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. Author manuscript; available in PMC: 2017 Sep 21.
Published in final edited form as: J Nutr Health Aging. 2017;21(7):787–798. doi: 10.1007/s12603-016-0839-2

Table 6.

Race-specific Pearson correlation coefficients and associated 95% confidence intervals (CI) between FFQ- and 24HR-based Alternative Healthy Eating Indices

Index White Black Racial
diff.
rho 95% CI rho 95% CI
Total score 0.57 0.35 0.73 0.35 0.03 0.60 0.22
  Vegetables 0.53 0.29 0.70 0.29 −0.03 0.56 0.23
  Fruit 0.44 0.18 0.64 0.34 0.02 0.60 0.10
  Nuts and vegetable protein 0.37 0.10 0.59 0.14 −0.19 0.44 0.23
  White/red meat ratio 0.14 −0.15 0.40 0.07 −0.26 0.38 0.07
  Cereal fiber 0.30 0.02 0.53 0.07 −0.26 0.38 0.23
  Alcoholic beverages 0.54 0.31 0.71 0.15 −0.18 0.45 0.39
  Percent of calories trans fat 0.37 0.10 0.59 0.27 −0.05 0.55 0.10
  Polyunsaturated/sat fat ratio 0.50 0.25 0.68 0.43 0.13 0.66 0.07