Development of a quantitative food frequency questionnaire for assessing food, nutrient, and heterocyclic aromatic amines intake in Japanese Brazilians for a colorectal adenoma case-control study.
OBJECTIVE
To develop of a quantitative food frequency questionnaire (QFFQ) to assess intake of specific foods, nutrients and heterocyclic aromatic amines (HAAs) in a case-control study of colorectal adenoma.


METHODS
A cross-sectional survey conducted in a hospital in Sao Paulo, Brazil. A trained dietitian collected 24-h recalls from 60 Japanese Brazilian outpatients (29 men and 31 women; mean age 58 years and 57 years, respectively).


RESULTS
Fruit, vegetable and legume intake was high, with mean daily servings consumed in men and women of 8.2 and 6.9, respectively. The QFFQ contains 161 food items presented in 15 food groupings, with particular emphasis paid to the HAA content of meat, fish and chicken items.


CONCLUSIONS
We have developed a QFFQ appropriate for Japanese Brazilians that will allow us to estimate HAA intake and will be used to examine our hypotheses related to foods, nutrients and HAAs, and diet-gene interactions in colorectal neoplasia in this population.
Sharma
Sangita
S
Epidemiology Program, Cancer Research Center of Hawaii, University of Hawaii, Honolulu, Hawaii, USA. sangita_sharma@unc.edu
Iwasaki
Motoki
M
Kunieda
Claudia
C
Cao
Xia
X
Ishihara
Junko
J
Hamada
Gerson
G
Miyajima
Nelson Tomio
NT
Tsugane
Shoichiro
S
Le Marchand
Loïc
L
D000236:Adenoma / Q000453:epidemiology; D000328:Adult; D000368:Aged; D000588:Amines / Q000008:administration & dosage* / Q000737:chemistry; D001938:Brazil; D016022:Case-Control Studies; D015179:Colorectal Neoplasms / Q000453:epidemiology; D003430:Cross-Sectional Studies; D016208:Databases, Factual; D004032:Diet / Q000208:ethnology; D004034:Diet Surveys; D005260:Female; D005504:Food Analysis; D006801:Humans; D007564:Japan / Q000208:ethnology; D008297:Male; D008875:Middle Aged; D011084:Polycyclic Aromatic Hydrocarbons / Q000008:administration & dosage* / Q000737:chemistry; D012307:Risk Factors; D011795:Surveys and Questionnaires
D000588:Amines; D011084:Polycyclic Aromatic Hydrocarbons