MEDI362 Lecture Notes - Lecture 9: Food Composition Data, Gastroenterology, Cohort Study

• School: UOW
• Department: Medical and Health Sciences
• Course: MEDI362
• Professor: Yasmin Probst

Document Summary

Understand a range of research paradigms which inform society on human nutrition. Identify the study designs and methods applied in various forms of nutrition research and discuss implications for the establishment of evidence based practice. Describe health outcome measures which are commonly used in nutrition research: need to make sure diet being analysed is analysed against data from same country. What is food composition: the science behind differentiation of the complicated matrix within food and beverages, a process involving the collation of comprehensive data sets has many considerations layered upon it inherent to its object of study. Interfaced with geography, geology, horticulture and physiology within the realm of analytical chemistry (data producers) Interfaced with epidemiology, psychology, gastroenterology, dietetics, public health, informatics (data users) Refresh: survey database, developed for analysis of survey e. g. ausnut, reference database, food composition derived from analysed values e. g. nuttab, ausnut/nuttab, where do all the numbers come from.