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. 2009 Jan 6;6(1):121–150. doi: 10.3390/ijerph6010121

Table 1.

Usual daily intakes of total fat, saturated, mono-, and poly-unsaturated fatty acids, fibres, alcohol, caffeine, and theobromine calculated from the 7 d estimated diet records and the food-frequency questionnaire; differences and deattenuated correlation coefficients between the test and reference method (n 64).

7d EDR FFQ P FFQ-EDR Correlation
Mean SD Mean SD Mean SD r P
Total fat (g/d) 73.2 24.7 53.1 21.2 0.001μ –18.5 19.0 0.60 0.002
Saturated FA (g/d) 30.1 12.1 22.6 8.64 0.001μ –7.15 9.23 0.51 0.008
Mono-unsaturated FA (g/d) 27.8 10.9 17.8 7.89 0.001μ –9.05 7.45 0.60 0.002
Poly-unsaturated FA (g/d) 11.6 3.97 8.81 4.20 0.001μ –2.63 4.06 0.47 0.030
Fibres (g/d) 22.0 5.85 18.3 5.85 0.001μ –4.86 5.42 0.57 0.001
Alcohol (g/d) 9.90 11.0 9.07 13.5 0.012 –0.790 9.97 0.94# 0.001
Caffeine (mg/d) 206 121 143 105 0.022μ –62.4 103 0.64 0.001
Theobromine (mg/d) 48.1 63.3 31.9 41.1 0.001 –14.2 58.9 0.57# 0.001

EDR, estimated diet record; FFQ, food-frequency questionnaire; FA, fatty acids;

μ

Paired Student’s t-test;

Wilcoxon’s matched-pairs signed-rank test;

Pearson’s correlation coefficient deattenuated for within-individual variation;

#

Spearman’s correlation coefficient deattenuated for within-individual variation