Validation of fatty acid intakes estimated by a food frequency questionnaire using erythrocyte fatty acid profiling in the Montreal Heart Institute Biobank

Turcot, Valérie; Brunet, Joan; Daneault, Caroline; Tardif, Jean‐Claude; Rosiers, C. Des; Guillaume, Lettre

doi:10.1111/jhn.12272

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“…Interestingly, despite substantially insufficient dietary intake relative to the recommendations, the mean breast milk DHA concentration in our study (0.36%) was slightly higher than the mean level of 65 studies worldwide (0.32%) [ 36 ], which is worth studying in the future. Except dietary intake and geographical location, we observed in multiple regression analyses that none of the common characteristics (including maternal ethnic, age, pre-pregnancy BMI, annual family income per capita, education attainment, and feeding methods) seemed to have an important impact on DHA concentrations in breast milk.…”

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A Correlation Study of DHA Dietary Intake and Plasma, Erythrocyte and Breast Milk DHA Concentrations in Lactating Women from Coastland, Lakeland, and Inland Areas of China

Liu

et al. 2016

Nutrients

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We aimed to assess the correlation between docosahexaenoic acid (DHA) dietary intake and the plasma, erythrocyte and breast milk DHA concentrations in lactating women residing in the coastland, lakeland and inland areas of China. A total of 408 healthy lactating women (42 ± 7 days postpartum) were recruited from four hospitals located in Weihai (coastland), Yueyang (lakeland) and Baotou (inland) city. The categories of food containing DHA, the average amount consumed per time and the frequency of consumption in the past month were assessed by a tailored DHA food frequency questionnaire, the DHA Intake Evaluation Tool (DIET). DHA dietary intake (mg/day) was calculated according to the Chinese Food Composition Table (Version 2009). In addition, fasting venous blood (5 mL) and breast milk (10 mL) were collected from lactating women. DHA concentrations in plasma, erythrocyte and breast milk were measured using capillary gas chromatography, and were reported as absolute concentration (μg/mL) and relative concentration (weight percent of total fatty acids, wt. %). Spearman correlation coefficients were used to assess the correlation between intakes of DHA and its concentrations in biological specimens. The study showed that the breast milk, plasma and erythrocyte DHA concentrations were positively correlated with DHA dietary intake; corresponding correlation coefficients were 0.36, 0.36 and 0.24 for relative concentration and 0.33, 0.32, and 0.18 for absolute concentration (p < 0.05). The median DHA dietary intake varied significantly across areas (p < 0.05), which was highest in the coastland (24.32 mg/day), followed by lakeland (13.69 mg/day), and lowest in the inland (8.84 mg/day). The overall relative and absolute DHA concentrations in breast milk were 0.36% ± 0.23% and 141.49 ± 107.41 μg/mL; the concentrations were significantly lower in inland women than those from coastland and lakeland. We conclude that DHA dietary intake is positively correlated with DHA concentrations in blood and breast milk in Chinese lactating women, suggesting that the tailored DHA food frequency questionnaire, DIET, is a valid tool for the assessment of DHA dietary intake.

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A Correlation Study of DHA Dietary Intake and Plasma, Erythrocyte and Breast Milk DHA Concentrations in Lactating Women from Coastland, Lakeland, and Inland Areas of China

Liu

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Nutrients

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“…Other FFQs have targeted only the specific properties of food (e.g. antioxidant-rich foods) for North American [ 24 , 58 ], European [ 13 , 59 ] and Asian [ 60 ] populations. Also, while FFQs validated for populations at risk of cardiometabolic diseases were mostly developed in adult populations [ 24 , 55 , 57 , 59 ], our FFQ was adapted to adolescents and young adults.…”

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Development and relative validation of a food frequency questionnaire for French-Canadian adolescent and young adult survivors of acute lymphoblastic leukemia

Morel

Portolese

Chertouk

et al. 2018

Nutr J

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BackgroundSurvivors of childhood acute lymphoblastic leukemia (cALL) experience cardiometabolic and bone complications after treatments. This study aimed at developing and validating an interview-administrated food frequency questionnaire (FFQ) that will serve to estimate the impact of nutrition in the development of long-term sequalea of French-Canadian cALL survivors.MethodsThe FFQ was developed to assess habitual diet, Mediterranean diet score, nutrients promoting bone health and antioxidants. It was validated using a 3-day food record (3-DFR) in 80 cALL survivors (50% male) aged between 11.4 and 40.1 years (median of 18.0 years). Reproducibility was evaluated by comparing FFQs from visit 1 and 2 in 29 cALL survivors.ResultsWhen compared to 3-DFR, the mean values for macro- and micronutrient intake were overestimated by our FFQ with the exception of lipid-related nutrients. Correlations between nutrient intakes derived from the FFQs and the 3-DFRs showed moderate to very good correlations (0.46–0.74). Intraclass correlation coefficients assessing FFQ reproducibility ranged from 0.62 to 0.92, indicating moderate to good reliability. Furthermore, classification into quartiles showed more than 75% of macro- and micronutrients derived from FFQs 1 and 2 classified into the same or adjacent quartile.ConclusionsOverall, our results support the reproducibility and accuracy of the developed FFQ to appropriately classify individuals according to their dietary intake. This validated tool will be valuable for future studies analyzing the impact of nutrition on cardiometabolic and bone complications in French-speaking populations.Electronic supplementary materialThe online version of this article (10.1186/s12937-018-0355-9) contains supplementary material, which is available to authorized users.

