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Dairy Council

Cardiometabolic health

Blood Pressure, Type 2 Diabetes, CVD

In this section we’ve included presentations and summaries on cardiometabolic health from our recent conferences and symposia. These include research on blood pressure, diabetes and cardiovascular disease.

Click the links for overviews on:

 

European Society of Cardiology (ESC) Preventive Cardiology Online Congress April 2021

Professor Arne Astrup, Novo Nordisk Foundation 
Dairy and CVD risk reduction – new insights based on the food matrix concept


Annual Dairy Council Nutrition Lecture at Ulster University – 30th Anniversary Symposium 

Professor Julie Lovegrove, University of Reading & President of the Nutrition Society
A review of dairy’s role in cardiometabolic health – where are we now?


Federation of European Nutrition Societies (FENS) 13th European Nutrition Conference, Dublin, October 2019

Symposium on Beyond nutrients: health effects of the dairy matrix:

Prof Arne Astrup, University of Copenhagen
Metabolic health: the impact of the dairy matrix

Read the abstract of Prof Astrup’s presentation here.

 

DCNI Nutrition & Health Conference, Belfast, April 2019

Professor Mary Ward, Ulster University
Dairy foods and blood pressure: a review of current evidence

Dr Brendan Gabriel, Karolinska Institute, Stockholm
Circadian rhythms: re–setting the clock in type 2 diabetes and metabolic disease

 

ESPEN Congress (European Society for Clinical Nutrition and Metabolism), Madrid, September 2018

Symposium on Beyond nutrients: health effects of the dairy matrix:

Prof Arne Astrup, University of Copenhagen
Dairy matrix effects on type 2 diabetes and cardiometabolic health

Read the abstract of Prof Astrup’s presentation here

DCNI & European Milk Forum (EMF) Symposium, Belfast, October 2017

Prof Arne Astrup, University of Copenhagen
Metabolic health: the impact of the dairy matrix

To download the summaries of the presentations, incl. Prof Astrup’s, please click here


DCNI Nutrition & Health Conference, Belfast, April 2017

Dr Sabita S Soedamah–Muthu, Wageningen University, The Netherlands
Cardiometabolic health and fermented dairy foods: a review of the evidence

 

DCNI Nutrition & Health Conference, Belfast, April 2016

Professor Benoît Lamarche, Laval University, Canada
Novel perspectives on the association between dairy, dairy fat and cardiometabolic health

Dr Joline Beulens, VU Medical Center, Amsterdam
Dairy foods and diabetes – a protective role?

 

Federation of European Nutrition Societies (FENS) 12th European Nutrition Conference, Berlin, October 2015

Symposium on Regular fat dairy foods in nutrition & health 

Professor Philippe Legrand, Agrocampus INRA, France
Nutritional interest of saturated fatty acid – the specific case of dairy fat

Professor Benoît Lamarche, Laval University, Canada
Saturated fat and cardiovascular risk

Dr Ulrika Ericson, Lund University, Sweden
Regular fat dairy products and diabetes type 2: the role of dietary fats and their food sources

 

DCNI Nutrition & Health Conference, Belfast, May 2015

Dr Anne Nugent, University College Dublin
Cheese and health – an update on the evidence 

 

 

European Milk Forum (EMF) Symposia, April 2015

Dr Marianne Uhre Jakobsen, Aarhus University
Dairy and cardio–metabolic health: from individual nutrients to foods

 

 

DCNI & European Milk Forum (EMF) Symposium, Belfast, September 2014

Professor Ian Givens, University of Reading, UK
Cardio–metabolic health: what’s the role of dairy?