Reproducibility and relative validity of a food-frequency questionnaire for French-speaking Swiss adults

Food and Nutrition Research

Volumn 55, Issue 1, 2011, Pages

  Marques Vidal, Pedro ^a   Ross, Alastair ^b   Wynn, Emma ^b   Rezzi, Serge ^b   Paccaud, Fred ^a   Decarli, Bernard ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF LAUSANNE   (Switzerland)

^b NESTLÉ RESEARCH CENTER   (Switzerland)

Author keywords

Adult; Food frequency questionnaire; Reproducibility; Switzerland; Validation

Indexed keywords

EID: 79959640621     PISSN: 16546628     EISSN: 1654661X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3402/fnr.v55i0.590     Document Type: Article

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