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Validation of an FFQ to assess short-term antioxidant intake against 30 d food records and plasma biomarkers

  • Meng Yang (a1), Ying Wang (a1), Catherine G Davis (a1), Sang Gil Lee (a1), Maria Luz Fernandez (a1), Sung I Koo (a1), Eunyoung Cho (a2), Won O Song (a3) and Ock K Chun (a1)...

Abstract

Objective

To validate a brief FFQ developed for capturing short-term antioxidant intake in a sample of US college students.

Design

A seventy-four-item antioxidant FFQ was developed based on major antioxidant sources in the American diet. The FFQ was validated against 30 d food records (FR) and plasma antioxidant concentrations. The reliability of the FFQ was evaluated by two FFQ administered at a 1-month interval.

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University of Connecticut, CT, USA.

Subjects

Sixty healthy college students.

Results

Estimates of dietary antioxidants from the FFQ were moderately to highly correlated with those estimated from the 30 d FR (r = 0·29–0·80; P < 0·05) except for γ-tocopherol and β-cryptoxanthin. Total antioxidant capacity from diet only or from diet and supplements estimated by the 30 d FR and FFQ were highly correlated (r = 0·67 and 0·71, respectively; P < 0·0001). The FFQ categorized 91 % of participants into the same or adjacent tertiles of antioxidant intake as the 30 d FR. Most dietary carotenoids estimated from the FFQ were correlated with plasma levels (P < 0·05). Correlation coefficients for test–retest reliability ranged from 0·39 to 0·86. More than 94 % of the participants were classified in the same or adjacent tertiles between the two administrations of the FFQ.

Conclusions

The brief FFQ demonstrated reasonable validity for capturing a comprehensive antioxidant intake profile. This FFQ is applicable in epidemiological or clinical studies to capture short-term antioxidant intake or to simply document the variations of antioxidant intake in intervention trials. Cross-validation studies are warranted in other target populations.

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*Corresponding author: Email ock.chun@uconn.edu

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