*Geek Box: Adjusting for Total Energy Intake in Epidemiology
*Geek Box: Adjusting for Total Energy Intake in Epidemiology Total energy intake is a critical factor to account for in any epidemiological analysis of diet...
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*Geek Box: Carotenoids
*Geek Box: Carotenoids Carotenoids are a dizzying group of compounds, with over 600 known in nature. Carotenoids are pigments, and the diversity in the chemical...
*Geek Box: Cohen’s d
*Geek Box: Cohen's d Measure of Effect Size The Cohen's d is a measure of effect size, most commonly used in behavioural science, for example...
*Geek Box: The Low-FODMAP Diet
*Geek Box: The Low FODMAP Diet The Low FODMAP Diet [LFD] is often referred to as a diet choice, the way an individual may adopt...
*Geek Box: Satiety
*Geek Box: Satiety Satiety is a complex phenomenon, and presents a number of challenges for research. Satiety has been defined as “the feeling of fullness...
*Geek Box: Origins of Liver Fat
*Geek Box: Pathways of Hepatic Fat In the fasted state, adipose tissue lipolysis (i.e., the breakdown of stored TGs and release of NEFA) constitutes the...
*Geek Box: DALYs
*Geek Box: Disability-Adjusted Life-Years [DALYs] While epidemiology tends to focus on 'hard' outcomes in terms of events, e.g., myocardial infarction or lung cancer, these events...
*Geek Box: Expressing Risk
*Geek Box: Odds Ratios, Relative Risk, & Hazard Ratios In epidemiology, the outcome of interest is typically a categorical event, for example 'cerebrovascular stroke' which...
*Geek Box: Arachidonic Acid
*Geek Box: Arachidonic Acid Poor arachidonic acid. This 20-carbon length long-chain fatty acid has the dubious distinction of having a final double-carbon bond 6th bonds...
*Geek Box: Lipoproteins and Cholesterol Pathways
*Geek Box: Lipoproteins & Pathways of Cholesterol Regulation There are a number of relevant measures for blood lipids which are useful in the overall risk...
*Geek Box: Cumulative Meta-Analysis
*Geek Box: Cumulative Meta-Analysis You'll be familiar with the concept of a meta-analysis, in which multiple studies are included and the results combined to obtain...
*Geek Box: Box Plots
*Geek Box: Interpreting Box Plots Boxplots may appear confusing, but in fact are easy - and very informative - when you know what you are...