Dietary intake assessment in women with different weight and pregnancy status using a short questionnaire.

ABSTRACT:

Objective

First, to evaluate the ability of a short dietary questionnaire (SDQ) to estimate energy intake (EI) on group and individual levels compared with total energy expenditure (TEE) measured by the doubly labelled water method. Second, to compare the SDQ's performance in estimating energy, nutrient and food intakes with a sixty-six-item FFQ used in large-scale Swedish epidemiological research.

Design

Cross-sectional.

Setting

Umeå, Sweden.

Subjects

In total, sixty-five non-pregnant women, of whom thirty-one were overweight or obese, and twenty-five pregnant, normal-weight women completed the protocol.

Results

On average, the SDQ captured 78 % and 79 % of absolute TEE in the non-pregnant and pregnant normal-weight women, respectively. Furthermore, the

SUBMITTER: Svensson A 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC11374551 | biostudies-literature | 2014 Sep

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature