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March 14, 2005Journal of Human Nutrition and Dietetics158 citations

The CAFE computer program for nutritional analysis of the EPIC‐Norfolk food frequency questionnaire and identification of extreme nutrient values

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AWA WelchRLRobert LubenKKKay‐Tee Khaw

Key Points

  • To evaluate the effectiveness of the CAFE program in analyzing nutritional data from the food frequency questionnaire (FFQ).
  • Developed CAFE with flexible, updateable databases and novel text matching methods.
  • Conducted a pilot investigation on the effects of extreme nutrient values in diet estimation.
  • Identified significant discrepancies due to extreme nutrient values affecting FFQ accuracy.

Abstract

The features of CAFE include flexible, updateable, databases and a novel method for matching text. The effect of extreme nutrient values on the accuracy of the FFQ in estimating diet in nutritional epidemiology should be investigated further.

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Welch et al. (2005) studied this question.

synapsesocial.com/papers/69deabda57c7c8340a55912fhttps://doi.org/10.1111/j.1365-277x.2005.00593.x
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