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The Development of Modern Epidemiology$
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Walter W. Holland, Jørn Olsen, and Charles du V. Florey

Print publication date: 2007

Print ISBN-13: 9780198569541

Published to Oxford Scholarship Online: September 2009

DOI: 10.1093/acprof:oso/9780198569541.001.0001

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Nutritional epidemiology

Chapter:
(p. 219 ) 19 Nutritional epidemiology
Source:
The Development of Modern Epidemiology
Author(s):

Basil S. Hetzel

Publisher:
Oxford University Press
DOI:10.1093/acprof:oso/9780198569541.003.0019

This chapter on nutritional epidemiology illustrates the application of epidemiology to two conditions. One is associated with undernutrition — the relation of iodine deficiency to fetal brain damage. The other is associated with overnutrition — the fall in mortality due to coronary heart disease.

Keywords:   nutrition, undernutrition, overnutrition, mortality, iodine deficiency, fetal brain damage, heart disease

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