SynthesisThe British journal of nutrition2018
Exploratory dietary patterns: a systematic review of methods applied in pan-European studies and of validation studies.
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- Associations Between Dietary Patterns, Inflammatory Biomarkers, and Behavioral Symptoms in Children With Autism Spectrum Disorder: A Cross-Sectional Case-Control Exploratory Study.Journal of autism and developmental disorders · 2026Article
- Secular trends in dietary patterns among Korean adults: using data from the 2007-2022 Korea National health and nutrition examination survey.Nutrition journal · 2025Observational
- Identifying and characterizing shared and ethnic background site-specific dietary patterns in the Hispanic Community Health Study/Study of Latinos (HCHS/SOL).Nutrition journal · 2025Article
- Dietary patterns of adults in Italy: Results from the third Italian National Food Consumption Survey, INRAN-SCAI.PloS one · 2025Article
- Empirically derived dietary patterns are associated with major adverse cardiovascular events, all-cause mortality, and congestive cardiac failure in older men: The Concord Health and Ageing in Men Project.The journal of nutrition, health & aging · 2024Article
- Association between patterns of biological rhythm and self-harm: evidence from the baoxing youth mental health (BYMH) cohort.Child and adolescent psychiatry and mental health · 2024Article
- Cross-sectional and longitudinal associations between empirically derived dietary patterns and frailty among older men: The Concord Health and Ageing in Men Project.The journal of nutrition, health & aging · 2024Article
- Associations of dietary patterns between age 9 and 24 months with risk of celiac disease autoimmunity and celiac disease among children at increased risk.The American journal of clinical nutrition · 2023Article
- The Association of Physical Activity Behaviors and Patterns With Aging Acceleration: Evidence From the UK Biobank.The journals of gerontology. Series A, Biological sciences and medical sciences · 2023Article
- NEMoE: a nutrition aware regularized mixture of experts model to identify heterogeneous diet-microbiome-host health interactions.Microbiome · 2023Article
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- Empirical Dietary Inflammatory Pattern Scores Are Not Associated with Worse Cognitive Performance in the Nurses' Health Study.The Journal of nutrition · 2022Article
- A Posteriori dietary patterns, insulin resistance, and diabetes risk by Hispanic/Latino heritage in the HCHS/SOL cohort.Nutrition & diabetes · 2022Article
- A Systematic Review of the Methods Used to Assess and Report Dietary Patterns.Frontiers in nutrition · 2022Review
- Advances in dietary pattern analysis in nutritional epidemiology.European journal of nutrition · 2021Review
- Meal Pattern Analysis in Nutritional Science: Recent Methods and Findings.Advances in nutrition (Bethesda, Md.) · 2021Review
- A review of statistical methods for dietary pattern analysis.Nutrition journal · 2021Review
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Abstract
Besides a priori approaches, using previous knowledge about food characteristics, exploratory dietary pattern (DP) methods, using data at hand, are commonly applied. This systematic literature review aimed to identify exploratory methods on DP in pan-European studies and to inform the development of the DEterminants of DIet and Physical ACtivity (DEDIPAC) toolbox of methods suitable for use in future European studies. The search was conducted in three databases on prospective studies in healthy, free-living people across the whole life span. To identify validated DP methods, an additional search without regional restrictions was conducted. Studies including at least two European countries were retained. The search resulted in six pan-European studies applying principal component/factor analysis (PC/FA) (n 5) or cluster analysis (n 2). The criteria to retain PC/factors ranged from the application of the eigenvalue>1 criterion, the scree plot and/or the interpretability criterion. Furthermore, seven validation studies were identified: DP, derived by PC/FA (n 6) or reduced rank regression (RRR) (n 1) were compared using dietary information from FFQ (n 6) or dietary history (n 1) as study instrument and dietary records (n 6) or 24-h dietary recalls (n 1) as reference. The correlation coefficients for the derived DP ranged from modest to high. To conclude, PC/FA was predominantly applied using the eigenvalue criterion and scree plot to retain DP, but a better description of the applied criteria is highly recommended to enable a standardised application of the method. Research gaps were identified for the methods cluster analysis and RRR, as well as for validation studies on DP.
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