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(2013), "Nutritional Epidemiology Third Edition", International Journal of Health Care Quality Assurance, Vol. 26 No. 3. https://doi.org/10.1108/ijhcqa.2013.06226caa.014
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:Emerald Group Publishing Limited
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Nutritional Epidemiology Third Edition
Nutritional Epidemiology Third Edition
Article Type: Recent publications From: International Journal of Health Care Quality Assurance, Volume 26, Issue 3
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Walter WillettOUP USA29 November 2012ISBN 978-0-19-975403-8
Keywords: Diet and risk of disease, Nutritional epidemiology and medical reseach, Methodological issues in nutritional epidemiology
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 major section is devoted to the methods of dietary assessment using data on food intake, biochemical indicators of diet, and measures of body composition and size. The reproducibility and validity of each approach and the implications of measurement error are considered in detail. The analysis, presentation, and interpretation of data from epidemiologic studies of diet and disease are explored in depth. Particular attention is paid to the important influence of total energy intake on findings in such studies. To illustrate methodological issues in nutritional epidemiology, relationships of dietary factors to the incidence of lung and breast cancer, heart disease, and birth defects are examined in depth.
Contents include:
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Overview of nutritional epidemiology.
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Foods and nutrients.
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Nature of variation in diet.
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24-hour recall and diet record methods.
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Food frequency methods.
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Reproducibility and validity of food-frequency questionnaires.
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Recall of remote diet.
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Biochemical indicators of dietary intake.
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Anthropometric measures and body composition.
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Assessment of physical activity in nutritional epidemiology.
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Implications of total energy intake for epidemiologic analyses.
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Correction for the effects of measurement error.
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Issues in analysis and presentation of dietary data.
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Genetics in dietary analyses.
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Nutrition monitoring and surveillance.
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Policy applications.
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Vitamin A and lung cancer.
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Dietary fat and breast cancer.
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Diet and coronary heart disease.
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Folic acid and neural tube defects.
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Future research directions.