Research strategies and the use of nutrient biomarkers in studies of diet and chronic disease

Public Health Nutrition

Volumn 5, Issue 6 A, 2002, Pages 977-984

  Prentice, Ross L ^a,b   Sugar, Elizabeth ^a,b   Wang, C Y ^a,b   Neuhouser, Marian ^a   Patterson, Ruth ^a,b  

^a Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF WASHINGTON   (United States)

Author keywords

Chronic disease; Dietary measurement error; Nutrient consumption biomarkers; Odds ratio; Research strategies; Systematic bias

Indexed keywords

BIOLOGICAL MARKER; FATTY ACID; NITROGEN; TRACE ELEMENT;

ANALYTIC METHOD; BREAST CANCER; CHRONIC DISEASE; COHORT ANALYSIS; COLON CANCER; COMPUTER SIMULATION; CONFERENCE PAPER; DATA ANALYSIS; DIET; ENERGY EXPENDITURE; FATTY ACID BLOOD LEVEL; FEMALE; FOOD INTAKE; HEALTH; HEALTH SURVEY; HUMAN; MEDICAL RESEARCH; METHODOLOGY; NITROGEN URINE LEVEL; NUTRIENT; POSTMENOPAUSE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RELIABILITY; RISK; SAMPLE; STATISTICAL MODEL; TYPES OF STUDY;

AGED; BIOLOGICAL MARKERS; CHRONIC DISEASE; DIET; FEMALE; HUMANS; LOGISTIC MODELS; MIDDLE AGED; NUTRITION PHYSIOLOGY; POSTMENOPAUSE; RESEARCH DESIGN;

EID: 0036930304     PISSN: 13689800     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1079/PHN2002382     Document Type: Conference Paper

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