Severe iodine deficiency was the main cause of endemic goiter and cretinism. Most of the previously iodine-deficient areas are now supplemented, mainly with iodized salt. The geographical distribution of severe endemic areas has been progressively reduced, and at present, approximately 200 million people living in remote places are still at risk of severe iodine deficiency. International public...

We consider some of the earlier work and some recent results on diet and cancer (since the 2007 WCRF/AICR report on Diet and Cancer), discuss challenges facing nutritional cancer epidemiology, and consider the field from the perspective of the need to apply what we know in cancer control. We highlight 2 current difficulties; first, we are uncertain on the stage of carcinogenesis on which many n...

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...

Age-sex specific ranges of platelet count and all-cause mortality: prospective findings from the MOLI-SANI study Marialaura Bonaccio*, Augusto Di Castelnuovo , Simona Costanzo, Amalia De Curtis, Maria Benedetta Donati, Chiara Cerletti, Giovanni de Gaetano, Licia Iacoviello, on behalf of the Moli-sani Investigators**. Authors’ affiliation Department of Epidemiology and Prevention, IRCCS Istituto...

3 Mathilde Touvier, Doris SM Chan, Rosa Lau, Dagfinn Aune, Rui Vieira, Darren C Greenwood, 4 Ellen Kampman, Elio Riboli, Serge Hercberg, Teresa Norat 5 Affiliations: 6 1 Department of Epidemiology and Biostatistics, School of public health, Imperial College London, 7 United Kingdom 8 2 Nutritional Epidemiology Unit, UREN (Inserm/Inra/Cnam/Paris13 University), CRNH IdF, Bobigny, 9 France 10 3 Bi...

Urinary biomarkers of meat consumption 1 2 3 Amanda J. Cross, Jacqueline M. Major, Rashmi Sinha 4 5 Author affiliations: Nutritional Epidemiology Branch, Division of Cancer Epidemiology and 6 Genetics (DCEG), National Cancer Institute (NCI), National Institutes of Health (NIH), 7 Department of Health and Human Services (DHHS), Rockville, MD. 8 9 Corresponding author: Amanda J. Cross, Division o...

3 Mathilde Touvier, Doris SM Chan, Rosa Lau, Dagfinn Aune, Rui Vieira, Darren C Greenwood, 4 Ellen Kampman, Elio Riboli, Serge Hercberg, Teresa Norat 5 Affiliations: 6 1 Department of Epidemiology and Biostatistics, School of public health, Imperial College London, 7 United Kingdom 8 2 Nutritional Epidemiology Unit, UREN (Inserm/Inra/Cnam/Paris13 University), CRNH IdF, Bobigny, 9 France 10 3 Bi...

The Korean Society of Epidemiology publishes a scholarly journal titled 'Korean Journal of Epidemiology', which announces and discusses the results of epidemiological studies from the past 30 yr. Since its first publication in 1979, the journal has contributed to the advancement of epidemiology as well as the prevention and control of disease, and the promotion of health in Korea.In 2009, the e...