Nutritional epidemiology [electronic resource] / Walter Willett. Willett, Walter. Nutritionally induced diseases Epidemiology. Diet in disease Research Methodology. Nutrition surveys Methodology. Nutrition Research Methodology. RA645.N87 W54 2013 614.5939 23 Includes bibliographical references and index. Description based on online resource; title from home page (viewed on Nov. 13, 2012). This title is about the complex relationships between diet and risks of important diseases, such as cancer and cardiovascular disease. It features 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. Oxford : Oxford University Press, 2013. 2013. 2013 Text 1 online resource : http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/acprof:oso/9780199754038.001.0001 eng Monographs in epidemiology and biostatistics ; v. 40 Monographs in epidemiology and biostatistics ; v. 40.