Investigators at Federal University Parana Report Findings in Diet and Nutrition (Methodological Aspects In the Food Consumption Assessment of Pregnant Women In the Multicenter Study of Iodine Deficiencys).

Researchers at Federal University Parana in Curitiba, Brazil, conducted a study on the methodological aspects of assessing food consumption in pregnant women as part of the Multicenter Study of Iodine Deficiency. The study used the 24-hour dietary recall method to collect data from 2,247 pregnant women nationwide. Challenges included adapting paper-based data collection for software entry and the lack of iodine data composition, but the collected data provided detailed dietary indicators. The researchers aim to harmonize data to facilitate comparisons among Brazilian studies on this topic. [Extracted from the article]