Ida Sigvardsson
About Ida Sigvardsson
Ida is a trained Dietitian with a Master's degree in Clinical Nutrition at the University of Gothenburg, and a PhD student in Karl Mårild's Gastrointestinal Epidemiology group at the Department of Pediatrics at the Department of Clinical Sciences. Ida has previous experience in research work and coordination of clinical studies.
PhD Project & Current research
Ida's thesis addresses the relationship between exposure to environmental factors early in life - including socioeconomic status, parental smoking habits, the introduction of solid foods and stress - and the risk of later developing inflammatory bowel disease (IBD), including the two most common subtypes, Crohn's disease and Ulcerative Colitis.
The research group - which is part of the Nordic collaboration Prospective examination of early-life environmental triggers for IBD (PREVENT-IBD) - uses data from large-scale Nordic birth cohorts. The projects included in Ida's doctoral thesis use the two birth cohorts All Children in Southeastern Sweden (ABIS) and The Norwegian Mother, Father and Child Study (MoBa) which together include over 110,000 children followed from pregnancy or birth through childhood with ongoing data collection among current/future young adults. The two cohorts aim to investigate causes, risk factors and course of diseases and life events for a better understanding of preventive and therapeutic measures.