UK Nutritional Epidemiology Group guidelines

UK ENCAPSULATING PERITONEAL SCLEROSIS CLINICAL PRACTICE GUIDELINES JULY 2009 Produced by UK EPS Clinical Guidelines Group

Graham Woodrow (Chair) Renal Physician, St James’s University Hospital, Leeds Titus Augustine Consultant Surgeon, Manchester Royal Infirmary Edwina A Brown Renal Physician, Imperial College Kidney and Transplant Unit, Hammersmith Hospital Mark Cowling Consultant Radiologist, North Staffordshire University Hospitals Nevine El-Sherbini Renal Dietitian, Imperial College Kidney and Transplant Unit,...

Biomarkers: background, classification and guidelines for applications in nutritional epidemiology.

One of the main problems in nutritional epidemiology is to assess food intake as well as nutrient/food component intake to a high level of validity and reliability. To help in this process, the need to have good biomarkers that more objectively allow us to evaluate the diet consumed in a more standardized, valid and precise way has often been commented upon. There are various definitions of bio...

Nutritional epidemiology

Nutritional Epidemiology

Biomarkers in nutritional epidemiology.

OBJECTIVE To illustrate biomarkers of diet that can be used to validate estimates of dietary intake in the study of gene-environment interactions in complex diseases. DESIGN Prospective cohort studies, studies of biomarkers where diet is carefully controlled. SETTING Free-living individuals, volunteers in metabolic suites. SUBJECTS Male and female human volunteers. RESULTS Recent studie...