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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

Marleen Lentjes
Research subject Research environments

About Marleen Lentjes

Marleen Lentjes (Maria) is a nutritional epidemiologist at Örebro University where she has three roles:

Marleen moved from the UK where she worked as a research nutritionist at the University of Cambridge with the European Prospective Investigation into Cancer, a longitudinal cohort based in Norfolk (EPIC-Norfolk).

Research

Marleen is currently contributing to the development of a new birth cohort, for which the first validaton studies regarding dietary assessment are ongoing (more information about "Mat i Sverige" or "Eating in Sweden" can be found here).

Marleen’s research interest is in meal patterns, i.e. the size, frequency and time of meals consumed, and how this relates to health.  These aspects of diet have been associated with diet quality and various markers of disease risk such as cholesterol, but also with obesity and heart disease itself.  This work connects to what is known as chrono-nutrition and relates to the many bodily functions which follow an approximate 24-hour clock, and which may be disturbed by ‘eating around the clock’ thereby disrupting these carefully orchestrated processes and increasing our risk of becoming overweight and our risk of diseases related to this.

Teaching

Marleen is course coordinator for T6 ("Reproduktion och Utveckling") and basgrupphandledare at the medical programme at Örebro University.  Marleen 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 was a participant in the university's Social Impact Lab 2022 (more information about her idea of a 'supermarket safari' can be found here).  Marleen continues to work on projects using data of the EPIC-Norfolk study.

Publications

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Articles in journals

Conference papers