Nutritional Epidemiology

Name: Nutritional Epidemiology
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ISBN: 9780199754038

ISBN-10: 0199754039

ISBN-13: 9780199754038

Edition: 3rd 2013

Authors: Walter Willett

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This text is intended for those who wish to understand the complex relationships between diet and risks of important diseases, such as cancer and cardiovascular disease. It is aimed both at researchers engaged in the unraveling of these complex relationships and at readers of the rapidly multiplying and often confusing scholarly literature on the subject.The book starts with an overview of research strategies in nutritional epidemiology-still a relatively new discipline that combines the vast knowledge compiled by nutritionists during this century with the methodologies developed by epidemiologists to study the determinants of diseases with multiple etiologies and long latent periods. A…

Book details

List price: $100.00
Edition: 3rd
Copyright year: 2013
Publisher: Oxford University Press, Incorporated
Publication date: 11/29/2012
Binding: Hardcover
Pages: 528
Size: 7.40" wide x 10.00" long x 1.26" tall
Weight: 2.838
Language: English




Overview of Nutritional Epidemiology



Foods and Nutrients




Nature of Variation in Diet



24-Hour Recall and Diet Record Methods




Food Frequency Methods



Reproducibility and Validity of Food-Frequency Questionnaires




Recall of Remote Diet



Biochemical Indicators of Dietary Intake




Anthropometric Measures and Body Composition




Assessment of Physical Activity in Nutritional Epidemiology




Implications of Total Energy Intake for Epidemiologic Analyses



Correction for the Effects of Measurement Error



Issues in Analysis and Presentation of Dietary Data



Genetics in Dietary Analyses



Nutrition Monitoring and Surveillance




Policy Applications



Vitamin A and Lung Cancer




Dietary Fat and Breast Cancer



Diet and Coronary Heart Disease




Folic Acid and Neural Tube Defects




Future Research Directions


Index