EDITORIAL article Front. Nutr., 19 September 2023Sec. Nutritional Epidemiology Volume 10 - 2023 | https://doi.org/10.3389/fnut.2023.1283108

EDITORIAL article Front. Nutr., 18 July 2023Sec. Nutritional Epidemiology Volume 10 - 2023 | https://doi.org/10.3389/fnut.2023.1231977

Clinical epidemiology versus public health epidemiology Epidemiology is growing, and so is the need for developing subspecialties. One subspecialty which has achieved a certain prominence is clinical epidemiology. The term had already been coined in 1938,1 and although it has many different interpretations,2 the growing number of textbooks providing an introduction to the area shows that it has...

EDITORIAL article Front. Nutr., 10 July 2023Sec. Nutritional Epidemiology Volume - 2023 | https://doi.org/10.3389/fnut.2023.1235752

We propose a semiparametric Bayesian method for handling measurement error in nutritional epidemiological data. Our goal is to estimate nonparametrically the form of association between a disease and exposure variable while the true values of the exposure are never observed. Motivated by nutritional epidemiological data, we consider the setting where a surrogate covariate is recorded in the pri...

INTRODUCTION Epidemiological research has been adhering to new technologies, such as computer systems, and using the Internet as a tool. Usability is a characteristic of a specific product concerning the facility to use it, its speed and the facility to learn how to use it. It should also not present errors, or these must be easy to solve, in case they occur, thus providing high satisfaction to...

Within the EURopean micronutrient RECommendations Aligned Network of Excellence (EURRECA), a scoring system was developed to assess the quality of dietary intake validation studies. The scoring system included three steps. The first step was to give each study a quality score, which included five components: sample size, statistics used, data collection procedure, consideration of seasonality a...

With the advent of Internet-based 24-hour recall (24HR) instruments, it is now possible to envision their use in cohort studies investigating the relation between nutrition and disease. Understanding that all dietary assessment instruments are subject to measurement errors and correcting for them under the assumption that the 24HR is unbiased for usual intake, here the authors simultaneously ad...

Paul C. Turner*, Elizabeth F. Taylor, Kay L. M. White, Janet E. Cade and Christopher P. Wild Molecular Epidemiology Unit, Centre for Epidemiology and Biostatistics, Leeds Institute of Genetics, Health and Therapeutics, University of Leeds, Leeds LS2 9JT, UK Nutritional Epidemiology Group, Centre for Epidemiology and Biostatistics, Leeds Institute of Genetics, Health and Therapeutics, University...