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Reproducibility and Relative Validity of a Food Frequency Questionnaire Developed for Adults in Taizhou, China 1 2 3 3 2,3 2,3 Maoqiang Zhuang , Ziyu Yuan , Lanfang Lin , Bin Hu , Xiaofeng Wang , Yajun Yang , 3 2,3 1 2,4 Xingdong Chen , Li Jin , Ming Lu *, Weimin Ye 1 Clinical Epidemiology Unit, Qilu Hospital of Shandong University, Jinan, Shandong, People’s Republic of China, 2 CMC Institute of Health Sciences, Taizhou, Jiangsu, People’s Republic of China, 3 MOE Key Laboratory of Contemporary Anthropology, School of Life Sciences and Institutes of Biomedical Sciences, Fudan University, Shanghai, People’s Republic of China, 4 Department of Medical Epidemiology and Biostatistics, Karolinska Institutet, Stockholm, Sweden Abstract Objective: To evaluate the reproducibility and validity of a food frequency questionnaire (FFQ) developed to investigate the relationship between dietary factors and diseases in the adult Chinese population in East China. Methods: A total of 78 males and 129 females aged 30–75 years completed four inconsecutive 24-hour dietary recalls (24- HRs, served as a reference method) and two FFQs (FFQ1 and FFQ2) over a nine-month interval. The reproducibility of the FFQ was estimated with correlation coefficients, cross-classification, and weighted kappa statistic. The validity was assessed by comparing the data obtained from FFQ and 24-HRs. Results: The median nutrient intakes assessed with FFQs were higher than the average of four 24-HRs. For the food groups, Spearman, Pearson, and intraclass correlation coefficients between FFQ1 and FFQ2 ranged from 0.23 to 0.61, 0.27 to 0.64, and 0.26 to 0.65, re