BACKGROUND The predictive ability of dietary assessment methods to estimate specific circulating plasma carotenoid concentrations has been compared between African Americans and whites in only one study to date. OBJECTIVE The predictive abilities of 24-h dietary recalls and a food-frequency questionnaire in reporting dietary carotenoids when measured against concentration biomarkers were asse...

BACKGROUND Although individual foods and nutrients have been associated with the metabolic syndrome, whether dietary patterns identified by factor analysis are also associated with this syndrome is not known. OBJECTIVE We aimed to evaluate the association of major dietary patterns characterized by factor analysis with insulin resistance and the metabolic syndrome among women. DESIGN Usual d...

Background. Links between dietary quality and abdominal obesity are poorly understood. Objective. To examine the association between an obesity-specific dietary quality index and abdominal obesity risk in women. Methods. Over 12 years, we followed 288 Framingham Offspring/Spouse Study women, aged 30-69 years, without metabolic syndrome risk factors, cardiovascular disease, cancer, or diabetes a...

BACKGROUND Patients in end-stage renal disease often suffer from poor appetite, various comorbidities, and dietary restrictions. Despite regular hemodialysis, nutritional imbalances are frequently reported. Aiming to correlate nutritional status with food ingestion, a prospective study was done in an outpatient group. METHODS Stable patients undergoing chronic hemodialysis for at least 3 mont...

Background and Objectives: Although the anti-inflammatory effects of phytochemicals have been supported by several in vitro studies, their biological actions from regular diets are mixed. This study aimed to use dietary phytochemical index (DPI), as a food-based framework to assess dietary phytochemical intake and to understand its association with hs-CRP in a sample of Iranian women. Evaluatio...

The tiered approaches used in the European Union and the USA for the risk assessment of substances in food-contact materials are based on the principle that the amounts of data required to establish safety-in-use depend on the extent of dietary exposure. Tiered approaches are increasingly recognized as sound approaches for chemical risk assessment, which not only offer consumers reasonable cert...

BACKGROUND Comprehensive evaluation of dietary interventions depends on effective and efficient measurement to quantify behavior change. To date, little is known regarding which self-reported measure of dietary intake is most feasible and acceptable for use in evaluation of the effectiveness of diet intervention studies among underserved populations. OBJECTIVE This research focused on evaluat...

BACKGROUND Dietary assessment can be challenging for many reasons, including the wide variety of foods, eating patterns and nutrients to be considered. In team-based primary care practice, various disciplines may be involved in assessing diet. Electronic-based dietary assessment (e-DA) instruments available now through mobile apps or websites can potentially facilitate dietary assessment. Provi...

INTRODUCTION The optimal performance of cardiovascular disease (CVD) risk models in various populations (such as the Framingham Heart Sheet or the ESC SCORE) is of major interest in risk prediction modeling nowadays. We evaluated whether the inclusion of socioeconomic status (SES) in the HellenicSCORE would increase the accuracy of prediction, irrespectively of dietary information and the class...

Louise Capling1,6* ([email protected]), Kathryn L. Beck 2 ([email protected]), Janelle A. 4 Gifford1 ([email protected]), Gary Slater3 ([email protected]), Victoria M. Flood1,4,5 5 ([email protected]), Helen O’Connor1,4 ([email protected]) 6 1. The University of Sydney, Discipline of Exercise and Sport Science, Faculty of Health 7 Sciences, Lidcombe, ...