Energy Adjustment

Analyses of nutritional data in the Adventist Health Study-2 generally follows common practice by energy-adjusting nutritional variables. A discussion of this topic is succinctly covered in the following article:

Willett, Walter C., Geoffrey R. Howe, and Lawrence H. Kushi. Adjustment for total energy intake in epidemiologic studies. The American journal of clinical nutrition 65.4 (1997): 1220S-1228S. PMID: 10.1093/ajcn/65.4.1220S

Willett, WC (2013). 'Implications of total energy intake for epidemiologic analyses' in Willett, WC (3rd ed.) Nutritional Epidemiology. Oxford: Oxford University Press, pp 260-286. ISBN-13: 978-0199754038. Access online via Oxford Scholarship Online oso/9780199754038.001.0001/acprof-9780199754038?rskey=LZJwJa&result=3&q=nutritionalepidemiology