Michael Fridén

Public health policy should be grounded in established evidence that acknowledges uncertainty: a response to The Lancet series on ultra-processed foods

Ibsen, Daniel B.; Fridén, Michael; Tomova, Georgia D.; Ortega, Natalia et al.

Part of BMC Medicine, 2026

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A systematic review of ultra-processed food subtypes and risk of type 2 diabetes, combined with a cohort analysis, question the utility of broad food classifications for public health policy

Fridén, Michael; Mai, Maria; Olsen, Anja; Dahm, Christina C. et al.

Part of BMC Medicine, 2026

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Food Substitution Modeling Approaches: A Methodological Study

Roosdorp, Thomas; Fridén, Michael; Ibsen, Daniel B.; Rosqvist, Fredrik

Part of Current Developments in Nutrition, 2026

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(Mis)interpreting substitution models in nutritional epidemiology: why the effect of NOVA 1 foods cannot be understood without NOVA 4

Ibsen, Daniel B.; Dahm, Christina C.; Fridén, Michael

Part of The Lancet Planetary Health, 2026

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Cardiometabolic benefits of replacing saturated fatty acids with unsaturated fatty acids

Risérus, Ulf; Fridén, Michael

Part of Current opinion in clinical nutrition and metabolic care, p. 131-135, 2026

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Public health policy should be grounded in established evidence that acknowledges uncertainty: a response to The Lancet series on ultra-processed foods

Ibsen, Daniel B.; Fridén, Michael; Tomova, Georgia D.; Ortega, Natalia et al.

Part of BMC Medicine, 2026

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Food Substitution Modeling Approaches: A Methodological Study

Roosdorp, Thomas; Fridén, Michael; Ibsen, Daniel B.; Rosqvist, Fredrik

Part of Current Developments in Nutrition, 2026

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(Mis)interpreting substitution models in nutritional epidemiology: why the effect of NOVA 1 foods cannot be understood without NOVA 4

Ibsen, Daniel B.; Dahm, Christina C.; Fridén, Michael

Part of The Lancet Planetary Health, 2026

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Cardiometabolic benefits of replacing saturated fatty acids with unsaturated fatty acids

Risérus, Ulf; Fridén, Michael

Part of Current opinion in clinical nutrition and metabolic care, p. 131-135, 2026

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Effects of an anti-lipogenic low-carbohydrate high polyunsaturated fat diet or a healthy Nordic diet versus usual care on liver fat and cardiometabolic disorders in type 2 diabetes or prediabetes: a randomized controlled trial (NAFLDiet)

Fridén, Michael; Rosqvist, Fredrik; Kullberg, Joel; Berglund, Lars et al.

Part of Nature Communications, 2025

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Proteomic signatures for fibrosis in MASLD: a biopsy-proven dual-cohort study

Blomdahl, Julia; Åberg, Mikael; Fridén, Michael; Ahlström, Håkan et al.

Part of Scandinavian Journal of Gastroenterology, p. 597-605, 2025

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Lipidome changes due to improved dietary fat quality inform cardiometabolic risk reduction and precision nutrition

Eichelmann, Fabian; Prada, Marcela; Sellem, Laury; Jackson, Kim G et al.

Part of Nature Medicine, p. 2867-2877, 2024

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Reply to P Yang et al

Fridén, Michael; Warensjö Lemming, Eva; Lind, Lars; Vessby, Johan et al.

Part of American Journal of Clinical Nutrition, p. 985-986, 2024

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Substitutions of saturated fat intakes with other macronutrients and foods and risk of NAFLD cirrhosis and all-cause hepatocellular carcinoma: a prospective cohort study

Fridén, Michael; Warensjö Lemming, Eva; Lind, Lars; Vessby, Johan et al.

Part of American Journal of Clinical Nutrition, p. 187-195, 2024

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Overfeeding polyunsaturated fat compared to saturated fat does not differentially influence lean tissue accumulation in overweight individuals: a randomized controlled trial

Rosqvist, Fredrik; Cedernaes, Jonathan; Martínez Mora, Andrés; Fridén, Michael et al.

Part of American Journal of Clinical Nutrition, p. 121-128, 2024

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Substitution analyses of foods with varying fat quality and the associations with all-cause mortality and impact of the FADS-1 genotype in elderly men

Fridén, Michael; Olsson, Erika; Lind, Lars; Rosqvist, Fredrik et al.

Part of European Journal of Nutrition, p. 145-153, 2023

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Contrasting Carbohydrate Quantity and Quality and the Effects on Plasma Saturated and Monounsaturated Fatty Acids in Healthy Adults: A Randomized Controlled Trial

Bajahzer, Mohammed F.; Rosqvist, Fredrik; Fridén, Michael; Iggman, David et al.

Part of Journal of Nutrition, p. 683-690, 2023

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Diet composition, nutrient substitutions and circulating fatty acids in relation to ectopic and visceral fat depots

Fridén, Michael; Martínez Mora, Andrés; Lind, Lars; Risérus, Ulf et al.

Part of Clinical Nutrition, p. 1922-1931, 2023

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Circulating fatty acids from high-throughput metabolomics platforms as potential biomarkers of dietary fatty acids

Rosqvist, Fredrik; Fridén, Michael; Vessby, Johan; Rorsman, Fredrik et al.

Part of Clinical Nutrition, p. 2637-2643, 2022

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Intake of Ultra-Processed Food and Ectopic-, Visceral- and Other Fat Depots: A Cross-Sectional Study.

Fridén, Michael; Kullberg, Joel; Ahlström, Håkan; Lind, Lars et al.

Part of Frontiers in nutrition, 2022

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Hepatic Unsaturated Fatty Acids Are Linked to Lower Degree of Fibrosis in Non-alcoholic Fatty Liver Disease

Fridén, Michael; Rosqvist, Fredrik; Ahlström, Håkan; Niessen, Heiko G. et al.

Part of Frontiers in Medicine, 2022

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Fatty acids in multiple circulating lipid fractions reflects the composition of liver triglycerides in humans

Rosqvist, Fredrik; Fridén, Michael; Vessby, Johan; Hockings, Paul et al.

Part of Clinical Nutrition, p. 805-809, 2022

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Associations between fatty acid composition in serum cholesteryl esters and liver fat, basal fat oxidation, and resting energy expenditure: a population-based study

Fridén, Michael; Rosqvist, Fredrik; Kullberg, Joel; Ahlström, Håkan et al.

Part of American Journal of Clinical Nutrition, p. 1743-1751, 2021

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A systematic review of ultra-processed food subtypes and risk of type 2 diabetes, combined with a cohort analysis, question the utility of broad food classifications for public health policy

Fridén, Michael; Mai, Maria; Olsen, Anja; Dahm, Christina C. et al.

Part of BMC Medicine, 2026

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Role of Fatty Acid Composition in Non-Alcoholic Fatty Liver Disease: a Dietary Perspective: Results from Interventional and Observational Studies

Fridén, Michael

2024

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