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  1. A Digital Toolkit for Weight Loss Maintenance in European Adults (NoHoW): 2×2 Factorial Randomized Controlled Trial

    Article • Journal of Medical Internet Research, May 2026, JMIR Publications Inc.

    Sofus Larsen

  2. Intensive weight loss intervention versus usual care in adults with obesity: a protocol for the LightCARE randomised clinical trial

    Article • BMJ Open, October 2025, BMJ

    Sofus Larsen

  3. Dietary Macronutrient Composition and Protein Concentration for Weight Loss Maintenance

    Article • Obesity, August 2025, Wiley

    Sofus Larsen

  4. Impact of weighted blankets on sleep disturbance among children with attention deficit hyperactivity disorders (ADHD): study protocol for a pragmatic randomised controlled trial

    Article • BMC Psychiatry, April 2025, Springer Science + Business Media

    Sofus Larsen

  5. Processed Meat Intake and Changes in Weight, Waist, Body Mass Index, and Fat Mass: Systematic Literature Review, Meta-Analysis, and GRADE Assessment of Cohort Studies of Adults

    Article • Nutrition Reviews, March 2025, Oxford University Press (OUP)

    Sofus Larsen

  6. Do the effects of interventions aimed at the prevention of childhood obesity reduce inequities? A re-analysis of randomized trial data from two Cochrane reviews

    Article • EClinicalMedicine, March 2025, Elsevier

    Sofus Larsen

  7. Developing a Weight-Neutral Health Intervention in Denmark: Protocol for a Co-Design Process

    Article • JMIR Public Health and Surveillance, November 2024, JMIR Publications Inc.

    Sofus Larsen, Dr. Rasmus Køster-Rasmussen

  8. Debating Weight Loss vs. Weight Neutral Strategies for Improvements of Health

    Article • Current Obesity Reports, September 2024, Springer Science + Business Media

    Sofus Larsen, Dr. Rasmus Køster-Rasmussen

  9. Long-Term Effects of a Primary Weight Gain Prevention Intervention among Healthy Weight Obesity Susceptible Children: Results from the Healthy Start Study

    Article • Obesity Facts, June 2024, Karger Publishers

    Sofus Larsen

  10. Comparing self-reported energy intake using an online dietary tool with energy expenditure by an activity tracker

    Article • Nutrition, February 2024, Elsevier

    Sofus Larsen

  11. Evidence for the protein leverage hypothesis in preschool children prone to obesity

    Article • Clinical Nutrition, November 2023, Elsevier

    Sofus Larsen

  12. Are motivational and self-regulation factors associated with 12 months’ weight regain prevention in the NoHoW study? An analysis of European adults

    Article • International Journal of Behavioral Nutrition and Physical Activity, October 2023, Springer Science + Business Media

    Sofus Larsen

  13. Exploratory analysis of reflective, reactive, and homeostatic eating behaviour traits on weight change during the 18-month NoHoW weight maintenance trial

    Article • Appetite, October 2023, Elsevier

    Sofus Larsen

  14. The bioelectrical impedance analysis (BIA) international database: aims, scope, and call for data

    Article • European Journal of Clinical Nutrition, August 2023, Springer Science + Business Media

    Sofus Larsen

  15. Types of kindergarten and their relationship with parental and children’s socio-demographic characteristics in Denmark

    Article • PLOS One, July 2023, PLOS

    Sofus Larsen

  16. Attained body mass index among children attending rural outdoor or urban conventional kindergartens

    Article • Frontiers in Psychology, June 2023, Frontiers

    Sofus Larsen

  17. Does attendance in outdoor kindergartens reduce the use of antibiotics in children?

    Article • Acta Paediatrica, June 2023, Wiley

    Dr. Rasmus Køster-Rasmussen, Sofus Larsen

  18. Can change in phase angle predict the risk of morbidity and mortality during an 18-year follow-up period? A cohort study among adults

    Article • Frontiers in Nutrition, May 2023, Frontiers

    Sofus Larsen

  19. Outdoor Kindergartens: A Structural Way to Improve Early Physical Activity Behaviour?

    Article • International Journal of Environmental Research and Public Health, March 2023, MDPI AG

