Dietary epidemiology has been highly successful in identifying the responsible agent in many diseases, including scurvy, pellagra, blindness, and spinal bifida. Case-control, cohort, and ecologic observational studies have consistently associated increased consumption of fruits and vegetables with a decreased risk for a wide variety of epithelial cancers and, in many cases, specific dietary com...

This issue of the Journal features a diverse set of papers on dietary epidemiology. Although these papers might not help us decide which party buffet items to select in the coming days of the holiday food season, they do represent a cross section of the current status of the field of dietary epidemiology. This field includes a rapidly growing number of studies using variations of the food frequ...

Justin E. Harbison, Lara R. Dugas, William Brieger, Bamidele O. Tayo, Tunrayo Alabi, Dale A. Schoeller, and Amy Luke Division of Epidemiology, Department of Public Health Sciences, Loyola University School of Medicine, Maywood Illinois; Department of International Health, Bloomberg School of Public Health, John Hopkins University, Baltimore Maryland; Geospatial Laboratory, Research for Developm...

Several aspects of IBD overlap between pediatric and adult population. Those include nutritional issues, bone density, and medical and surgical therapies. Some aspects like natural course of the disease, and epidemiology and genetics are more easily examined and researched in the pediatric population. Others like pubertal and growth delay, and transition of health care are unique to pediatric p...

targets the taurine:pyruvateaminotransferase gene Heike Laue, Theo H. M. Smits, Ulrike K. Schumacher, Marina C. Claros, Ralf Hartemink & Alasdair M. Cook Department of Biological Sciences, University of Konstanz, Konstanz, Germany; Institute for Medical Microbiology & Hygiene, EberhardKarls-University, Tübingen, Germany; Institute of Medical Microbiology and Infectious Epidemiology, University ...

Justin E. Harbison, Lara R. Dugas, William Brieger, Bamidele O. Tayo, Tunrayo Alabi, Dale A. Schoeller, and Amy Luke Division of Epidemiology, Department of Public Health Sciences, Loyola University School of Medicine, Maywood Illinois; Department of International Health, Bloomberg School of Public Health, John Hopkins University, Baltimore Maryland; Geospatial Laboratory, Research for Developm...

1.Area on Community Health System Research, National Institute of Public Health, Wako, Japan 2.Department of Nutritional Epidemiology, National Institute of Health and Nutrition, Shinjuku, Japan 3.Department of Health Promotion, National Institute of Public Health, Wako-shi, Japan 4.Department of Medical Subspecialties, National Center for Child Health and Development, Setagaya-ku, Japan 5.Tana...

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