Design concepts in nutritional epidemiology /

Bibliographic Details
Other Authors:	Margetts, Barrie M. (Editor), Nelson, Michael (Nutritionist) (Editor)
Format:	eBook
Language:	English
Published:	Oxford : New York : Oxford University Press Inc., 1997
Edition:	Second edition
Series:	Oxford medical publications.
Subjects:	Nutritionally induced diseases > Epidemiology. Nutrition. Nutritional Physiological Phenomena Epidemiologic Methods Nutrition Disorders > epidemiology Nutrition Surveys Research Design Maladies d'origine nutritionnelle > Épidémiologie. Nutrition Nutritionally induced diseases > Epidemiology Electronic books.
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Table of Contents:

Scientific concepts underlying study design
Overview of the principles of nutritional epidemiology
Design, planning, and evaluation of nutritional epidemiological studies
Sampling, study size, and power
Covariate measurement errors in nutritional epidemiology: effects and remedies
Measurement of exposure and outcome
Food consumption, nutrient intake, and the use of food composition tables
Assessment of food consumption and nutrient intake
Biochemical markers of nutrient intake
Validation of dietary assessment
Socio-demographic and psycho-social variables
Anthropometric measures
Gene-nutrient interactions in nutritional epidemiology
Design of nutritional epidemiological studies
Ecological studies
Cross-sectional studies
Cohort studies
Case-control studies
Experimental studies: clinical trials, field trials, community trials, and intervention studies.