    Sofus Larsen

  20. Testing motivational and self-regulatory mechanisms of action on device-measured physical activity in the context of a weight loss maintenance digital intervention: A secondary analysis of the NoHoW trial

    Article • Psychology of Sport and Exercise, January 2023, Elsevier

    Sofus Larsen

  21. Substituting sedentary time with sleep or physical activity and subsequent weight‐loss maintenance

    Article • Obesity, December 2022, Wiley

    Sofus Larsen

  22. Motivational and self‐efficacy reciprocal effects during a 12‐month' weight regain prevention program

    Article • British Journal of Health Psychology, November 2022, Wiley

    Sofus Larsen

  23. Association between intake of marine fat and adiposity development among children ages 2 to 6 y: Substitution analyses from the Healthy Start intervention study

    Article • Nutrition, November 2022, Elsevier

    Sofus Larsen

  24. Comparison of Motor Difficulties Measured in the First Year of School among Children Who Attended Rural Outdoor or Urban Conventional Kindergartens

    Article • International Journal of Environmental Research and Public Health, October 2022, MDPI AG

    Sofus Larsen

  25. Effects of the healthy start randomized intervention on psychological stress and sleep habits among obesity-susceptible healthy weight children and their parents

    Article • PLOS One, March 2022, PLOS

    Sofus Larsen

  26. Physical Activity and Subsequent Change in Body Weight, Composition and Shape: Effect Modification by Familial Overweight

    Article • Frontiers in Endocrinology, February 2022, Frontiers

    Sofus Larsen

  27. Users’ Experiences With the NoHoW Web-Based Toolkit With Weight and Activity Tracking in Weight Loss Maintenance: Long-term Randomized Controlled Trial

    Article • Journal of Medical Internet Research, January 2022, JMIR Publications Inc.

    Sofus Larsen

  28. Intake of n-3 LCPUFA and trans-fatty acids is unrelated to development in body mass index and body fat among children

    Article • BMC Nutrition, January 2022, Springer Science + Business Media

    Sofus Larsen

  29. Effect of PEP flute self-care versus usual care in early covid-19: non-drug, open label, randomised controlled trial in a Danish community setting

    Article • BMJ, November 2021, BMJ

    Sofus Larsen

  30. The association between general and central obesity and the risks of coronary heart disease in women with and without a familial predisposition to obesity: findings from the Danish Nurse Cohort

    Article • International Journal of Obesity, October 2021, Springer Science + Business Media

    Sofus Larsen

  31. Three-Year Intervention Effects on Food and Beverage Intake—Results from the Quasi-Experimental Copenhagen School Child Intervention Study (CoSCIS)

    Article • International Journal of Environmental Research and Public Health, October 2021, MDPI AG

    Sofus Larsen

  32. Hair Cortisol Concentration, Weight Loss Maintenance and Body Weight Variability: A Prospective Study Based on Data From the European NoHoW Trial

    Article • Frontiers in Endocrinology, September 2021, Frontiers

    Sofus Larsen

  33. Phase angle measured by bioelectrical impedance analysis and the risk of cardiovascular disease among adult Danes

    Article • Nutrition, September 2021, Elsevier

    Sofus Larsen

  34. PEP-CoV protocol: a PEP flute-self-care randomised controlled trial to prevent respiratory deterioration and hospitalisation in early COVID-19

    Article • BMJ Open, June 2021, BMJ

    Sofus Larsen

  35. Changes in Emotional-Behavioral Functioning Among Pre-school Children Following the Initial Stage Danish COVID-19 Lockdown and Home Confinement

    Article • Frontiers in Psychology, May 2021, Frontiers

    Sofus Larsen

  36. Evidence-Based Digital Tools for Weight Loss Maintenance: The NoHoW Project

    Article • Obesity Facts, April 2021, Karger Publishers

    Sofus Larsen

  37. Associations between Parental Stress and Subsequent Changes in Dietary Intake and Quality among Preschool Children Susceptible to Obesity

    Article • International Journal of Environmental Research and Public Health, March 2021, MDPI AG

    Sofus Larsen

  38. The H2020 “NoHoW Project”: A Position Statement on Behavioural Approaches to Longer-Term Weight Management

    Article • Obesity Facts, March 2021, Karger Publishers

    Sofus Larsen

  39. The impact of early body-weight variability on long-term weight maintenance: exploratory results from the NoHoW weight-loss maintenance intervention

