Commentary: An OPEN assessment of dietary measurement errors

Commentary: An OPEN assessment of dietary measurement errors.

epidemiological studies of chronic disease risk in relation to diet, a crucial question is whether assessments of dietary intake can accurately characterize an individual's habitual intake of foods and nutrients. Over the last two decades, this question has been addressed in numerous validation studies. The OPEN study 1 provides the best answer yet. It is a true landmark study both because of i...

Dietary methodology: implications of errors in the measurement.

The assessment of food consumption of individuals and groups is extremely important for the science of nutrition. In the past decades several methods have been developed with various characteristics (Table 1) and adapted to serve widely different purposes of nutritional research. Although it is generally accepted that all methods have limitations and advantages, there are doubts about, for inst...

Assessment of Noise Effect on Employee Comfort in an Open-Plan Office: Validation of an Assessment Questionnaire

Background: Today, open-plan offices are among the most common work environments. Although the noise in these environments is usually below the standard level, it is one of the critical annoyance factors due to the nature of the mental work. Accordingly, this study aimed to assess noise effects on employee comfort and validate the Persian version of the assessment of noise effects on employee c...

Commentary: Seeing the conflict: an attentional account of reasoning errors

Invited Commentary Invited Commentary: Dietary Pattern Analysis

The analytic approaches used in nutritional epidemiology for dietary pattern analyses share common characteristics with those of genetic epidemiology. In this issue of the Journal, Gorst-Rasmussen et al. (Am J Epidemiol. 2011;173(10):1097–1104) discuss one such approach. Application of methods used in genetic pattern analyses to nutritional epidemiology could prove valuable but raises important...