title: [Comparison of dietary habits in obese and thin women using the food frequency questionnaire].
abstract: BACKGROUND
  Imbalance between energy intake and energy expenditure, influenced as well as by eating pattern, contributes to the development of obesity. The aim of retrospective "case-control" study was to compare dietary pattern of 246 obese women (O, BMI = 36.2 +/- 7.4 kg/m2) with 108 control, normal weight, women (C, BMI = 22.8 +/- 3.3 kg/m2). The examined groups were randomly selected according Body Mass Index from non dieting population.
  
  
  METHODS
  The administration of Food frequency questionnaire [1] was used, evaluating three months period before administration. The eating patterns in the form of relative representation of the main food commodities, based on intake frequencies (RRFCI), were calculated using special mathematical procedure and were compared using the non-pair two sides' t-test.
  
  
  RESULTS
  O performed significantly lower absolute number of intake of non-drink food per month (p = 0.01). RRFCI in the eating patterns of O and C is summarized in the next table: [table: see text]
  
  
  CONCLUSIONS
  Obese women showed significantly higher relative number of frequencies of intake of meat and dairy products and lower proportion of frequencies of intake of cereals, free fat, sweets in their eating patterns in comparison to normal weight women.
authors.affiliation: I. interní klinika Lékarské fakulty a Fakultní nemocniçe, Lékarské fakulty Masarykovy Univerzity, Karlovy Plzen, Lidická 4, 301 66 Plzen, Czech Republic. muller@lfp.cuni.cz
authors.forename: D
authors.initials: D
authors.lastname: Müllerová
authors.forename: D
authors.initials: D
authors.lastname: Matĕjková
authors.forename: Z
authors.initials: Z
authors.lastname: Brázdová
authors.forename: K
authors.initials: K
authors.lastname: Kovárová
mesh_terms: D015992:Body Mass Index; D016022:Case-Control Studies; D004032:Diet; D005260:Female; D005518:Food Preferences; D006801:Humans; D009765:Obesity; D012189:Retrospective Studies; D011795:Surveys and Questionnaires
vernacular_title: Srovnání stravovacích zvyklostí obézních a stíhlých zen metodou frekvencního potravinového dotazníku.