Validity of a food frequency questionnaire to assess nutritional intake among Sri Lankan adults

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Volumn 5, Issue 1, 2016, Pages 1-6

  Jayawardena, Ranil ^a,b   Byrne, Nuala M ^c   Soares, Mario J ^d   Katulanda, Prasad ^a   Hills, Andrew P ^e  

^a UNIVERSITY OF COLOMBO   (Sri Lanka)

^b QUEENSLAND UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY   (Australia)

^c BOND UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

^d CURTIN UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

^e UNIVERSITY OF TASMANIA   (Australia)

Author keywords

Adults; Diet; FFQ; Nutrition; Sri Lanka; Validation

Indexed keywords

EID: 84959238291     PISSN: None     EISSN: 21931801     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1186/s40064-016-1837-x     Document Type: Article

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