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RE: "APPLICATION OF A NEW STATISTICAL METHOD TO DERIVE DIETARY PATTERNS IN NUTRITIONAL EPIDEMIOLOGY"
Research Institute of Child Nutrition, Heinstueck 11, 44225 Dortmund, Germany
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The recent paper by Hoffmann et al. (1) raises a very important methodological issue in nutritional epidemiologic research. The investigation of dietary patterns in disease risk analyses is a necessary step away from the reductionist approach of studying single nutrients as disease predictors. The suggestion of Hoffmann et al. to substantially improve
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