5th International Conference on Polyphenols and Health. ICPH 2011

Thursday, October 20th, 2011

EPIDEMIOLOGY & PUBLIC HEALTH SESSION

Chair: Eric Rimm Co-chair: Paul Kroon

Invited Lectures
Flavonoid intakes and risk of chronic diseases: strength of the evidence from
epidemiological studies.
Robert Van Dam. Department of Epidemiology and Public Health and Medicine. Yong
Loo Lin School of Medicine. National University of Singapore, Singapore.

Antiinflammatory effects of polyphenols from the Mediterranean diet: Experiences from
the PREDIMED study.
Ramon Estruch. Department of Internal Medicine. Hospital Clinic, CIBER de
Fisiopatología de la Obesidad y Nutrición (CIBEROBN). Barcelona, Spain.

Urinary polyphenols are positively associated with frailty status in older communitydwelling
adults.
Antonio Cherubini. Departmenmt of Clinical and Experimental Medicine. Institute of
Gerontology and Geriatrics. Perugia University, Italy.

Oral Presentations
Polyphenol and phytochemical metabolites identifi ed as biomarkers of Citrus intake
from a metabolomics study on the SU.VI.MAX2 cohort.
Claudine Manach. Human Nutrition Unit, Clermont-Ferrand/Theix Research Center,
Institut National de la Recherche Agronomique (INRA), France.

Flavonoid and lignan intakes and risk of gastric adenocarcinoma in the European
Prospective Investigation into Cancer and Nutrition (EPIC) cohort study.
Raúl Zamora-Ros. Unit of Nutrition, Environmental and Cancer. Cancer Epidemiology
Research Programme. Catalan Institute of Oncology, IDIBELL. Barcelona, Spain.

Dietary fl avonoid intake in elderly living in German nursing homes-the cross-sectional
multicentre ErnSTES-study.
Stephanie Lesser. IEL-Nutritional Physiology, Bonn University. Bonn, Germany.

CLOSING KEYNOTE

Chair: Cristina Andres-Lacueva

Are new substances in our food supply important in the diabetes epidemic?
Barbara Corkey. Department of Medicine, Obesity Research Center. School of
Medicine. Boston University. Boston, USA.