Methodology for adding glycemic index values to 24-hour recalls

Objective

To describe a standardized method to assign glycemic index (GI) values to food items, obtained from 3 × 24-h recalls among Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander and non-Indigenous Australian children, which can be adapted for use with simple food composition databases.

Methods

Four published GI databases were used as the source of GI values. Changes were made to a previously published methodology for GI value assignment to accommodate the needs of the Many Rivers Diabetes Prevention Project.

Results

There were 1132 food items in the recall database. Two hundred nineteen (19.3%) food items were directly linked to the FoodWorks GI database and 545 (48.1%) items were assigned the GI value of a “closely related” food item in the four GI databases used. Among the top carbohydrate contributors, 113 (35.3%) items have a direct linkage with the FoodWorks GI database. The mean ± SEM dietary GI and glycemic load (GL) of the study population resulting from this methodology are 57.5 ± 0.3 and 143.4 ± 2.6, respectively.

Conclusion

This simple method provides opportunities for countries without food composition database that are comprehensive for GI/GL but which contain accurate information on carbohydrates in foods to assign high-quality GI values to food items in epidemiological studies based on 24-h recalls.     

The use of telephone interview methodology to obtain 24-hour dietary recalls

OBJECTIVE: To compare 24-hour dietary recalls collected over the telephone to in-person recalls collected in the 1994-1996 Continuing Survey of Food Intakes by Individuals (CSFII). DESIGN: Trained interviewers collected 24-hour dietary recalls over the telephone using the multiple-pass approach. These results were compared to in-person interviews from a pooled subsample of CSFII respondents. SUBJECTS/SETTING: List-assisted random-digit dialing was used to identify 700 women between the ages of 20 and 49 years. One eligible woman per household was selected to participate. STATISTICAL ANALYSES: Approximate t tests to examine differences in average nutrient and energy intakes were conducted on weighted data. RESULTS: The reported intakes of most nutrients in the current 24-hour dietary recalls collected over the telephone were significantly higher than those reported in the 1994 and 1995 CSFII, but there were no significant differences between the telephone survey and 1996 CSFII results. The 24-hour dietary recalls collected over the telephone yielded consistently greater mean nutrient intake per respondent compared with a comparable pooled subsample from the 1994, 1995, and 1996 CSFII. Generally, no significant differences were found in the food group data between the telephone survey and the CSFII survey. Mean dietary intakes reported by the comparable CSFII subsample increased from 1994 to 1996. APPLICATIONS: Collecting 24-hour dietary recalls over the telephone is a practical and valid data collection tool for use in national food consumption surveys.     

Using memory strategies to improve 24-hour dietary recalls among older adults

Dietitians commonly use 24-hour recall to obtain estimates of the typical food intakes for a population. This study was designed to determine whether using an encoding strategy or support at the time of retrieval improves older adults' 24-hour recall of food items and amounts consumed. The study included 17 older adults ranging from 74 to 91 years of age. Lunch was served to these individuals, and 24-hour dietary recall and recognition of food items consumed at the meal were conducted the following day. Portion sizes for five food items served at the meal, as well as memory tests for recall and recognition and a visual perceptual test, were also administered. Among older adults, use of an encoding strategy did not enhance memory of food items and amounts consumed. However, when the adults were provided support with a visual recognition aid at the time of food item recall, individuals remembered more food items but not amounts consumed. Performance on the Wechsler Memory Scale I and II, Verbal Paired Associates, was found to be a predictor of subjects' performance on 24-hour recall.     

Hepatic content of free sulfhydryl compounds in animals exposed to vinyl acetate

Summary The content of free non-protein thiols (–SH) was investigated in the livers of guinea pigs, rats and mice after intraperitoneal injection of vinyl acetate (VA). A rapid change of the hepatic -SH level was found in guinea pigs after injection of 500 mg/kg VA. This resulted in a 50% decrease in –SH content, In mice the decrease was slower and amounted to only 23% four hours after injection of 300 mg/kg VA. Rats responded to a single dose of 450 mg/kg VA with only a 10% reduction of the –SH content of the liver. An approximately 20% decrease was observed after chronic intermittent exposure (5 h d^–1 for 6 months) to 10, 100 or 500 mg/m³ VA.Supported by the Programme MZ-IX, 1.13     

24小时负责制医师规范化培训结业考核体系的建设

24小时负责制住院医师培训是住院医师规范化培训的基础环节,如何提高该部分医师的培训质量是一项不可忽视的课题。笔者总结医院在住院医师规范化培训实践过程中的一些做法,就构建24小时负责制住院医师结业考核体系进行探讨,旨在推进住院医师规范化培训工作的进一步发展。     

Using Encoding and Retrieval Strategies to Improve 24-hour Dietary Recalls Among Older Adults

Objective To examine whether using an encoding strategy and/or providing more support at the time of retrieval improves the accuracy of 24-hour dietary recalls among the elderly.Design Posttest-only control group design.Setting The sample was recruited through advertisements and at senior centers and a low-income apartment building in rural central Pennsylvania.Subjects Study participants were 21 men and 73 women aged 58 years old and older. Everyone completed the study.Intervention The treatment group was unobtrusively guided in use of an encoding strategy before consuming the prepared meal.Main outcome measures A 24-hour dietary recall and recognition tests were administered the next day for the foods consumed at the meal and for serving sizes of 5 of the foods. Memory tests were also administered.Statistical analyses performed Linear regression was used to examine differences between the treatment and control groups and to identify variables that explained variation in the number of foods correctly recalled or recognized. The χ² test was used to examine correct vs incorrect recall or recognition of the serving sizes of the 5 foods between the groups and to identify explanatory variables for this task.Results Subjects remembered more foods when they used an encoding strategy and when recognition replaced free recall; they performed best when both strategies were used. Use of this encoding strategy did not improve accurate recall or recognition of serving sizes of 5 foods; however, performances did improve when recognition replaced free recall.Conclusions Among older adults, use of an encoding strategy and provision of support at the time of retrieval enhances memory of foods consumed but not of amounts consumed. To strengthen memory of foods consumed, older adults need to perform effortful memory tasks when they are eating. J Diet Assoc. 1998;98:989-994.     

Fourth-grade children are less accurate in reporting school breakfast than school lunch during 24-hour dietary recalls

OBJECTIVE: To compare reporting accuracy for breakfast and lunch in 2 studies. DESIGN: Children were observed eating school meals and interviewed the following morning about the previous day. In Study 1, 104 children were each interviewed 1 to 3 times with >or=25 days separating any 2 interviews. In Study 2, 121 children were each interviewed once in forward (morning-to-evening) and once in reverse (evening-to-morning) order, with these interviews separated by >or=29 days. SETTING: 12 schools. PARTICIPANTS: Fourth-grade children. MAIN OUTCOME MEASURES: For each meal, food-item variables (observed number, reported number, omission rate, intrusion rate, total inaccuracy) and kcal variables (observed, reported, correspondence rate, inflation ratio). ANALYSIS: General linear mixed models. RESULTS: For each study, observed and reported numbers of items and kcal, and correspondence rate (reporting accuracy), were greater for lunch than for breakfast; omission rate, intrusion rate, and inflation ratio (measures of reporting error) were greater for breakfast than for lunch. In Study 1, for each meal over interviews, total inaccuracy decreased and correspondence rate increased. In Study 2, for each meal for boys for reverse and for girls for forward order, omission rate was lower and correspondence rate was higher. CONCLUSIONS AND IMPLICATIONS: Breakfast was reported less accurately than lunch. Despite improvement over interviews (Study 1) and differences for order x sex (Study 2), reporting accuracy was low for breakfast and lunch.     

The 24-hour secretory pattern of LH and the response to LHRH in transsexual men

Ten separate aspects of hypothalamic and pituitary function were studied in 13 male-to-female transsexuals and compared to the results of 7 heterosexual adult men. In 4 of 5 transsexuals, the 24-hour mean serum concentration of LH, the LH pulse frequency or amplitude, or the apparent half-life of disappearance of serum LH were greater than the 95% confidence limit of normal men. The maximum concentration of LH or FSH following the administration of 100 µg LHRH, the area under the response curve of LH or FSH following LHRH, or both were significantly greater than normal in 5 of 13 male-to-female transsexuals. The response of LH following the administration of LHRH was repeated in 3 subjects during estrogen therapy, and in one there was a paradoxical increase in the response of LH. Transsexualism may be associated with a neuroendocrine defect in the hypothalamus or pituitary that is characterized by high-frequency, high-amplitude pulsatile secretion of pituitary LH.Supported in part by NIH Grants 1-K04-HD-00153 and 5-M01-RR-00633 and by USPHS Grant AM-06912.Deceased.     

Uncertainty in intake due to portion size estimation in 24-hour recalls varies between food groups

Portion size estimation is expected to be one of the largest sources of uncertainty in dietary assessment of the individual. Therefore, we demonstrated a method to quantify uncertainty due to portion size estimation in the usual intake distributions of vegetables, fruit, bread, protein, and potassium. Dutch participants of the European Food Consumption Validation study completed 2 nonconsecutive 24-h recall interviews. In short, the uncertainty analysis consists of Monte Carlo simulations drawing values for portion size from lognormal uncertainty distributions. The uncertainty of the usual intake distribution and accompanying parameters (IQR and the shrinkage factor) were estimated. For the food groups, portion size uncertainty had the greatest effect for vegetables and the least for fruit: the relative 95% uncertainty interval (UI) of the IQR of the usual intake distribution was 0.61-1.35 for vegetables, 0.77-1.24 for bread, and 0.99-1.10 for fruit. For protein and potassium, the resulting relative width of the UI of the IQR for portion size uncertainty are similar: 0.88-1.14 for protein and 0.86-1.14 for potassium. Furthermore, a sensitivity analysis illustrated the importance of the specified uncertainty distributions. The examples show that uncertainty in portion sizes may be more important for some foods such as vegetables. This may reflect differential quantification errors by food groups that deserve further consideration. In conclusion, the presented methodology allows the important quantification of portion size uncertainty and extensions to include other sources of uncertainty is straightforward.     

