CBMR publications and media appearances in December 2025
Every month we release a full list of publications from the Center, as well as media appearances by the Center scientists
Media Appearances
Professor Ruth Loos
Weekendavisen, 30/12/2025
'Arvelighed: Det umulige vægttab'
Associate Professor Christoffer Clemmensen
Berlingske, 29/12/2025
'Fedmeforsker sender stikpille til tre sundhedstrends, vi bør droppe'
Emeritus Professor Thorkild I.A. Sørensen (Hansen Group)
Politiken, 06/12/2025
'»Det er under en procent af alt det, du spiser, som lægges til side, mens fedmen udvikler sig«'
Publications
Barrès Group
Haugaard SL, et al. Metformin Protects Against Persistent Atrial Fibrillation in an Equine Model. Circ Arrhythm Electrophysiol. 2025 Dec;18(12):e013850. doi: 10.1161/CIRCEP.125.013850. Epub 2025 Dec 2.
Gerhart-Hines Group
Grothen JER, et al. Single cell transcriptomics of human weight loss links adipocyte NPY1R to control of lipolysis. Mol Metab. 2025 Dec 16:102305. doi: 10.1016/j.molmet.2025.102305. Epub ahead of print.
Guasch Group
Barbieri G, et al. Ultra-processed foods and CKD: a review of evidence, limitations, and future directions. Curr Opin Lipidol. 2026 Feb 1;37(1):7-13. doi: 10.1097/MOL.0000000000001020. Epub 2025 Dec 1.
Birukov A, et al. Plasma metabolomic signature of breastfeeding and risk of cardiometabolic diseases. Nat Commun. 2025 Dec 8;16(1):11124. doi: 10.1038/s41467-025-65977-5.
Bozack AK, et al. Dietary fatty acids and epigenetic aging in US adults: results from the National Health and Nutrition Examination Survey. NPJ Aging. 2025 Dec 7;12(1):3. doi: 10.1038/s41514-025-00298-x.
Hansen Group
Juanola A, et al. PD-L1 and the risk of bacterial infection in patients with chronic liver diseases: An international multicohort study. JHEP Rep. 2025 Sep 18;7(12):101597. doi: 10.1016/j.jhepr.2025.101597.
Sørensen TI & Michaelsen KF. Does higher protein intake influence risk of child obesity? Am J Clin Nutr. 2025 Dec;122(6):1543-1544. doi: 10.1016/j.ajcnut.2025.10.002. Epub 2025 Nov 10.
Tuffier S, et al. Prenatal exposure to acrylamide and metabolic health at 20 years of age A biomarker-based Danish cohort study. Environ Int. 2026 Jan;207:110000. doi: 10.1016/j.envint.2025.110000. Epub 2025 Dec 11.
Hansen, Loos & Rasmussen Groups
Sigurdsson AI, et al. Complex genetic effects linked to plasma protein abundance in the UK Biobank. Nat Commun. 2025 Dec 14;17(1):533. doi: 10.1038/s41467-025-67235-0.
Juul Holst Group
Chen S, et al. Spatially diffuse cAMP signalling with oppositely biased GLP-1 receptor agonists in β-cells despite differences in receptor localisation. Mol Metab. 2026 Jan;103:102304. doi: 10.1016/j.molmet.2025.102304. Epub 2025 Dec 12.
Galsgaard KD, et al. GLP-2 and GIP acutely increase superior mesenteric artery blood flow in male rats, and the effect is independent of nitric oxide and vasoactive intestinal peptide. Physiol Rep. 2025 Dec;13(23):e70699. doi: 10.14814/phy2.70699.
Hoe B, et al. Glucose-dependent insulinotropic polypeptide reduces postprandial glucose excursions but does not protect from hypoglycaemia in persons with type 1 diabetes-A randomised placebo-controlled study. Diabetes Obes Metab. 2025 Dec 28. doi: 10.1111/dom.70373. Epub ahead of print.
