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Author Willett, Walter

Title Nutritional epidemiology / Walter Willett
Edition 2nd ed
Published New York : Oxford University Press, 1998

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Description 1 online resource (xiv, 514 pages) : illustrations
Series Monographs in epidemiology and biostatistics ; 30
Monographs in epidemiology and biostatistics ; 30.
Contents Foods and nutrients / Walter Willet and I. Marilyn Buzzard -- Nature of variation in diet -- 24-hour dietary recall and food record methods / Buzzard -- Food frequency methods -- Reproducibility and validity of food-frequency questionnaires / Willett and Elizabeth Lenart -- Recall of remote of diet -- Surrogate sources of dietary information / Jonathan M. Samet and Anthony J. Alberg -- Biochemical indicators of dietary intake / David Hunter -- Anthropometric measures and body composition -- Implications of total energy intake for epidemiologic analysis / Willett and Meir Stampfer -- Correction for the effects of measurement error -- Issues in analysis and presentation of dietary data -- Nutrition monitoring and surveillance / Tim Byers -- Vitamin A and lung cancer / Willett and Graham Colditz -- Dietary fat and breast cancer -- Diet and coronary heart disease -- Folic acid and neural tube defects -- Future research directions
Summary The complex relationships between diet and the major diseases of western civilization are the subject of this volume. It is aimed both at researchers and general readers of the often confusing scholarly literature on the subject
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index
Subject Nutritionally induced diseases -- Epidemiology
Diet in disease -- Research -- Methodology
Nutrition surveys -- Methodology
Nutrition -- Research -- Methodology
Diet in disease.
Nutrition.
Diet
Epidemiologic Methods
Investigative Techniques
Nutritional Physiological Phenomena
Analytical, Diagnostic and Therapeutic Techniques and Equipment
Physiological Phenomena
Phenomena and Processes
Nutrition
Diet in disease
Nutrition -- Research -- Methodology
Nutrition surveys -- Methodology
Nutritionally induced diseases -- Epidemiology
Form Electronic book
ISBN 0195122976
9780195122978
9780199864249
0199864241
ABBREV TI Nutritional epidemiology