Nutritional Epidemiology

by Willett, Walter

• ISBN13: 9780195122978
• ISBN10: 0195122976
• Edition: 2nd
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 1998-06-11
• Publisher: Oxford University Press

Summary

This guide is intended for those who wish to understand the complex relationships between diet and the major diseases of western civilization, such as cancer and atherosclerosis. It is aimed both at researchers engaged in the unraveling of these complex associations and at readers of therapidly multiplying and often confusing scholarly literature on the subject. The author starts with an overview of research strategies in nutritional epidemiology--a relatively new discipline which combines the knowledge compiled by nutritionists during this century with the methodology developed by epidemiologists to study the determinants of disease with multipleetiologies and long latent periods. A major part of the book is devoted to methods of dietary assessment using data on food intake, biochemical indicators of diet, and measures of body size and composition. The reproducibility and validity of each approach and the implications of measurement errorare considered in detail. The analysis, presentation, and interpretation of data from epidemiologic studies of diet and disease are discussed. Particular attention is paid to the important influence of total energy intake on findings in such studies. As examples of methodologic issues in nutritionalepidemiology, three substantive topics are examined in depth: the relations of diet and coronary heart disease, fat intake and breast cancer, and Vitamin A and lung cancer. This volume will benefit epidemiologists, nutritionists, dietitians, policy makers, public health practitioners, cancerresearchers and oncologists, and cardiovascular specialists.

Table of Contents

1. Overview of Nutritional Epidemiology	1	(17)
2. Foods and Nutrients	18	(15)
Walter Willet
I. Marilyn Buzzard
3. Nature of Variation in Diet	33	(17)
4. 24-Hour Dietary Recall and Food Record Methods	50	(24)
Marilyn Buzzard
5. Food Frequency Methods	74	(27)
6. Reproducibility and Validity of Food-Frequency Questionnaires	101	(47)
Walter Willett
Elizabeth Lenart
7. Recall of Remote Diet	148	(9)
8. Surrogate Sources of Dietary Information	157	(17)
Jonathan M. Samet
Anthony J. Alberg
9. Biochemical Indicators of Dietary Intake	174	(70)
David Hunter
10. Anthropometric Measures and Body Composition	244	(29)
11. Implications of Total Energy Intake for Epidemiologic Analysis	273	(29)
Walter Willett
Meir Stampfer
12. Correction for the Effects of Measurement Error	302	(19)
13. Issues in Analysis and Presentation of Dietary Data	321	(26)
14. Nutrition Monitoring and Surveillance	347	(10)
Tim Byers
15. Vitamin A and Lung Cancer	357	(20)
Walter Willett
Graham Colditz
16. Dietary Fat and Breast Cancer	377	(37)
17. Diet and Coronary Heart Disease	414	(53)
18. Folic Acid and Neural Tube Defects	467	(17)
19. Future Research Directions	484	(13)
Index	497