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“…Food intake was collected using the semi-quantitative food frequency questionnaire (FFQ) [8] , conducted by trained investigators. Considering the consumption and frequency of food in the survey population, this dietary frequency questionnaire included 102 kinds of foods, including 13 kinds of staple foods, 19 kinds of animal protein foods, and 6 kinds of plant protein foods, 36 kinds of vegetables, 12 kinds of fruits, 3 kinds of nut foods, 5 kinds of drinks, and 8 kinds of 6 snacks.…”

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Study on the Association between Dietary Patterns of Women of Childbearing Age during Pregnancy and Neonatal Birth Weight in China

Yan

Dang

Zhang

et al. 2020

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Objective : To understand the type of dietary patterns in the women during pregnancy and the distribution characteristics of children's birth weight and the association between dietary patterns and neonatal birth weight in Shaanxi, China. Methods: Data were derived from a cross-sectional program named “The prevalence and risk factors of birth defects in Shaanxi Province” in July to November in 2013. A stratified multistage random sampling method was used to select women , according to the urban-rural ratio and taking into account the population intensity and fertility level, 10 urban districts and 20 counties were randomly selected. In the sample counties, 6 townships were randomly selected (3 districts in the urban area), and 6 villages were randomly selected from each township (6 communities in the urban districts), each village randomly surveyed 30 (60 in the community) women whose latest dates of pregnancy were during January 2010 to November 2013 and their children. The mother's diet during pregnancy was investigated using semi-quantitative food frequency questionnaire to collect the frequency and amount of food consumption, and the newborn birth weight as well as related social demographic information was collected at the same time. This study selected children aged between 0-1 years old and their mothers with complete dietary survey data as the study subjects. The main dietary patterns were identified according to factor analysis, and latent class analysis (LCA) was used to investigate the social demographic factors affecting dietary patterns. The logistic regression model was used to investigate the association between birth weight and maternal dietary patterns during pregnancy by establishing three adjusting models and the data were stratified for further analysis by urban-rural and regions. Results : Totally 15980 participants were involved in this study, and the birth weight was 1050-6250g (3279.9±454.6). There were 783 newborns with birth weight of <2500g, accounting for 4.9%; and 703 newborns with birth weight >4000g, accounting for 4.4%. The incidence of SGA and LGA was 14.7% and 7.6%, respectively.Factor analysis was used to extract four dietary patterns during pregnancy: "vegetarian pattern", "balance pattern", "traditional pattern" and "processing pattern". The vegetarian pattern was a predominant pattern. LCA analysis indicated that urban women preferred to choose the balance pattern and rural women preferred for the traditional pattern. The balance pattern and processing pattern were the main ones in the southern region, the vegetarian pattern in the northern region and the traditional pattern in the middle region. Further study on the association between dietary patterns and neonatal birth weight, founding that the vegetarian pattern was positively associated with a higher risk of low birth weight in rural areas and middle region, and the traditional pattern was a risk factor for the occurrence of low birth weight in the middle region. The processing pattern was found a protective factor for the occurrence of low birth weight in rural areas but was a risk factor for low birth weight in the southern region. The balance pattern was a protective factor for the occurrence of low birth weight in the northern region. Conclusion : There are four kinds of dietary patterns in the pregnant women of childbearing age in Shaanxi Province, "vegetarian pattern" is predominant, and the dietary structure needs to be improved. The vegetarian and traditional pattern may be positively related to a higher risk of low birth weight while the balanced pattern may keep birth weight of offspring within the appropriate range. Health education of balanced diet and individual nutrition guidance during pregnancy should be strengthened, in order to make dietary structure during pregnancy are more reasonable, reduce the occurrence of adverse birth weight of newborns.

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Validation of fatty acid intakes estimated by a food frequency questionnaire using erythrocyte fatty acid profiling in the Montreal Heart Institute Biobank

Abstract: The MHI Biobank 14-item FFQ can appropriately estimate daily intakes of n-3 PUFAs from vegetable and marine sources, as well as vegetable n-6 PUFAs, which enables the possibility of using these data in future studies.

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A Correlation Study of DHA Dietary Intake and Plasma, Erythrocyte and Breast Milk DHA Concentrations in Lactating Women from Coastland, Lakeland, and Inland Areas of China

A Correlation Study of DHA Dietary Intake and Plasma, Erythrocyte and Breast Milk DHA Concentrations in Lactating Women from Coastland, Lakeland, and Inland Areas of China

Development and relative validation of a food frequency questionnaire for French-Canadian adolescent and young adult survivors of acute lymphoblastic leukemia

Study on the Association between Dietary Patterns of Women of Childbearing Age during Pregnancy and Neonatal Birth Weight in China

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