Nutritional epidemiology
Willett, WalterAuthor
Oxford : Oxford University Press,
2013.
This title is about the complex relationships between diet and risks of important diseases, such as cancer and cardiovascular disease. It features 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.
Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph
This title is about the complex relationships between diet and risks of important diseases, such as cancer and cardiovascular disease. It features 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.
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Description based on online resource; title from home page (viewed on Nov. 13, 2012).
Physiological Phenomena
Investigative Techniques
Public Health
Analytical, Diagnostic and Therapeutic Techniques and Equipment
Environment and Public Health
Phenomena and Processes
Health Care
Nutritional Physiological Phenomena
Diet
Epidemiologic Methods
Public Health
Health & Biological Sciences
Public Health - General
Dieta
Dietoteràpia
Epidemiologia