McCarthy OM, et al. Influence of Diets Differing in Macronutrient Composition on Metabolic Regulation During Exercise in Adults with Type 1 Diabetes. Nutrients. 2025 Nov 21;17(23):3637. doi: 10.3390/nu17233637.
Sabbagh MN, et al. Repurposing glucagon-like peptide-1 receptor agonists for the treatment of neurodegenerative disorders. Nat Aging. 2026 Jan;6(1):56-67. doi: 10.1038/s43587-025-01029-3. Epub 2025 Dec 19.
Sass MR, et al. Semaglutide and Early-Stage Metabolic Abnormalities in Individuals With Schizophrenia Spectrum Disorders: A Randomized Clinical Trial. JAMA Psychiatry. 2025 Dec 3:e253639. doi: 10.1001/jamapsychiatry.2025.3639. Epub ahead of print.
Thirumathyam R, et al. Empagliflozin improves beta cell function independently of relief of glucotoxicity in patients with type 2 diabetes: results from a randomised cross-over study with insulin as comparator. Diabetologia. 2025 Dec 9. doi: 10.1007/s00125-025-06616-y. Epub ahead of print.
van Kalkeren CAJ, et al. Effects of a slowly fermentable fiber mixture against the background of a high-protein diet on insulin sensitivity and metabolic health in individuals with overweight: a randomized, placebo-controlled trial. Gut Microbes. 2026 Dec 31;18(1):2606473. doi: 10.1080/19490976.2025.2606473. Epub 2025 Dec 29.
Kilpeläinen Group
Noordam R, et al. Genome-wide gene-sleep interaction study identifies novel lipid loci in 732,564 participants. Atherosclerosis. 2026 Jan;412:120603. doi: 10.1016/j.atherosclerosis.2025.120603. Epub 2025 Nov 26.
Loos Group
Small AM, et al. Genomic and transcriptomic analyses of aortic stenosis enhance therapeutic target discovery and disease prediction. Nat Genet. 2026 Jan;58(1):57-66. doi: 10.1038/s41588-025-02417-6. Epub 2025 Dec 19.
Van Buren E, et al. cellSTAAR: incorporating single-cell-sequencing- based functional data to boost power in rare variant association testing of noncoding regions. Nat Methods. 2025 Dec 31. doi: 10.1038/s41592-025-02919-5. Epub ahead of print.
Merino Group
Yoshida E, et al. Meat Intake in Relation to Metabolomic Signatures, Gut Microbiome, and Cardiovascular Disease Risk: A Narrative Review. Nutr Rev. 2025 Dec 10:nuaf234. doi: 10.1093/nutrit/nuaf234. Epub ahead of print.
Zhou X, et al. Diabetogenic processes for insulin resistance-linked hyperinsulinaemia are associated with colorectal cancer. Diabetologia. 2025 Dec 15. doi: 10.1007/s00125-025-06631-z. Epub ahead of print.
Pers Group
Fenton TM, et al. Heterogeneity of the intestinal mononuclear phagocyte compartment in health and inflammatory bowel disease. Sci Immunol. 2025 Dec 12;10(114):eadz8650. doi: 10.1126/sciimmunol.adz8650. Epub 2025 Dec 12.
Pers & Schwartz Groups
Aalling NN, et al. Sustained diabetes remission induced by FGF1 involves a shift in transcriptionally distinct AgRP neuron subpopulations. Mol Metab. 2026 Jan;103:102300. doi: 10.1016/j.molmet.2025.102300. Epub 2025 Dec 9.
Sakamoto, Treebak & Zierath Groups
Biswas D, et al. Common and distinct roles of AMPKγ isoforms in small-molecule activator-stimulated glucose uptake in mouse skeletal muscle. Mol Metab. 2026 Jan;103:102294. doi: 10.1016/j.molmet.2025.102294. Epub 2025 Nov 29.