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ArticleNutrition journal2006

Food composition database development for between country comparisons.

Anwar T Merchant, Mahshid Dehghan

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Article in Nutrition journal, 2006. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. It is linked to trial NCT03225586 (Prospective Urban Rural Epidemiology Study), which is not on this map. Cited by 39 papers, 1 of them a synthesis that pooled it.

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1 · What the graph read from it

What it found

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2 · The registry

The trial behind it

Trials whose registry record cites this paper, or whose number appears in the abstract. A trial that started after this paper was published is citing it as background, not reporting it.

NCT03225586 recruitingnot on this map

Prospective Urban Rural Epidemiology Study

TypeobservationalSponsorPopulation Health Research InstituteRan2002 to 2030Enrolled200,000ConditionsCardiovascular Diseases, Risk Factor, Cardiovascular, Health Behavior, Environmental Exposure
3 · Its place in the literature

Who cites it

39 citing papers in PubMed, 1 synthesis or guideline pooled it.

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4 · The record

Corrections and comments

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5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

2 authors.

Anwar T MerchantPopulation Health Research Institute, McMaster University, Hamilton ON, Canada. anwar.merchant@post.harvard.edu
Mahshid Dehghan

Funding

No grant is acknowledged in the PubMed record.

6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Nutritional assessment by diet analysis is a two-stepped process consisting of evaluation of food consumption, and conversion of food into nutrient intake by using a food composition database, which lists the mean nutritional values for a given food portion. Most reports in the literature focus on minimizing errors in estimation of food consumption but the selection of a specific food composition table used in nutrient estimation is also a source of errors. We are conducting a large prospective study internationally and need to compare diet, assessed by food frequency questionnaires, in a comparable manner between different countries. We have prepared a multi-country food composition database for nutrient estimation in all the countries participating in our study. The nutrient database is primarily based on the USDA food composition database, modified appropriately with reference to local food composition tables, and supplemented with recipes of locally eaten mixed dishes. By doing so we have ensured that the units of measurement, method of selection of foods for testing, and assays used for nutrient estimation are consistent and as current as possible, and yet have taken into account some local variations. Using this common metric for nutrient assessment will reduce differential errors in nutrient estimation and improve the validity of between-country comparisons.

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Databases as TopicDietFood AnalysisNutrition AssessmentAgricultureCookingHumansInternational CooperationNutritive ValueUnited States

Identifiers

PMID16423289
PMCPMC1388230

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