.Question 1

What are focus areas of nutritional epidemiology?

Question 2

In an epidemiological context, what is the population at risk?

Question 3

In which one of the following circumstances will the prevalence of a disease in the population increase, all else being constant?

Question 4

Which of the following statements about exposures is true?

Question 5

Epidemiological measures of effect assess the _______ between an exposure and an outcome.

Question 6

It is possible to reduce (though not eliminate) information bias in assessment of dietary intake by

Question 7

In a cohort study, the risk ratio of developing diabetes was 0.86 when comparing consumers of tea (the exposed) to those who did not drink tea (the unexposed). Which one statement is correct?

Question 8

When epidemiologists judge the evidence to establish possible causes of a health outcome, they consider

Question 9

Randomised, controlled trials provide strong evidence that an observed effect is due to the intervention (the assigned exposure). One reason is because

Question 10

Confounding is a particular challenge in nutritional epidemiology because