Challenges in converting an interviewer-administered food probe database to self-administration in the National Cancer Institute automated self-administered 24-hour recall (ASA24)

The National Cancer Institute (NCI) is developing an automated, self-administered 24-hour dietary recall (ASA24) application to collect and code dietary intake data. The goal of the ASA24 development is to create a web-based dietary interview based on the US Department of Agriculture (USDA) Automated Multiple Pass Method (AMPM) instrument currently used in the National Health and Nutrition Examination Survey (NHANES). The ASA24 food list, detail probes, and portion probes were drawn from the AMPM instrument; portion-size pictures from Baylor College of Medicine's Food Intake Recording Software System (FIRSSt) were added; and the food code/portion code assignments were linked to the USDA Food and Nutrient Database for Dietary Studies (FNDDS). The requirements that the interview be self-administered and fully auto-coded presented several challenges as the AMPM probes and responses were linked with the FNDDS food codes and portion pictures. This linking was accomplished through a “food pathway,” or the sequence of steps that leads from a respondent's initial food selection, through the AMPM probes and portion pictures, to the point at which a food code and gram weight portion size are assigned. The ASA24 interview database that accomplishes this contains more than 1100 food probes and more than 2 million food pathways and will include about 10,000 pictures of individual foods depicting up to 8 portion sizes per food. The ASA24 will make the administration of multiple days of recalls in large-scale studies economical and feasible.     

The effect of low level radiofrequency electromagnetic radiation on the excretion rates of stress hormones in operators during 24-hour shifts

The aim of the study was to investigate the effect of long term exposure to low level radiofrequency (RF) electromagnetic (EM) radiation on the excretion rates of stress hormones in satellite station operators during 24-hour shifts. Twelve male operators at a satellite station for TV communications and space research were studied during 24-hour shifts. Dosimetric evaluation of the exposure was carried out and showed low level exposure with specific absorption of 0.1127 J.kg-1. A control group of 12 unexposed male operators with similar job task and the same shift system were studied, too. The 11-oxycorticosteroids (11-OCS), adrenaline and noradrenaline were followed by spectrofluorimetric methods on 3-hour intervals during the 24-hour shifts. The data were analyzed by tests for interindividual analysis, Cosinor analysis and analysis of variance (ANOVA). Significant increase in the 24-hour excretion of 11-OCS and disorders in its circadian rhythm, manifested by increase in the mesor, decrease in the amplitude and shift in the acrophase were found in the exposed operators. The changes in the excretion rates of the catecholamines were significant and showed greater variability of both variables. The long term effect of the exposure to low-level RF EM radiation evoked pronounced stress reaction with changes in the circadian rhythm of 11-OCS and increased variability of catecholamines secretion. The possible health hazards associated with observed alteration in the stress system need to be clarified by identification of their significance and prognostic relevance.     

Social desirability, not dietary restraint, is related to accuracy of reported dietary intake of a laboratory meal in females during a 24-hour recall

Underreporting in self-reported dietary intake has been linked to dietary restraint (DR) and social desirability (SD), however few investigations have examined the influence of both DR and SD on reporting accuracy and used objective, rather than estimated, measures to determine dietary reporting accuracy. This study investigated accuracy of reporting consumption of a laboratory meal during a 24-hour dietary recall (24HR) in 38 healthy, college-aged, normal-weight women, categorized as high or low in DR and SD. Participants consumed a lunch of four foods (sandwich wrap, chips, fruit, and ice cream) in a laboratory and completed a telephone 24HR the following day. Accuracy of reported energy intake of the meal = ((reported energy intake − measured energy intake) / measured energy intake) × 100 [positive numbers = overreporting]. Overreporting of energy intake occurred in all groups (overall accuracy rate = 43.1 ± 49.9%). SD-high as compared to SD-low more accurately reported energy intake of chips (19.8 ± 56.2% vs. 117.1 ± 141.3%, p < 0.05) and ice cream (17.2 ± 78.2% vs. 71.6 ± 82.7%, p < 0.05). SD-high as compared to SD-low more accurately reported overall energy intake (29.8 ± 48.2% vs. 58.0 ± 48.8%, p < 0.05). To improve accuracy of dietary assessment, future research should investigate factors contributing to inaccuracies in dietary reporting and the best methodology to use to determine dietary reporting accuracy.