Open AccessDevelopment of a semi-quantitative food frequency questionnaire for middle-aged inhabitants in the Chaoshan area, China
Author(s) -
Fengfei Song,
Toshiro Takezaki,
Ke Li,
Pei Yu,
Xu-Kai Lin,
Helin Yang,
Deng Xiao-ling,
Yuqi Zhang,
Lai-Wen Lv,
Xin-En Huang,
Kazuo Tajima
Publication year - 2005
Publication title -
world journal of gastroenterology
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 1.427
H-Index - 155
eISSN - 2219-2840
pISSN - 1007-9327
DOI - 10.3748/wjg.v11.i26.4078
Subject(s) - food frequency questionnaire , environmental health , china , population , rural area , medicine , geography , food consumption , food group , demography , agricultural economics , archaeology , pathology , sociology , economics
This paper aims to develop a data-based semi-quantitative food frequency questionnaire (SQFFQ) covering both urban and rural areas in the Chaoshan region of Guangdong Province, China, for the investigation of relationships between food intake and lifestyle-related diseases among middle-aged Chinese.