26 Mar 2025 09.00 - 28 Mar 2025 17.00Amsterdam, Online
Are you a researcher who wants to learn about how the lifestyle factors ‘physical activity, sedentary behavior, sleep and dietary intake’ influence non-communicable diseases such as cardiovascular diseases, cancers and type II diabetes? Then this 3-day course from EpidM on lifestyle epidemiology is for you.
Noncommunicable diseases (NCDs), comprising mainly of cardiovascular diseases (CVD), cancers and diabetes, are the leading causes of death globally. To a large extent, NCDs are caused by lifestyle factors including unhealthy dietary intake, lack of physical activity and sedentary behaviours. Appropriate measures and methods are required to study relations of such lifestyle behaviours and NCDs. This includes the use of valid tools and methods to measure dietary intake and physical activity, and suitable study designs and analytical techniques to analyse the data.
The course is meant for researchers working in academia, governmental institutions or industry. Course days will consist of plenary, interactive lectures, and working groups focused on data processing and interpretation in alternation. The three day course will start on March 26, 2025.
The environment we live in has a dominant impact on our health. It explains an estimated seventy percent of the chronic disease burden. Where we live, what we eat, how much we exercise, the air we breathe and whom we associate with; all of these environmental factors play a role. The combination of these factors over the life course is called the exposome. There is general (scientific) consensus that understanding more about the exposome will help explain the current burden of disease and that it provides entry points for prevention and ...
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