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Alan R. Dyer, PhD

Professor and Associate Chair

adyer@northwestern.edu
312/908-7919

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Dr. Dyer, a biostatistician/epidemiologist, conducts research that focuses on cardiovascular and nutritional epidemiology, particularly the role of nutritional factors in the development of high blood pressure; prevention and control of overweight and obesity, and the implementation and use of statistical methods to correct for "regression dilution bias" when exposures are measured with error.

Research Interests

His research interests include nutritional factors related to blood pressure; corrections for measurement error in regression analyses using assessments of dietary intake; risk factors for cardiovascular diseases in young adult, middle-aged, and older men and women; and relation of overweight and obesity to blood pressure and cardiovascular disease.

He is Principal Investigator of the Data Coordinating Center for the Hyperglycemia and Adverse Pregnancy Outcome (HAPO) Study and Co-Principal Investigator of the INTERMAP Study.

last updated:Mon Jul 13, 2009 2:08 PM