ABSTRACT
Concerns have been raised about the reporting quality in nutritional epidemiology.Therefore,strengthening the reporting of observational studies in epidemiology-nutritional epidemiology (STROBE-nut) has been proposed by extending the STROBE statement to include additional recommendations on issues related to nutritional epidemiology and dietary assessment,aiming to provide more specific guidelines on how to report observational research in the field.This paper presents a brief introduction to STROBE-nut and also an explanation of the key points in the additional items,with an example illustrating the application of the checklist.
ABSTRACT
Concerns have been raised about the reporting quality in nutritional epidemiology.Therefore,strengthening the reporting of observational studies in epidemiology-nutritional epidemiology (STROBE-nut) has been proposed by extending the STROBE statement to include additional recommendations on issues related to nutritional epidemiology and dietary assessment,aiming to provide more specific guidelines on how to report observational research in the field.This paper presents a brief introduction to STROBE-nut and also an explanation of the key points in the additional items,with an example illustrating the application of the checklist.