Biomarker-predicted sugars intake compared with self-reported measures in US Hispanics/Latinos: Results from the HCHS/SOL SOLNAS Study

The authors would like to acknowledge Laurie J. Custer at the University of Hawaii for her LCMS work. The authors also thank the staff and participants of the Hispanic Community Health Study/Study of Latinos (HCHS/SOL) for their important contributions (investigators' website: http://www.cscc.unc.edu/hchs/). Financial support: The Sackler Institute for Nutrition Sciences funded this study. The Study of Latinos Nutrition & Physical Activity Assessment Study (SOLNAS) was supported by the National Heart, Lung, and Blood Institute (NHLBI; grant #11414319-R01HL095856). The HCHS/SOL was carried out as a collaborative study supported by contracts from the NHLBI to the University of North Carolina (N01-HC65233), the University of Miami (N01-HC65234), Albert Einstein College of Medicine (N01-HC65235), Northwestern University (N01-HC65236) and San Diego State University (N01-HC65237). The following institutes/centres/offices contribute to the HCHS/SOL through a transfer of funds to the NHLBI: the National Center on Minority Health and Health Disparities; the National Institute of Deafness and Other Communications Disorders; the National Institute of Dental and Craniofacial Research; the National Institute of Diabetes and Digestive and Kidney Diseases; the National Institute of Neurological Disorders and Stroke; and the Office of Dietary Supplements. Additional support at the Albert Einstein College of Medicine was provided from the Clinical & Translational Science Award (grant number UL1 TR001073) from the National Center for Advancing Translational Sciences at the National Institutes of Health. The funders had no role in the design, analysis or writing of this article. Conflict of interest: The authors have no conflict of interest to disclose. Authorship: Y.M.-R. and J.M.B. designed the research; W.W.W., P.A.S., A.M.S.-R., D.S.-A., M.D.G., M.S., L.V.H., A.A.F. and Y.M.-R. conducted the research and provided essential materials; M.J., P.A.S., N.T., D.S.-A. and J.M.B. developed the analytic approach and analysed the data; and J.M.B., J.R.K., J.S., J.W.-R. and Y.M.-R. wrote the paper. All authors read and approved the final manuscript. Ethics of human subject participation: This study was conducted according to the guidelines laid down in the Declaration of Helsinki and all procedures involving human subjects/patients were approved by the Albert Einstein College of Medicine Institutional Review Board. Written informed consent was obtained from all subjects.