Dietary Patterns Methods Project: Systematic Analyses of Index-Based Dietary Patterns and the Associations with Mortality

Nutritional Epidemiology RIS

Saturday, April 26, 2014
10:30 AM–12:30 PM

Chairs

Jill Reedy, PhD, MPH, RD, National Cancer Institute

Presentations

  • NIH-AARP diet and health study: A comparison of diet quality indices with mortality outcomes in older US adults.  Jill Reedy, PhD, MPH, RD, National Cancer Institute, Bethesda, MD  
  • The multiethnic cohort: Analyzing dietary patterns and mortality in diverse ethnic populations.  Carol Boushey, PhD, MPH, RD, University of Hawaii Cancer Center , Honolulu, HI 
  • Women’s health initiative: Does diet qualityinfluence death from diet-related chronic diseases in postmenopausal women?  Stephanie George, PhD, MPH, MA, National Cancer Institute, Bethesda, MD  
  • Synthesis of findings across cohorts: Relevance for dietary guidance.  Angela Liese, PhD, MPH, Arnold School of Public Health, University of South Carolina, Columbia, SC