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Marleen Lentjes

Position: Senior Lecturer School/office: School of Medical Sciences

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Phone: +46 19 303932

Room: X4305

Research subject

Medicine

Research environments

Nutrition-Gut-Brain Interactions Research Centre (NGBI)

About Marleen Lentjes

Marleen Lentjes (Maria) is a nutritional epidemiologist at Örebro University. Before, she worked and did her doctoral studies at the University of Cambridge (EPIC-Norfolk study). Marleen studied Dietetics and Health Sciences (Health Education).

Research

Marleen’s research interest is in dietary behaviour and how food choices outside the home and within, contribute to a person's health. She is working on observational studies and interventions where diet/nutrition is considered as an exposure or outcome.

In prepartion for future studies, Marleen has carried out a validaton study for new dietary assessment tools. These tools enable dietary assessment in a variety of ethnicities. The first publication on "Mat i Sverige" can be found here.

Marleen's current project is in collaboration with Natasha Webster (human geographer) and is a testcase on dietary health promotion in the supermarket 'Food safari'.

Teaching

Marleen is course coordinator and examinator for T6 ("Reproduktion och Utveckling") and basgrupphandledare at the medical programme at Örebro University. She also teaches on the courses "Translational Medicine", “Research Methods in Clinical Epidemiology & Biostatistics” and "General Scientific Methods in Medical Science" at Örebro University and provides lectures on "Nutritional Epidemiology" at Health Sciences. Marleen advises PhD students and BSc students.

Collaborations & assignments

Marleen is a Research Data advisor for the faculty of Medicin & Health. More information can be found here. An introduction to research data handling can be read in this shortstory (inforum): FAIR.

Marleen was a participant in the university's Social Impact Lab 2022. More information about her idea of a 'Food safari' can be found here.

Active projects

Research groups

Publications

Articles in journals | Conference papers |

Articles in journals

Engelheart, S. , Karlsson, M. & Lentjes, M. (2025). Protein Intake and Its Association With Meal Patterns and Dietary Patterns in a Swedish Population of Older Adults. Journal of human nutrition and dietetics, 38 (1). [BibTeX]
Lentjes, M. A. H. , Lönnström, S. , Lobenius Palmér, K. , Alsammarraie, Z. , Lindroos, A. K. , Sipinen, J. P. , Koochek, A. , Brummer, R. J. & et al. (2024). Development of dietary assessment instruments which can take cultural diversity and dietary acculturation into account: eating in Sweden ('Mat i Sverige'). Journal of Nutritional Science, 13. [BibTeX]
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). [BibTeX]
Stuart, K. V. , Biradar, M. I. , Luben, R. N. , Dhaun, N. , Wagner, S. K. , Warwick, A. N. , Sun, Z. , Madjedi, K. M. & et al. (2024). The Association of Urinary Sodium Excretion with Glaucoma and Related Traits in a Large United Kingdom Population. Ophthalmology. Glaucoma, 7 (5), 499-511. [BibTeX]
Mulligan, A. A. , Lentjes, M. A. H. , Skinner, J. & Welch, A. A. (2024). The Dietary Inflammatory Index and Its Associations with Biomarkers of Nutrients with Antioxidant Potential, a Biomarker of Inflammation and Multiple Long-Term Conditions. Antioxidants, 13 (8). [BibTeX]
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. [BibTeX]
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. [BibTeX]
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). [BibTeX]
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). [BibTeX]
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. [BibTeX]
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). [BibTeX]
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). [BibTeX]
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. [BibTeX]
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. [BibTeX]
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. [BibTeX]
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. [BibTeX]
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). [BibTeX]
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. [BibTeX]
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. [BibTeX]

Conference papers

Mulligan, A. A. , Lentjes, M. & Welch, A. A. (2024). Pro-inflammatory diets are associated with higher C-reactive protein and lower plasma concentrations of vitamins with anti-inflammatory potential, in the EPIC-Norfolk cohort. In: Proceedings of the Nutrition Society. Cambridge University Press. [BibTeX]
Lentjes, M. , Lönnström, S. , Lobenius Palmér, K. , Lindroos, A. K. , Petrelius Sipinen, J. , Montgomery, S. & Brummer, R. J. (2023). Eating in Sweden 1: Adaptation of the Swedish National Dietary Survey instrument (RiksmatenFlex) for foods and dishes from Syria, Iraq and Somalia. Paper presented at ICDAM 2023, Limerick, Ireland, June 26-29, 2023. [BibTeX]
Lentjes, M. , Lönnström, S. , Lobenius Palmér, K. , Lindroos, A. K. , Petrelius Sipinen, J. , Brummer, R. J. & Montgomery, S. (2023). Eating in Sweden 2: Differences in meal patterns between Swedish, Syrian, Iraqi and Somali-born women living in Sweden assessed using RiksmatenFlex. Paper presented at ICDAM 2023, Limerick, Ireland, June 26-29, 2023. [BibTeX]
Lentjes, M. , Alsammarraie, Z. , Lönnström, S. , Lobenius Palmér, K. , Lindroos, A. K. , Petrelius Sipinen, J. , Brummer, R. J. & Montgomery, S. (2023). Eating in Sweden 3: Dietary acculturation patterns assessed using RiksmatenFlex among Syrian, Iraqi and Somali-born women living in Sweden. Paper presented at ICDAM 2023, Limerick, Ireland, June 26-29, 2023. [BibTeX]
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. [BibTeX]
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. [BibTeX]
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. [BibTeX]
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. [BibTeX]