Alternative methods of accounting for underreporting and overreporting when measuring dietary intake-obesity relations.

ABSTRACT: Misreporting characterized by the reporting of implausible energy intakes may undermine the valid estimation of diet-disease relations, but the methods to best identify and account for misreporting are unknown. The present study compared how alternate approaches affected associations between selected dietary factors and body mass index (BMI) by using data from the European Prospective Investigation Into Cancer and Nutrition-Spain. A total of 24,332 women and 15,061 men 29-65 years of age recruited from 1992 to 1996 for whom measured height and weight and validated diet history data were available were included. Misreporters were identified on the basis of disparities between reported energy intakes and estimated requirements calculated using the original Goldberg method and 2 alternatives:

SUBMITTER: Mendez MA 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC3139974 | biostudies-literature | 2011 Feb

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature