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Comparing the results of a cholesterol and saturated fat screener when using two different scores

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Screener are useful instruments for categorising individuals according to their nutrient intake. To accurately classify the individuals it is important to correctly analyse the screener. Therefore we compared a simple and a weighed score of a cholesterol and saturated fat (SF) screener with the cholesterol and SF intake, respectively, calculated from an extensive food frequency questionnaire. The validation results did not change when a weighed score was used instead of the simple one, indicating that a simple score does not introduce a higher amount of misclassification.

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  1. Division of Clinical Epidemiology, Deutsches Krebsforschungszentrum, Heidelberg, Germany

    Sabine Rohrmann

  2. Institut fuer Medizinische Biometrie, Epidemiologie und Informatik, University of Mainz, Germany

    Gisela Klein

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Rohrmann, S., Klein, G. Comparing the results of a cholesterol and saturated fat screener when using two different scores. Eur J Epidemiol 18, 413–415 (2003). https://doi.org/10.1023/A:1024261310309

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