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A Food Literacy Measure for School Children (2018-2019)

​This study will develop, test and validate a multidimensional Food Literacy index for school children grade 6-7. The resulting instrument will be useful for assessing food literacy levels and guide food education activities.

A new Danish Diabetes Register

​By linkage of several Danish disease registers, Clinical Epidemiology has established a new National Diabetes Register covering all persons diagnosed with diabetes in Denmark.

A Time-Restricted Eating Intervention to Prevent Type 2 Diabetes

This study investigates the feasibility and maintenance of a time-restricted eating intervention in daily life of individuals with overweight at high risk of developing type 2 diabetes.

Access to Group-based Diabetes Education among Ethnic Minorities

​Fewer ethnic minorities from non-Western countries attend and complete diabetes education compared with the general population. This project investigates the relationship between access to diabetes education and social relations.

Adipose derived mesenchymal stem cell exosomes for ß cell protection and regeneration

​The project will apply a multidisciplinary approach combining studies in cellular and animal models to investigate if ''cell free'' purified AD-MSCs exosome treatment can protect and regenerate ß cell.

ASPHALT

​ASPHALT is a research project and an intervention developed in collaboration between the non-profit organisation GAME and Health Promotion Research at Steno Diabetes Center Copenhagen.

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Barriers and opportunities Work life of people with type 2 Diabetes

​​The ability to work is related to different health related outcomes and is an important aspect of quality of life.

Blood cell bioenergetics following time-restricted eating

​This study is part of The RESET study performed at SDCC in the Pathophysiology & Prevention team in the Clinical Epidemiology group.

Butyful

The Butyful Study. Effect of butyrate on inflammation and albuminuria in persons with type 1 diabetes, albuminuria and intestinal inflammation. A randomized, double-blind, placebo-controlled study.

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Cathepsins in type 1 diabetes

​​The gene encoding the lysosomal cysteine protease cathepsin H (CTSH) is a type 1 diabetes (T1D) candidate gene located at the susceptibility locus on chromosome 15q25.1. The project aims at understanding the roles of CTSH and other cathepsins for beta cell function and T1D risk.

Cities Changing Diabetes

​Cities Changing Diabetes (CCD) is an international programme addressing the prevention and management of type 2 diabetes in urban settings in major cities around the world, including Copenhagen, Houston, Johannesburg, Mexico City, Rome, Shanghai, Tianjin, Vancouver and Xiamen.

COVID-19 and Diabetes

​The “COVID-19 & Diabetes” project brings together qualitative and quantitative research disciplines in an effort to explore the psychosocial health of people with diabetes during the COVID-19 pandemic. So far, the project has produced several scientific articles with more to come and contributed to increased awareness on a national and international level about the thoughts, behavior changes and worries experienced by people with diabetes.

CUSTOM

​CUlturally Sensitive TOols and Methods for ethnic minorities (CUSTOM): Building bridges between theory and practice in diabetes self-management education and support.

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DANES - Diabetic Neuropathy Screening Study

​​A cross-sectional study describing the prevalence of diabetic neuropathy based on questionnaire data and objective measures and their association to prevalent diabetic complications including The duration of inclusion of participants in the study is estimated to be 3 years.

Development and feasibility test of a health education program targeting people with mental illness

​​The study is based on a design-thinking approach putting the target group (people with mental illness) at the centre of problem solving and development.

Development of a core outcome set for diabetes after pregnancy prevention interventions (COS-DAP)

We develop a core outcome set (COS) for behaviour change interventions to prevent diabetes after pregnancies (DAP) affected by gestational diabetes. The COS is expected to enhance opportunities for comparison of future studies.

Diabetes and disordered eating: How can we support and treat people with diabetes and disordered eating?

​The project aims to assess the biopsychosocial support and treatment needs in people with diabetes and disordered eating in order to develop and test methods to address the identified needs. The project is funded by the Danish Diabetes Association.

