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Author:

Ford, Dara Wheeler

Title:

Associations between BMI and diet quality with health-related quality of life, mortality and healthcare resource use in the Geisinger Rural Aging Study (GRAS)

Graduate Program:

Nutritional Sciences

Keywords:

Aging
Diet quality
Mortality
Healthcare resource use
health-related quality of life

File:

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Committee Members:

Gordon Lee Jensen, Dissertation Advisor/Co-Advisor
Terryl Johnson Hartman, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
Helen Smiciklas Wright, Committee Member
Linda Ann Wray, Committee Member

Author:

Liu, Yi Hsuan

Title:

Diet quality, mortality, and Parkinson disease in older adults: results from the Geisinger Rural Aging Study

Graduate Program:

Nutritional Sciences

Keywords:

Diet quality
Dietary pattern
Dietary screening tool
Diet assessment
Mortality
Parkinson disease
Older adults
Oldest old
Geriatric nutrition
Healthy aging
Prospective study
Meta-analysis

File:

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Committee Members:

Xiang Gao, Dissertation Advisor/Co-Advisor
Xiang Gao, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
Penny Margaret Kris-Etherton, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
Muzi Na, Committee Member
Martin John Sliwinski, Outside Member
Gordon Jensen, Special Member
A Catharine Ross, Program Head/Chair

Author:

Zhang, Xinyuan

Title:

Diet and nutrition in the progression of Parkinson disease

Graduate Program:

Nutritional Sciences (PHD)

Keywords:

Diet quality
Nutrition
Metabolomics
Parkinson disease
Epidemiology

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Committee Members:

Gregory C Shearer, Professor in Charge/Director of Graduate Studies
Penny Kris-Etherton, Major Field Member
Xiang Gao, Chair & Dissertation Advisor
Laila Al-Shaar, Outside Unit & Field Member
A Ross, Major Field Member
Alberto Ascherio, Special Member

Author:

Zhou, Pei

Title:

Three Essays on Food Safety, Health, and Food Marketing

Graduate Program:

Energy, Environmental, and Food Economics (PhD)

Keywords:

Food recall
Meat market
Number of recalls
Volume of food recalled
Healthfulness of food purchases
Diet quality
Online grocery shopping
Food environment
Nutrition inequality
Food reformulation
“Better for You” beverage
Nutrient intake
Health claim

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Committee Members:

Katherine Zipp, Program Head/Chair
Edward Jaenicke, Major Field Member
Yizao Liu, Chair & Dissertation Advisor
Linlin Fan, Major Field Member
Paul Grieco, Outside Unit & Field Member

Author:

Davis, Kristin

Title:

An Examination of Changes in Diet Quality, Measures of Inflammation, Depressive Symptoms, and Metabolic Syndrome Symptom Severity across the First Semester in College​

Graduate Program:

Biobehavioral Health (PHD)

Keywords:

Diet quality
immune function
college students
depression
metabolic syndrome
inflammation

File:

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Committee Members:

Penny Kris-Etherton, Outside Unit & Field Member
Christopher Engeland, Major Field Member
Kyle Murdock, Chair & Dissertation Advisor
Stephanie Lanza, Major Field Member
Thomas Gould, Program Head/Chair