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Dietary biomarkers: advances, limitations and future directions

Overview of attention for article published in Nutrition Journal, December 2012
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Title
Dietary biomarkers: advances, limitations and future directions
Published in
Nutrition Journal, December 2012
DOI 10.1186/1475-2891-11-109
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Valisa E Hedrick, Andrea M Dietrich, Paul A Estabrooks, Jyoti Savla, Elena Serrano, Brenda M Davy

Abstract

The subjective nature of self-reported dietary intake assessment methods presents numerous challenges to obtaining accurate dietary intake and nutritional status. This limitation can be overcome by the use of dietary biomarkers, which are able to objectively assess dietary consumption (or exposure) without the bias of self-reported dietary intake errors. The need for dietary biomarkers was addressed by the Institute of Medicine, who recognized the lack of nutritional biomarkers as a knowledge gap requiring future research. The purpose of this article is to review existing literature on currently available dietary biomarkers, including novel biomarkers of specific foods and dietary components, and assess the validity, reliability and sensitivity of the markers. This review revealed several biomarkers in need of additional validation research; research is also needed to produce sensitive, specific, cost-effective and noninvasive dietary biomarkers. The emerging field of metabolomics may help to advance the development of food/nutrient biomarkers, yet advances in food metabolome databases are needed. The availability of biomarkers that estimate intake of specific foods and dietary components could greatly enhance nutritional research targeting compliance to national recommendations as well as direct associations with disease outcomes. More research is necessary to refine existing biomarkers by accounting for confounding factors, to establish new indicators of specific food intake, and to develop techniques that are cost-effective, noninvasive, rapid and accurate measures of nutritional status.

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Geographical breakdown

Country Count As %
United Kingdom 2 <1%
United States 2 <1%
Brazil 1 <1%
Germany 1 <1%
Korea, Republic of 1 <1%
Luxembourg 1 <1%
Unknown 407 98%

Demographic breakdown

Readers by professional status Count As %
Student > Ph. D. Student 81 20%
Student > Master 73 18%
Researcher 61 15%
Student > Bachelor 44 11%
Other 23 6%
Other 60 14%
Unknown 73 18%
Readers by discipline Count As %
Agricultural and Biological Sciences 75 18%
Medicine and Dentistry 71 17%
Nursing and Health Professions 48 12%
Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology 29 7%
Chemistry 23 6%
Other 77 19%
Unknown 92 22%
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This research output has an Altmetric Attention Score of 12. This is our high-level measure of the quality and quantity of online attention that it has received. This Attention Score, as well as the ranking and number of research outputs shown below, was calculated when the research output was last mentioned on 02 July 2019.
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#2,549,596
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#563
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Outputs of similar age from Nutrition Journal
#16
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