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Under-reporting of energy intake in the Canadian Community Health SurveyDidier Garriguet
Health Information and Research Division, Statistics Canada, Ottawa, Ontario, K1A 0T6
Health Rep 19:37-45. 2008..Under-reporting of food consumption is a recurrent challenge for nutrition surveys. Past research suggests that under-reporting tends to be most pronounced among overweight and obese people...
Comparison of techniques for self-monitoring eating and exercise behaviors on weight loss in a correspondence-based interventionDiane L Helsel
Department of Sports Medicine and Nutrition, Physical Activity and Weight Management Research Center, University of Pittsburgh, PA 15260, USA
J Am Diet Assoc 107:1807-10. 2007..These results may have implications for improving self-monitoring in overweight adults during periods of weight loss...
Validation and reproducibility of food frequency questionnaire for Korean genome epidemiologic studyY Ahn
Center for Genomic Science, National Institute of Health, Center for Disease Control and Prevention, Seoul, Korea
Eur J Clin Nutr 61:1435-41. 2007..To evaluate validity and reliability of the food-frequency questionnaire (FFQ) developed for the Korean Genome Epidemiologic Study (KoGES)...
Development, validation and utilisation of food-frequency questionnaires - a reviewJanet Cade
Nutrition Epidemiology Group, Division of Public Health, Nuffield Institute for Health, 71 75 Clarendon Road, University of Leeds, UK
Public Health Nutr 5:567-87. 2002..It does not include any recommendations about the most appropriate method for dietary assessment (e.g. food-frequency questionnaire versus weighed record)...
High intra/interindividual variance ratios for energy and nutrient intakes of pregnant women in rural Malawi show that many days are required to estimate usual intakeJoshua Nyambose
School of Nutrition Science and Policy, the Jean Mayer U.S. Department of Agriculture Human Nutrition Research Center on Aging (HNRCA, Tufts University, Boston, MA 02111, USA
J Nutr 132:1313-8. 2002....
Longitudinal changes in the accuracy of reported energy intake in girls 10-15 y of ageLinda G Bandini
General Clinical Research Center, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, MA, USA
Am J Clin Nutr 78:480-4. 2003..However, significant underreporting of total energy intake (EI) has been found when EI is compared with total energy expenditure (EE) measured by doubly labeled water...
The effect of maternal smoking status, educational level and age on food and nutrient intakes in preschool children: results from the Avon Longitudinal Study of Parents and ChildrenI Rogers
Unit of Paediatric and Perinatal Epidemiology, Division of Child Health, University of Bristol, 24 Tyndall Avenue, Bristol, UK
Eur J Clin Nutr 57:854-64. 2003..The objective of this study was to investigate the relation between maternal smoking status and nutrient intake in preschool children, allowing for the possible confounding effects of maternal educational level and age at delivery...
Long-term protein intake and dietary potential renal acid load are associated with bone modeling and remodeling at the proximal radius in healthy childrenUte Alexy
Research Institute of Child Nutrition, Dortmund, Germany
Am J Clin Nutr 82:1107-14. 2005..CONCLUSIONS: Long-term dietary protein intake appears to act anabolically on diaphyseal bone strength during growth, and this may be negated, at least partly, if dietary PRAL is high, ie, if the intake of alkalizing minerals is low...
Validity and reliability of a dietary assessment method: the application of a digital camera with a mobile phone card attachmentDa Hong Wang
Department of Public Health, Okayama University Graduate School of Medicine and Dentistry, 2 5 1 Shikata cho, Okayama 700 8558, Japan
J Nutr Sci Vitaminol (Tokyo) 48:498-504. 2002..92 for vitamin B12 (median r = 0.78). In conclusion, the results indicate this dietary assessment instrument can usefully measure individual dietary intakes for a variety of nutrients in an epidemiologic study...
Dietary assessment methods on n-3 fatty acid intake: a systematic reviewNina C Øverby
Department of Nutrition, Institute of Basic Medical Sciences, University of Oslo, Blindern, Oslo, Norway
Br J Nutr 102:S56-63. 2009..The literature describes subcutaneous fat as the best reference method, and the studies where this was used had moderate correlation coefficients and no dietary intake method was superior to any other...
Potential renal acid load in the diet of children and adolescents: impact of food groups, age and time trendsUte Alexy
Research Institute of Child Nutrition Dortmund FKE, Heinstueck 11, D 44225 Dortmund, Germany
Public Health Nutr 11:300-6. 2008..The impact of acid-base balance on health is widely accepted. Here, we describe the potential renal acid load (PRAL) in the diet of healthy German children and adolescents...
Self-reported dietary supplement use is confirmed by biological markers in the Norwegian Mother and Child Cohort Study (MoBa)Anne Lise Brantsaeter
Division of Environmental Medicine, Department of Food Toxicology, Norwegian Institute of Public Health, Oslo, Norway
Ann Nutr Metab 51:146-54. 2007..The aim of the present study was to investigate the relation between reported use and biomarkers in supplement and non-supplement users and to validate self-reported intake of dietary supplements in mid pregnancy...
Evidence-based development of a mobile telephone food recordBethany L Six
Department of Foods and Nutrition, Purdue University, West Lafayette, IN 47907 2059, USA
J Am Diet Assoc 110:74-9. 2010..Further, these results suggest that additional training in using a new technology may improve the accuracy among users...
Dietary intake measurementsIngrid H E Rutishauser
School of Health Sciences, Deakin University Geelong, Victoria, Australia
Public Health Nutr 8:1100-7. 2005....
