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Oxford Nutritional Epidemiology 2012 Edition by Walter Willett
This text is intended for those who wish to understand the
complex relationships between diet and risks of important diseases, such as
cancer and cardiovascular disease. It is aimed both at researchers engaged in
the unraveling of these complex relationships and at readers of the rapidly
multiplying and often confusing scholarly literature on the subject. 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 andsize. 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 importantinfluence 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. The
first edition of Nutritional Epidemiology, published in 1989, was widely
praised and quickly established itself as the standard reference in this field.
The second edition, published in 1998, added new chapters on the analysis and
presentation of dietary data, nutritional surveillance, and folic acid and
neural tube defects. This new edition, in addition to substantial updating of
existing chapters, includes new chapters on assessment of physical activity,
nutrition and geneticepidemiology, and the role of nutritional epidemiology in
policy. This book will benefit epidemiologists, nutritionists, dietitians,
policy makers, public health practitioners, oncologists, and cardiovascular and
other clinical specialists.
Table of Contents :-
1. Overview of Nutritional Epidemiology 2. Foods and Nutrients Walter C. Willett and Laura Sampson 3. Nature of Variation in Diet 4. 24-Hour Recall and Diet Record Methods Tom Baranowski 5. Food Frequency Methods 6. Reproducibility and Validity of
Food-Frequency Questionnaires Walter
Willett and Elizabeth Lenart 7. Recall
of Remote Diet 8. Biochemical Indicators
of Dietary Intake Rob M. Van Dam and
David Hunter 9. Anthropometric Measures
and Body Composition Walter Willett and
Frank Hu 10. Assessment of Physical
Activity in Nutritional Epidemiology Frank Hu 11. Implications of Total Energy Intake for
Epidemiologic Analyses 12. Correction
for the Effects of Measurement Error 13.
Issues in Analysis and Presentation of Dietary Data 14. Genetics in Dietary Analyses 15. Nutrition Monitoring and Surveillance Tim Byers and Rebecca L. Sedjo 16. Policy Applications 17. Vitamin A and Lung Cancer Walter Willett and Graham Colditz 18. Dietary Fat and Breast Cancer 19. Diet and Coronary Heart Disease 20. Folic Acid and Neural Tube Defects Walter C. Willett and Elizabeth Lenart 21. Future Research Directions Index