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EPID 6322 Nutritional Epidemiology


3 SCH. The overall purpose of this course is to introduce the methods and concepts involved in nutritional epidemiologic research. Topics that will be discussed in this course include the assessment on diet, physical activity and body composition, the reliability and validity of dietary assessment, advantage and disadvantage of different study designs in nutritional epidemiologic research, gene-nutrient interaction and the use of biomarkers, specific statistical issues involved in nutritional epidemiologic research, and the development of a research proposal on nutritional epidemiologic studies.
Prerequisite: Student must complete EPID 5300, BIOS 5300 and BIOS 5310 or obtain permission from the instructor.
Offered On Demand
Letter Grade