SummaryThis pilot project aims to derive dietary patterns with exploratory methods, to compare the patterns accord-ing to different criteria and to comprehensively investigate methodological constraints and their influence on the resulting pattern composition jointly in multiple German population-based prospective observational studies using a federated data analysis infrastructure.

Keywords dietary-assessment dietary-patterns harmonization

InstitutionsDeutsches Institut für Ernährungsforschung Potsdam-Rehbrücke, Max Delbrück Centrum für Molekulare Medizine, Universität Kiel, Leibniz-Institut für Präventionsforschung und Epidemiologie - BIPS, Max-Delbrück-Centrum für Molekulare Medizin (MDC), Max Delbrück Center for Molecular Medicine, Universität Bonn