Assessment of the Dutch Healthy Diet index 2015 in the Lifelines cohort study at baseline

Abstract Background Dietary indices are useful measures to investigate associations between dietary intake and disease development. The Dutch Healthy Diet index 2015 (DHD2015-index), a measure of diet quality, assesses adherence to the 2015 Dutch dietary guidelines. We assessed the DHD2015-index in the Lifelines cohort study, and compared calculations from basic and detailed dietary intake data. This article replaces the retracted article that was published on 16 May 2022 [1]. Methods Dietary intake was assessed with a specially developed Food Frequency Questionnaire (FFQ) called Flower-FFQ, w... Mehr ...