Diabetes and Work life

​​This project strives to identify factors that affect the working life of people with diabetes as a starting point developing interventions that can improve the experience of being at work and strengthening the employment relationship among people with diabetes.

Diabetes, diabetes complications, mortality and quality of care among migrants in Denmark

​​In this project, we investigate the hypothesis that incidence rates of diabetes are higher among ethnic minorities in Denmark, particularly among migrants from the Middle East and Southeast Asia.

DIA-HEART

​​Deep phenotyping of the heart with advanced imaging modalities in type 2 diabetes – implications for pathophysiology and prognosis.

Does kidney disease risk screening increase diabetes distress – PRIORITY sub-study

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FACE-IT

​​The FACE-IT research programme aims to increase quality of life and reduce the risk of type 2 diabetes among women with prior gestational diabetes and their families.

FAIR (FAmily Intervention Research)

​​This project focuses on family-based obesity interventions for children and adolescents. The aim is to produce knowledge and to develop new methods (for creating family involvement) that involve the whole family in positive and constructive ways and reduce detrimental communication.

Fenofibrate as an early treatment option in newly onset type 1 diabetes

In this study, we will investigate the antidiabetic effects of the drug fenofibrate in newly onset T1D. The study is designed as a randomized, double-blinded placebo-controlled clinical trial with 58 newly diagnosed T1D patients.

Food literacy among Danish schoolchildren

​This study develops tools for the measurement of food literacy and exploration of influential mechanisms for developing food literacy among sixth and seventh grade schoolchildren. The developed tools are subsequently applied to evaluate Arla Fonden’s “FOODcamp”.

Formative evaluation of the Danish health promotion program called ‘Fælles om Ungelivet’

Fælles om Ungelivet’ is a health promotion program that intends to create a good and inspiring adolescence, where alcohol, tobacco and drugs do not play a significant role. The program is currently in a pilot and development phase in five Danish municipalities, and Health Promotion Reseach is responsible for a formative evaluation which will form the basis for the development of a comprehensive model that can be extended to the rest of Denmark’s municipalities.

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GDM-TREAT

​​The impact of liraglutide on glucose tolerance and the risk of type 2 diabetes in women with previous gestational diabetes mellitus.

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Health and Local Community (SoL)

​Project SoL is a series of interrelated initiatives that are all based on the supersetting approach to mobilise local communities for public health and social action.

Health promotion among women with an ethnic minority background and prior gestational diabetes (GDM)

​An explorative investigation of needs and possible solutions to reduce the risk of type 2 diabetes. The project is an adjunct to the Face It project.

Health Promotion at Vocational Schools

​This project investigates how vocational schools work with health promotion and aims to determine effective and feasible ways to promote better health among vocational school students.

Healthy vocational schools

​Healthy vocational schools aim to develop and implement a sustainable health promotion model that promotes health and wellbeing among vocational education students. The overall vision is to prevent lifestyle diseases later in life. Currently, we are developing and testing the feasibility of the model at nine vocational schools across two regions in Denmark.

HEPCOM - Promoting healthy eating and physical activity in local communities

​This EU project aims at preventing overweight among children and young people consolidating, providing access to and scaling up best practices from previous European school and community health promotion interventions.

HYPO-HEART

​​Hypoglycaemia and cardiac arrhythmias in type 2 diabetes.

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Identifying subtypes of pre-diabetes and type 2 diabetes

​​In this research project we aim to identify subgroups of individuals with different patterns of disease development before the onset of type 2 diabetes and diabetic complications.

In balance with chronic illness - Dialogue tools for group based patient education - Next Education

​The purpose of NEED was to develop and evaluate methods for facilitating active participation and dialogue in group based patient education. As part of the project two health education models (The Balancing Person and The Health Education Juggler) and 24 dialogue tools have been developed.

INNODIA

​INNODIA (an innovative approach towards understanding and arresting type 1 diabetes)is an international consortium consisting of academic institutions including SDCC, clinics, patient organizations, partners and enterprises.

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JOM MAMA

The life-course perspective points to the pre-conception period as a window of opportunity for proactive, long-term health promotion. The Malaysian Jom Mama project was one of the first to address young couples prior to first pregnancy in order to increase healthy living, driven by a private-public partnership.

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Meal habits, attitudes and barriers towards healthy eating in people with type 1 and type 2 diabetes

​Differences in meal habits, attitudes and barriers towards healthy eating in people with diabetes compared with the general Danish population.

MEL

​​​Using cross-cultural encounters as a means of health promotion among primary school students – the Move Eat Learn (MEL) project.

Metabolomics and autoantibody development in individuals at high risk for type 1 diabetes

​​The project seeks to identify risk metabolomic profiles for autoimmunity and type 1 diabetes. By further investigating the relationship of these metabolomic profiles with other established genetic and environmental risk factors for type 1 diabetes, we hope to contribute to the unraveling of this complex immunologic/metabolic disease and highlight potential new therapeutic targets.

MODY-clamp

​Currently sulphonylureas are the drug of choice when treating patients with HNF1A-diabetes (also known as MODY3). However, no study have investigated combination treatment. This study will provide insight into if combination of incretin based treatment and sulphonylurea may be a good treatment option in patients with HNF1A-diabetes. This study is a glucose-clamp study, where patients will receive combinations of GLP-1, GIP and glimepiride. The effects on insulin and glucagon will be investigated.

MOVEOUT

​What is the benefit of education outside the classroom (EOtC) for pupils’ movement behaviour, academic motivation, and well-being? The cluster RCT study MOVEOUT investigates the effects of regular practiced EOtC on pupils’ health and learning. The results will impact an expected future scale-up of EOtC.

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Nature Families

​The intervention Nature Families is developed and implemented by The Danish Society for Nature Conservation and evaluated by Health Promotion Research at Steno Diabetes Center Copenhagen. The intervention is based on a family to family approach and targets children and their families. The aim of the intervention is to promote mental and social health as well as nature connection through increased social exposure to nature.

New approaches to health promotion in deprived neighbourhoods

​​This project investigates the development and implementation of health promotion activities in deprived neighbourhoods. In these areas, the residents are at increased risk of developing diabetes and other Non-Communicable Diseases (NSD’s) as inappropriate health behaviour is concentrated among socially disadvantaged groups.

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Online peer support in daily life with type 1 diabetes

​Online peer communities for persons with type 1 diabetes are increasing in Denmark as well as worldwide, and open up a virtual space through which exchange of experience, social support and connections among peers are made possible. This is especially the case with the social media platform Facebook, which is used by 73% of the Danish population.

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Peer support and adult type 1 diabetes

PERL - A multicenter clinical trial of allopurionol to prevent GFR loss in type 1 diabetes

PERLage - PERL follow up study

​PERLage is the follow up study of PERL which were a randomized doubled blind placebo controlled trial with a 3 year treatment of allopurinol/placebo to investigate whether allopurinol slows early function decline in persons with type 1 diabetes and early diabetic kidney disease.

PIFT

​​Family members have important roles in everyday management of diabetes. Problems and challenges are not restricted to the person with diabetes and often affect the whole family.

PLA2

​​Prevalence and progression of subclinical cardiovascular disease assessed by 3D ultrasound of the carotid arteries and relation to platelet aggregation in individuals with type 2 diabetes.

PLATON

​PLATON is a cross-sectional study investigating platelet aggregation, aspirin efficacy and presence of atherosclerosis in persons with type 1 diabetes and different levels of albuminuria.

PONAll (Pregnancy, Offspring, NCDs and Anemia)

​The impact of anemia and malaria in pregnancy on the child's DNA and later health – How do we prevent non-communicable diseases across generations?

Pre-D trial

​Prevention of type 2 diabetes and cardiovascular disease.

