*Geek Box: ApoE-4 Apolipoprotein E [ApoE] is a protein expressed in tissues throughout the body, but with particularly high expression …

*Geek Box: Bertrand’s Rule The French biological scientist and biochemist, Gabriel Bertrand, first published what became known as ‘Bertrand’s Rule’ in 1912. …

*Geek Box: Exposure Contrasts in Nutritional Epidemiology Nutritional epidemiology faces two particular challenges when it comes to assessing diet-disease relationships: narrow variability in …

*Geek Box: Adjustment Models Reading nutritional epidemiology, you will continually encounter a long list of variables [generally referred to as ‘covariates’] that the investigators adjusted …

*Geek Box: Comparison Levels in Nutrition Research One issue for nutrition interventions that differ from drug interventions, is that nutrient …

*Geek Box: Average Treatment Effects One very misunderstood aspect of interpreting studies, in particular intervention studies, is that a lack of effect means that the …

*Geek Box: Apoliproprotein B Known as ‘ApoB’, this marker has emerged as a refined measure of all atherogenic lipoproteins in …

*Geek Box: Per Protocol Analysis You may recall from a previous Deepdive that we covered something known as ‘intention to …

*Geek Box: Confidence Intervals You may want to read the ‘Results’ section again having read this, but let’s break down how to …

*Geek Box: Latency Periods The ‘latency period’ of a disease is the period during which it is developing, without any …