title: Implementation of food frequency questionnaire for the assessment of total dietary arsenic intake in Bangladesh: part B, preliminary findings.
abstract: Dietary intake of water and food has been identified as one of the major pathways for arsenic (As) exposure in the rural population of Bangladesh. Therefore, realistic assessment and measurement of dietary intake patterns are important for the development of an accurate estimate of As exposure and human health risk assessment. One important consideration is to identify an appropriate tool for measuring dietary intake. In this study an interviewer-administered Food Frequency Questionnaire (FFQ) was implemented to determine age and gender specific dietary intake. The developed FFQ was unique because it developed a synergy between field dietary assessment and As concentration measurements in various environmental media. The resulting integrated database provided an accurate framework for the process of As exposure and human health risk assessment. The preliminary results reported here from the FFQ demonstrated that this technique could be used in rural areas as a tool to assess As exposure and the associated human health risk.
authors.affiliation: Centre for Environmental Risk Assessment and Remediation (CERAR), Mawson Lakes Campus, University of South Australia, South Australia, Australia. nasreen.khan@unisa.edu.au
authors.forename: Nasreen Islam
authors.initials: NI
authors.lastname: Khan
authors.forename: David
authors.initials: D
authors.lastname: Bruce
authors.forename: Ravi
authors.initials: R
authors.lastname: Naidu
authors.forename: Gary
authors.initials: G
authors.lastname: Owens
mesh_terms: D000293:Adolescent; D000328:Adult; D017677:Age Distribution; D000368:Aged; D001151:Arsenic / Q000032:analysis*; D001459:Bangladesh; D002648:Child; D002675:Child, Preschool; D016208:Databases, Factual; D004034:Diet Surveys; D004781:Environmental Exposure / Q000032:analysis*; D004785:Environmental Pollutants / Q000032:analysis*; D005260:Female; D005506:Food Contamination; D006801:Humans; D007223:Infant; D007231:Infant, Newborn; D008297:Male; D008875:Middle Aged; D018570:Risk Assessment / Q000379:methods; D012423:Rural Health / Q000706:statistics & numerical data; D012737:Sex Factors; D011795:Surveys and Questionnaires; D014881:Water Supply / Q000592:standards; D055815:Young Adult
chemical_list: D004785:Environmental Pollutants; D001151:Arsenic