Modest validity and fair reproducibility of dietary patterns derived by cluster analysis

Nutrition Research

Volumn 35, Issue 3, 2015, Pages 265-268

  Funtikova, Anna N ^a,b,c   Benítez Arciniega, Alejandra A ^d   Fitó, Montserrat ^a,e   Schröder, Helmut ^a,b  

^a HOSPITAL DEL MAR   (Spain)

^b CIBER EPIDEMIOLOGÍA Y SALUD PÚBLICA CIBERESP   (Spain)

^c UNIVERSITY OF BARCELONA   (Spain)

^d UNIVERSIDAD AUTÓNOMA DEL ESTADO DE MÉXICO   (Mexico)

^e Instituto de Salud Carlos III   (Spain)

Author keywords

A posteriori dietary patterns; Cluster analysis; Food frequency questionnaire; Repeatability; Reproducibility; Validation

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; BREAD; CLUSTER ANALYSIS; CORRELATION COEFFICIENT; CROSS-SECTIONAL STUDY; DAIRY PRODUCT; DIETARY INTAKE; FEMALE; FISH MEAT; FOOD FREQUENCY QUESTIONNAIRE; FRUIT; HUMAN; MALE; MEASUREMENT REPEATABILITY; NUT; NUTRITIONAL ASSESSMENT; PASTA; POPULATION RESEARCH; POTATO; POULTRY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RED MEAT; REPRODUCIBILITY; RICE; SOFT DRINK; SPAIN; VALIDATION STUDY; VEGETABLE; VERY ELDERLY; WINE; CLASSIFICATION; DIET; FEEDING BEHAVIOR; MIDDLE AGED; PROCEDURES; QUESTIONNAIRE; RECALL; STATISTICS AND NUMERICAL DATA;

CLUSTER ANALYSIS; DIET; DIET SURVEYS; FEMALE; FOOD HABITS; HUMANS; MALE; MENTAL RECALL; MIDDLE AGED; REPRODUCIBILITY OF RESULTS; SURVEYS AND QUESTIONNAIRES;

EID: 84924073834     PISSN: 02715317     EISSN: 18790739     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.nutres.2014.12.011     Document Type: Article

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