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Handbook of Epidemiology

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Basic textbooks describing the field of nutritional epidemiology were available in the 1990s (Margetts and Nelson 1997; Willett 1998), and one of these (Willett 2013) has recently been updated. It is not the intention of this chapter to repeat all that is available in these textbooks but to highlight some key concepts and recent developments relevant to readers of a general epidemiology textbook.

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We would like to thank Dorothy Mackerras for her input to the previous chapter on Nutritional Epidemiology of this book. Some sections of this revised text are largely unchanged from the first edition.

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