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Misclassification of food intake may have occurred, although we used a validated food frequency questionnaire in the survey.
Second, measurement error may be caused by misclassification of food outlets into the BMI-healthy, BMI-unhealthy, and BMI-intermediate categories.
In addition, we based our analysis of whole-grain bread and red meat and their interaction with biomarker levels on quintile distribution, therefore, nondifferential misclassification of food intake should not have affected the results.
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Considering the substantial differences in quantity of omega 3 fatty acids between marine species, 48 this inaccurate grouping of fish may lead to potential poor allocation of nutrient composition to food and overall misclassification of omega 3 fatty acid intake, which may attenuate the associations.
Further, the categorization of food outlets might also result in some degree of misclassification, especially since no direct inspection of the food outlets was carried out.
Much of the measurement error is random, and the resulting misclassification of individuals tends to attenuate the size of any true associations of food intake with disease risk.
Using either method, our models employ consumption of food as a proxy for consumption of PBDEs in food, another source of exposure misclassification.
Lack of information regarding whether study participants were the primary person in charge of food preparation, number of meals cooked per day, and time spent in the kitchen might result in exposure misclassification.
food = vector of food awareness.
Misclassification of fat intakes due to measurement error in the food frequency questionnaire is unavoidable, but given the study design likely to be nondifferential, and thus attenuating any true association.
We acknowledged in our study that some misclassification of exposure is likely in any study of reported food-consumption habits and that such misclassification is a major limitation of case control studies.
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