Article: Observational Design

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1. Identify articles (published since 2010) with an observational design (due 3/29). Article must have a “nutrition” variable as the independent variable and “health” as a dependent variable.
a. Article:
I. Gluten consumption during late pregnancy and risk of celiac disease in the offspring: the TEDDY birth cohort
b. Independent variable:
I. Maternal gluten consumption during pregnancy iii. Low, middle, and high consumption of gluten-containing foods (reference=middle)
c. Dependent variable:
I. Celiac disease (in the offspring)

2. Identify one strength and one weakness of the study methodology for each article.
a. Strength:
I. One major strength was the study design, all data were collected from one of the largest ongoing prospective birth

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