Title Nutritional epidemiology / Walter Willett

Edition Third edition Published Oxford ; New York : Oxford University Press, [2013]

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Description 1 online resource (xi, 529 pages) : illustrations Series Monographs in epidemiology and biostatistics ; volume 40 Monographs in epidemiology and biostatistics ; v. 40. Contents Overview of nutritional epidemiology / Walter Willett -- Foods and nutrients / Walter Willett, Laura Sampson -- Nature of variation in diet / Walter Willett -- 24-hour recall and diet record methods / Tom Baranowski -- Food frequency methods / Walter Willett -- Reproducibility and validity of food-frequency questionnaires / Walter Willett, Elizabeth Lenart -- Recall of remote diet / Walter Willett -- Biochemical indicators of dietary intake / Rob M. Van Dam, David Hunter -- Anthropometric measures and body composition / Walter Willett, Frank Hu -- Assessment of physical activity in nutritional epidemiology / Frank Hu -- Implications of total energy intake for epidemiologic analyses / Walter Willett -- Correction for the effects of measurement error / Walter Willett -- Issues in analysis and presentation of dietary data / Walter Willett -- Genetics in dietary analyses / Walter Willett -- Nutrition monitoring and surveillance / Tim Byers, Rebecca L. Sedjo -- Policy applications / Walter Willett -- Vitamin A and lung cancer / Walter Willett, Graham Colditz -- Dietary fat and breast cancer / Walter Willett -- Diet and coronary heart disease / Walter Willett, Meir Stampfer -- Folic acid and neural tube defects / Walter Willett, Elizabeth Lenart -- Future research directions / Walter Willett Summary "This book is about the complex relationships between diet and risks of important diseases, such as cancer and cardiovascular disease. 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, the relationships of dietary factors to the incidence of lung and breast cancer, heart disease, and birth defects are examined in depth. This new edition, in addition to updating existing chapters, includes new chapters on assessment of physical activity, nutrition, and genetic epidemic ology, and the role of nutritional epidemiology in policy."--Provided by publisher Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index Notes Online resource; title from digital title page (Oxford Scholarship Online platform, viewed December 11, 2017) Subject Nutritionally induced diseases -- Epidemiology Diet in disease -- Research -- Methodology Nutrition surveys -- Methodology Nutrition -- Research -- Methodology Nutrition. Nutritional Physiological Phenomena Diet -- adverse effects Epidemiologic Methods Nutrition Nutrition -- Research -- Methodology Nutrition surveys -- Methodology Nutritionally induced diseases -- Epidemiology Form Electronic book ISBN 9780199979448 0199979448

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