Biomarker-Predicted Sugars Intake Compared with Self-Reported Measures in US Hispanics/Latinos: Results from the HCHS/SOL SOLNAS Study

Citation

Beasley, Jeannette M.; Jung, Molly; Tasevska, Natasha; Wong, William Wai-Lun; Siega-Riz, Anna Maria; Sotres-Alvarez, Daniela T.; Gellman, Marc D.; Kizer, Jorge R.; Shaw, Pamela A.; & Stamler, Jeremiah, et al. (2016). Biomarker-Predicted Sugars Intake Compared with Self-Reported Measures in US Hispanics/Latinos: Results from the HCHS/SOL SOLNAS Study. Public Health Nutrition, 19(18), 3256-3264. PMCID: PMC5348247

Abstract

OBJECTIVE: Measurement error in self-reported total sugars intake may obscure associations between sugars consumption and health outcomes, and the sum of 24 h urinary sucrose and fructose may serve as a predictive biomarker of total sugars intake.
DESIGN: The Study of Latinos: Nutrition & Physical Activity Assessment Study (SOLNAS) was an ancillary study to the Hispanic Community Health Study/Study of Latinos (HCHS/SOL) cohort. Doubly labelled water and 24 h urinary sucrose and fructose were used as biomarkers of energy and sugars intake, respectively. Participants' diets were assessed by up to three 24 h recalls (88 % had two or more recalls). Procedures were repeated approximately 6 months after the initial visit among a subset of ninety-six participants.
SETTING: Four centres (Bronx, NY; Chicago, IL; Miami, FL; San Diego, CA) across the USA.
SUBJECTS: Men and women (n 477) aged 18-74 years.
RESULTS: The geometric mean of total sugars was 167.5 (95 % CI 154.4, 181.7) g/d for the biomarker-predicted and 90.6 (95 % CI 87.6, 93.6) g/d for the self-reported total sugars intake. Self-reported total sugars intake was not correlated with biomarker-predicted sugars intake (r=-0.06, P=0.20, n 450). Among the reliability sample (n 90), the reproducibility coefficient was 0.59 for biomarker-predicted and 0.20 for self-reported total sugars intake.
CONCLUSIONS: Possible explanations for the lack of association between biomarker-predicted and self-reported sugars intake include measurement error in self-reported diet, high intra-individual variability in sugars intake, and/or urinary sucrose and fructose may not be a suitable proxy for total sugars intake in this study population.

URL

http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/s1368980016001580

Reference Type

Journal Article

Year Published

2016

Journal Title

Public Health Nutrition

Author(s)

Beasley, Jeannette M.
Jung, Molly
Tasevska, Natasha
Wong, William Wai-Lun
Siega-Riz, Anna Maria
Sotres-Alvarez, Daniela T.
Gellman, Marc D.
Kizer, Jorge R.
Shaw, Pamela A.
Stamler, Jeremiah
Stoutenberg, Mark
Van Horn, Linda V.
Franke, Adrian A.
Wylie-Rosett, Judith
Mossavar-Rahmani, Yasmin

PMCID

PMC5348247

ORCiD

Siega-Riz - 0000-0002-1303-4248
Sotres-Alvarez - 0000-0002-3226-6140