MNNE081p Nutritional epidemiology - lecture

Faculty of Medicine
spring 2025
Extent and Intensity
1/0/0. 1 credit(s). Type of Completion: k (colloquium).
Taught in person.
Teacher(s)
prof. MUDr. Bc. Zuzana Derflerová Brázdová, DrSc. (lecturer)
doc. MUDr. Jindřich Fiala, CSc. (lecturer)
Mgr. Eliška Hrežová (lecturer)
Mgr. Kamila Jančeková, Ph.D. (lecturer)
doc. MUDr. Jana Janoutová, Ph.D. (lecturer)
doc. MUDr. Petr Kachlík, Ph.D. (lecturer)
Mgr. Aleš Peřina, Ph.D. (lecturer)
Mgr. Bc. Tomáš Pruša (lecturer)
RNDr. Ondřej Zvěřina, Ph.D. (lecturer)
MVDr. Halina Matějová (assistant)
Ing. Kateřina Novohradská (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)
MNAB0711s Applied biochemistry
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.
Learning outcomes
Student will be able to: - Know and practice the nutrition epidemiology methodology - to assess the nutrition-epidemiological relationship between nutrition and health, overall and in individual aspects. - Critically evaluate the relationship between nutrition and health, to know possible errors and causality issues.
Syllabus
  • 1) Nutritional epidemiology as a field, focus, objectives, main methods. Alcohol. Assignments for individual nutritional epidemiological studies
  • 2) Influence of nutrition on the risk of cardiovascular and cancer diseases
  • 3) Errors in determining energy and nutrient intake
  • 4) Methods for assessing the relationship between nutrition and health - I
  • 5) Methods for assessing the relationship between nutrition and health - II
  • 6) Examples of nutritional-epidemiological assessment of biological harms
  • 7) Epi-info - Nutritional epidemiological data processing
  • 8) Design, use and pitfalls of questionnaire I
  • 9) Biomarkers for assessing the relationship between nutrition and health
  • 10) Development, use and pitfalls of the questionnaire II
  • 11) Overview of the main errors and sources of inaccuracy in nutritional epidemiological assessments
  • 12) Dietary fibre as a nutritional epidemiological problem
  • 13) Results of individual nutritional epidemiological studies
Literature
    required literature
  • Prezentace vyučujících – texty – v interaktivní osnově pro jednotlivá témata.
    not specified
  • WILLETT, Walter. Nutritional epidemiology. 3rd ed. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2013, ix, 529. ISBN 9780199754038. info
  • JANOUT, Vladimír and Jana JANOUTOVÁ. Medicína založená na důkazu a klinická epidemiologie. 1. vydání. Praha: Grada Publishing, 2021, 199 stran. ISBN 9788027130764. info
  • KUDLOVÁ, Eva. Hygiena výživy a nutriční epidemiologie. 1. vyd. Praha: Karolinum, 2009, 287 s. ISBN 9788024617350. info
  • Zadák Z, Květina J et al.: Metodologie předklinického a klinického výzkumu. 325s. Galén 2011, ISBN 978-80-7262-748-6
  • ŠEJDA, Jan, Zdeněk ŠMERHOVSKÝ and Dana GÖPFERTOVÁ. Výkladový slovník epidemiologické terminologie. Vyd. 1. Praha: Grada Publishing, 2005, 120 s. ISBN 8024710684. info
Bookmarks
https://is.muni.cz/ln/tag/LF:MNNE081p!
Teaching methods
lecture
Assessment methods
Written test, with choice of answers. More than half must be correct answers.
Language of instruction
Czech
Further comments (probably available only in Czech)
Information on the extent and intensity of the course: 15.
The course is also listed under the following terms Spring 2014, Spring 2015, Spring 2016, Spring 2017, Spring 2018, spring 2019, spring 2020, spring 2021, spring 2022, spring 2023, spring 2024.
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