Development of a metric Healthy Eating Index-2015 and comparison with the Healthy Eating Index-2015 for the evaluation of dietary quality.

ABSTRACT:

Background

Diet quality indices can provide important information about relationships between diet and health independent of energy balance. The Healthy Eating Index-2015 (HEI-2015) is widely used and has been extensively evaluated. However, due to imperial units the HEI-2015 is difficult to apply in countries with metric systems. Our objective was to develop a metric version of the HEI-2015 and compare it to the original. The metric Healthy Eating Index-2015 (mHEI-2015) is intended to simplify the application of a dietary quality index in countries using the metric system.

Methods

We developed a metric database logic following the methodology of the HEI-2015, which allows the application to metric databases and was applied to Food Patterns Equivalents Database (FPED). The H

SUBMITTER: Kohl J 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC9448016 | biostudies-literature | 2022

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature