Estimating national and subnational nutrient intake distributions of global diets.

ABSTRACT:

Background

Access to high-quality dietary intake data is central to many nutrition, epidemiology, economic, environmental, and policy applications. When data on individual nutrient intakes are available, they have not been consistently disaggregated by sex and age groups, and their parameters and full distributions are often not publicly available.

Objectives

We sought to derive usual intake distributions for as many nutrients and population subgroups as possible, use these distributions to estimate nutrient intake inadequacy, compare these distributions and evaluate the implications of their shapes on the estimation of inadequacy, and make these distributions publicly available.

Methods

We compiled dietary data sets from 31 geographically diverse countries, modeled u

SUBMITTER: Passarelli S 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC9348991 | biostudies-literature | 2022 Aug

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature