Is It Time to Abandon the Food Frequency Questionnaire?
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- 1 December 2005
- journal article
- Published by American Association for Cancer Research (AACR) in Cancer Epidemiology, Biomarkers & Prevention
- Vol. 14 (12) , 2826-2828
- https://doi.org/10.1158/1055-9965.epi-12-ed1
Abstract
Although painful to admit, it is possible that epidemiologists have been deluded in their acceptance of food frequency questionnaires (FFQ) as the standard tool for dietary assessment in large studies of diet and cancer. The substantial limitations of FFQs have been known for some time ([1][1]) andThis publication has 13 references indexed in Scilit:
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