Satellite Meeting: Statistical Methods in Nutritional Epidemiology
Friday June 19, 2015
Satellite Meeting, related to EXPO 2015, on Methods in Nutritional Epidemiology
The Satellite Meeting will take place at:
University of Milan
Napoleonic Hall
Via Sant'Antonio 10
Milano
The meeting focus will be on recent developments in nutritional epidemiology, including issues in dietary assessment, the role of microbiota and the problems related to prevention policy related
to epidemiological evidences. The workshop includes a round table devoted to informal discussion of issues or problems that workshop participants have experienced in conducting their own research
or analyses.
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Chairs: Adriano Decarli and Carlo La Vecchia, Dept. of Clinical Sciences and Community Health, UNIMI |
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09:30
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The VIDAL Trial: a cluster randomised comparison of open v. placebo-controlled allocation of high-dose vitamin D in healthy adults. Julian Peto, Department of Non-Communicable Disease Epidemiology, London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine, London, UK. |
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09:55
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Are complex models in nutritional epidemiology always worth the trouble? Pietro B. Ferrari, Nutrition and Metabolism Section, IARC, Lyon, France. |
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10:20
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More than just hazard ratios: using flexible parametric survival models to comprehensively investigate associations in prospective cohort studies. David C. Muller, Genetic Epidemiology Group, IARC, Lyon, France. |
| 10:45 | The effect of diet on human milk composition – is it relevant for public health? Frank Wiens, Nutricia Research, Utrecht, Netherlands. |
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11:10
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Statistical methods to assess the association between food intake and childhood obesity. Iris Pigeot-Kübler, Leibniz-Institut für Präventionsforschung und Epidemiologie, Bremen, Germany. |
| 11:35 | Nutritional epidemiology of cancer in case-control studies: from dietary assessment to a metagenomics approach. Marta Rossi, DISCCO, UNIMI |
| 12:00 | The hygiene hypothesis revisited: Role of Microbiota and Mycobiota in Immune regulation. Duccio Cavalieri, Mach Foundation, S.Michele all’ Adige (TN), Italy |
| 12:30 | Lunch Break |
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14:00 - 16:30 |
Round Table
In an integrated picture of different points of view, the speakers will bring to the attention of the participants their ideas on the available evidence on healthy dietary habits and on the open issues that researchers need to address for a deeper understanding of the relationship between foods, nutrients and health.
Chairs: Franco Berrino, IRCCS-INT Foundation, Milan, Italy and Hanno Ulmer, Department of Medical Statistics, Informatics and Health Economics, Innsbruck Medical University.
Speakers:
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