Dear all,
We hope you can join us this Wednesday, February 27, 2013 from 12.00 - 1.30
pm in CGIS Knafel Room 354 for the Applied Statistics Workshop. Dariush
Mozaffarian <http://www.hsph.harvard.edu/dariush-mozaffarian/>, Associate
Professor in the Department of Epidemiology at the Harvard School of Public
Health, will give a presentation entitled "Estimating the Global Impact of
Poor Dietary Habits on Chronic Diseases". A light lunch will be served at
12 pm and the talk will begin at 12.15.
Abstract:
Nearly every nation in the world is undergoing rapid
epidemiologic
transition toward noncommunicable chronic diseases (NCDs) including
cardiovascular disease (CVD), obesity, diabetes, and cancers. Numerous
organizations including the United Nations, World Health Organization, US
Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, and other national and
international organizations have emphasized the importance of dietary
habits as a key risk factor for NCDs. Yet, the burdens of suboptimal
dietary habits on NCDs globally, as well as heterogeneity in these burdens
by region, country, age, and sex, are not established. Quantification of
these burdens has been limited by inadequate or absent data on dietary
habits in many nations, not only for each country as a whole, but also for
age- and sex-specific strata. As part of our work in the 2010 Global Burden
of Diseases Nutrition and Chronic Diseases Group, we systematically
identified and obtained data on national and subnational individual-level
surveys of dietary consumption worldwide; and used a Bayesian hierarchical
model to evaluate and account for differences in comparability, assessment
methods, representativeness, and missingness. We also quantified effects of
dietary habits on NCDs, including differences by age, in new meta-analyses.
We compiled additional data to quantify the alternative optimal
distribution of key dietary risk factors, and the numbers of cause-specific
deaths by country, age, and sex. Using this compilation of global data, we
used comparative risk assessment to quantify the impacts of current dietary
habits on NCDs in each nation around the world. The case of sugar-sweetened
beverages (SSBs) and CVD, adiposity-related cancers, and diabetes will be
presented as an example of our newest findings.
An up-to-date schedule for the workshop is available at
http://events.iq.harvard.edu/events/node/1208.
Best,
Konstantin
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Konstantin Kashin
Ph.D. Candidate in Government
Harvard University
Mobile: 978-844-0538
E-mail: kkashin(a)fas.harvard.edu
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