Nutritional Epidemiology
ISBN: 9780199754038 | 0199754039
Edition: 3rdFormat: Hardcover
Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
Pub. Date: 11/7/2012
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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 cen... MORE
| 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 | ... MORE |
| 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 | |
| Table of Contents provided by Publisher. All Rights Reserved. |
Walter Willett, MD, DrPH, is the Stare Professor of Epidemiology and Nutrition and Chair of the Department of Nutrition at the Harvard School of Public Health.
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