
- Perez-Cornago, A. , Pollard, Z. , Young, H. , Uden, van, M. , Andrews, C. , Key, T. , Mulligan, A. & Lentjes, M. (2021). Comparison of 2 different approaches to calculate dietary intakes in the Oxford WebQ questionnaire used in UK Biobank. Paper presented at International Conference on Diet and Activity Methods (eICDAM 2021),Wageningen , The Netherlands, February 8-12, 2021.
- Lentjes, M. , Lindroos, A. K. , Warensjö-Lemming, E. & Montgomery, S. (2021). Winter and summer meal patterns from the south (56˚N) to the north (69˚N) of Sweden: dietary habits or a role for chrono-nutrition?. Paper presented at International Conference on Dietary and Activity Methods (eICDAM 2021), Wageningen, The Netherlands, February 8-12, 2021.
- Kim, J. , Aschard, H. , Kang, J. H. , Lentjes, M. , Wiggs, J. , Khawaja, A. & Pasquale, L. R. (2020). Association of coffee, tea, and caffeine consumption with intraocular pressure and interaction with genetic risk: findings from the UK Biobank. In: Investigative Ophthalmology and Visual Science. Paper presented at Annual Meeting of the Association-for-Research-in-Vision-and-Ophthalmology (ARVO), Electronic Network, May 1-7, 2020,. Association for Research in Vision and Ophthalmology.