    Article • International Journal of Obesity, November 2020, Springer Science + Business Media

    Sofus Larsen

  40. Familial associations in hair cortisol concentration: A cross-sectional analysis based on the Healthy Start study

    Article • Psychoneuroendocrinology, November 2020, Elsevier

    Sofus Larsen

  41. Data Imputation and Body Weight Variability Calculation Using Linear and Nonlinear Methods in Data Collected From Digital Smart Scales: Simulation and Validation Study

    Article • JMIR mhealth and uhealth, September 2020, JMIR Publications Inc.

    Sofus Larsen

  42. Correction: A novel scaling methodology to reduce the biases associated with missing data from commercial activity monitors

    Article • PLOS One, September 2020, PLOS

    Sofus Larsen

  43. Body weight variability is not associated with changes in risk factors for cardiometabolic disease

    Article • International Journal of Cardiology Hypertension, September 2020, Elsevier

    Sofus Larsen

  44. Consistent sleep onset and maintenance of body weight after weight loss: An analysis of data from the NoHoW trial

    Article • PLoS Medicine, July 2020, PLOS

    Sofus Larsen

  45. A novel scaling methodology to reduce the biases associated with missing data from commercial activity monitors

    Article • PLOS One, June 2020, PLOS

    Sofus Larsen

  46. Estimating physical activity and sedentary behaviour in a free-living environment: A comparative study between Fitbit Charge 2 and Actigraph GT3X

    Article • PLOS One, June 2020, PLOS

    Sofus Larsen

  47. Associations between objective measures of physical activity, sleep and stress levels among preschool children

    Article • BMC Pediatrics, May 2020, Springer Science + Business Media

    Sofus Larsen

  48. Weekly, seasonal and holiday body weight fluctuation patterns among individuals engaged in a European multi-centre behavioural weight loss maintenance intervention

    Article • PLOS One, April 2020, PLOS

    Sofus Larsen

  49. Association between objectively measured sleep duration, adiposity and weight loss history

    Article • International Journal of Obesity, January 2020, Springer Science + Business Media

    Sofus Larsen

  50. Child behaviour and subsequent changes in body weight, composition and shape

    Article • PLOS One, December 2019, PLOS

    Sofus Larsen

  51. The validity of two widely used commercial and research-grade activity monitors, during resting, household and activity behaviours

    Article • Health and Technology, December 2019, Springer Science + Business Media

    Sofus Larsen

  52. Adolescent wine consumption is inversely associated with long-term weight gain: results from follow-up of 20 or 22 years

    Article • Nutrition Journal, September 2019, Springer Science + Business Media

    Sofus Larsen

  53. The NoHoW protocol: a multicentre 2×2 factorial randomised controlled trial investigating an evidence-based digital toolkit for weight loss maintenance in European adults

    Article • BMJ Open, September 2019, BMJ

    Sofus Larsen

  54. More Frequent Intake of Regular Meals and Less Frequent Snacking Are Weakly Associated with Lower Long-Term Gains in Body Mass Index and Fat Mass in Middle-Aged Men and Women

    Article • Journal of Nutrition, April 2019, Oxford University Press (OUP)

    Sofus Larsen

  55. Lack of Transparency in the Meta-Analyses of Dietary and Urinary Sodium and Bone Mineral Density or Risk of Osteoporosis: A Letter to the Journal

    Article • Journal of the American College of Nutrition, April 2019, Taylor & Francis

    Sofus Larsen, Bo Abrahamsen, Joanna Michalowska

  56. Association between hair cortisol concentration and dietary intake among normal weight preschool children predisposed to overweight and obesity

    Article • PLOS One, March 2019, PLOS

    Sofus Larsen

  57. Habitual coffee consumption and changes in measures of adiposity: a comprehensive study of longitudinal associations

    Article • International Journal of Obesity, December 2017, Nature

    Sofus Larsen

  58. Effects of the Healthy Start randomized intervention trial on physical activity among normal weight preschool children predisposed to overweight and obesity

