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Dietary Patterns Of Pakistani Adults And Their Associations With Sociodemographic, Anthropometric And Life-Style Factors, Nilofer Safdar, Elizabeth Bertone-Johnson, Lorraine Cordero, Tazeen Jafar, Nancy Cohen Jan 2013

Dietary Patterns Of Pakistani Adults And Their Associations With Sociodemographic, Anthropometric And Life-Style Factors, Nilofer Safdar, Elizabeth Bertone-Johnson, Lorraine Cordero, Tazeen Jafar, Nancy Cohen

Elizabeth R. Bertone-Johnson

Dietary pattern analysis is an epidemiological method designed to consider the complexity of food preferences and diet patterns of populations. Few studies from South Asia have used this methodology to describe population food intake. Our objective was to identify dietary patterns and understand their associations with sociodemographic, anthropometric and life-style factors among low-income Pakistani urban adults. Dietary information was collected by a thirty-three-item FFQ and dietary patterns were derived by principal component analyses in 5491 subjects enrolled in the Control of Blood Pressure and Risk Attenuation (COBRA) study. Three dietary patterns were identified: a fat and sweet pattern characterised by …


Factors For Success In Online And Face-To-Face Instruction. (Online Instruction), Brian Miller, Dr. Nancy Cohen, Patricia Beffa-Negrini Jan 2001

Factors For Success In Online And Face-To-Face Instruction. (Online Instruction), Brian Miller, Dr. Nancy Cohen, Patricia Beffa-Negrini

Nancy L. Cohen

This study compared academic achievement between undergraduate students in an introductory nutrition course online and students taking the same course in a large-class lecture format. Using a quasi-experimental research design, two instructional treatments (online, [N=35] and large-class lecture instruction [N=434J) were applied to two groups of students and their achievement was measured by a pretest and posttest of nutrition knowledge as well as final course grade. No significant differences in posttest scores (nutrition knowledge) were found. When data were partitioned for age, however, older students taking the online course had significantly higher final course grad.es than both their younger online …