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Structure of Dietary Measurement Error

Results of the Open Biomarker Study

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ID23325762
AuthorsVictor Kipnis (National Cancer Institute, corresponding author)
Year2003
Volume158
Issue1
Pages14-21
Publication date2003-07-01
Peer ReviewedYes
Open AccessNo
TypeARTICLE
VenueAmerican Journal of Epidemiology (JOURNAL)
Journal identifiersISSN: 0002-9262 • E-ISSN: 1476-6256
PublisherOxford University Press (OUP) (PUBLISHER)
DOI10.1093/aje/kwg091
PMID12835281
OpenAlexW2125277071
LanguageEN
Citations received60
References cited2

Multiple-day food records or 24-hour dietary recalls (24HRs) are commonly used as "reference" instruments to calibrate food frequency questionnaires (FFQs) and to adjust findings from nutritional epidemiologic studies for measurement error. Correct adjustment requires that the errors in the adopted reference instrument be independent of those in the FFQ and of true intake. The authors report data from the Observing Protein and Energy Nutrition (OPEN) Study, conducted from September 1999 to March 2000, in which valid reference biomarkers for energy (doubly labeled water) and protein (urinary nitrogen), together with a FFQ and 24HR, were observed in 484 healthy volunteers from Montgomery County, Maryland. Accounting for the reference biomarkers, the data suggest that the FFQ leads to severe attenuation in estimated disease relative risks for absolute protein or energy intake (a true relative risk of 2 would appear as 1.1 or smaller). For protein adjusted for energy intake by using either nutrient density or nutrient residuals, the attenuation is less severe (a relative risk of 2 would appear as approximately 1.3), lending weight to the use of energy adjustment. Using the 24HR as a reference instrument can seriously underestimate true attenuation (up to 60% for energy-adjusted protein). Results suggest that the interpretation of findings from FFQ-based epidemiologic studies of diet-disease associations needs to be reevaluated.

Biology · Biomarker · Confidence interval · Doubly labeled water · Energy metabolism · Environmental health · Food frequency questionnaire · Nutrient · Nutritional epidemiology · Reference values · Relative risk · Statistics · Epidemiology · Internal Medicine · Mathematics · Medicine · Nutrition, Health and Food Behavior · Nutritional Studies and Diet · Obesity, Physical Activity, Diet

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