PRESET study - Evaluation of methods for measuring gastrointestinal transit and food reward in healthy individuals

PRIORITY

​PRIORITY: Proteomic prediction and Renin angiotensin aldosterone system Inhibition prevention Of early diabetic nephRopathy In Type 2 diabetic patients with normoalbuminuria.

PRIORITY sub study

PROCEED

​​An Exploratory Study to Develop a framework for a supportive PROgramme Of CarE for Adult OnsEt Type 1 Diabetes – the PROCEED study.

PROTON Personalising Treatment of Diabetic Nephropathy

PULSE: Innovative health promotion exhibition engaging families

The PULSE project was a research-based, action-oriented exhibition-development project that took place at a science centre in Copenhagen called Experimentarium.

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RESET study

​​Effect of time-restricted eating on behaviour and metabolism in overweight individuals at high risk of type 2 diabetes.

RHAPSODY - Risk Assessment and ProgreSsiOn of DIabetes

​RHAPSODY is focused on assessing the risk of progression of pre-diabetes to overt diabetes and of rapid deterioration of type 2 diabetes (T2D). This is achieved by a multi-omics analysis of large European cohorts. The Systems Medicine group will be provided metabolomics data for over 6000 patients progressing into type 2 diabetes.

RISCAID: Remote Ischemic Conditioning for Angiopathy in Diabetes

ROTATE

​​Rotation for Optimal Targeting of Albuminuria and Treatment Evaluation – A rotation study of different albuminuria lowering drug classes to study individual drug response in diabetes.

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Smoke-free Vocational Schools

​​Smoke-free Vocational Schools is a research- and intervention project which aims to implement ‘smoke-free school hours’ in nine Danish vocational education and training (VET) schools and create new knowledge on effective tobacco control interventions.

Src kinase-associated phosphoprotein 2 (SKAP2) in type 1 diabetes

​​The gene encoding Src kinase-associated phosphoprotein 2 (SKAP2) located on Chr 7 is a type 1 diabetes (T1D) candidate gene. The project seeks to clarify if SKAP2 affects T1D risk by modulating beta cell fragility.

STENO TECH

​Insulin pump therapy for type 1 diabetes: How to make the most of the technology?

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TEACHOUT

Aquasi-experimental cross-disciplinary evaluation of the impacts of education outside the classroom on pupils' physical activity, well-being and learning.

The ADDITION-study

Intensive, multifactorial treatment of people with screen-detected type 2 diabetes (ADDITION-DK trial). Understanding cardiovascular risk and disease progression among individuals with a high-risk of developing diabetes (ADDITION-PRO).

The Butyful Study

​Effect of butyrate on inflammation and albuminuria in persons with type 1 diabetes, albuminuria and intestinal inflammation - a randomized, double-blind, placebo-controlled study.

The EMPASEMA study

​Renal effects of treatment with Empagliflozin alone or in combination with Semaglutide in patients with type 2 diabetes and albuminuria.

The feasibility of diabetes prevention in real life settings

​​Developing tools for community-based health promotion.

The Intersectoral Prevention Laboratory

The population studies in Greenland

The Steno T1 Risk Engine

​The Steno T1 Risk Engine is a screening method for cardiovascular disease in people with type 1 diabetes.

The We Act – Together for Health Project

​We Act – Together for Health is a development and research project including a multi-component health promoting school intervention implemented in four Danish public schools with four control schools.

Type 1 diabetes and work life

​​This PhD study (2015-2018) explores work life from the perspective of people with type 1 diabetes.

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UPRO

​​How can we use patient-reported outcomes to promote patient centred care and psychosocial support in type 1 diabetes routine consultations?

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ZODIAC

​A Study to Assess the Effects of the Endothelin Receptor Antagonist Zibotentan and the SGLT2 Inhibitor Dapagliflozin in Patients with Type 2 Diabetes and elevated Albuminuria​.