Validity of a self-administered food frequency questionnaire used in the 5-year follow-up survey of the JPHC Study Cohort I: comparison with dietary records for food groupsSatoshi Sasaki
Epidemiology and Biostatistics Division, National Cancer Center Research Institute East, Kashiwa, Chiba, Japan
J Epidemiol 13:S57-63. 2003..But intake levels both at population and individual levels were difficult to estimate...
Performance of a food-frequency questionnaire in the US NIH-AARP (National Institutes of Health-American Association of Retired Persons) Diet and Health StudyFrances E Thompson
US National Cancer Institute, EPN 4016, 9000 Rockville Pike, Bethesda, MD 20893 7344, USA
Public Health Nutr 11:183-95. 2008....
Nutritional methods in the European Prospective Investigation of Cancer in NorfolkS A Bingham
EPIC, Institute of Public Health and Strangeways Research Laboratories, Worts Causeway, Cambridge CB1 4RN, UK
Public Health Nutr 4:847-58. 2001..To describe methods and dietary habits of a large population cohort...
Use of technology in children's dietary assessmentC J Boushey
Department of Foods and Nutrition, Purdue University, West Lafayette, IN 47907 2059, USA
Eur J Clin Nutr 63:S50-7. 2009..Assessment among adolescents is problematic as this group has irregular eating patterns and they have less enthusiasm for recording food intake...
Undereating and underrecording of habitual food intake in obese men: selective underreporting of fat intakeA H Goris
Department of Human Biology, Maastricht University, Netherlands
Am J Clin Nutr 71:130-4. 2000..Underreporting of food intake is common in obese subjects...
Assessment of usual dietary intake in population studies of gene-diet interactionKatherine L Tucker
Jean Mayer USDA Human Nutrition Research Center on Aging, Tufts University, 711 Washington Street, Boston, MA 02111, USA
Nutr Metab Cardiovasc Dis 17:74-81. 2007..Dietary intake is a critical environmental exposure when considering the effect of many genetic factors on disease risk. However, dietary intake is a complex and changing measure that requires particular care in assessment...
The time of day and the proportions of macronutrients eaten are related to total daily food intakeJohn M De Castro
College of Humanities and Social Sciences, Sam Houston State University, Huntsville, TX 77341, USA
Br J Nutr 98:1077-83. 2007....
Validity and reproducibility of a self-administered food frequency questionnaire in the JPHC Study Cohort II: study design, participant profile and results in comparison with Cohort IJunko Ishihara
Cancer Information and Epidemiology Division, National Cancer Center Research Institute
J Epidemiol 13:S134-47. 2003..Correlation coefficients for reproducibility ranged from 0.42 to 0.82, similar to those of Cohort I...
Development and evaluation of cultural food frequency questionnaires for South Asians, Chinese, and Europeans in North AmericaLinda E Kelemen
Department of Health Sciences Research, Mayo Clinic, Rochester, MN, USA
J Am Diet Assoc 103:1178-84. 2003..FFQs were developed from foods reported in the diet records and recalls of 29 South Asians, 25 Chinese, and 20 Europeans participating in a pilot study from 1995-1996 in ..
Validity of the self-administered food frequency questionnaire used in the 5-year follow-up survey of the JPHC Study Cohort I: comparison with dietary records for main nutrientsShoichiro Tsugane
Epidemiology and Biostatistics Division, National Cancer Center Research Institute East, Kashiwa, Chiba, Japan
J Epidemiol 13:S51-6. 2003..In conclusion, the results suggest that the FFQ can be used in the JPHC Study Cohort I to rank individuals according to the intakes for most of the nutrients examined...
Dietary potential renal acid load and renal net acid excretion in healthy, free-living children and adolescentsThomas Remer
Department of Nutrition and Health, the Research Institute of Child Nutrition, Dortmund, Germany
Am J Clin Nutr 77:1255-60. 2003..Experimental studies in adults showed that renal net acid excretion (NAE) can be reliably estimated from the composition of diets...
A review of food frequency questionnaires developed and validated in JapanKenji Wakai
Department of Preventive Medicine Biostatistics and Medical Decision Making, Nagoya University Graduate School of Medicine, Showa Ku, Nagoya, Japan
J Epidemiol 19:1-11. 2009..Because dietary habits vary greatly, the FFQ must be tailored for use with specific populations. The usefulness of FFQs in Japan was assessed by reviewing questionnaires developed and validated in that country...
Modeling data with excess zeros and measurement error: application to evaluating relationships between episodically consumed foods and health outcomesVictor Kipnis
Biometry, Division of Cancer Prevention, National Cancer Institute, 6130 Executive Boulevard, EPN 3131, Bethesda, Maryland 20892 7354, USA
Biometrics 65:1003-10. 2009..Finally, we present simulation results evaluating the performance of the proposed method in this context...
Dietary assessment methods for micronutrient intake in infants, children and adolescents: a systematic reviewAdriana Ortiz-Andrellucchi
Nutrition Research Group, Department of Clinical Sciences, Centre for Health Sciences, University of Las Palmas de Gran Canaria, Las Palmas de Gran Canaria, Spain
Br J Nutr 102:S87-117. 2009..Including supplement users generally improved the correlations between micronutrient intakes estimated by any of the dietary intake methods and respective biochemical indices...
Convenience foods in children's diet and association with dietary quality and body weight statusU Alexy
Research Institute of Child Nutrition Dortmund, Rheinische Friedrich Wilhelms Universitat Bonn, Heinstueck 11, Dortmund, Germany
Eur J Clin Nutr 65:160-6. 2011..The present paper examines the association between CF consumption and dietary quality or body weight status in a sample of German children and adolescents...
Estimated energy intake, macronutrient intake and meal pattern of Flemish adolescentsC Matthys
Department of Public Health, Ghent University, Ghent, Belgium
Eur J Clin Nutr 57:366-75. 2003..To describe the energy and macronutrient intake and the meal patterns of Flemish adolescents, aged 13-18 y...
Are dietary patterns stable throughout early and mid-childhood? A birth cohort studyKate Northstone
Department of Social Medicine, University of Bristol, 24 Tyndall Avenue, Bristol BS8 1TQ, UK
Br J Nutr 100:1069-76. 2008..It is important to make regular dietary assessments during childhood in order to assess accurately the effects of diet on future health outcomes...
Validity of a new food frequency questionnaire for pregnant women in the Norwegian Mother and Child Cohort Study (MoBa)Anne Lise Brantsaeter
Division of Environmental Medicine, Department of Food Safety and Nutrition, Norwegian Institute of Public Health, Oslo, Norway
Matern Child Nutr 4:28-43. 2008..This validation study indicates that the MoBa FFQ produces reasonable valid intake estimates and is a valid tool to rank pregnant women according to low and high intakes of energy, nutrients and foods...
Validation and reproducibility of a semi-quantitative Food Frequency Questionnaire for use in elderly Swiss womenE Wynn Dumartheray
Outpatient Clinic, Lausanne University Hospital, Lausanne, Switzerland
J Hum Nutr Diet 19:321-30. 2006..The secondary aim was to assess its validity and both short-term and long-term reproducibility...
Energy intake and energy expenditure: a controlled study comparing dietitians and non-dietitiansCatherine M Champagne
Pennington Biomedical Research Center, Baton Rouge, LA 70808 4124, USA
J Am Diet Assoc 102:1428-32. 2002....
Iron status in 2-year-old Icelandic children and associations with dietary intake and growthB S Gunnarsson
Unit for Nutrition Research, Landspitali University Hospital and Department of Food Science, University of Iceland, Reykjavik, Iceland
Eur J Clin Nutr 58:901-6. 2004..To investigate the effects of food and nutrient intake at 2 y and growth from birth on iron status at 2 y in a population with high birth weight...
Risk factors for low iron intake and poor iron status in a national sample of British young people aged 4-18 yearsC W Thane
MRC Human Nutrition Research, Elsie Widdowson Laboratory, Fulbourn Road, CB1 9NL, UK
Public Health Nutr 6:485-96. 2003..To examine the prevalence and dietary, sociodemographic and lifestyle risk factors of low iron intake and poor iron status in British young people...
Dietary assessment methods for micronutrient intake: a systematic review on vitaminsPatricia Henríquez-Sánchez
Department of Clinical Sciences, University of Las Palmas de Gran Canaria, Las Palmas de Gran Canaria, Spain
Br J Nutr 102:S10-37. 2009..26 to 0.38. The FFQ is an acceptable method of assessing vitamin intake. The present review provides new insights regarding the characteristics that assessment methods for dietary intake should fulfil...
Validation of a FFQ to estimate the intake of PUFA using plasma phospholipid fatty acids and weighed foods recordsS A McNaughton
School of Population Health, University of Queensland, Herston, Australia
Br J Nutr 97:561-8. 2007..For most fatty acids, the FFQ adequately estimates group mean fatty acid intakes and can adequately rank individuals; however, the ability of this FFQ to estimate trans fatty acids was poor...
A flexible, low-glycemic index mexican-style diet in overweight and obese subjects with type 2 diabetes improves metabolic parameters during a 6-week treatment periodArturo Jimenez-Cruz
Nutrition Program, Medical School, Universidad Autónoma de Baja California Mexico, Baja California, Mexico
Diabetes Care 26:1967-70. 2003..The aim of this study was to compare the effects of a flexible lower- and higher-glycemic index (GI) Mexican-style diet on biochemical data and BMI during a 6-week treatment period...
Agreement between a brief food frequency questionnaire and diet records using two statistical methodsG L Ambrosini
Department of Public Health, University of Western Australia, Nedlands Campus, Perth, WA 6907, Australia
Public Health Nutr 4:255-64. 2001....
Impact of identifying plausible respondents on the under-reporting of energy intake in the Canadian Community Health SurveyDidier Garriguet
Health Information and Research Division, Statistics Canada, Ottawa, Ontario, K1A 0T6
Health Rep 19:47-55. 2008..Under-reporting is common in nutrition surveys. The identification of plausible respondents is a way of measuring the impact of under-reporting on the relationship between energy intake and body mass index (BMI)...
Calorie intake misreporting by diet record and food frequency questionnaire compared to doubly labeled water among postmenopausal womenS Mahabir
Department of Epidemiology, University of Texas M D Anderson Cancer Center, Houston, TX, USA
Eur J Clin Nutr 60:561-5. 2006....
Adolescents in the United States can identify familiar foods at the time of consumption and when prompted with an image 14 h postprandial, but poorly estimate portionsTusarebecca E Schap
Department of Foods and Nutrition, Purdue University, 700 W State Street, West Lafayette, IN 47907 2059, USA
Public Health Nutr 14:1184-91. 2011..To evaluate adolescents' abilities to identify foods and estimate the portion size of foods consumed in order to inform development of the mobile telephone food record (mpFR)...
Validation of a short food frequency questionnaire to assess folate intakeMaria Pufulete
Nutrition, Food and Health Research Centre, King's College London, UK
Br J Nutr 87:383-90. 2002..Overall, these results suggest that this short FFQ is a useful method for assessing folate intake, particularly in men...
Discrepancies in dietary intakes and plasma concentrations of fatty acids according to age among Japanese female dietitiansK Kuriki
Department of Public Health, Nagoya City University Medical School, Japan
Eur J Clin Nutr 56:524-31. 2002..SUBJECTS AND METHODS: In autumn 1996, we estimated dietary FA intakes based on 7 day weighed diet records and analyzed plasma FA concentrations in 79 healthy Japanese female dietitians, and investigated their ..
Validity and reproducibility of a self-administered semi-quantitative food-frequency questionnaire for estimating usual daily fat, fibre, alcohol, caffeine and theobromine intakes among Belgian post-menopausal womenSelin Bolca
Faculty of Bioscience Engineering, Laboratory of Microbial Ecology and Technology, Ghent University, Ghent, Belgium
Int J Environ Res Public Health 6:121-50. 2009..The relative validity of the FFQ was estimated by comparison with 7 day (d) estimated diet records (EDR, n 64) and its reproducibility was evaluated by repeated administrations 6 weeks apart (n 79)...
Relative validity and reproducibility of a food-frequency questionnaire for estimating food intakes among Flemish preschoolersInge Huybrechts
Department of Public Health, Ghent University, University Hospital 2BlokA, Gent, Belgium
Int J Environ Res Public Health 6:382-99. 2009..5-6.5 year-old children for estimating food group intakes. Parents/guardians were used as a proxy. Estimated diet records (3d) were used as reference method and reproducibility was measured by repeated FFQ administrations five weeks ..
Estimation of trans fatty acid intake in Japanese adults using 16-day diet records based on a food composition database developed for the Japanese populationMai Yamada
Department of International Health, Graduate School of Medicine, The University of Tokyo, Tokyo, Japan
J Epidemiol 20:119-27. 2010..We developed a comprehensive database of trans fatty acid food composition, and used this database to estimate intake among a Japanese population...
Weight control during the holidays: highly consistent self-monitoring as a potentially useful coping mechanismR C Baker
OSF St Francis Medical Center, Peoria, Illinois 61603, USA
Health Psychol 17:367-70. 1998..Only participants in the most consistent self-monitoring quartile averaged any weight loss over the 10 weeks of the study and during the holiday weeks...
Validity and reproducibility of a self-administered questionnaire to determine dietary supplement users among JapaneseJ Ishihara
National Cancer Center Research Institute, Tokyo and Kashiwa, Japan
Eur J Clin Nutr 55:360-5. 2001..Categories must be corrected when determining multivitamin and 'vitamin E'...
Development of a food frequency questionnaire to estimate habitual dietary intake in Japanese childrenTomomi Kobayashi
Department of Food and Nutritional Sciences, School of Natural Science and Ecological Awareness, Graduate School of Humanities and Sciences, Nara Women s University, Kitauoya Nishimachi, Nara, 630 8506, Japan
Nutr J 9:17. 2010..To date, no FFQ has been developed for Japanese children. In this study, we developed a FFQ to assess the regular dietary intake of Japanese children. The FFQ included questions regarding both individual food items and mixed dishes...
Underreporting of energy intake in repeated 24-hour recalls related to gender, age, weight status, day of interview, educational level, reported food intake, smoking habits and area of livingG Johansson
Department of Food and Nutrition, University of Umea, SE 901 87 Umea, Sweden
Public Health Nutr 4:919-27. 2001....
Measurement of dietary intake in childrenM B Livingstone
Northern Ireland Centre for Diet and Health, University of Ulster, Coleraine, Co Londonderry, UK
Proc Nutr Soc 59:279-93. 2000..The development of improved techniques for identification of mis-reporters and investigation of the issue of differential reporting of foods should also be given priority...
Statistical approaches for assessing the relative validity of a food-frequency questionnaire: use of correlation coefficients and the kappa statisticL F Masson
Department of Public Health, University of Aberdeen, Polwarth Building, Foresterhill, Aberdeen AB25 2ZD, Scotland, UK
Public Health Nutr 6:313-21. 2003..of a self-administered, 150-item, semi-quantitative food-frequency questionnaire (FFQ) with 4-day weighed diet records (WR). DESIGN: Subjects completed the Scottish Collaborative Group FFQ and carried out a 4-day WR...
Dietary validation of a new Australian food-frequency questionnaire that estimates long-chain n-3 polyunsaturated fatty acidsBethany L Sullivan
School of Health Sciences and Smart Foods Centre, University of Wollongong, Wollongong NSW 2522, Australia
Br J Nutr 99:660-6. 2008..88, 0.88, 0.90 and 0.87, respectively. In conclusion, the new FFQ is a valid and reproducible method that can be used to estimate the LC n-3 PUFA intake of healthy adults...
Correlation between dietary glycemic index and cardiovascular disease risk factors among Japanese womenY Amano
Department of Health Promotion Sciences, Division of Health Sciences and Nursing, Graduate School of Medicine, The University of Tokyo, Japan
Eur J Clin Nutr 58:1472-8. 2004..To examine the correlation between dietary glycemic index (GI) and cardiovascular disease (CVD) risk factors among subjects who consume white rice as a staple food...
Are imprecise methods obscuring a relation between fat and breast cancer?Sheila A Bingham
MRC Dunn Human Nutrition Unit, Welcome Trust MRC Building, Hills Road, CB2 2XY, Cambridge, UK
Lancet 362:212-4. 2003..10 [0.94-1.29], p=0.23). Dietary measurement error might explain the absence of a significant association between dietary fat and breast-cancer risk in cohort studies...
Effect of timing of introduction of complementary foods on iron and zinc status of formula fed infants at 12, 24, and 36 months of ageK K Kattelmann
Nutrition, Food Science, and Hospitality Department, South Dakota State University, Box 2275A, Brookings, SD 57007 605 688 4045, USA
J Am Diet Assoc 101:443-7. 2001..Our objective was to determine whether early introduction of complementary foods affects iron and zinc status of formulated infants at 12, 24, and 36 months of age...
Development of a new instrument for evaluating individuals' dietary intakesDa Hong Wang
Department of Public Health, Okayama University Graduate School of Medicine, Dentistry and Pharmaceutical Sciences, Okayama, Japan
J Am Diet Assoc 106:1588-93. 2006....
Validity of a food frequency questionnaire varied by age and body mass indexLaura Paalanen
Department of Health Promotion and Chronic Disease Prevention, National Public Health Institute, Helsinki, Finland
J Clin Epidemiol 59:994-1001. 2006..The validity of food frequency questionnaires (FFQs) in measuring food consumption and nutrient intake has to be assessed. The objective of this study was to assess the validity of a 128-item FFQ in specific subgroups of Finnish adults...
Use of supermarket receipts to estimate energy and fat content of food purchased by lean and overweight familiesJ K Ransley
Nutrition Epidemiology Group, Nuffield Institute for Health, University of Leeds, 71 75 Clarendon Road, Leeds LS2 9PL, UK
Appetite 41:141-8. 2003..It was concluded that food purchasing behaviour may be linked to the prevalence of obesity in households who shop at supermarkets...
A Belgian study on the reliability and relative validity of the Health Behaviour in School-Aged Children food-frequency questionnaireCarine A Vereecken
Department of Public Health, Ghent University, University Hospital, Bloc A, 2nd Floor, De Pintelaan 185, B 9000 Ghent, Belgium
Public Health Nutr 6:581-8. 2003..The present study was conducted to assess the reliability and relative validity of the HBSC FFQ among school pupils in Belgium...
Complementary foods consumed by 6-12-month-old rural infants in South Africa are inadequate in micronutrientsMieke Faber
Nutritional Intervention Research Unit, Medical Research Council, PO Box 19070, Tygerberg 7505, South Africa
Public Health Nutr 8:373-81. 2005..To determine the nutrient composition of complementary foods consumed by 6-12-month-old South African infants...
Validation of food frequency questionnaire for assessing dietary macronutrients and calcium intake in Italian children and adolescentsSimona Bertoli
International Centre for the Assessment of Nutritional Status, University of Milan, Milan, Italy
J Pediatr Gastroenterol Nutr 40:555-60. 2005..The ranking of subjects is extremely useful for epidemiologic studies evaluating the relation between nutrient intake and disease...
Relative validity of a short food frequency questionnaire for assessing nutrient intake versus three-day weighed diet records in middle-aged JapaneseYuko Tokudome
Department of Health and Nutrition, School of Health and Human Life, Nagoya Bunri University, Aichi, Japan
J Epidemiol 15:135-45. 2005..Validation studies on brief food frequency questionnaires (FFQs) for measuring consumption of macro- and micro-nutrients for the general populace are not fully executed in Japan...
Validity of a questionnaire to assess fruit and vegetable intake in adultsA G Kristjansdottir
Unit for Nutrition Research, Landspitali-University Hospital and Department of Food Science, University of Iceland, Reykjavik, Iceland
Eur J Clin Nutr 60:408-15. 2006..Moreover, the food frequency questionnaire was valid for ranking individuals according to their usual intake. A 4-day food record might be sufficient when validating food frequency questionnaires for fruits and vegetables...
Food and nutrient intakes of a population sample of 7-year-old children in the south-west of England in 1999/2000 - what difference does gender make?L Glynn
Unit of Paediatric and Perinatal Epidemiology, Division of Community based Medicine, University of Bristol, Bristol, UK
J Hum Nutr Diet 18:7-19; quiz 21-3. 2005..To describe the diet of schoolchildren aged 7 years, and identify gender differences in food and nutrient intakes...
Reproducibility of a food frequency questionnaire for adolescentsDirce Maria Lobo Marchioni
Faculdade de Saude Publica, Universidade de Sao Paulo, Sao Paulo, Brasil
Cad Saude Publica 23:2187-96. 2007..2%. By conclusion, the Adolescent Food Frequency Questionnaire showed reasonable reproducibility and can be used in studies that aim to classify groups into intake categories...
Validation of a pre-coded food diary with energy expenditure, comparison of under-reporters v. acceptable reportersI T L Lillegaard
Department of Nutrition, University of Oslo, Box 1046 Blindern, N 0316 Oslo, Norway
Br J Nutr 94:998-1003. 2005..Under-reporting of energy remains a problem with the PFD method used in a group of 9-year-olds, especially among boys. However, UR and AR did not show a systematic misreporting related to macronutrients, unhealthy foods or BMI...
Reproducibility and relative validity of a food-frequency questionnaire among French adults and adolescentsV Deschamps
INSERM, Unit 780, Villejuif, France
Eur J Clin Nutr 63:282-91. 2009..Our aim was to evaluate the reproducibility of a food-frequency questionnaire (FFQ) developed in a French population, and its validity against four 24-h dietary recalls (24-HRs)...
Number of days needed to assess energy and nutrient intake in infants and young children between 6 months and 2 years of ageJ A Lanigan
MRC Childhood Nutrition Research Centre, Institute of Child Health, London, UK
Eur J Clin Nutr 58:745-50. 2004..To estimate the minimum number of days of recorded dietary intake needed to place infants and young children into thirds of a population distribution with an acceptable degree of accuracy...
Validity and reproducibility of a computerised tool for assessing the iron, calcium and vitamin C intake of Belgian womenC Matthys
Department of Public Health, Ghent University, Ghent, Belgium
Eur J Clin Nutr 58:1297-305. 2004..To determine the relative validity of a newly developed iron intake assessment tool, designed specifically to assess iron, calcium and vitamin C intake...
Validity and reproducibility of a semi-quantitative food-frequency questionnaire for estimating calcium intake in Belgian preschool childrenInge Huybrechts
Department of Public Health, Faculty of Medicine and Health Sciences, Ghent University, Ghent, Belgium
Br J Nutr 95:802-16. 2006..Estimated diet records (EDR; 3 d) were used as the reference method and reproducibility was measured by repeated FFQ administrations 5 ..
A prospective analysis of dietary energy density at age 5 and 7 years and fatness at 9 years among UK childrenL Johnson
MRC Human Nutrition Research, Cambridge, UK
Int J Obes (Lond) 32:586-93. 2008..To analyse whether high dietary energy density (DED) is associated with increased fat mass and risk of excess adiposity in free-living children...
Not the time to abandon the food frequency questionnaire: pointWalter C Willett
Department of Nutrition, Harvard School of Public Health, 665 Huntington Avenue, Boston, MA 02115, USA
Cancer Epidemiol Biomarkers Prev 15:1757-8. 2006
Participant characteristics associated with errors in self-reported energy intake from the Women's Health Initiative food-frequency questionnaireNeilann K Horner
Cancer Prevention Research Program, Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center, Seattle, WA 98109-1024, USA
Am J Clin Nutr 76:766-73. 2002....
Comparison of visual estimates of children's portion sizes under both shared-plate and individual-plate conditionsA V Shankar
Division of Community Health and Health Systems, E8009, Department of International Health, School of Hygiene and Public Health, Johns Hopkins University, 615 N. Wolfe St, Baltimore, MD 21205, USA
J Am Diet Assoc 101:47-52. 2001....
Single measurement of serum phospholipid fatty acid as a biomarker of specific fatty acid intake in middle-aged Japanese menM Kobayashi
Epidemiology and Biostatistics Division, National Cancer Center Research Institute East, Kashiwa, Chiba, Japan
Eur J Clin Nutr 55:643-50. 2001..CONCLUSIONS: These data suggest that in populations with a high and stable over time intake of n-3 PUFA of marine origin, a single measurement of serum phospholipids reflects the ranking of habitual intake of marine origin n-3 PUFA...
Epidemiological assessment of diet: a comparison of a 7-day diary with a food frequency questionnaire using urinary markers of nitrogen, potassium and sodiumN Day
Strangeways Research Laboratory, Institute of Public Health, University of Cambridge, Cambridge CB1 8RN, UK
Int J Epidemiol 30:309-17. 2001....
The validity of self-reported energy intake as determined using the doubly labelled water techniqueR J Hill
School of Human Movement Studies, Faculty of Health, Queensland University of Technology, Brisbane, Queensland, Australia
Br J Nutr 85:415-30. 2001..Awareness of these characteristics and mechanisms will enable researchers to obtain more accurate self-reports of EI using all dietary recording techniques...
Does energy intake underreporting involve all kinds of food or only specific food items? Results from the Fleurbaix Laventie Ville Santé (FLVS) studyL Lafay
Institut National de la Sante et de la Recherche Medicale, Unité 258, Faculte de Medecine Paris Sud, Villejuif, France
Int J Obes Relat Metab Disord 24:1500-6. 2000..To determine if energy intake underreporting concerns all major food groups or if it occurs for specific food groups only...
Validation of food diary method for assessment of dietary energy and macronutrient intake in infants and children aged 6-24 monthsJ A Lanigan
Institute of Child Health, London, UK
Eur J Clin Nutr 55:124-9. 2001....
Validity and reproducibility of a food frequency questionnaire for pregnant Finnish womenM Erkkola
Tampere School of Public Health, University of Tampere, Tampere, Finland
Am J Epidemiol 154:466-76. 2001..44 (ice cream) to 0.91 (coffee). The authors conclude that the FFQ has an acceptable reproducibility and represents a useful tool for categorizing pregnant women according to their dietary intake...
Sucrose compared with artificial sweeteners: different effects on ad libitum food intake and body weight after 10 wk of supplementation in overweight subjectsAnne Raben
Research Department of Human Nutrition, Centre for Advanced Food Studies, The Royal Veterinary and Agricultural University, Frederiksberg, Denmark
Am J Clin Nutr 76:721-9. 2002..The role of artificial sweeteners in body-weight regulation is still unclear...
Validation of a food frequency questionnaire for assessing dietary nutrients in Brazilian children 5 to 10 years of ageFernanda Fumagalli
Faculty of Pharmaceutics Sciences Ribeirão Preto, University of Sao Paulo, Ribeirao Preto, Sao Paulo, Brazil
Nutrition 24:427-32. 2008..This study aimed to assess the relative validity of a food frequency questionnaire (FFQ), previously validated to measure usual intakes in adults, for measuring dietary intakes in children 5 to 10 y of age...
Standardization of the 24-hour diet recall calibration method used in the european prospective investigation into cancer and nutrition (EPIC): general concepts and preliminary resultsN Slimani
Unit of Nutrition and Cancer, International Agency for Research on Cancer, Lyon, France
Eur J Clin Nutr 54:900-17. 2000..In addition, an analysis of variance was performed to examine the level of standardization of EPIC-SOFT across the 90 interviewers involved in the study...
DINER (Data Into Nutrients for Epidemiological Research) - a new data-entry program for nutritional analysis in the EPIC-Norfolk cohort and the 7-day diary methodA A Welch
University of Cambridge, Institute of Public Health, Wort s Causeway, UK
Public Health Nutr 4:1253-65. 2001..The system has been designed to be fully flexible and easy to update. Analysis of consistency of data entry was tested in a group of 3525 participants entered by 25 coders...
Validity of the assessment of dietary intake: problems of misreportingKlaas R Westerterp
Department of Human Biology, Maastricht University, Maastricht, The Netherlands
Curr Opin Clin Nutr Metab Care 5:489-93. 2002..Bias in the assessment of dietary intake was analysed from studies comparing reported intake with doubly labelled water assessed energy expenditure...
Validation and calibration of food-frequency questionnaire measurements in the Northern Sweden Health and Disease cohortIngegerd Johansson
Department of Nutritional Research, Umea University, Sweden
Public Health Nutr 5:487-96. 2002..To evaluate the reproducibility of, and to compare and calibrate, diet measures by the Northern Sweden 84-item food-frequency questionnaire (FFQ) with measures from 24-hour diet recalls (24-HDR)...
Heart disease risk-factor status and dietary changes in the Cretan population over the past 30 y: the Seven Countries StudyA Kafatos
Department of Social Medicine, University of Crete School of Medicine, Iraklion, Greece
Am J Clin Nutr 65:1882-6. 1997..The observed changes occurred during a period when many developed countries were observing a decline in most heart disease risk factors...
Can the EPIC food-frequency questionnaire be used in adolescent populations?Georg Lietz
Centre for Public Health Nutrition Research, Department of Medicine, Ninewells Hospital and Medical School, Dundee University, UK
Public Health Nutr 5:783-9. 2002..To assess the validity of the food-frequency questionnaire used in the European Prospective Investigation of Cancer (EPIC FFQ) for estimating nutrient intake in an adolescent population...
Dietary assessment of an educated young Spanish population using a self-administered meal-based food frequency questionnaireG Fregapane
Facultad de Ciencias Quimicas, Area de Nutricion y Bromatologia, Universidad de Castilla La Mancha, Spain
Eur J Epidemiol 16:183-91. 2000....
Evaluation of dietary assessment instruments against doubly labeled water, a biomarker of habitual energy intakeJ Trabulsi
Department of Nutritional Sciences, University of Wisconsin-Madison, Madison, Wisconsin 53706-1571, USA
Am J Physiol Endocrinol Metab 281:E891-9. 2001..Further research is needed to identify underreporters and to determine how to account for this bias in studies of diet and health...
Dietary assessment in Whitehall II: comparison of 7 d diet diary and food-frequency questionnaire and validity against biomarkersE Brunner
International Centre for Health and Society, Department of Epidemiology and Public Health, University College London Medical School, 1 19 Torrington Place, London WC1E 6BT, UK
Br J Nutr 86:405-14. 2001....
Factors determining calcium intake in elderly women of AppalachiaA K Pfister
Department of Medicine, Robert C. Byrd Health Sciences Center, West Virginia School of Medicine, CAMCARE Health and Research Institute, USA
South Med J 94:1006-12. 2001..Widescale public education to promote more positive attitudes among elderly women is crucial. The evidence from this study recommends calcium supplements with vitamin D for virtually all elderly women...
Comparison of digital photography to weighed and visual estimation of portion sizesDonald A Williamson
Pennington Biomedical Research Center, Baton Rouge, LA 70808, USA
J Am Diet Assoc 103:1139-45. 2003..The primary goal was to test the validity of digital photography for measuring food portion sizes compared with weighed foods and with direct visual estimation...
Dietary energy density and diet variety as predictors of outcome in anorexia nervosaJanet E Schebendach
Eating Disorders Research Unit, New York State Psychiatric Institute, Columbia College of Physicians and Surgeons, Columbia University, New York, NY 10032, USA
Am J Clin Nutr 87:810-6. 2008..Maintenance of a healthy diet is central to the recovery process, but the relation between diet and relapse has not been investigated in AN patients...
Use of a three-day estimated food record, a 72-hour recall and a food-frequency questionnaire for dietary assessment in a Mediterranean Spanish populationH Schroder
Lipids and Cardiovascular Epidemiology Unit, Institut Municipal d Investigacio Medica, IMIM, Barcelona, Spain
Clin Nutr 20:429-37. 2001..To assess the validity and the short-term reproducibility of a semi-quantitative, self-administrated food frequency questionnaire and a structured 72-hour recall in a Mediterranean Spanish population...
Development and simulated validation of a food-frequency questionnaire for the Colombian populationLeonelo E Bautista
Centro de Investigación Epidemiológica, Observatorio Epidemiológico de Enfermedades Cardiovasculares, Universidad Industrial de Santander, Bucaramanga, Colombia
Public Health Nutr 8:181-8. 2005..To develop a food-frequency questionnaire (FFQ) useful for ranking of nutrient intakes...
Diet quality of Montreal-area adults needs improvement: estimates from a self-administered food frequency questionnaire furnishing a dietary indicator scoreBryna Shatenstein
Centre de la recherche, Institut Universitaire de Geriatrie de Montreal, QC, Canada
J Am Diet Assoc 105:1251-60. 2005..The US Department of Agriculture Healthy Eating Index (HEI) (maximum score=100) was adapted to Canadian age- and sex-specific dietary recommendations, validated, and programmed to score the FFQ for diet quality...
Dietary intake in human immunodeficiency virus-infected adults: a comparison of dietary assessment methodsKristy Hendricks
Department of Family Medicine and Community Health, Tufts University, Boston, MA 02111, USA
J Am Diet Assoc 105:532-40. 2005..The objective of this study was to compare estimated nutrient intakes from 3-day food records vs Food Frequency Questionnaire (FFQ) in a large cohort of individuals living with human immunodeficiency virus (HIV) infection...
