Evidence in Nutrition-related Diseases
Course content
The main objective of the course is to give students an understanding of the relationship between diets/nutrition and non-communicable diseases, and how to assess available evidence for a causal relationship between them. Students will learn about the pathophysiology of selected nutrition-related diseases, how diets/nutrients influence them and learn to evaluate existing evidence based on basic epidemiological methods and concepts
The course will mainly cover the following diseases: malnutrition, non-communicable diseases like obesity, metabolic syndrome, diabetes, CVDs, cancer and bone diseases.
MSc Programme in Human Nutrition
After completion of the course, the students should be able to:
Knowledge
- Define epidemiology and causality, including basic epidemiological concepts like bias, confounding, internal and external validity, and effect modification
- Describe study designs including their strengths and limitations
- Describe the pathogenesis and risk factors of the most common non-communicable diseases and malnutrition
- Describe dietary strategies for treatment of under- and malnutrition
Skills
- Demonstrate ability to read and understand scientific papers on epidemiological studies
- Critically assess and discuss the validity of studies on diet-health relationships
- Discuss and reflect on the effect of diet/nutrients on the prevention and treatment of the most common non-communicable diseases and malnutrition
Competences
- Perform evidence evaluations and identify gaps in current knowledge of relationships between diet/nutrients and health
- Critically assess the effect of diet/lifestyle on risk factors and development of non-communicable diseases.
- Recommend dietary/lifestyle changes for the prevention and treatment of non-communicable diseases based on scientific evidence
- Evaluate diet/nutrition strategies in the prevention and treatment of malnutrition
Lectures, exercises and discussions in plenum.
Relevant course material will be uploaded on Absalon.
Academic qualifications equivalent to a BSc degree is
recommended.
Knowledge and skills in nutrition, physiology, biochemistry and
statistics are recommended.
Oral feedback will be given collectively when reviewing exercises performed during lectures.
- ECTS
- 7,5 ECTS
- Type of assessment
-
On-site written exam, 3 hours under invigilation
- Type of assessment details
- Written examination consisting of an essay.
The on-site written exam is an ITX exam.
See important information about ITX-exams at Study Information, menu point: Exams -> Exam types and rules -> Written on-site exams (ITX) - Aid
- Only certain aids allowed (see description below)
Only dictionaries supported/offered by University of Copenhagen are allowed.
- Marking scale
- 7-point grading scale
- Censorship form
- No external censorship
Several internal examiners
- Re-exam
-
Same as ordinary exam.
If ten or fewer students have registered for re-examination, the examination will be changed to a 20 minutes oral examination without preparation.
Criteria for exam assessment
Please see "Learning Outcome".
- Category
- Hours
- Lectures
- 24
- Class Instruction
- 24
- Preparation
- 155
- Exam
- 3
- English
- 206
Kursusinformation
- Language
- English
- Course number
- NNEK26002U
- ECTS
- 7,5 ECTS
- Programme level
- Full Degree Master
- Duration
-
1 block
- Placement
- Block 3
- Schedulegroup
-
A
- Capacity
- No limitation.
Unless you register in the late-registration period (BSc and MSc) or as a credit or single subject student. - Studyboard
- Study Board of Food, Human Nutrition and Sports
Contracting department
- Department of Nutrition, Exercise and Sports
Contracting faculty
- Faculty of Science
Course Coordinators
- Nanna Roos (3-7e827f507e7588833e7b853e747b)
- Bikila Soboka Megersa (7-676e706e71667245736a7d7833707a336970)
- Anne Vedelsdal Aurup (6-7876713a38394667727b73746f34717b346a71)
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