Epidemiologic Approaches to Evaluation of Nutrition and Health

Present Knowledge in Nutrition: Tenth Edition

Volumn , Issue , 2012, Pages 1071-1081

  Steck, Susan E ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SOUTH CAROLINA   (United States)

Author keywords

Case control study, observational study in epidemiology; Diet and disease relationship, multiple epidemiologic study designs; Diet, exposure and populations, consuming dietary factors; Enhancing dietary measurement, epidemiologic studies of nutrition and health; Epidemiologic approaches, for nutrition, health evaluation; Epidemiologic study design challenges, and limitations; Epidemiology, occurrence and distribution of health related states; Nutritional epidemiology, dietary intake and nutritional status; Timing of dietary exposure, crucial

Indexed keywords

EID: 84886966188     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book    
DOI: 10.1002/9781119946045.ch63     Document Type: Chapter

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