title: Comparing the results of a cholesterol and saturated fat screener when using two different scores.
abstract: 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.
authors.affiliation: Division of Clinical Epidemiology, Deutsches Krebsforschungszentrum, Heidelberg, Germany. srohrman@jhsph.edu
authors.forename: Sabine
authors.initials: S
authors.lastname: Rohrmann
authors.forename: Gisela
authors.initials: G
authors.lastname: Klein
mesh_terms: D000328:Adult; D002791:Cholesterol, Dietary / Q000008:administration & dosage*; D004041:Dietary Fats / Q000008:administration & dosage* / Q000145:classification; D002149:Energy Intake; D005227:Fatty Acids / Q000008:administration & dosage*; D005260:Female; D005858:Germany; D006801:Humans; D008297:Male; D008403:Mass Screening / Q000379:methods; D008875:Middle Aged; D015596:Nutrition Assessment; D018709:Statistics, Nonparametric; D011795:Surveys and Questionnaires
chemical_list: D002791:Cholesterol, Dietary; D004041:Dietary Fats; D005227:Fatty Acids