Research projects

​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.

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

​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.

​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 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.

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

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 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 (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.

​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.

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

​​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.

​​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.

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.

​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.

​​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.

​​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.

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

​​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.

​​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.

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.    

​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”.

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

​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.

​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.

​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 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.

​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.

​​Hypoglycaemia and cardiac arrhythmias in 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.

​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 (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.

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.

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

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

​​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.

​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.

​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.

​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.

​​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.

​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.

​(Tissue based integrative biology of diabetic kidney disease in participants of the PERL 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.

​​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.

​​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 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. 

​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? 

​Prevention of type 2 diabetes and cardiovascular disease.

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

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

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

​The REDDSTAR Project has the potential to significantly impact the management and treatment of diabetes, with relevance for clinicians, researchers in diabetes and regenerative medicine, drug/pharmaceutical companies and ultimately for the general public.

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

​​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.

​​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.

​​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.

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

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).

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

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

​​Developing tools for community-based health promotion.

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

​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.

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

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

​​A randomized, double-blind, placebo controlled, parallel, multicenter study of the effects of 12-weeks of sodium zirconium cyclosilicate (Lokelma) on albuminuria (UACR) in patients with type 2 diabetes and hyperkalemia.