Sofia Carlsson

Sofia Carlsson is a senior researcher at the Institute of Environmental Medicine, Karolinska Institutet. Her work focuses on diabetes epidemiology, particularly latent autoimmune diabetes in adults (LADA) and type 2 diabetes, using data from the ESTRID study and Norwegian HUNT study.

• Key Research Themes: Genetic susceptibility to diabetes, environmental risk factors (smoking, diet), metabolic profiling, and interactions between lifestyle and autoimmune diabetes.
• Clinical Impacts: Cardiovascular and microvascular complications, mortality rates, and SUDEP (sudden unexpected death in epilepsy) risk factors.
• Methodological Expertise: Mendelian randomisation, genome-wide correlation, and large-scale epidemiological study design.

Recent Publications (2024-2025) examine tobacco use, metabolic biomarkers, and genetic interactions in diabetes subtypes. Her work appears in high-impact journals like Diabetologia, Diabetes Care, and Neurology.