Nutritional epidemiology

by Willett, Walter

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Title Statements

Full title :Nutritional epidemiology / Walter Willett.

Summary

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. -- Publisher.

Edition Statements

Publication Date:©2013.
Edition:3rd ed

Publication Statements

Publisher(s):Oxford University Press
Place of Publication:New York
Language:eng
Publication Date:©2013.

The Physical Object

Description:ix, 529 pages : : illustrations ; : 26 cm.

Edition Identifiers

ISBN:9780199754038, 0199754039
oclc:ocn819848005
LC Classification:RA645.N87
Dewey Decimal:614.5/939

Overview of nutritional epidemiology -- Foods and nutrients / Walter Willett and Laura Sampson -- Nature of variation in diet -- 24-hour recall and diet record methods / Tom Baranowski -- Food frequency methods -- Reproducibility and validity of food-frequency questionnaires / Walter Willett and Elizabeth Lenart -- Recall of remote diet -- Biochemical indicators of dietary intake / Rob M. Van Dam and David Hunter -- Anthropometric measures and body composition / Walter Willett and Frank Hu -- Assessment of physical activity in nutritional epidemiology / Frank Hu -- 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 / Tim Byers and Rebecca L. Sedjo -- Policy applications -- Vitamin A and lung cancer / Walter Willett and Graham Colditz -- Dietary fat and breast cancer -- Diet and coronary heart disease / Walter Willett and Meir Stampfer -- Folic acid and neural tube defects / Walter Willett and Elizabeth Lenart -- Future research directions.

Subjects

Diet -- adverse effects Diet in disease -- Research Epidemiologic Methods Maladies d'origine nutritionnelle Maladies d'origine nutritionnelle -- Ép… NUTRITION Nutrition -- Research Nutrition surveys -- Methodology Nutritional Physiological Phenomena Nutritionally induced diseases Nutritionally induced diseases -- Epide… Régimes alimentaires -- Recherche