Validity of a self-administered food frequency questionnaire (FFQ) and its generalizability to the estimation of dietary folate intake in Japan

Nutrition Journal

Volumn 4, Issue , 2005, Pages

  Ishihara, Junko ^a,b   Yamamoto, Seiichiro ^a   Iso, Hiroyasu ^b,c   Inoue, Manami ^a   Tsugane, Shoichiro ^a  

^a NATIONAL CANCER CENTER   (Japan)

^b UNIVERSITY OF TSUKUBA   (Japan)

^c OSAKA UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; CORRELATION COEFFICIENT; DIETARY INTAKE; EVALUATION; FEMALE; FOLIC ACID INTAKE; FOOD; FOOD INTAKE; FOOD QUALITY; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; JAPAN; LINEAR REGRESSION ANALYSIS; MALE; POPULATION; PROSPECTIVE STUDY; PUBLIC HEALTH SERVICE; QUESTIONNAIRE; SELF ADMINISTERED FOOD FREQUENCY QUESTIONNAIRE; VALIDATION PROCESS; VOLUNTEER;

DIET; DIET RECORDS; DIETARY SUPPLEMENTS; FEMALE; FOLIC ACID; FOOD HABITS; HUMANS; JAPAN; LINEAR MODELS; MALE; QUESTIONNAIRES; REGRESSION ANALYSIS; REPRODUCIBILITY OF RESULTS; SEX CHARACTERISTICS; TEA; VEGETABLES;

EID: 27744558273     PISSN: 14752891     EISSN: 14752891     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1186/1475-2891-4-26     Document Type: Article

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