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Collection of food intake data: a reappraisal of criteria for judging the methods

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  09 March 2007

Renato Borrelli
Renato Borrelli
Affiliation:
Institute of Internal Medicine and Metabolic Disease, 2nd Medical School, Via Sergio Pansini 5, Nuples 80131, Italy
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Abstract

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The relationship between diet and the development of chronic disease still remains a controversial area. One major difficulty is to obtain a valid estimate of habitual pattern and level of food consumption for each individual. There is, in fact, a voluminous and largely negative literature on the validity of dietary assessment methods. In the present paper the utility of the most frequently used dietary assessment method in epidemiological studies is discussed in terms of precision and accuracy.

Keywords

Food intakeEpidemiologyStatistics
Type
Food Intake, Nutritional Epidemiology
Information
British Journal of Nutrition , Volume 63 , Issue 3 , May 1990 , pp. 411 - 417
Copyright
Copyright © The Nutrition Society 1990

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