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Susanna Larsson is an Associate Professor and Senior Researcher at Karolinska Institutet's Institute of Environmental Medicine, where she leads the Cardiovascular and Nutritional Epidemiology Unit. Her work spans multiple disciplines within public health research, with a particular focus on understanding the complex relationships between diet, lifestyle factors, and chronic disease development.
Dr. Larsson's research interests primarily center around cardiovascular epidemiology, nutritional epidemiology, and cancer epidemiology, with a strong methodological emphasis on Mendelian randomization techniques. Her work frequently examines how dietary patterns, particularly meat consumption, plant-based diets, and specific nutrients, influence the risk of major chronic diseases including cardiovascular conditions, inflammatory bowel disease, and various cancers. She has made significant contributions to understanding the genetic and environmental determinants of disease through large-scale multinational studies and meta-analyses.
Analysis of her extensive publication record (over 100 articles in the past five years) reveals a strong focus on causal inference methods, particularly Mendelian randomization, to untangle complex diet-disease relationships. Her research often bridges nutritional science with genetic epidemiology, examining how genetic predispositions interact with lifestyle factors to influence disease risk. Recent work has particularly emphasized connections between cardiovascular health, metabolic conditions, and gastrointestinal diseases.
Dr. Larsson maintains an active research group with several doctoral students and affiliated researchers, including Stephanie Pitt and Shuai Yuan. Her collaborative approach is evident in the numerous multinational studies she participates in, often involving data from multiple countries across Europe, Asia, Australia, and North America.
Her laboratory work focuses on the Cardiovascular and Nutritional Epidemiology Unit, which conducts population-based research examining how dietary patterns, lifestyle factors, and genetic predispositions influence chronic disease development and progression. The unit employs advanced epidemiological methods, including large-scale cohort studies, meta-analyses, and genetic epidemiology approaches to investigate causal relationships in public health.