Introduction
This week’s paper comes from a inhabitants research however it’s not from the generally used US Nurses’ Well being Examine and the US Well being Professionals Comply with-Up Examine. It’s from the French NutriNet-Santé research, which has centered on the examination and reporting of processed meals. This makes the research an necessary one within the discipline of dietary epidemiology. Dietary epidemiology has many limitations: affiliation, not causation; relative not absolute threat; and the wholesome particular person confounder being the main ones. Older research, such because the US Nurses’ Well being Examine and the US Well being Professionals Comply with-Up Examine, suffered far larger dietary questionnaire limitations and so they are likely to have been used for single meals e.g., crimson meat, entire grains. Examination of a complete group of meals – processed meals – could elicit some fascinating outcomes.
This newest output from the NutriNet-Santé research examined the affiliation between synthetic sweeteners and incidence of most cancers. The paper was written by Debras et al and it was known as “Synthetic sweeteners and most cancers threat: Outcomes from the NutriNet-Sante´ population-based cohort research” (Ref 1).
The NutriNet-Santé research
The NutriNet-Santé is an ongoing web-based inhabitants research, which was launched in France in 2009 to look at the associations between vitamin and well being. Folks in France, over the age of 18, have been recruited on-line since Could 2009 through a number of media campaigns. All questionnaires have been accomplished on-line and folks have then been adopted up on-line through their e-mail tackle (and different contact particulars, which they’re requested to share), making certain fewer individuals are misplaced to follow-up (Ref 2). The research is massive – over 100,000 adults are participating.