    Article • PLOS One, October 2017, PLOS

    Sofus Larsen

  59. Effects of the Healthy Start randomized intervention on dietary intake among obesity-prone normal-weight children

    Article • Public Health Nutrition, September 2017, Cambridge University Press

    Sofus Larsen

  60. Alcohol consumption and its interaction with adiposity-associated genetic variants in relation to subsequent changes in waist circumference and body weight

    Article • Nutrition Journal, August 2017, Springer Science + Business Media

    Sofus Larsen

  61. Estimating the causal effect of body mass index on hay fever, asthma and lung function using Mendelian randomization

    Article • Allergy, August 2017, Wiley

    Sofus Larsen, Professor Marcus R Munafo

  62. Coffee Drinking and Mortality in 10 European Countries

    Article • Annals of Internal Medicine, July 2017, American College of Physicians

    Sofus Larsen

  63. Investigating the causal effect of smoking on hay fever and asthma: a Mendelian randomization meta-analysis in the CARTA consortium

    Article • Scientific Reports, May 2017, Nature

    Sofus Larsen, Professor Marcus R Munafo

  64. Hair dyeing, hair washing and hair cortisol concentrations among women from the healthy start study

    Article • Psychoneuroendocrinology, March 2017, Elsevier

    Sofus Larsen

  65. Association Between Use of Cannabis in Adolescence and Weight Change into Midlife

    Article • PLOS One, January 2017, PLOS

    Sofus Larsen

  66. Association between Hair Cortisol Concentration and Adiposity Measures among Children and Parents from the “Healthy Start” Study

    Article • PLOS One, September 2016, PLOS

    Sofus Larsen

  67. Interactions between genetic variants associated with adiposity traits and soft drinks in relation to longitudinal changes in body weight and waist circumference

    Article • American Journal of Clinical Nutrition, July 2016, American Society for Nutrition

    Sofus Larsen

  68. Serum 25-Hydroxyvitamin D Status and Longitudinal Changes in Weight and Waist Circumference: Influence of Genetic Predisposition to Adiposity

    Article • PLOS One, April 2016, PLOS

    Sofus Larsen

  69. Association between Maternal Fish Consumption and Gestational Weight Gain: Influence of Molecular Genetic Predisposition to Obesity

    Article • PLOS One, March 2016, PLOS

    Sofus Larsen

  70. Intake of Total and Subgroups of Fat Minimally Affect the Associations between Selected Single Nucleotide Polymorphisms in the PPAR  Pathway and Changes in Anthropometry among European Adults from Cohorts of the DiOGenes Study

    Article • Journal of Nutrition, February 2016, American Society for Nutrition

    Sofus Larsen

  71. Interaction between Genetic Predisposition to Adiposity and Dietary Protein in Relation to Subsequent Change in Body Weight and Waist Circumference

    Article • PLOS One, October 2014, PLOS

    Sofus Larsen

  72. Association between Mediterranean and Nordic diet scores and changes in weight and waist circumference: influence of FTO and TCF7L2 loci

    Article • American Journal of Clinical Nutrition, August 2014, Oxford University Press (OUP)

    Sofus Larsen

  73. Erratum

    Article • American Journal of Clinical Nutrition, August 2014, Oxford University Press (OUP)

    Sofus Larsen

  74. Dietary ascorbic acid and subsequent change in body weight and waist circumference: associations may depend on genetic predisposition to obesity - a prospective study of three independent cohorts

    Article • Nutrition Journal, May 2014, Springer Science + Business Media

    Sofus Larsen

  75. Prospective Population-Based Study of the Association between Serum 25-Hydroxyvitamin-D Levels and the Incidence of Specific Types of Cancer

    Article • Cancer Epidemiology Biomarkers & Prevention, April 2014, American Association for Cancer Research (AACR)

    Sofus Larsen

  76. Interaction between genetic predisposition to obesity and dietary calcium in relation to subsequent change in body weight and waist circumference

    Article • American Journal of Clinical Nutrition, February 2014, Oxford University Press (OUP)

    Sofus Larsen

  77. 24h Urinary Sodium Excretion and Subsequent Change in Weight, Waist Circumference and Body Composition

    Article • PLOS One, July 2013, PLOS

    Sofus Larsen