Research Grants
- Soy Isoflavone Metabolite Equol--Formation and FateKenneth Setchell; Fiscal Year: 2007..dietary intakes of macronutrients using fiber intake determined from food frequency questionnaire and 3-day diet records to stratify groups...
- Investigating Obesity and Chronic Disease-Related Risk Factors of Alaska NativesBERT BRANDON BOYER; Fiscal Year: 2010..of dietary intake based on variations in food stable isotope ratios and compares those biomarkers to concurrent diet records;3) determines nutrients and contaminants in Yup'ik subsistence food sources;and 4) understands more ..
- Protein intake, nutrition and cardiovascular disease in stage V CKDSrinivasan Beddhu; Fiscal Year: 2009..Relevance to public health: This study will examine in HD patients the role of protein intake in malnutrition and cardiovascular disease, two of the most important problems in these patients. ..
- Protein intake, nutrition and cardiovascular disease in stage V CKDSrinivasan Beddhu; Fiscal Year: 2009..Relevance to public health: This study will examine in HD patients the role of protein intake in malnutrition and cardiovascular disease, two of the most important problems in these patients. ..
- Protein intake, nutrition and cardiovascular disease in stage V CKDSrinivasan Beddhu; Fiscal Year: 2010..Relevance to public health: This study will examine in HD patients the role of protein intake in malnutrition and cardiovascular disease, two of the most important problems in these patients. ..
- Antioxidant Status, Diet, and Early PregnancyMarlene Goldman; Fiscal Year: 2009..Diet will be assessed prior to conception using diet records and serum assays for the antioxidant vitamins C and E, and the carotenoids...
- Antioxidant Status, Diet, and Early PregnancyMarlene Goldman; Fiscal Year: 2006..Diet will be assessed prior to conception using diet records and serum assays for the antioxidant vitamins C and E, and the carotenoids...
- Antioxidant Status, Diet, and Early PregnancyMARLENE BETH GOLDMAN; Fiscal Year: 2010..Diet will be assessed prior to conception using diet records and serum assays for the antioxidant vitamins C and E, and the carotenoids...
- Antioxidant Status, Diet, and Early PregnancyMarlene Goldman; Fiscal Year: 2009..Diet will be assessed prior to conception using diet records and serum assays for the antioxidant vitamins C and E, and the carotenoids...
- Investigating Obesity and Chronic Disease-Related Risk Factors of Alaska NativesGerald Mohatt; Fiscal Year: 2009..of dietary intake based on variations in food stable isotope ratios and compares those biomarkers to concurrent diet records; 3) determines nutrients and contaminants in Yup'ik subsistence food sources; and 4) understands more ..
- Investigating Obesity and Chronic Disease-Related Risk Factors of Alaska NativesGerald Mohatt; Fiscal Year: 2007..of dietary intake based on variations in food stable isotope ratios and compares those biomarkers to concurrent diet records; 3) determines nutrients and contaminants in Yup'ik subsistence food sources; and 4) understands more precisely ..
- Investigating Obesity and Chronic Disease-Related Risk Factors of Alaska NativesGerald Mohatt; Fiscal Year: 2009..of dietary intake based on variations in food stable isotope ratios and compares those biomarkers to concurrent diet records; 3) determines nutrients and contaminants in Yup'ik subsistence food sources; and 4) understands more ..
- MEASUREMENT ERRORS IN CANCER RESPIRATORY EPIDEMIOLOGYBernard Rosner; Fiscal Year: 1993..exposure data, the food frequency questionnaire, by conducting validation studies in which more accurate daily diet records are collected for a subset of women in the study...
- Validation of Preschool and High School Diet RecallKARIN MICHELS; Fiscal Year: 2006..The Fels Longitudinal Study provides a unique opportunity to validate instruments of dietary recall. Seven-day diet records from birth until age 18 years are available for the study participants and most of the participants and their ..
- EXERCISE AND CALCIUM EFFECT ON THE GROWING BONECharlotte Sanborn; Fiscal Year: 2001..A secondary objective is to compare the bone mineral accretion of U.S. children to Canadian children undergoing a similar skeletal loading protocol. ..
- A new Device for Dietary AssessmentB Parker; Fiscal Year: 2004..abstract_text> ..
- Predicting Energy Balance in Midlife WomenMarla Reicks; Fiscal Year: 2005..driven by the rational and situational/emotional needs that underlie food choices, 3) measure energy balance (diet records, activity monitor and indirect calorimetry), and 4) use multiple regression analyses to determine whether ..
- DIETARY INTERVENTION--WOMEN HIGH RISK FOR BREAST CANCERZora Djuric; Fiscal Year: 2002..The use of biomarkers will allow to evaluate the cancer-protective effects of dietary modulation over a relatively short period of time. ..
- Treatment Preference/Vegetarian Diet in Weight Loss(RMI)Lora Burke; Fiscal Year: 2004..In addition, the findings will add to the science of self-report in the field of weight loss treatment. ..
- Predictors of Dietary Quality in Low-Income Pregnant WomenEileen Fowles; Fiscal Year: 2009..More effective targeted strategies initiated within this narrow window of time may reduce the number of low birth weight infants and improve obstetrical outcomes. ..
- USE OF ANTIOXIDANT SUPPLEMENTS AND OXIDATIVE DNA DAMAGEMarian Neuhouser; Fiscal Year: 2006....
- Postprandial glycemic response to 4-week low and high glycemic load dietsMarian Neuhouser; Fiscal Year: 2007..Volunteers enrolled in a randomized cross-over feeding study will be asked to eat two additional meals; we will monitor the postprandial responses by measuring biomarkers in the blood for eight hours after the meals. ..
