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- Food Frequency Questionnaires (FFQs) are essential tools for assessing dietary intake in large studies, but they need to be tailored to fit specific populations and study goals.
- This study uses Mixed Integer Linear Programming (MILP) to create optimized food lists for an FFQ, focusing on minimizing the number of food items while maximizing nutrient coverage and variability among individuals.
- The optimized food lists produced by this methodology were shorter than those in the validated eNutri FFQ, suggesting a more efficient way to assess dietary intake.
Article Abstract
Food Frequency Questionnaires (FFQs) are important instruments to assess dietary intake in large epidemiological studies. To determine dietary intake correctly, food lists need to be adapted depending on the study aim and the target population. The present work compiles food lists for an FFQ with Mixed Integer Linear Programming (MILP) to minimize the number of foods in the food list. The optimized food lists were compared with the validated eNutri FFQ. The constraints of the MILP aimed to identify food items with a high nutrient coverage in a population and with a high interindividual variability. The optimization was based on data from the second German National Nutrition Survey. The resulting food lists were shorter than the one used in the validated eNutri FFQ.
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| http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC10745589 | PMC |
| http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/nu15245098 | DOI Listing |
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