ArticleFrontiers in nutrition2022
Development of a metric Healthy Eating Index-2015 and comparison with the Healthy Eating Index-2015 for the evaluation of dietary quality.
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Abstract
Background: Diet quality indices can provide important information about relationships between diet and health independent of energy balance. The Healthy Eating Index-2015 (HEI-2015) is widely used and has been extensively evaluated. However, due to imperial units the HEI-2015 is difficult to apply in countries with metric systems. Our objective was to develop a metric version of the HEI-2015 and compare it to the original. The metric Healthy Eating Index-2015 (mHEI-2015) is intended to simplify the application of a dietary quality index in countries using the metric system. Methods: We developed a metric database logic following the methodology of the HEI-2015, which allows the application to metric databases and was applied to Food Patterns Equivalents Database (FPED). The HEI-2015 was calculated for the National Health and Nutrition Examination Survey (NHANES) 2017-2018 and the scoring standards for each component of the mHEI-2015 was calibrated against it. For the assessment of agreement between indices, HEI-2015 and mHEI-2015 were calculated for NHANES 2015-2016 and a Bland-Altman plot was created. Results: Healthy Eating Index-2015 and mHEI-2015 for the NHANES 2015-2016 averaged 52.5 ± 13.5 and 52.6 ± 13.2, respectively. The total scores as well as component scores of the indices were strongly correlated. The Bland-Altman plot revealed a high agreement of the total scores. An illustrated analysis of six different menu plans showed only minor differences between the HEI-2015 and mHEI-2015 component scores. Conclusion: The mHEI-2015 allows for superior analysis of metric dietary data to better examine the relationship between chronic diseases and diet. The streamlined metric methodology enables straightforward application to metric food databases and thus the development of country-specific indices.
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