A Dietary Screening Questionnaire Identifies Dietary Patterns in Older Adults
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A dietary screening questionnaire identifies dietary patterns in older adults.
Dietary patterns reflect habitual exposure of foods and nutrients and are a preferred means to assess diet and disease relations. Our objective was to design a screening tool to assess diet quality and dietary patterns among older adults and to relate the patterns to markers of general health and nutrition status. We used a population-specific data-based approach to design a diet screening inst...
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عنوان ژورنال: The Journal of Nutrition
سال: 2007
ISSN: 0022-3166,1541-6100
DOI: 10.1093/jn/137.2.421