Development of the Chinese preschooler dietary index: a tool to assess overall diet quality

• Main Authors: Xiaoyu Wang (Author), Yujie Xu (Author), Bingbing Tan (Author), Ruonan Duan (Author), Shufang Shan (Author), Linan Zeng (Author), Kun Zou (Author), Li Zhao (Author), Jingyuan Xiong (Author), Lingli Zhang (Author), Shuang Rong (Author), Guo Cheng (Author)
• Format: Book
• Published: BMC, 2022-12-01T00:00:00Z.
• Subjects: article
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Abstract Background Diet quality in early childhood has a long-term impact on health outcomes. However, there are scarce dietary indexes for Chinese preschool children, and the existing indexes had limited validity and reliability. This study thus aimed to develop a dietary index for preschool child...