Energy adjustment of nutrient intakes is preferable to adjustment using body weight and physical activity in epidemiological analyses

Public Health Nutrition

Volumn 17, Issue 5, 2014, Pages 1054-1060

  Rhee, Jinnie J ^a,b   Cho, Eunyoung ^b   Willett, Walter C ^a,b  

^a HARVARD SCHOOL OF PUBLIC HEALTH   (United States)

^b BRIGHAM AND WOMEN S HOSPITAL   (United States)

Author keywords

Biomarker; Body weight; Energy adjustment; Epidemiological methods; Physical activity

Indexed keywords

BIOLOGICAL MARKER; CAROTENOID; FATTY ACID; RETINOL; TRACE ELEMENT; TRANS FATTY ACID; UNSATURATED FATTY ACID;

ADULT; BLOOD; BODY WEIGHT; CALORIC INTAKE; CASE CONTROL STUDY; COMPARATIVE STUDY; CROSS-SECTIONAL STUDY; DIET; EPIDEMIOLOGY; ERYTHROCYTE; EXERCISE; FEMALE; HUMAN; METABOLISM; MIDDLE AGED; PROCEDURES; QUESTIONNAIRE; SELF REPORT; UNITED STATES;

ADULT; BIOLOGICAL MARKERS; BODY WEIGHT; CAROTENOIDS; CASE-CONTROL STUDIES; CROSS-SECTIONAL STUDIES; DIET; DIET SURVEYS; ENERGY INTAKE; EPIDEMIOLOGIC STUDIES; ERYTHROCYTES; EXERCISE; FATTY ACIDS; FATTY ACIDS, UNSATURATED; FEMALE; HUMANS; MICRONUTRIENTS; MIDDLE AGED; QUESTIONNAIRES; SELF REPORT; TRANS FATTY ACIDS; UNITED STATES; VITAMIN A;

EID: 84897526225     PISSN: 13689800     EISSN: 14752727     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1017/S1368980013001390     Document Type: Article

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