Table 5.

Pearson’s correlations for micronutrient intakes between the estimates from the FFQ and the mean of 3d diet records for the participants in the Baltimore Longitudinal Study of Aging validation study

Nutrient	All		Men		Women		< 65 y		≥65 y
	Energy adjusted	De- attenuated	Energy adjusted	De- attenuated	Energy adjusted	De- attenuated	Energy adjusted	De- attenuated	Energy adjusted	De- attenuated
Total Vitamin A Activity	0.34	0.45	0.34	0.44	0.34	0.45	0.33	0.45	0.35	0.46
Alpha-Carotene	0.37	0.50	0.38	0.51	0.38	0.51	0.35	0.52	0.38	0.49
Beta-Carotene Equivalents	0.37	0.51	0.36	0.51	0.36	0.51	0.38	0.57	0.37	0.50
Vitamin B-6	0.42	0.50	0.52	0.62	0.36	0.43	0.38	0.46	0.45	0.53
Vitamin B-12	0.35	0.45	0.43	0.56	0.27	0.35	0.31	0.44	0.36	0.45
Total Folate	0.46	0.55	0.53	0.64	0.39	0.46	0.41	0.50	0.49	0.57
Vitamin E	0.36	0.42	0.42	0.48	0.30	0.34	0.36	0.42	0.36	0.41
Vitamin C	0.46	0.56	0.48	0.58	0.44	0.53	0.48	0.61	0.45	0.53
Vitamin D	0.45	0.56	0.48	0.59	0.44	0.54	0.43	0.52	0.45	0.57
Vitamin E	0.36	0.41	0.41	0.47	0.30	0.35	0.37	0.43	0.35	0.40
Vitamin K	0.38	0.52	0.31	0.43	0.35	0.49	0.33	0.50	0.40	0.53
Calcium	0.56	0.65	0.57	0.66	0.52	0.61	0.57	0.65	0.54	0.64
Copper	0.42	0.49	0.46	0.54	0.37	0.44	0.39	0.47	0.43	0.50
Iron	0.40	0.47	0.43	0.51	0.36	0.43	0.44	0.51	0.38	0.45
Potassium	0.50	0.57	0.56	0.63	0.47	0.53	0.53	0.60	0.48	0.54
Sodium	0.27	0.32	0.20	0.23	0.33	0.39	0.26	0.31	0.27	0.32
Magnesium	0.60	0.67	0.64	0.72	0.59	0.66	0.59	0.67	0.60	0.67
Manganese	0.59	0.68	0.68	0.77	0.52	0.59	0.53	0.61	0.63	0.71
Selenium	0.36	0.47	0.31	0.40	0.39	0.49	0.42	0.56	0.33	0.41
Zinc	0.31	0.39	0.25	0.32	0.36	0.45	0.41	0.50	0.26	0.33
Phosphorus	0.52	0.60	0.56	0.65	0.50	0.59	0.54	0.63	0.49	0.57
Average correlations	0.42	0.51	0.44	0.54	0.40	0.48	0.42	0.52	0.42	0.50