MNNE091p Nutritional epidemiology - lecture

Faculty of Medicine
autumn 2024

The course is not taught in autumn 2024

Extent and Intensity
1/0. 2 credit(s). Type of Completion: k (colloquium).
Teacher(s)
doc. MUDr. Jindřich Fiala, CSc. (lecturer)
Mgr. Jana Fialová, Ph.D. (lecturer)
Mgr. Martin Forejt, Ph.D. (lecturer)
prof. MUDr. Drahoslava Hrubá, CSc. (lecturer)
RNDr. Danuše Lefnerová, Ph.D. (lecturer)
MUDr. Veronika Mičulková, Ph.D. (lecturer)
Mgr. Aleš Peřina, Ph.D. (lecturer)
doc. MUDr. Jan Šimůnek, CSc. (lecturer)
Ing. Iva Šmídová, Ph.D. (lecturer)
MVDr. Halina Matějová (assistant)
Guaranteed by
doc. MUDr. Jindřich Fiala, CSc.
Department of Public Health – Theoretical Departments – Faculty of Medicine
Contact Person: MVDr. Halina Matějová
Supplier department: Department of Public Health – Theoretical Departments – Faculty of Medicine
Prerequisites (in Czech)
MNEM081p Epidemiologic Methology && MNBS081p Biostatistics
Course Enrolment Limitations
The course is only offered to the students of the study fields the course is directly associated with.
fields of study / plans the course is directly associated with
Course objectives
Nutritional epidemiology focuses on the relationship between nutrition and the incidence of disease. The basic starting point is a good deal with the general principles of epidemiological studies, which further develops the specific methodological approaches for the evaluation of the various parameters of the diet and nutrition. The specific result of the use of adequate methodological approaches is then the evaluation of the relationship of nutrition to the risk to the most specific groups of diseases such as cardiovascular diseases, cancer, diabetes, osteoporosis, and more, and the ability to define the relevant risk and protective factors according to the current state of knowledge. In the context of mastering the subject we assume knowledge of all the essential theoretical principles, and also practical mastery of the methodology regarding the individual evaluation of nutrition, in particular, within the meaning of anamnestic methods of evaluating the characteristics of the diet, but also the methods of evaluation of nutritional status.
Syllabus
  • 1) Introduction to nutritional epidemiology: what is the nutritional epidemiology and the scope, historical development, and knowledge, the current nutritional epidemiology-overview of the extent, scope and methodology of focus, the current guidelines and objectives. Typical nutritionally-epidemiological problems in history and now. 2) The basic components of nutrition (diet, foods, nutrients, other components of different origin), the sources of variation in animal nutrition. The complexity of the nutrition factors, risk and protective factors. 3) Key features of epidemiological studies: types of their layout (design), methods of exposure assessment, analysis and interpretation of data, the factors of the quality and validity. 4) A comprehensive overview of the possible ways of obtaining information relating to human nutrition. Group and individual nutritional evaluation, focused on the composition of the diet, the anthropometric, laboratory and clinical consequences. Overview of the possible ways of obtaining data on the occurrence of diseases. 5) Dietary assessment: Retrospective methods: Food frequency questionnaire, recall, nutritional habits, preferences, nutritional history, combined and brief methods. Prospective methods: One or more days record. The realistically available nutritional software and its practical use. 6) Anthropometric methods, and the indicators of nutritional status 7) The importance of energy in nutritional epidemiology. Energy intake and expenditure, energy metabolism. The importance of physical activity. Physical activity assessment. 8) Biochemical indicators of nutritional status 9) Alcohol 10) Nutrition and cardiovascular disease 11) Diet and cancer 12) Nutritional epidemiology and dietary guidelines.
Literature
    required literature
  • MÜLLEROVÁ, Dana. Hygiena, preventivní lékařství a veřejné zdravotnictví. 1. vydání. Praha: Karolinum, 2014, 254 stran. ISBN 9788024625102. info
  • WILLETT, Walter. Nutritional epidemiology. 3rd ed. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2013, ix, 529. ISBN 9780199754038. info
    recommended literature
  • KUDLOVÁ, Eva. Hygiena výživy a nutriční epidemiologie. 1. vyd. Praha: Karolinum, 2009, 287 s. ISBN 9788024617350. info
  • ŠEJDA, Jan, Zdeněk ŠMERHOVSKÝ and Dana GÖPFERTOVÁ. Výkladový slovník epidemiologické terminologie. Vyd. 1. Praha: Grada Publishing, 2005, 120 s. ISBN 8024710684. info
  • Manuál prevence v lékařské praxi. Edited by Kamil Provazník - Lumír Komárek. 1. vyd. Praha: Státní zdravotní ústav, 2001, 63 s. ISBN 8070711949. info
  • JANOUT, Vladimír. Klinická epidemiologie - nedílná součást klinických rozhodovacích procesů. Vyd. 1. Praha: Grada, 1998, 145 s. ISBN 8071693537. info
Bookmarks
https://is.muni.cz/ln/tag/LF:MNNE091p!
Teaching methods
lecture
Assessment methods
colloquium
Language of instruction
Czech
The course is also listed under the following terms Autumn 2011, Autumn 2012, Autumn 2013.
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